2001: A Space Odyssey

Stanley Kubrick

UK/USA

“The ultimate trip,” Stanley Kubrick’s science-fiction masterpiece traces a cosmic mystery from the dawn of mankind to the farthest reaches of time and space.

3-D Visions

Learn to draw in 3-D using old-school anaglyph glasses, some colouring pencils and your imagination!

The 400 Blows

François Truffaut

France

The definitive coming-of-age film, François Truffaut's enduring and endearing first feature heralded the arrival of the French New Wave.

8 ½

Federico Fellini

Italy

"The most brilliant, varied, and entertaining movie since Citizen Kane" (Dwight Macdonald), Federico Fellini's dazzling semi-autobiographical fantasia features Marcello Mastroianni as Fellini's alter ego Guido, a film director wh...

À nos amours

Maurice Pialat

France

A bracing success in the career of the grievously overlooked director Maurice Pialat, À nos amours not only won the César (France's Academy Awards®) for best picture of the year but established a paradigm for French art cinema t...

Abracadabra - A Class for Magicians

Hocus pocus, alakazam! Magic and movies go together like peanut butter and jelly. In this class, budding illusionists will learn sleight-of-hand secrets sure to dazzle and amaze.

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

West Germany

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the enfant terrible of the New German Cinema, achieved his greatest critical and popular success with his remake of Douglas Sirk's Rock Hudson-Jane Wyman melodrama All That Heaven Allows.

All About My Mother

Pedro Almodóvar

Spain/France

Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar has become an international household name for his vibrant, eye-poppingly colourful postmodern melodramas, crackling with the unbridled energy of his marvelous actresses.

Amélie

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

France/Germany

An international sensation on its release, French visionary Jean-Pierre Jeunet's sumptuous Amélie launched Audrey Tautou to stardom as the winsome young heroine whose rich fantasy life renders Paris a playground of the imaginati...

Les Amours imaginaires

Xavier Dolan

Canada

In the follow-up to his acclaimed debut J’ai tué ma mère, Xavier Dolan tells the story of best friends Francis (Dolan) and Marie (Monia Chokri) who find their relationship tested when they fall for the same guy, Nicolas (Niels Sc...

Andrei Rublev

Andrei Tarkovsky

Soviet Union

Masterfully using long, mobile shots to invest his stark, brooding landscapes with an almost mystical power, Russian master Andrei Tarkovsky has been a direct influence on such major contemporary filmmakers as Béla Tarr, Theo Ang...

Annie Hall

Woody Allen

USA

Woody Allen's most popular and endearing film—and one of the few comedies to ever win the Academy Award® for Best Picture—tells the retrospective story of the relationship between Alvy Singer (Allen), a stand-up comedian carrying...

Apocalypse Now Redux

Francis Ford Coppola

USA

Francis Ford Coppola's hallucinatory Vietnam epic is sometimes overshadowed by the legend of its own famously troubled production, but the film that emerged remains one of the most ambitious and awe-inspiring war movies ever made...

L' Arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat / Le Voyage dans la lune

Louis & Auguste Lumière

France

Cinema was "born" in 1895 when an audience paid to watch a screening in the Salon Indien at the Grand Café in Paris, and from very early on it began to take two divergent but fundamentally unified paths: that of reality as define...

L' Atalante

Jean Vigo

France

An alternately comic, tragic, fantastic and hauntingly beautiful reverie on love lost and regained, this final work from the pathbreaking French director Jean Vigo—completed shortly before his tragically premature death at 29—chr...

L' Avventura

Michelangelo Antonioni

Italy

The succès de scandale of the 1960 Cannes film festival, Michelangelo Antonioni’s modernist masterpiece tells of the inexplicable disappearance of a wealthy young woman on a rocky island during a pleasure trip.

The Battle of Algiers

Gillo Pontecorvo

Algeria

Gillo Pontecorvo's docudrama recounting of the Algerian National Liberation Front's (FLN) battle against their French colonizers in the 1950s has lost none of its cutting insight into the dynamics of imperialism and terrorism (of...

Battleship Potemkin

Sergei Eisenstein

Soviet Union

Sergei Eisenstein's earth-shaking agitprop classic, taking inspiration from a real-life mutiny on a Russian naval vessel prior to the aborted 1905 revolution, sought to remake cinema as a revolutionary art form with Eisenstein's ...

Bibi Blocksberg

Hermine Huntgeburth

Germany

Join Bibi, a twelve-year-old witch, on an exciting supernatural adventure! After she is awarded a magic crystal ball for an act of heroism, Bibi must try to stop an evil rival from carrying out a plan that could cause Bibi to los...

