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Film Collection
Our film festival catalogue to kickoff your next festival theme. Or, get inspired on your next frontier of films or film makers.
113 categories.
Genre
37- Body HorrorHorror that locates its terror in the transformation, infection, or betrayal of the human body itself. The dread is anatomical rather than supernatural.The Fly · Videodrome
- Psychological ThrillersThrillers whose tension comes from unstable minds rather than physical danger — unreliable narrators, paranoia, and the slow suspicion that the protagonist is the problem.Vertigo · Repulsion
- Apocalyptic FilmsThe end of the world as it happens or shortly after. The interest is rarely the catastrophe itself and usually what people do once the rules stop applying.Mad Max: Fury Road · Children of Men
- Sports MoviesFilms structured around athletic competition, where the game supplies the shape — training, setback, final contest — and the real subject is usually something else entirely.Raging Bull · Hoosiers
- Adaptations of Classic American LiteratureFilms drawn from the American literary canon. The question every entry raises: what does the camera add that the page could not, and what does it lose?To Kill a Mockingbird · The Grapes of Wrath
- Martial Arts & Kung FuFilms built around hand-to-hand combat as choreography, where fight scenes carry the story the way songs carry a musical.Enter the Dragon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- MockumentaryFiction wearing documentary clothing — talking heads, handheld cameras, and an unseen crew — usually for comedy, occasionally for something much colder.This Is Spinal Tap · Best in Show
- Historical DramasSerious drama set in a reconstructed past, where the period is not decoration but the source of the constraints the characters cannot escape.Barry Lyndon · Schindler's List
- Slasher MoviesA horror subgenre organised around a masked or disfigured killer, a dwindling group of young victims, and a final survivor. Its rules are so fixed that breaking them became its own tradition.Halloween · Black Christmas
- Supernatural HorrorHorror whose threat comes from outside the natural order — ghosts, possession, curses. The rules are unknown to the characters, which is the point.The Exorcist · The Shining
- Science Fiction RomanceLove stories that need a speculative premise to work — memory erasure, artificial minds, time slippage. The technology exists to make an emotional problem literal.Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind · Her
- Courtroom DramasFilms where argument is the action. The confined setting and fixed procedure force the drama into language, testimony, and what the jury is willing to believe.12 Angry Men · Anatomy of a Murder
- Modern Day Fairy TalesFairy-tale logic transplanted into the contemporary world — enchantment, moral tests, and transformation, without the medieval dressing.Pan's Labyrinth · Edward Scissorhands
- Superhero MoviesFilms about costumed figures with abilities beyond the ordinary. A century-old pulp form that became the dominant commercial mode of modern cinema.The Dark Knight · Superman
- Shakespeare AdaptationsShakespeare on film, from reverent stagings to complete transpositions into other eras and languages. The text is fixed; everything else is up for argument.Throne of Blood · Ran
- Spy ThrillersEspionage on film, split between glamorous fantasy and the colder tradition where tradecraft is bureaucratic, morally soiled, and mostly waiting.Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy · The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
- Dystopian MoviesFutures organised around control. The society functions — that is the horror — and the protagonist's crime is usually noticing.Brazil · Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Murder MysteriesA body, a closed circle of suspects, and a detective. The pleasure is structural: the answer must be both surprising and, in retrospect, inevitable.Knives Out · Murder on the Orient Express
- Heist FilmsThe assembly of a crew, the plan, the execution, and the thing that goes wrong. Process is the entertainment; the money rarely matters.Rififi · The Killing
- War FilmsCombat on film, spanning recruitment-poster heroism and the far larger tradition arguing that the experience cannot be honestly filmed at all.Apocalypse Now · Come and See
- Zombie MoviesThe walking dead as a siege engine and a social x-ray. The monsters are slow and stupid; the survivors supply the actual threat.Night of the Living Dead · Dawn of the Dead
- Action MoviesFilms where physical spectacle is the primary text. The craft question is legibility: can you tell what is happening, to whom, and why it matters.Die Hard · Mad Max: Fury Road
- James Bond MoviesSixty years of one character across six actors — a franchise that doubles as a record of what each era wanted its ideal man to be.Goldfinger · On Her Majesty's Secret Service
- Samurai Movies (Jidaigeki)Japanese period drama set in the feudal era, typically concerned with duty, obsolescence, and men whose code has outlived the world that needed it.Seven Samurai · Harakiri
- Romantic Period PiecesLove constrained by the manners of its era. Restraint does the work — what cannot be said aloud carries more than any declaration.Portrait of a Lady on Fire · In the Mood for Love
- Crime ThrillersFilms built on criminal enterprise and pursuit, generally more interested in the systems that produce crime than in solving any particular one.Se7en · Zodiac
- Godzilla MoviesSeventy years of a single monster, beginning as an unambiguous nuclear allegory and mutating into children's spectacle and back again.Godzilla (1954) · Shin Godzilla
- FantasySecondary worlds with their own consistent rules. The genre lives or dies on whether the invented logic holds under pressure.The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring · Pan's Labyrinth
- Satire & ParodyComedy aimed at a target. Parody imitates a form to expose it; satire uses the form to attack something outside the film entirely.Dr. Strangelove · Airplane!
