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The Edusites Complete Film Analysis Library

Richard Gent | Wednesday February 15, 2023

Categories: Film Library

We currently have 169 film analysis available for subscribers in our library. This collection includes many films from legacy and current exam board set film lists and provides a film from almost every genre for comparative study and analysis tasks.

In-Depth Single Film Studies

Our in-depth film analysis cover Context (Production, Social and Political), Auteur, Film Language, Mise-En-Scene, Scene/Sequence Analysis, Critical Debates, Narrative, Spectatorship, Ideology and Themes. These are labelled 'In-Depth' in the list.

Specific Focus Single Film Studies

These focus on specific areas of the film such as Advertising (Trailers, Posters, Online), Film Movements and Genre.

Framework of Knowledge

The key to our approach with every film analysis is to focus on improving students knowledge of a section or all of the film framework:

  • Narrative
  • Genre
  • Representations
  • Spectatorship

Our Films:

2001: A Space Odyssey - In-Depth OCR

2012

28 Days Later

À Bout de Souffle (Breathless) - French New Wave Study OCR

Airplane

Airport

All That Heaven Allows

Alfie - Swinging Britain 1963-1973

Amelie

American Gangster

Amores Perros - Mexican Cinema Study OCR

Amy - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC

Apocalypse Now - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC

At Five in the Afternoon - Iranian Cinema

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner - Developments in 21st Century Cinema

Atonement

Avatar - Developments in 21st Century Cinema

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - Comparison with Deadpool

Battleship Potemkin - Messages and Values in Global Film

Beasts of the Southern Wild - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC

Bend It Like Beckham

Bicycle Thieves (Ladri Di Biciclette) - Neorealism

Blackboards - Iranian Cinema

Blade Runner (Director's Cut) - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC

Bonnie and Clyde - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC

Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Boyhood - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC

Carol - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC

Casablanca - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC

Citizen Kane - In-Depth OCR

City of God - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC

Chariots of Fire - Film and Thatchers Britain

Close Up - Iranian Cinema

Cronos - Mexican Cinema

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon - Messages and Values in Global Cinema

Cloverfield

Deadpool - Comparison with Batman v Superman

Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge - Cinema Bollywood A Grade Exemplar

Dirty Harry - Comparison with Gran Turino

Dirty Pretty Things - Comparison with This Is England

Double Indemnity - In-Depth OCR

Do The Right Thing - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC/OCR

East is East - British Film and Genre

Elephant - In-Depth OCR

E.T. the Extra Terrestrial - In-Depth OCR

Ex-Machina - PDF Workbook OCR

Fahrenheit 9/11 - Comparison with Kurt & Courtney

Far From Heaven

Fight Club

Four Lions - British Film and Genre

Gilda - Comparison with L.A. Confidential

Gone Too Far! - In-Depth Comparison with Sightseers OCR

Goodbye Lenin! - Messages and Values in Global Film

Goodfellas

Gran Torino - Comparison with Dirty Harry

Grand Budapest Hotel - Exploring Film Form

Grave of the Fireflies - Japanese Cinema comparison with Seven Samurai

Gravity - Exploring Film Form

Grizzly Man - Documentaries Exemplar

Gypo - British Film: Borders and Belonging

Happy Together

Hot Fuzz

House of Flying Daggers - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC

Hush

If - Swinging Britain 1963-1973

In Which We Serve - The impact of World War Two on British Cinema

Inception - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC

Independence Day

Iron Man

Kick Ass

Kurt & Courtney - Comparison with Fahrenheit 9/11

La Haine

L.A Confidential - Comparison with Gilda

L'Age d'Or - In-Depth OCR

La La Land - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC

La Vita e Bella - Understanding Emotional Response

Les Enfants du Paradis

Les Quatre Cents Coups - French New Wave

London to Brighton - Living with Crime

Man With A Movie Camera - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC

Marley - Documentaries Exemplar

Metropolis - In-Depth OCR

Milk

Minority Report - Comparison to Blade Runner

Modern Times

Movern Callar

My Beautiful Laundrette - Film and Thatchers Britain

No Country for Old Men - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC

Nosferatu - Summary Analysis OCR

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC

Only Lovers Left Alive

Pan's Labyrinth - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC

Persepolis

Precious

Pulp Fiction - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC

Pumzi - Empowering Women

Rabbit Proof Fence

Rachel Getting Married - Comparison with Milk

Raging Bull - In-Depth OCR

Ratcatcher

Romeo and Juliet

Rome, Open City - Neorealism

Russian Ark - Messages and Values in Global Cinema

Schindler's List - Understanding Emotional Response

Secrets and Lies - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC

Selma - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC

Senna - Documentaries Exemplar

Seven Samurai - Japanese Cinema comparison with Seven Samurai

Shaun of the Dead - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC

Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game of Shadows

Shree 420 - Cinema Bollywood A Grade Exemplar

Sightseers - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC

Skyfall - Exploring Film Form

Solaris (1972)

Some Like It Hot - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC

Spider-Man

Spirited Away

Stagecoach - In-Depth OCR

Star Trek

Stories We Tell - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC/OCR

Submarine - Exploring Film Form

Sunrise - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC

Superman

Super Size Me

Sweet Sixteen - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

Talk To Her

Taxi Driver - Comparison to No Country for Old Men

The Apple - Iranian Cinema

The Babadook - In-Depth OCR

The Battle of Algiers - In-Depth OCR

The Birth of a Nation - In-Depth OCR

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - Summary Analysis OCR

The Conversation - In-Depth OCR

The Dark Knight

The Day After Tomorrow

The Devil's Backbone

The Discreet Charms of the Bourgeoisie - Surrealism

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC

The General - In-Depth OCR

The Gold Rush - In-Depth OCR

The Inbetweeners - Producers and Audiences

The Incredibles

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - The impact of World War Two on British Cinema

The Quiet Ones

The Shining - Exploring Film Form

The Wave

The Wicker Man

The Wind Will Carry Us - Iranian Cinema

The Woman in Black

This is England - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC

The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups) - In-Depth OCR

Thor

Timecode - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC

Titanic

Towering Inferno

Trainspotting - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC

Tsotsi

Un Bout de Souffle (Breathless)

Un Chien Andalou - In-Depth OCR

Under The Skin - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC

Up - Exploring Film Form

Vertigo - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC/OCR

Volver - Empowering Women

Winter's Bone - In-Depth Eduqas WJEC

Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers

X-Men

Yasmin

Y Tu Mama Tambien - Mexican Cinema Study OCR