Bicycle Thieves

Vittorio De Sica

Italy

Vittorio De Sica's Academy Award®-winning neorealist classic employs a helplessly heart-tugging story to capture, with documentary immediacy, the poverty and desperation of postwar Italy.

The Birth of a Nation

D.W. Griffith

USA

Legendary and still controversial, D.W. Griffith's Civil War epic has been celebrated for virtually inventing the modern cinema and castigated for its unabashed racism and heroization of the Ku Klux Klan.

Blade Runner

Ridley Scott

USA

Ridley Scott’s sci-fi neo-noir city symphony—envisioning a dystopian 2019 Los Angeles as a cacophony of decaying neons and perpetual acid rain—still feels eerily prescient today.

Blue Velvet

David Lynch

USA

A postmodern suburban nightmare from David Lynch, the premiere cinematic excavator of the dark lusts and terrifying violence beneath Ozzie-and-Harriet small-town Americana, Blue Velvet was the director's critical and commercial b...

Breaking the Waves

Lars von Trier

Denmark/Sweden/France/Netherlands/Norway/Iceland

Lars Von Trier's raw, controversial drama was the dry run for his famed "Dogma 95" movement, yoking the signifiers of naturalism (handheld cameras, location shooting) to an almost magic realist fable of faith and redemption.

Breathless

Jean-Luc Godard

France

Jean-Luc Godard's jazzy, propulsive and poetic ode to Hollywood B-films and macho fatalism is one of the key films of the modern cinema (if not the key film), jettisoning the conventional methods of "professional" filmmaking—seam...

Bringing Up Baby

Howard Hawks

USA

A box-office failure upon its initial release, Howard Hawks' gaspingly funny, machine gun-paced screwball comedy has since been reclaimed as a masterpiece of the genre.

Buttonography

Ever heard of a cinematographer? Become your very own buttonographer ...

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Robert Wiene

Germany

Caligari in Concert

Award-winning composer, musician and bandleader Andrew Downing appears live with his ensemble on October 29th to perform their original score for the silent German Expressionist classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

Casablanca

Michael Curtiz

USA

The definitive film of Golden Age Hollywood, Casablanca is one of those rare films that exists beyond criticism.

The Chess Players with the Academy Film Archive

Satyajit Ray

India

The premiere of the most recent restoration by the Academy's Satyajit Ray Preservation Project, the 1977 comedy The Chess Players.

Children of Paradise

Marcel Carné

France

Often referred to as France's Gone With the Wind, Marcel Carné's lavish historical romance was made under the Nazi occupation, where the years-in-the-making production reportedly served as a haven for Resistance members.

Chinatown

Roman Polanski

USA

As bitingly contemporary as it ever was, Roman Polanski and screenwriter Robert Towne's seamlessly retro salute to the classic private-eye film blends an impeccable recreation of the past with Watergate-era evocations of endemic ...

Chronique d'un été

Jean Rouch

France

A landmark of the cinéma-vérité movement in documentary filmmaking, Chronique d’un été is a collaboration between sociologist Edgar Morin and ethnographic filmmaker Jean Rouch, who in 1960 invited a group of young Parisians to he...

Chungking Express

Wong Kar-wai

Hong Kong

A visually dazzling and endlessly rich fusion of offbeat romantic comedy and coolly postmodern reverie, acclaimed Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-wai's Chungking Express has become a signature film of millennial cinema, an announcement...

Cinema Paradiso

Giuseppe Tornatore

Italy/France

The ultimate love letter to the movies, Giuseppe Tornatore's heartwarming tale follows famous filmmaker Salvatore (Jacques Perrin) as he returns to his small Sicilian hometown and reminisces about his childhood, especially his ti...

Citizen Kane

Orson Welles

USA

Orson Welles' legendary debut feature remains one of the most famous and influential movies ever made, regularly topping polls of the best films of all time.

City Lights

Charlie Chaplin

USA

A Chaplin masterpiece, City Lights is a hilarious and moving story about the Little Tramp’s unrequited romance with a blind flower seller, and his attempts to raise money for an operation to restore her sight...

City of God

Fernando Meirelles

Brazil/France

Combining the cinema of social consciousness with the dynamic visual language of music videos and advertising, Fernando Meirelles' decade-spanning epic focuses on the slum children of the Rio de Janeiro favelas, trapped in a neve...

Cléo de 5 à 7

Agnès Varda

France

Agnès Varda's celebrated debut feature is a film of enduring depth and fascination, unfolding nearly in real time yet with the structure of a fairy tale.