- American Western CinemaThe founding American genre — frontier, law, and the violence underwriting settlement. It spent its second half arguing with everything it established in the first.The Searchers · Unforgiven
- Folk & Pagan HorrorHorror rooted in landscape, isolated communities, and old belief systems that never fully went away. The outsider arrives, and the locals are perfectly friendly.The Wicker Man · Midsommar
- Broadway Musical AdaptationsStage musicals transferred to film, and the permanent problem that comes with it: what to do with a form built for a live room and a fixed proscenium.Cabaret · Chicago
- BiopicsLives compressed into three acts. The interesting entries refuse the cradle-to-grave shape and take one episode seriously instead.Lawrence of Arabia · Amadeus
- Alien Encounter MoviesFirst contact, in every register from wonder to infestation. What the aliens want is usually a proxy for what the film thinks of humanity.Close Encounters of the Third Kind · Arrival
- Natural Disaster MoviesCatastrophe as spectacle and as social test — the ensemble cast exists so the disaster can sort them.The Towering Inferno · Twister
- Book AdaptationsNovels into film, and the fidelity argument that follows every one. The best adaptations are usually the least reverent.The Godfather · Jaws
- Sword and SandalsThe peplum — muscular heroes, ancient settings, and a low-budget Italian tradition that ran parallel to Hollywood's prestige epics.Hercules · Jason and the Argonauts
Movement
17- Spaghetti WesternsWesterns made cheaply in Italy and Spain through the 1960s, trading American frontier myth for sun-blasted cynicism, operatic scores, and heroes with no particular morals.The Good, the Bad and the Ugly · Once Upon a Time in the West
- French New WaveA late-1950s revolt by French critics turned directors against studio polish — handheld cameras, location shooting, jump cuts, improvised dialogue. It rewrote what a film was allowed to look like.Breathless · The 400 Blows
- Film NoirAmerican crime film of the 1940s and '50s defined by low-key lighting, doomed men, and a moral universe with no clean exit. Named by French critics after the fact.Double Indemnity · The Third Man
- Italian NeorealismPost-war Italy shot on location with non-professional actors, because the studios were wrecked and the subject was people with nothing. Plot reduced to circumstance.Bicycle Thieves · Rome, Open City
- German ExpressionismWeimar cinema built out of painted shadows and impossible architecture, externalising a character's derangement by warping the set around them.The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari · Metropolis
- Dogme 95A Danish vow of chastity: location sound, hand-held camera, no score, no props brought in. A manifesto designed to make cheating visible.Festen · The Idiots
- Soviet MontageThe theory that meaning lives in the cut rather than the shot, tested at scale on films that were also, unambiguously, propaganda.Battleship Potemkin · Man with a Movie Camera
- Czech New WaveAbsurdist comedy and non-actors under a regime that eventually banned most of it — films that argue by being funny about things that are not.Closely Watched Trains · Daisies
- Japanese New WaveA generation attacking the studio humanism that preceded it: sexual frankness, political fury, and formal experiment aimed squarely at their elders.Woman in the Dunes · In the Realm of the Senses
- Cinéma Vérité & Direct CinemaLightweight cameras and sync sound made it possible to simply follow someone. The argument that followed — whether the camera changes what it records — has never been settled.Salesman · Chronicle of a Summer
- British Kitchen Sink RealismAngry young men in northern industrial towns, shot in grey and filled with dialogue about class that British cinema had previously kept off screen.Saturday Night and Sunday Morning · A Taste of Honey
- Hong Kong New WaveTelevision-trained directors who brought location shooting and genre energy back to Cantonese cinema, and set up everything that followed in the eighties.Boat People · The Butterfly Murders
- Iranian New WavePoetic realism made largely with children and non-actors, working around censorship by making the small domestic situation carry everything.Where Is the Friend's House? · The Cow
