European Art Cinema
The films that made cinema an art form on its own terms. Renoir and Rossellini, Bergman and Fellini, Godard and Truffaut in the New Wave, Tarkovsky, Antonioni, Buñuel, and the festivals that built their audience.
Part of Films
44 moments in this segment.
- - Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. F. W. Murnau's American debut. Won the Academy Award for "Unique and Artistic Picture", a category they awarded once. Considered by many the most beautiful silent film ever made.
- - F.W. Murnau's SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS - Trailer. 00:01:50
- - The Passion of Joan of Arc. Carl Theodor Dreyer. Renée Falconetti's face in close-up for 80 minutes. One of the greatest performances ever captured; she never made another film.
- - Un Chien Andalou. Luis Buñuel + Salvador Dalí. 16 minutes of dream logic, including the eyeball cut. The original surrealist film; the model for every avant-garde short that followed.
- - M. Fritz Lang. Peter Lorre as a child murderer hunted by Berlin's underworld. First major film to use leitmotifs in sound (Lorre's whistled "Hall of the Mountain King"). The first serial-killer film.
- - The Rules of the Game. Jean Renoir. Released on the eve of WWII to a French audience that hated it. Re-released after the war and immediately recognised as one of the greatest films ever made. The template for every ensemble-comedy-of-manners since.
- - Bicycle Thieves. Vittorio De Sica. The defining film of Italian Neorealism, non-professional cast, real locations, postwar Rome. Father and son search for a stolen bicycle. The blueprint for every social-realist film since.
- - Bicycle Thieves (1948) Trailer #1 | Movieclips Classic Trailers. 00:02:00
- - The Seventh Seal. Ingmar Bergman. A knight plays chess with Death during the Black Plague. One of the most-parodied images in cinema. Made Bergman an international name.
- - The Seventh Seal (1957) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]. 00:02:38
- - The 400 Blows. François Truffaut. The 12-year-old Antoine Doinel's freeze-frame run to the sea. The film that launched the French New Wave at Cannes and made Truffaut a star at 27.
- - The 400 Blows (1959) Trailer #1 | Movieclips Classic Trailers. 00:03:57
- - La Dolce Vita. Federico Fellini. Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg in the Trevi Fountain. The film that gave the world the word "paparazzi" (after a character's name) and defined high-Italian glamour for a generation.
- - Breathless. Jean-Luc Godard. Jump cuts, location shooting with a handheld camera, jazz score, a gangster who wishes he were Bogart. The New Wave's manifesto.
- - 8½. Federico Fellini. A film director with director's block makes a film about a film director with director's block. The reference text for every artist's creative-crisis film since (All That Jazz, Synecdoche, Pain and Glory).
- - Persona. Ingmar Bergman. An actress goes mute; her nurse takes over the talking. The two faces merge in one of cinema's most analysed compositions. Bergman at his most rigorous.
- - Persona (1966) ORIGINAL TRAILER [FHD]. 00:02:44
- - Last Tango in Paris. Bernardo Bertolucci. Brando and Maria Schneider. The film's reputation collapsed in 2016 when Schneider posthumously made clear she'd been blindsided by the butter scene. A case study in the cost of "art."
- - Wings of Desire. Wim Wenders. Angels listening to Berliners' inner monologues over the divided city. Shot the year before the Wall came down. Inspiration for City of Angels and a thousand black-coats-in-melancholy films.
- - Three Colors: Blue. Krzysztof Kieślowski. Juliette Binoche grieving a husband and child. The first in the Three Colors trilogy, Blue, White, Red. The defining European art-house films of the 1990s.
- - Three Colors: Blue (1993) - Trailer. 00:01:54
- - All About My Mother. Pedro Almodóvar. The film that won him his first Oscar and consolidated his reputation as the great living filmmaker of women. Trans, mother, dead son, faith, all of his themes in one piece.
- - All About My Mother | Theatrical Trailer | 1999. 00:01:35
- - Amélie. Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Audrey Tautou's breakthrough. Defined the candy-coloured, twee, Montmartre-romanticised Paris that flooded film and design for the next decade.
- - Amélie (2001) Official Trailer 1 - Audrey Tautou Movie. 00:01:03
- - Rules of the Game Trailer (Jean Renoir, 1939). ) · 00:01:34
- - The Tree of Life. Terrence Malick. 1950s Texas childhood + the cosmic origin of the universe. Booed and applauded at Cannes; won the Palme d'Or. The most divisive American film of the decade.
- - THE TREE OF LIFE Official HD Trailer. 00:02:12
- - Amour. Michael Haneke. Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant as an elderly couple after her stroke. Won the Palme d'Or and Best Foreign Language Film. Devastating, unsentimental masterpiece on aging and love.
- - Amour (2012) - Official Trailer [HD]. 00:02:00
- - M (1931) - Fritz Lang (Trailer) | BFI release. 00:02:05
- - La Dolce Vita Trailer - Starring Anita Ekberg Dir. Federico Fellini. 00:01:26
- - Roma. Alfonso Cuarón. Mexico City 1970-71 in black-and-white 65mm. First Netflix film nominated for Best Picture, the streaming-vs-cinema fight crystallised here.
- - ROMA | Official Trailer | Netflix. 00:02:15
- - The Passion of Joan of Arc | Trailer HD. 00:01:44
- - BREATHLESS - HE Trailer - Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. 00:01:18
- - WINGS OF DESIRE (4K RESTORATION) | Official UK trailer [HD] In Cinemas 24 JUNE. 00:01:36
- - Tár. Todd Field. Cate Blanchett as a conductor cancelled at the height of her career. Field's third film in 21 years, and his masterpiece.
- - TÁR - Official Trailer [HD] - In Select Theaters October 7. 00:02:46
- - LAST TANGO IN PARIS trailer NEW STAR στο STUDIO απο 20/4/23. 00:02:27
- - Anatomy of a Fall. Justine Triet. Sandra Hüller's novelist on trial for the death of her husband. Won the Palme d'Or and Best Original Screenplay.
- - Anatomy of a Fall Trailer #1 (2023). ) · 00:02:18
- - An Andalusian Dog (Un Chien Andalou) (1929) | trailer. 00:02:18
- - 8 1/2 - 35mm Trailer. 00:01:45