A Clockwork Orange

Stanley Kubrick

UK/USA

Stanley Kubrick's controversial adaptation of Anthony Burgess' novel takes place in a simultaneously authoritarian and decadent near-future London where gangs of teenage "droogs" rob, rape and kill with abandon while an iron-fist...

The Conformist

Bernardo Bertolucci

Italy/France/West Germany

A gripping examination of the intersection of sex and politics, Bernardo Bertolucci’s adaptation of Alberto Moravia’s acclaimed novel is an opulent palimpsest of Freud and Marx, Godard and Vogue.

The Costume Factory

Do you have a costume that needs a bit of help? Bring in whatever you have and see if our tickle trunk contains anything that can give it that extra pizzazz. This ghoul needs to be more ghoulish, stat! Someone get this fairy some...

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Ang Lee

Taiwan/Hong Kong/USA/China

Triumphantly bringing wuxia (a traditional Chinese genre focusing on the adventures of heroic martial artists) to the West, Ang Lee's swordplay epic won four Academy Awards® and became the highest-grossing foreign film ever relea...

Culture Days at TIFF Bell Lightbox - September 24 - 26

Come take part in Culture Days, a free, interactive celebration of arts and culture from coast to coast to coast. Enjoy film screenings, family activities and the Essential Cinema exhibition—all for free!

Culture Days Free Screenings!

Enjoy two silent cinema classics for free during the Culture Days open house at TIFF Bell Lightbox. From two of the greatest film comedians—Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin—come two hilarious and heart warming films that are a t...

Culture Days Workshops

Be one of the first to step behind the scenes at TIFF with our free Culture Days interactive film-craft activities. Choose from a variety of activity stations or do them all!

David Cronenberg with Videodrome

We are honoured to welcome as our first special guest at TIFF Bell Lightbox Toronto's own David Cronenberg, who joins us to introduce his body-horror masterpiece Videodrome.

Director Trademarks

Tired of rules, of following directions and doing things the way they've always been done? This class will introduce you to the filmmakers who share your spirit, and were determined to make their mark in cinema and blaze a trail ...

DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation

DJ, composer, multimedia artist and writer, Paul D. Miller—better known as DJ Spooky—has been developing what some call conceptual hip hop: innovations in editing techniques, found footage, and détournement.

La Dolce Vita

Federico Fellini

Italy

Federico Fellini's panorama of "the sweet life" defined decadence for a generation with its vision of Rome at the height of the postwar Italian economic miracle.

Drawing on Film

Discover the recipe for film with this can't-try-this-at-home activity.

Dub This!

Think you can deliver lines from famous movies as well as the actors?

Dust in the Wind

Hou Hsiao-hsien

Taiwan

Both a heartbreaking coming-of-age tale and a quiet revolution in film style from Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-hsien, Dust in the Wind follows Wan (Wang Chien-wen), a studious teenager from a small mining town, who moves to Taipei...

The Earrings of Madame de...

Max Ophüls

France

Hailed as the greatest film of all time by Andrew Sarris, the godfather of American film criticism, Viennese master Max Ophüls' sumptuous tale of tragic love in the belle époque follows the circuitous route of a pair of earrings ...

Earth

Alexander Dovzhenko

Soviet Union

Commissioned by the Soviet government to produce a propaganda film about the struggle for agricultural collectivization, Alexander Dovzhenko instead made this achingly beautiful paean to his rural Ukrainian homeland, creating in ...

Eat Fear

Ming Wong

In Love for the Mood is inspired by Wong Kar-wai's meditation on love and infidelity In the Mood for Love (2000). A Caucasian actress plays both the leading man and woman and attempts to deliver the lines in Cantonese. Angst Esse...

Essential Cinema Concerts

As part of the Essential Cinema show TIFF Bell Lightbox proudly presents a season of concerts featuring some of today's most accomplished musicians accompanying screenings of some of our Essential 100 films with their own composi...

Essential Cinema Weekend Workshops

As the Essential 100 films grace the screens of TIFF Bell Lightbox, youth and families are invited to travel through the history of cinema via interactive activities and workshops during three weekends in October...

A Film Unfinished

Yael Hersonski

Germany/Israel

Fascinating and chilling, Yael Hersonski’s A Film Unfinished meticulously scrutinizes a cinematic relic as historically invaluable as it is morally revolting: an uncompleted “documentary” shot by a Nazi film crew in the Warsaw Gh...

Fun for Halloween-ies!

Get freaked out at TIFF Bell Lightbox on Halloween, as we present screenings, activities and workshops on the spookiest weekend of the year!

Fun With Flipbooks

The basics of motion and movement in animation have never been so clear than with flipbooks. At this station you can assemble your very own flipbook and watch some still images burst into life with a simple flick of your thumb.

