Movies About Observing

List

1975: Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Belgium)

1992: The Long Day Closes (Britain)

2005: Oxhide (China)

2015: Sunset Song (Britain)

2015: Happy Hour (Japan)

2019: Atlantis (Ukraine)

Movies About Seeking

List

1926: Faust - A German Folktale - Germany

1956: The Burmese Harp - Japan

1957: The Seventh Seal - Sweden

1964: Woman in the Dunes - Japan

1966: Andrei Rublev - Soviet Union

1966: Persona - Sweden

1968: Theorem - Italy

1979: Stalker - Soviet Union

1989: Jesus of Montreal - Canada

1993: Three Colours: Blue - France/Poland

1998: The Thin Red Line - United States

2003: Lost in Translation - United States

2011: The Tree of Life - United States

2021: Drive My Car - Japan

Actually Good Period Films/Series

Medieval

• The Passion of Joan of Arc (France, 1928)
• The Seventh Seal (Sweden, 1957)
• The Virgin Spring (Sweden, 1960)
• Andrei Rublev (USSR, 1966)
• Marketa Lazarova (Czechoslovakia, 1967)
• The Return of Martin Guerre (France, 1982)
• Ran (Japan, 1985)
• The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (France, 1999)

1500s - 1600s

• Faust: A German Folk Legend (Germany, 1926)
• The Decameron (Italy, 1971)
• Aguirre, the Wrath of God (West Germany, 1972)

1700s

• The Color of Pomegranates (Armenian SSR, 1969)

1800s

• The Lodger (U.K., 1927)
• The Innocents (U.K., 1961)
• Elvira Madigan (Sweden, 1967)
• Once Upon a Time in the West (U.S., 1968)
• McCabe and Mrs. Miller (U.S., 1971)
• The French Lieutenant's Woman (U.K., 1981)
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (U.K., 1984) - Series
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes (U.K., 1986) - Series
• The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (U.K., 1991) - Series
• The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (U.K., 1994) - Series
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (U.K., 1996) - Series
• Our Mutual Friend (U.K., 1998) - Series
• Deadwood (U.S., 2004) - Series
• North and South (U.K., 2004) - Series

1900s

• Smiles of a Summer's Night (Sweden, 1955)
• Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Ukrainian SSR, 1965)
• Picnic at Hanging Rock (Australia, 1975)
• The Promised Land (Poland, 1975)
• There Will Be Blood (U.S., 2007)

1910s

• Days of Heaven (U.S., 1978)
• The Shooting Party (U.K., 1984)
• The White Ribbon (Germany, 2009)
• Sunset Song (U.K., 2015)

1920s

• A Passage to India (U.K., 1984)
• Raise the Red Lantern (China, 1991)
• Swoon (U.S., 1992)
• Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (U.S., 1994)

1930s

• Bonnie and Clyde (U.S., 1967)
• Love and Anarchy (Italy, 1973)
• Chinatown (U.S., 1974)
• Mephisto (Germany, 1981)
• Brideshead Revisited (U.K., 1981)
• Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (U.S., 1983)
• Once Upon a Time in America (U.S., 1984)
• Miller's Crossing (U.S., 1990)
• Heat of the Sun (U.K., 1998)
• Scarred Hearts (Romania/Germany, 2016)
• Babylon Berlin (Germany, 2017) - Series

1940s

• The Conformist (Italy, 1970)
• Farewell, My Lovely (U.S., 1975)
• Mr. Klein (France, 1976)
• The Marriage of Maria Braun (West Germany, 1978)
• White Mischief (U.K., 1987)
• Barton Fink (U.S., 1991)

1950s

• The Last Picture Show (U.S., 1971)
• Badlands (U.S., 1973)
• Lola (West Germany, 1981)
• Veronika Voss (West Germany, 1982)
• L.A. Confidential (U.S., 1997)
• Phantom Thread (U.S., 2017)

1960s

• Days of Being Wild (Hong Kong, 1990)
• In the Mood for Love (Hong Kong, 2000)
• An Education (U.K., 2009)
• One Second (China, 2020)

1970s

• Boogie Nights (U.S., 1997)

1980s

• The Lives of Others (Germany, 2006)

Movies About Fascism

List of (good) movies that illustrate Umberto Eco's features of fascism

Umberto Eco's "14 Features of Fascism"

Taken from here via here.

1. cult of tradition
2. rejection of modernism
3. action for action's sake
4. disagreement is treason
5. fear of difference
6. appeal to a frustrated middle class
7. obsession with a plot
8. enemies are portrayed as both too strong and too weak
9. pacifism is trafficking with the enemy
10. contempt for the weak
11. everybody is educated to become a hero
12. machismo via weapons
13. selective populism
14. use of an impoverished vocabulary

List

1915: The Birth of a Nation - United States (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13)

1969: The Sorrow and the Pity - France (5, 6, 10, 13)

1970: The Conformist - Italy (3, 5, 6, 9, 10)

1972: Aguirre, the Wrath of God - Germany (3, 4, 10, 12)

1973 - Ana and the Wolves - Spain (1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 12)

1973: Love and Anarchy - Italy (3, 4, 5, 10, 12)

1974: Cousin Angelica - Spain (5, 6, 10)

1976: Cria Cuervos - Spain (14)

1976: Mr. Klein - France (4, 5, 7)

1997: Starship Troopers - United States (3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)

1999: Beau Travail - France (1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12, 14)

2006: Black Book - Netherlands (3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12)

Mission Impossible

Movies

1. Mission: Impossible (May 22, 1996)
2. Mission: Impossible 2 (May 24, 2000)
3. Mission: Impossible III (May 5, 2006)
4. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (December 16, 2011)
5. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (July 31, 2015)
6. Mission: Impossible - Fallout (July 27, 2018)
7. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (July 14, 2023)
8. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part Two (June 28, 2024)

What's Actually Going On

1. Hacking Usenet with a Bible
2. Tom Cruise's hair
3. The impossible mission is Family
4. Tom Cruise running
5. Rebecca Ferguson's legs
6. Rebecca Ferguson's legs
7. (haven't watched yet)
8. (haven't watched yet)