- MumblecoreAmerican micro-budget films of the 2000s: improvised dialogue, digital video, twenty-somethings failing to say what they mean, at length.Funny Ha Ha · Hannah Takes the Stairs
- The L.A. RebellionBlack filmmakers out of UCLA in the seventies who rejected Hollywood's terms entirely, borrowing from neorealism and African cinema instead.Killer of Sheep · Daughters of the Dust
- New Queer CinemaEarly-nineties films made in the middle of the AIDS crisis that refused respectability politics — formally aggressive, morally unapologetic.Paris Is Burning · Poison
- New HollywoodThe decade the studios lost control and handed it to film-school directors: downbeat endings, location shooting, and protagonists who lose.The Godfather · Chinatown
Auteur
17- Scorsese's FilmographyMartin Scorsese's six decades of Catholic guilt, male self-destruction, and restless camera movement, mostly among people who mistake violence for a career path.Taxi Driver · Goodfellas
- Coen Brothers FilmographyJoel and Ethan Coen have spent four decades braiding crime, slapstick, and Old Testament fatalism. Their films are meticulously composed and deeply unwilling to reassure you.Fargo · No Country for Old Men
- Alfred Hitchcock FilmographyFifty years of engineered suspense, voyeurism, and wrongly accused men. Hitchcock treated the audience's nerves as the material he was actually working in.Vertigo · Rear Window
- Wes Anderson's FilmographySymmetrical frames, flattened affect, and elaborate dollhouse worlds concealing genuine grief. The precision is a defence mechanism the films keep admitting to.The Royal Tenenbaums · The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Spike Lee's FilmographyFour decades of American race, class, and neighbourhood, delivered with direct address, saturated colour, and a refusal to resolve arguments the country has not resolved.Do the Right Thing · Malcolm X
- Stanley Kubrick FilmographyA dozen films across a dozen genres, each one a cold, symmetrical machine built to demonstrate that institutions are more frightening than monsters.2001: A Space Odyssey · The Shining
- Akira Kurosawa FilmographyWeather as emotion, movement as character, and the wipe cut as a signature. The films Hollywood has been remaking for seventy years without quite matching.Seven Samurai · Rashomon
- Hayao Miyazaki FilmographyHand-drawn animation that refuses villains, gives its heroines the work, and stops the plot dead whenever something is worth looking at.Spirited Away · My Neighbor Totoro
- Quentin Tarantino FilmographyGenre pastiche assembled by a video-store memory: chapter headings, digressive dialogue, and violence that arrives after a very long wait.Pulp Fiction · Inglourious Basterds
- Agnès Varda FilmographySixty years of films that dissolve the line between documentary and fiction, made with a curiosity about ordinary people that never curdles into condescension.Cléo from 5 to 7 · The Gleaners and I
- Wong Kar-wai FilmographyStep-printed motion, saturated interiors, and characters who narrate their own longing. Mood pursued at the expense of plot, deliberately.In the Mood for Love · Chungking Express
- Bong Joon-ho FilmographyTonal whiplash used as an argument: comedy, horror and social realism inside one scene, always circling class and the incompetence of institutions.Parasite · Memories of Murder
- Denis Villeneuve FilmographyScale and dread in equal measure — enormous frames, minimal dialogue, and a recurring interest in people trying to communicate across an unbridgeable gap.Arrival · Blade Runner 2049
- Greta Gerwig FilmographyOverlapping speech, unglamorous ambition, and heroines allowed to be both insufferable and right. Coming-of-age without the condescension.Lady Bird · Little Women
- Paul Thomas Anderson FilmographySprawling ensembles narrowed over time into two-handers about domination, all of them scored like thrillers and shot like they cost more than they did.There Will Be Blood · Boogie Nights
- Guillermo del Toro FilmographyPractical creature work in service of a consistent moral: the monsters are sympathetic, and the men in uniform are not.Pan's Labyrinth · The Shape of Water
- Jane Campion FilmographyLandscape as psychology, and a career-long attention to desire, power and the violence men perform to stay legible to each other.The Piano · The Power of the Dog