Fun with Foley

Open your ears to the weird, wacky and wonderful world of the foley artist and discover the magic of creating sound effects with chairs, shoes, water bottles, phonebooks and other nutty props...

The Godfather

Francis Ford Coppola

USA

Francis Ford Coppola's Shakespearean portrait of a powerful Mafia family in post-WWII New York City brilliantly combined the virtues of the Old Hollywood—a stately, classical style of lighting and photography courtesy of ace cine...

Gone With the Wind

Victor Fleming

USA

Swashbuckling producer David O. Selznick's epic screen version of Margaret Mitchell's best-selling novel was the original blockbuster, the highest-grossing film of all time at the domestic box office when adjusted for inflation.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Sergio Leone

Italy/Spain/West Germany

Propelled by Ennio Morricone's iconic whistle and wah-wah score, Sergio Leone's legendary "spaghetti western" quickly apportions its titular trio: the Good (Clint Eastwood), a cheroot-smoking gunfighter with no name; the Bad (Lee...

La Grande Illusion

Jean Renoir

France

Jean Renoir's antiwar classic, a heartfelt call for peace in a world on the brink of war, was instantly hailed as a masterpiece upon its release and branded "Cinematic Enemy No. 1" by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.

Greed

Erich von Stroheim

USA

Erich von Stroheim's adaptation of Frank Norris' naturalist novel McTeague famously ran eight hours in its first version, before it was seized by its studio and brutally hacked down to two— it’s a testament to Stroheim's mastery ...

Greed with Do Make Say Think

Toronto instrumental post-rock outfit Do Make Say Think—whose live soundtrack collaboration with Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy) and electronica artist Robert Lippok for the 1919 German silent film Tales of the Uncanny was an unqua...

Green Screens and Scary Sounds

The best scary scenes perfect not only the look, but the sounds as well. In our special cinema-studio, be a part of a team of visitors recreating the magic of a Halloween scene. Whether you're in the spotlight in front of the gre...

Halloween Film Fun

Join us for some delightfully spooky cinema on Halloween at TIFF Bell Lightbox, featuring Canadian and international films filled with magical adventures and suspenseful thrills (and some scream-out-loud moments too!) to delight ...

In the Mood for Love

Wong Kar-wai

Hong Kong/France

Fusing elements from the European art film and American melodrama to create a new and profoundly influential mode of Asian cinema, Wong Kar-wai's intoxicating tale of unconsummated passion transforms a premise ideal for a sex com...

Isabella Rossellini on Blue Velvet

Isabella Rossellini present herselfs in two different colours: a segment from her fantastic Green Porno series, followed by her remarkable performance in David Lynch's surrealist mystery masterpiece Blue Velvet.

Isabella Rossellini on Voyage in Italy

Actor, director and icon Isabella Rossellini introduces her father Roberto's classic Voyage in Italy, starring her mother Ingrid Bergman.

Jacqueline Stewart on Gone With the Wind

Following a screening of David O. Selznick's Civil War epic, noted film scholar Jacqueline Stewart will discuss African American stardom and Black film culture in the US prior to World War II, using film clips and PowerPoint imag...

Jaws

Steven Spielberg

USA

The dawn of the summer blockbuster, Steven Spielberg's gut-wrenching adventure-horror classic combines drive-in thrills with masterful suspense (greatly aided by Verna Fields' razor-sharp editing) and performances that range from...

Jeff Lindsay on Casablanca

Jeff Lindsay, whose best-selling Dexter novels served as the basis for the hit HBO series, shifts into a softer mood to discuss one of Hollywood’s greatest romantic classics.

La Jetée

Chris Marker

France

Famously told (almost) entirely in still shots, Chris Marker's innovative, mindbending science-fiction classic is a rumination on the idea of time worthy of Proust (or Borges).

John Waters on Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom

"The Pope of Trash" meets the most shocking film ever made (sorry Pink Flamingos!) when John Waters appears on stage to discuss Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom.

Johnny Guitar

Nicholas Ray

USA

Bursting with bold, intoxicating comic-book colours, Nicholas Ray's "baroque western" follows the title hero (Sterling Hayden), a former gunslinger trying to put his bloody past behind him, as he reunites with his ex-lover Vienna...

Jules et Jim

François Truffaut

France

A radiant love letter to la vie bohème, François Truffaut's third film brought the Nouvelle Vague to worldwide attention and established Truffaut as one of the most influential filmmakers of the era.

Laban the Little Ghost

Lasse Persson

Sweden

This sweet and spooky series designed for young children follows the adventures of Laban, a charming little ghost who, with the help of his parents and sister Labalina, learns how to haunt the castle his family lives in...

