The people behind the readings

Fight Club 1999

A man so hollowed out by consumer life that he invents a second self to burn it all down.

Se7en 1995

Two detectives track a killer staging the seven deadly sins.

The Matrix 1999

An allegory about awakening from an artificial reality and questioning the systems that control us.

Interstellar 2014

Beneath the physics, a film about a parent and child separated by time and trying to speak across it.

Inception 2010

A thief who steals secrets from dreams is asked to plant an idea instead — and confront the memory he cannot escape.

Memento 2000

A man without short-term memory hunts his wife's killer through notes and tattoos.

The Dark Knight 2008

Batman faces a criminal who wants to prove anyone can be corrupted.

The Shining 1980

A haunted-house film in which the haunting is a family already broken before it arrives.

2001: A Space Odyssey 1968

Humanity's journey from ape to star-child, interrupted by a black monolith and an artificial intelligence that refuses to die.

A Clockwork Orange 1971

A charismatic young thug is 'cured' of violence by the state — and loses the one thing that made him human: the ability to choose.

Full Metal Jacket 1987

Marines are built in boot camp and tested in the ruins of Huế.

Pulp Fiction 1994

A mosaic of Los Angeles criminals whose lives intersect through chance, choice and moral improvisation.

Reservoir Dogs 1992

A heist goes wrong and the survivors try to find the rat — without ever showing the heist.

The Godfather 1972

The youngest son of a crime dynasty is drawn into the family business and slowly becomes the very thing he once rejected.

The Godfather Part II 1974

Michael consolidates his empire while his father's rise is told in parallel — two stories about what it costs to protect a family.

Apocalypse Now 1979

A captain travels upriver to assassinate a colonel who has gone beyond the war's rules.

Parasite 2019

A poor family infiltrates a wealthy household one job at a time — until the house reveals a secret that turns the scheme upside down.

Blade Runner 2049 2017

A young blade runner searching for a missing predecessor discovers a secret that could shatter the boundary between humans and replicants.

The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014

A legendary concierge and his loyal lobby boy fight to prove his innocence after a wealthy guest is murdered.

Get Out 2017

A young Black man visits his white girlfriend's parents and discovers a conspiracy that turns visitors into prisoners of their own bodies.

Chinatown 1974

A private eye hired for an adultery case uncovers a conspiracy over Los Angeles' water — and a crime too deep to fix.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975

A rebel fakes insanity to avoid prison work and starts a war of nerves with the ward's quiet tyrant.

Jaws 1975

A beach town keeps its summer open while a shark keeps feeding.

Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981

An archaeologist races Nazis to find the Ark of the Covenant.

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982

A lonely boy hides a lost alien and learns to say goodbye.

Schindler's List 1993

A profiteer who came to Kraków for money ends up saving more than a thousand lives.

Taxi Driver 1976

An insomniac veteran drives through New York's night until his loneliness becomes a mission.

Raging Bull 1980

Boxer Jake LaMotta wins in the ring and loses everything outside it.

Goodfellas 1990

Henry Hill always wanted to be a gangster — and the film lets us feel why, until it doesn't.

Star Wars 1977

A farm boy leaves home to rescue a princess and discovers the myth he was born into.

Alien 1979

A tired commercial crew answers a distress call and brings back something perfect.

Blade Runner 1982

A burnt-out cop hunts escaped replicants who just want more life.

Stalker 1979

A guide leads a writer and a scientist into the Zone, toward a room that grants your deepest wish.

The Empire Strikes Back 1980

The rebels scatter, Luke trains with Yoda, and a confession changes everything.

The Thing 1982

An Antarctic crew discovers a creature that can imitate any of them.

Scarface 1983

A Cuban refugee builds a cocaine empire in Miami and wants the world.

The Terminator 1984

A cyborg from the future hunts a waitress whose unborn son will lead humanity's resistance.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991

The machine that hunted Sarah Connor returns to protect her son.

Back to the Future 1985

A teenager travels to 1955 and must make his parents fall in love.

Brazil 1985

A clerk in a bureaucratic dystopia chases a woman from his dreams.

Blue Velvet 1986

A young man finds a severed ear and descends into his small town's hidden underworld.

Mulholland Drive 2001

An aspiring actress helps an amnesiac woman in Hollywood — until the dream collapses.

Akira 1988

In Neo-Tokyo, a biker gang member gains psychic powers he cannot control.

My Neighbor Totoro 1988

Two sisters move to the countryside while their mother is ill and meet a forest spirit.

Spirited Away 2001

A girl must work in a bathhouse for spirits to rescue her parents.

Do the Right Thing 1989

On the hottest day of the year, a Brooklyn block reaches boiling point.

The Silence of the Lambs 1991

An FBI trainee asks one monster to help her catch another.

Groundhog Day 1993

A cynical weatherman relives the same day until he becomes someone worth tomorrow.

Léon: The Professional 1994

A lonely hitman takes in a girl whose family was murdered by a corrupt cop.

The Shawshank Redemption 1994

A banker sentenced for murders he didn't commit keeps hope alive for nineteen years.

Heat 1995

A master thief and an obsessive detective realise they are the same man.

Trainspotting 1996

Edinburgh heroin addicts choose not to choose life — until one does.

Fargo 1996

A car salesman arranges his wife's kidnapping; a pregnant police chief cleans up the mess.

The Big Lebowski 1998

A slacker called the Dude is mistaken for a millionaire and pulled into a ransom plot.

No Country for Old Men 2007

A hunter takes drug money; a killer with a coin follows.

The Truman Show 1998

A man discovers his entire life is a television show.

American Beauty 1999

A suburban father wakes up from his life and tries to start it again.

Amélie 2001

A shy Parisian waitress secretly improves strangers' lives while avoiding her own.

Oldboy 2003

Imprisoned for fifteen years without reason, a man is released and given five days to find out why.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004

After a breakup, a man erases his ex from memory — then fights to keep her.

Donnie Darko 2001

A troubled teen is told by a rabbit that the world ends in 28 days.

Mad Max: Fury Road 2015

A warrior helps enslaved wives escape a tyrant in a two-hour chase.