Era
17- Romantic Comedies (pre-2000s)Romantic comedy before the millennium, when the form still ran on screwball inheritance, sharp dialogue, and obstacles that were social rather than logistical.When Harry Met Sally... · Moonstruck
- Cold War ParanoiaFilms made under the shadow of nuclear standoff, where the enemy is unseen, the institutions are compromised, and nobody can be verified as who they claim.Dr. Strangelove · The Manchurian Candidate
- Golden Age Movie MusicalsThe studio musical at its height, roughly 1930 to 1960, when song and dance were shot as spectacle in long takes by performers who could actually do it.Singin' in the Rain · The Band Wagon
- Eastern Bloc Cinema (1945–1989)Film made under state socialism in Central and Eastern Europe, where allegory, absurdism, and deliberate obscurity were the working conditions of getting anything past a censor.Ashes and Diamonds · Daisies
- Ancient Era MoviesFilms set in classical antiquity and earlier — empire, myth, and the logistics of spectacle before gunpowder.Ben-Hur · Spartacus
- The Silent EraCinema before it could speak, and therefore fluent in everything else: gesture, cutting, camera movement, and a physical comedy nobody has bettered.Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans · The General
- Pre-Code HollywoodThe five years between sound and the enforcement of the Production Code, when American films were briefly allowed sex, cynicism and unpunished crime.Baby Face · Scarface
- Post-War HollywoodReturning soldiers, housing shortages and a new pessimism working its way into studio pictures that were still, officially, entertainments.The Best Years of Our Lives · Sunset Boulevard
- The Blockbuster EightiesHigh-concept, wide-release, merchandised. The decade the summer movie became the business model and everything else became counter-programming.Back to the Future · Raiders of the Lost Ark
- The Nineties Independent BoomSundance, Miramax and a generation who financed first features on credit cards, briefly making the American independent film a commercial category.Clerks · Reservoir Dogs
- Y2K & Millennium AnxietyFilms made either side of 2000 about simulation, corporate dread and the suspicion that the whole arrangement was fake.The Matrix · Fight Club
- The Roaring TwentiesProhibition, jazz, new money and the crash waiting at the end of it — a decade cinema keeps returning to for the costumes and the moral.The Great Gatsby · Some Like It Hot
- Victorian Era MoviesGaslight, empire, and repression — a setting that gives a film both period spectacle and a ready-made argument about what people were forbidden to say.The Piano · Bram Stokers Dracula
- Medieval MoviesMud, faith and violence. Whether played straight or as farce, the period asks what people do when the institutions holding them together are the only ones there are.The Seventh Seal · Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Depression-Era AmericaDust, migration and New Deal desperation, filmed either as social protest or as the backdrop for people who decided to rob banks instead.The Grapes of Wrath · Bonnie and Clyde
- The Swinging SixtiesPop art, permissiveness and a youth culture that films had to keep up with — usually shot in colour that has aged into its own signature.Blow-Up · A Hard Days Night
- The Streaming EraFilms made for the algorithm and the living room rather than the multiplex: longer, stranger, and released without a weekend to open on.Roma · The Irishman
National
17- Japanese AnimationAnimation from Japan across all registers — children's fantasy, cyberpunk, war memoir, psychological thriller. The medium is treated as a form for any subject, not a genre for children.Akira · Spirited Away
- British Comedy & SatireBritish comic film, from Ealing's polite savagery to absurdist troupe work, generally organised around class, embarrassment, and institutional failure.Monty Python and the Holy Grail · Kind Hearts and Coronets
- Bollywood & Indian CinemaFilm from India, spanning the Hindi-language musical spectacle of Bombay and the very different traditions of Bengali, Tamil, and Malayalam cinema.Sholay · Pather Panchali
- Australian & New Zealand CinemaAntipodean film, frequently preoccupied with landscape as antagonist, isolation, and a national self-image being argued with rather than celebrated.Picnic at Hanging Rock · The Piano