Lawrence of Arabia

David Lean

UK

David Lean’s Academy Award®-winning desert epic is equal parts war film and existential romance.

The Leopard

Luchino Visconti

Italy

A true feast for the eyes, Italian master Luchino Visconti's sumptuous adaptation of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's epic novel chronicles the downfall of a noble Sicilian family as the old world gives way to a new order in the wa...

Liam Lacey on Taxi Driver

We are proud to partner with The Globe and Mail for an ongoing series of special presentations, featuring introductions and discussions of films from the Essential 100 with Globe writers and critics.

Life Is Beautiful

Roberto Benigni

Italy

Roberto Benigni's Academy Award®-winning film about Guido, a carefree Italian Jew (Benigni, of course) whose fairytale courtship and marriage to his beloved principesa (Nicoletta Braschi) is suddenly, horribly interrupted by the ...

The Lives Of Others

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Germany

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's Academy Award®-winning feature debut is both a taut thriller and an impassioned moral drama, offering an intriguing glimpse behind the Iron Curtain prior to perestroika.

M

Fritz Lang

Germany

The original serial killer movie, Fritz Lang's still-chilling masterpiece follows a compulsive child murderer (Peter Lorre) as his uncontrollable rampage turns Berlin into a city of fear, striking panic into every strata of socie...

The Maltese Falcon

John Huston

USA

Adapting Dashiell Hammett's classic private-eye novel, John Huston's first film as director stands alongside Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless and Nicholas Ray's They Live By Night as one of the best debut ...

Man With a Movie Camera

Dziga Vertov

Soviet Union

Taking the art of montage to dizzying new heights, Dziga Vertov's kaleidoscopic "city symphony" is one of the most influential films ever made.

Marianne Birthler on The Lives of Others

The Academy Award®-winning The Lives of Others offered a vivid glimpse of East Germany's surveillance, intimidation and persecution of its own citizens at the hands of the Ministry for State Security (Stasi).

Memories of Underdevelopment

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Cuba

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's adaptation of Edmundo Desnoes' novel brought Latin American (and "Third World") cinema to international attention, establishing a mode of formally radical, forthrightly politicized cinema whose influence ca...

Metropolis

Fritz Lang

Germany

Fritz Lang's science-fiction superproduction—presented here in its newly restored, most complete version—nearly drove the great German studio UFA into bankruptcy, but was embraced worldwide as a visionary masterwork.

Metropolis with Gabriel Thibaudeau

To mark the premiere of the new restoration of Metropolis and its 25 minutes of previously lost material, Gabriel Thibaudeau, celebrated pianist and composer for the Cinémathèque québécoise—who premiered his original score for Ro...

The Michael Nyman Band performs Man With a Movie Camera

The Michael Nyman Band performs the composer's original score for Dziga Vertov's masterpiece of montage Man With a Movie Camera.

The Michael Nyman Band performs NYman With a Movie Camera

The Michael Nyman Band will play alongside Nyman's painstaking shot-for-shot reconstruction of Vertov's film, NYman With a Movie Camera, which uses footage from the composer's personal film archive shot over the past two decades ...

Michael Snow, Annette Michelson and P. Adams Sitney on Wavelength

Don't miss this special presentation of a beautiful, newly struck print of Michael Snow's landmark film Wavelength, followed by an on-stage conversation between Snow and two other luminaries of the avant garde, Annette Michelson ...

Molly Haskell on À nos amours

Best-known for her classic book From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, noted writer, scholar and film critic Molly Haskell has reshaped the way we understand the portrayal of women on screen.

Music and Cinema: They Shoot - You Score!

Got a musical ear? Through an assortment of fun, interactive and imaginative games and exercises, learn about how different music affects the feel of what you see on the big screen...

Music Videos - (Very) Old School

Back in the the 1890s music videos were called "illustrated songs," and audiences used to flock to the 5 cent cinemas to see how the latest tunes would get matched up with colourful pictures and projections. Join us as we step th...

Nashville

Robert Altman

USA

Much imitated but never equaled, Robert Altman's kaleidoscopic panorama of pop culture, show business and politics was one of the key American films of the 1970s.

Night and Fog

Alain Resnais

France

Powerful and still controversial, Alain Resnais' chilling yet poetic documentary portrait of the Nazi death camps ten years after their liberation shifts between archival and contemporary footage of the infamous sites, their unne...

A Night in Nashville

Michael Murphy, one of the screen's most respected character actors and a long-serving member of Robert Altman's unofficial stock company, will be present for a Q & A session after our screening of the maverick filmmaker's kaleid...

