WORLD CINEMA, CONNECTED

Start with a film you love.
Discover the cinema that inspired it.

Cinema Atlas traces the hidden threads between films, connecting what you already know and love to world cinema.

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Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) — directed by Céline Sciamma
A FILM YOU LOVE
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
2019 · Céline Sciamma
THE THREAD
The Piano (1993) — directed by Jane Campion
The Piano
1993 · Jane Campion
Repressed desire on a windswept coast.
 Vertigo (1958) — directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Vertigo
1958 · Alfred Hitchcock
Hitchcock's remembered woman, the gaze reversed.
 Persona (1966) — directed by Ingmar Bergman
Persona
1966 · Ingmar Bergman
The intimate two-woman psychodrama.
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The films that inspired Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Portrait of a Lady on Fire poster
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
2019 · Céline Sciamma
Persona poster
Persona
1966 · Ingmar Bergman
The intimate two-woman psychodrama.
The Piano poster
The Piano
1993 · Jane Campion
Repressed desire on a windswept coast.
Vertigo poster
Vertigo
1958 · Alfred Hitchcock
Hitchcock's remembered woman — the gaze reversed.
Umbrellas of Cherbourg poster
Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1964 · Jacques Demy
Demy's operatic, doomed love.
Titanic poster
Titanic
1997 · James Cameron
The hand-drawn portrait at its heart.
Trace the Thread

The films that inspired The Matrix

The Matrix poster
The Matrix
1999 · Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Hard Boiled poster
Hard Boiled
1992 · John Woo
Ghost in the Shell poster
Ghost in the Shell
1995 · Mamoru Oshii
The Legend of Drunken Master poster
The Legend of Drunken Master
1994 · Kar-leung Lau
Akira poster
Akira
1988 · Katsuhiro Otomo
The Killer poster
The Killer
1989 · John Woo
Police Story poster
Police Story
1985 · Jackie Chan
Discover by mood

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Pick a feeling and we'll find films that fit the mood.

Melancholy
Tokyo Story
Dreamlike
Spirited Away
Exhilarating
Run Lola Run
Quietly hopeful
Wings of Desire
Nostalgic
Cinema Paradiso

The Atlas — cinema by country

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Parasite poster
South Korea
Parasite
 A Separation poster
Iran
A Separation
 Seven Samurai poster
Japan
Seven Samurai
 Touki Bouki poster
Senegal
Touki Bouki
More threads to pull

The films that inspired Moonlight
Moonlight poster
Moonlight
2016 · Barry Jenkins
In the Mood for Love poster
In the Mood for Love
2000 · Wong Kar-wai
Beau travail poster
Beau travail
1999 · Claire Denis
Pather Panchali poster
Pather Panchali
1955 · Satyajit Ray
Chungking Express poster
Chungking Express
1994 · Wong Kar-wai
Days of Being Wild poster
Days of Being Wild
1991 · Wong Kar-wai
Paris, Texas poster
Paris, Texas
1984 · Wim Wenders

The films that inspired Django Unchained
Django Unchained poster
Django Unchained
2012 · Quentin Tarantino
Django poster
Django
1966 · Sergio Corbucci
The Great Silence poster
The Great Silence
1968 · Sergio Corbucci
For a Few Dollars More poster
For a Few Dollars More
1965 · Sergio Leone

The films that inspired The Worst Person in the World
The Worst Person in the World poster
The Worst Person in the World
2021 · Joachim Trier
L’Eclisse poster
L’Eclisse
1962 · Michelangelo Antonioni
Umbrellas of Cherbourg poster
Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1964 · Jacques Demy
Dekalog poster
Dekalog
1989 · Krzysztof Kieślowski

The films that inspired Parasite
Parasite poster
Parasite
2019 · Bong Joon-ho
Psycho poster
Psycho
1960 · Alfred Hitchcock
The Servant poster
The Servant
1963 · Joseph Losey
Shoplifters poster
Shoplifters
2018 · Hirokazu Kore-eda
High and Low poster
High and Low
1963 · Akira Kurosawa
Memories of Murder poster
Memories of Murder
2003 · Bong Joon-ho
Burning poster
Burning
2018 · Lee Chang-dong

The films that inspired Barbie
Barbie poster
Barbie
2023 · Greta Gerwig
The Red Shoes poster
The Red Shoes
1948 · Michael Powell, Pressburger
Playtime poster
Playtime
1967 · Jacques Tati
2001: A Space Odyssey poster
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968 · Stanley Kubrick
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