- Scandinavian CinemaNordic film — long winters, longer silences, and a durable tradition of treating faith, mortality, and social hypocrisy without flinching.The Seventh Seal · Persona
- Korean CinemaSouth Korean film since the late 1990s, known for swinging violently between comedy, melodrama, and brutality — often within one scene — while dissecting class and institutional rot.Memories of Murder · Oldboy
- Middle Eastern CinemaFilm from across the Middle East, including an Iranian tradition that turned censorship into a formal method — children as protagonists, documentary ambiguity, endings withheld.A Separation · Close-Up
- Mexican CinemaFrom the studio melodramas of the Golden Age to the international run of the three amigos, a national cinema that keeps rediscovering how to make the intimate feel enormous.Roma · Y Tu Mamá También
- Hong Kong Action CinemaChoreography as authorship. Stunt teams and wire work pushed the action sequence from a plot obligation into the reason the film exists, and half of Hollywood has been borrowing from it since.Hard Boiled · Police Story
- Iranian CinemaFilms made under censorship that turned restriction into method: children as protagonists, documentary textures, and endings that hand the judgement to the audience.Close-Up · A Separation
- Brazilian CinemaCinema Novo and its descendants — hunger, favela, sertão — filmed with a hand-held urgency that treats poverty as a subject rather than a backdrop.City of God · Black God, White Devil
- Nigerian Cinema (Nollywood)The most prolific film industry on earth by volume, built on direct-to-video economics and a melodramatic register that answers to its own audience rather than to festivals.Lionheart · The Figurine
- Spanish CinemaPost-Franco cinema that went straight for the repressed: colour-saturated melodrama, Catholic guilt, and horror that treats the civil war as the original wound.Pan's Labyrinth · All About My Mother
- German CinemaA cinema twice rebuilt from ruins — Weimar experiment, then the New German Cinema of the seventies, then reunification — and permanently interested in complicity.Wings of Desire · Aguirre, the Wrath of God
- Soviet & Russian CinemaFrom montage theory to the long take as an act of faith: a tradition that treats duration itself as the medium's most serious tool.Stalker · Come and See
- Taiwanese CinemaThe New Taiwan Cinema and after: static frames, extended silences, and family histories that carry the island's political history without ever stating it.Yi Yi · A Brighter Summer Day
- West African CinemaSembène onward — films made in African languages for African audiences, using folklore, satire and long takes to argue about independence and what followed it.Touki Bouki · Black Girl
Craft
8- Computer-Generated AnimationFilms animated entirely in three dimensions by computer, from the first fully CG feature onward. The craft question is whether the technology serves the story or replaces it.Toy Story · WALL·E
- Best CGI EffectsFilms judged on digital effects work — how convincingly, or how imaginatively, computer imagery builds something the camera could never have photographed.Jurassic Park · The Matrix
- Hand-Drawn AnimationAnimation drawn frame by frame, whether on cels or paper. The line itself carries expression in a way no rendering engine has replicated.Princess Mononoke · Akira
- Found FootageFilms presented as recovered recordings. The conceit imposes real limits — no score, no coverage, no camera anyone could not have been holding.The Blair Witch Project · Cannibal Holocaust
- Best RemakeFilms that took another film's premise and justified doing it again — by relocating it, inverting it, or finally getting it right.The Thing · Heat
- Best SequelsSecond films that expanded rather than repeated. The rare ones make the original look like a first draft.The Godfather Part II · Aliens
- Best Movie Franchise DebutFirst entries that established a whole world — judged on what they built before anyone knew there would be more.Alien · Star Wars
- Best Practical EffectsEffects achieved in front of the lens — animatronics, prosthetics, miniatures, stunts. Everything is physically present, which is why it still holds up.The Thing · Jurassic Park