La Noire de...

Ousmane Sembène

France/Senegal

The first film by an African director to receive attention and acclaim worldwide, Ousmane Sembène’s debut feature opened the door to the West for such acclaimed African filmmakers as Souleymane Cissé, Djibril Diop Mambety and Hai...

Objects of Illusion - 'Tropes 'n Scopes / Shadows and Light

The magic of movies is all in the eye—and early inventors knew this long before the movies existed. Visit our lab of experimentation where you can build your own objects that will make your pictures spring to life...

Oldboy

Park Chan-wook

South Korea

Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2004 Cannes film festival, Park Chan-wook's hyperkinetic revenge thriller ushered the fiendishly inventive Korean genre cinema into the global spotlight.

Pan's Labyrinth

Guillermo del Toro

Spain/Mexico/USA

Grafting the style of the contemporary horror film onto an anti-fascist political allegory, Guillermo del Toro's Academy Award®-winning modern fairy tale is set in Franco's Spain in 1944, where the imaginative young Ofélia (Ivana...

The Passion of Joan of Arc

Carl Theodor Dreyer

France

The pinnacle of silent cinema—and perhaps of the cinema itself—Carl Theodor Dreyer's account of the trial and martyrdom of the Maid of Orleans finds the path to transcendence through the unvarnished physicality of faces and bodie...

The Passion of Joan of Arc and Richard Einhorn's Voices of Light

Performed around the world to tremendous acclaim, from the Lincoln Center in New York to the Sydney Opera House, Richard Einhorn's opera/oratorio Voices of Light draws direct inspiration from Dreyer's silent masterpiece.

The Passion of Joan of Arc: A New Score by Adrian Utley and Will Gregory

Premiered in May 2010 at Bristol's Colston Hall, this collaboration between Portishead's Adrian Utley and Goldfrapp's Will Gregory employs six electric guitars, percussion, horns, keyboards and choral voices to weave a darkly int...

Pather Panchali

Satyajit Ray

India

The first episode of the epochal "Apu Trilogy", Satyajit Ray's debut is a poetic portrait of an impoverished Brahmin family living in rural Bengal in the 1920s.

Pather Panchali with the Academy Film Archive

Satyajit Ray

India

Academy Film Archive Director Michael Pogorzelski presents Satyajit Ray’s classic Pather Panchali, one of the first of the legendary’s director's films to be restored under the Academy's Satyajit Ray Preservation Project.

Persona

Ingmar Bergman

Sweden

Ingmar Bergman's enigmatic and truly frightening masterpiece of psychological horror explores the relationship between an actress (Liv Ullmann) who has suffered a nervous breakdown and lost the power of speech, and her young and ...

Peter Bogdanovich on Citizen Kane

TIFF welcomes acclaimed director, author and raconteur Peter Bogdanovich, whose pioneering books on Hawks, Hitchcock, Welles and Ford helped secure the artistic legacy of the classic Hollywood cinema, as he introduces Orson Welle...

Peter Bogdanovich on The Searchers

Acclaimed author, raconteur and director Peter Bogdanovich introduces John Ford’s The Searchers.

Pickpocket

Robert Bresson

France

Along with Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky and Carl Theodor Dreyer, Robert Bresson is one of the cinema's paramount filmmakers of faith, wrestling with questions of damnation, salvation and transcendence in settings ranging from...

Planet of the Vampires

Mario Bava

Italy

As the first half of his Halloween double bill, Vincenzo Natali presents the 1965 Italian sci-fi/horror flick, Planet of the Vampires.

Playtime

Jacques Tati

France

Jacques Tati's comedy masterpiece follows his inimitable alter ego Monsieur Hulot through a Paris that has been transformed into a byzantine maze of glass and steel.

Psycho

Alfred Hitchcock

USA

Alfred Hitchcock's most famous, financially successful and influential film holds a permanent place not only in film history but in cultural consciousness: endlessly invoked, imitated, parodied and appropriated, it remains perfec...

Pulp Fiction

Quentin Tarantino

USA

Quentin Tarantino's brazenly postmodern gun-and-gabfest was the first smash hit American "indie" film and exerted a powerful influence over Hollywood filmmaking for well over a decade.

Raging Bull

Martin Scorsese

USA

Martin Scorsese's brutal and bruising masterpiece, from a no-holds-barred script by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin, uses the life of 1950s middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta to etch a searing portrait of male violence and...

Rashomon

Akira Kurosawa

Japan

The film that introduced Japanese cinema to the West, Akira Kurosawa's international breakthrough not only had an historic impact on the structure of cinematic narrative (evident in filmmakers from Resnais to Tarantino) but its t...

Rashomon with the Academy Film Archive

Akira Kurosawa

Japan

Academy Film Archive Director Michael Pogorzelski presents a screening of Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, which was digitally restored through an international collaboration that was one of the first of its kind.

Razzle Dazzle - Duel

Sunday takes us into the world of duels as experienced fight choreographers reveal the secrets of a good fake battle. Whether you'll be swinging a lightsaber or channeling some ninja moves, you'll learn how to make your next epic...

Razzle Dazzle / Dance

Come move your bodies on Saturday as we run through a slate of classes inspired by the fantastic musical numbers in the Essential 100...

The Rules of the Game

Jean Renoir

France

A classic upstairs-downstairs comedy of manners undercut by a gathering sense of tragedy, Jean Renoir's sympathetic yet scathing farewell to an old world about to be transformed forever by war traces the various amours and intrig...

Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Italy/France

The last film of the Italian poet, novelist, linguist and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini before his murder in 1975, Salò is one of the most harrowing depictions of power and cruelty ever placed on film.

Scary Stuff and Other Films

Sam Fisher

Canada

Join us for a roller coaster ride of fright and delight with this collection of eerie short films, starting off with Sam Fisher's Scary Stuff...

Schindler's List

Steven Spielberg

USA

An almost unbearably moving masterwork, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List sees one of modern cinema's most popular storytellers abandoning his signature high-gloss style to create a film of restrained and haunting beauty.

Scorpio Rising

Kenneth Anger

USA

Mystical, poetic and brazenly homoerotic, the films of legendary avant-gardist Kenneth Anger draw from such diverse influences as Jean Cocteau, Alfred Kinsey and infamous English occultist Aleister Crowley for their bacchanalian ...

The Searchers

John Ford

USA

The paramount collaboration between John Ford and his perennial star John Wayne, The Searchers has exerted a profound influence on such directors as Paul Schrader, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg.

Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa

Japan

"One of the great art works of the twentieth century" (Stanley Kauffmann), Akira Kurosawa's tale of seven masterless warriors hired to defend a village from pillaging bandits in sixteenth-century Japan is both an adventure epic a...

The Seventh Seal

Ingmar Bergman

Sweden

Ingmar Bergman's medieval allegory tells the tale of a fourteenth-century knight (Max von Sydow) who returns home from the Crusades to a country ravaged by plague, witch hunts and frenzied self-flagellation.

Sherlock Jr.

Buster Keaton

USA

Buster Keaton, one of the screen's greatest comedians (and greatest filmmakers), made his masterpiece with the hilarious and endlessly inventive Sherlock Jr.

Sherlock Jr. in concert with the Fern Lindzon Sextet

Buster Keaton

USA

Comedy great Buster Keaton showcases his astonishingly acrobatic slapstick in this hilarious masterpiece about a cinema projectionist and would-be detective (Keaton) who falls asleep on the job and dreams himself into the mystery...

Simple Tricks and Special Effects

Looking to disappear? Face down a giant? Walk a tightrope? All these things are possible in the world of cinema, and all it takes is a camera and a few handy tricks.

Singin' in the Rain

Stanley Donen

USA

One of the most famous and beloved musicals of all time, Singin' in the Rain is simply irresistible.

Slumdog Millionaire

Danny Boyle

UK

A cinematic mash-up, Danny Boyle's fusion of Bollywood style with kinetic, cutting-edge Western filmmaking technique focuses on Jamal, a poor, irrepressible youth who is set loose in the world along with his brother Salim—and a c...

Some Like It Hot

Billy Wilder

USA

The apotheosis of Marilyn Monroe and the height of the American farce, Billy Wilder's hilarious cross-dressing comedy remains as deft, fizzy and funny as it was half a century ago.

The Sorrow and the Pity

Marcel Ophüls

France/Switzerland/West Germany

Marcel Ophüls' (son of Max) epic investigation of French resistance and collaboration under the Nazi occupation in WWII is still one of the most important and controversial documentaries ever made, its voiceover-less, multi-facet...

Special Effects Makeup

You know you want to—go on, get that giant scar or that bleeding gash you always yearned to sport on Halloween (really, is there any other night of the year when you can get away with it?).

Star Wars

George Lucas

USA

Due to rights issues, we are unable to screen this film at the present time, but hope to do so in the near future. Please check back for updates.

The Substitute

Ole Bornedal

Denmark

Get ready to laugh, gasp and scream as twelve-year-old Carl attempts to convince his friends and parents that his new teacher is an alien from another planet!

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

F.W. Murnau

USA

A triumphant wedding of European style and American narrative, of the naturalistic and the fantastic, the first American film by the great German director F.W. Murnau lavishes boundless visual invention on the simple plot of a te...

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans with the Academy Film Archive

F.W. Murnau

USA

Academy Film Archive Director Michael Pogorzelski presents a screening of the Academy's 2003 restoration of F.W. Murnau's Sunrise.

Taxi Driver

Martin Scorsese

USA

Hallucinatory, mesmerizing and strikingly violent, Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader's plunge into the twisted psyche of a cab-driving Vietnam vet offers a nightmarish voyage into the seedy underbelly of pre-Giuliani...

The Third Man

Carol Reed

UK

With its extreme angles and jagged shadows rendering postwar Vienna a nightmarish cityscape, Carol Reed's classic thriller set the template for film noir as much as any of its American contemporaries, while its distinctively Brit...

Through the Olive Trees

Abbas Kiarostami

Iran/France

The indisputable central figure of the Iranian New Wave, Abbas Kiarostami's poetic combinations of documentary and fiction techniques explore how cinema changes, and is changed by, its interaction with the real world.

TIFF and Hot Docs present: Michel Brault with Chronique d’un été

We are pleased to partner with Hot Docs for this special free on-stage event with one of the key figures of Québecois cinema.

Tokyo Story

Yasujiro Ozu

Japan

The undisputed master of domestic drama, Yasujiro Ozu created his supreme achievement with this moving meditation on aging, mortality, and the gulf between the generations.

Ugetsu

Kenji Mizoguchi

Japan

An exquisitely rendered ghost story from Japanese master Kenji Mizoguchi, Ugetsu is also, like many of his films, a tribute to the endurance and inner strength of women and a condemnation of male vanity, selfishness and brutalit...

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Thailand/UK/France/Germany/Spain/Netherlands

The surprise winner of the Palme d'Or at this year’s Cannes film festival, the latest masterpiece from Thai master Apichatpong Weerasethakul—whose previous feature Syndromes and a Century was voted TIFF Cinematheque's #1 film of ...

Vertigo

Alfred Hitchcock

USA

"One of the landmarks—not merely of the movies, but of twentieth-century art" (Dave Kehr), Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece of erotic fixation eschews the comic-thriller mode that he had made his own for a deeper brand of suspense:...

Videodrome

David Cronenberg

Canada

A gory genre classic and one of the most influential Canadian films ever made, David Cronenberg's prescient portrait of a media age at its extremes remains disturbing, thought-provoking and indelibly icky.

Viridiana

Luis Buñuel

Spain

Condemned by both the Vatican and the fascist Spanish government before winning the Palme d'or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival, legendary Spanish surrealist Luis Buñuel's delightfully lewd and deliciously cynical comedy follows ...

Voyage in Italy

Roberto Rossellini

Italy/France

A key transitional point in the modernist cinema, Voyage in Italy saw Roberto Rossellini, one of the fathers of Italian neorealism, crafting a new, more allusive cinematic language that would help pave the way for the next wave ...

Walter Murch on Apocalypse Now Redux

We are privileged to welcome at TIFF Bell Lightbox one of the American cinema's greatest film editors, film theorists and film artists, the legendary Walter Murch, who joins us for two special events on the weekend of October 9-1...

Walter Murch presents "The State of Cinema"

Walter Murch, one of the American cinema’s greatest film editors, film theorists and film artists, presents a special address on “The State of Cinema,” mapping out his intriguing speculations on what would have happened had the c...

Wavelength

Michael Snow

Canada

The great American film critic Manny Farber dubbed Michael Snow's avant-garde masterpiece "a pure, tough 45 minutes that may become the Birth of a Nation of Underground films".

Wicked Workshops

Halloween opens up an endless world of possibilities. Join the TIFF Bell Lightbox film workshop crew as they help you bring your Halloween dreams (and nightmares) to life.

Wings of Desire

Wim Wenders

West Germany/France

Winner of the Best Director prize at the 1987 Cannes film festival, Wim Wenders' poetic fable follows two angels, Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander), as they drift through the divided city of Berlin, fulfilling their e...

The Wizard of Oz

Victor Fleming

USA

As delightful as ever, The Wizard of Oz is a perennial family favourite and a classic of the fantasy film.

Written on the Wind

Douglas Sirk

USA

The ridiculous made sublime, Douglas Sirk's full-throttle melodrama is a breathtaking, widescreen symphony of style, cited as an inspiration by everyone from Rainer Werner Fassbinder to Harmony Korine.

You've Got The Look

Enter the behind-the-scenes world of costumes and make-up, where creativity reigns supreme!