12 collections match The Mountain Between Us
Latest Addition: High Mountain Rangers
A Collaborative collection, created by Skavau on 12 Mar 2024
48 films in collection, 0 stars
TV series based prominently in mountainous settings.
Latest Addition: Race to Witch Mountain
A Franchise collection, created by djross on 10 Mar 2023
5 films in collection, 0 stars
Includes Escape to Witch Mountain, Return from Witch Mountain, Race to Witch Mountain, and Beyond Witch Mountain
Latest Addition: Monsieur Aznavour
A Public collection, created by FILMOTECA SEU MANOLO on 16 Mar 2026
32 films in collection, 0 stars
The figure of the musician occupies a singular place in the cinematic imagination. From the great composers of the classical tradition to the idols of pop culture, the trajectories of these artists seem to gather all the elements of human drama: extraordinary talent, creative obsession, public recognition, and, often, profound personal crises. By transforming these lives into narrative, cinema not only reconstructs biographies but also participates in shaping the very myth of the musical artist. The biographical films brought together in Between Chords and Abysses move across different eras, styles, and musical traditions, revealing how music emerges from the meeting of individual experience and historical context. Each film observes the moment when artistic creation arises: in the rigor of classical composition, in the improvised freedom of jazz, in the popular song that translates collective experiences, or in the cultural explosion of rock. Cinema thus becomes a privileged space for reflecting on the creative process and on the tensions that often accompany great talent. Program produced by Filmoteca Seu Manolo.
Latest Addition: One Battle After Another
A Public collection, created by FILMOTECA SEU MANOLO on 25 Mar 2026
10 films in collection, 0 stars
Paul Thomas Andersons cinema can be understood as an investigation into the forms of excess. His characters do not simply feel they overflow. And it is within this overflow that both their fragilities and the structures that shape them are revealed. By articulating emotional intensity and formal control, Anderson creates a cinema that does not merely represent, but produces experience. His films do not offer balance they offer friction. And it is within this friction between delirium and control that the singular power of his work emerges: a cinema that, at once, disorients and reveals.
Latest Addition: Paris, Texas
A Public collection, created by FILMOTECA SEU MANOLO on 04 Apr 2026
25 films in collection, 0 stars
There are films that do more than tell stories - they listen. They listen to what falters, what persists, what returns. They listen to that which, within the subject, resists being easily said. If cinema has always been a machine for narrating, there is another kind of cinema - more restless - that approaches a clinical space: a place where images, gestures, and silences operate as forms of psychic elaboration. Between psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, the difference is not merely one of method, but of how each relates to suffering. The former is oriented toward the enigma: to excavate, interpret, and sustain the opacity of desire. The latter turns toward possible transformation: to reorganize experience, produce shifts, and make life livable. This collection does not seek to rigidly oppose these fields, but to place them in tension - as two complementary modes of listening and intervention.
Latest Addition: Water Gate Bridge
A Collaborative collection, created by tipar on 09 Mar 2018
45 films in collection, 1 stars
There is another collection of movies over three hours long I think so I decided to make it just between two and three hours long. Not counting the credits so if a movie finish before two hours and the credits make it that long it will no be here.
Latest Addition: A Passage to India
A Public collection, created by FILMOTECA SEU MANOLO on 07 Apr 2026
16 films in collection, 0 stars
Few filmmakers have navigated the tension between scale and subjectivity with the precision of David Lean. His cinema is often remembered for its monumental imagery—vast deserts, frozen landscapes, sweeping historical backdrops—but these are never ends in themselves. Rather, they function as extensions of inner conflict, framing characters caught between desire and duty, intimacy and history. In Lawrence of Arabia, the desert becomes a psychological terrain as much as a physical one; in Doctor Zhivago, political upheaval reshapes not only nations, but the very conditions of love and memory. At the same time, Lean’s mastery lies in his ability to render the most delicate emotional states with extraordinary restraint. In Brief Encounter, a fleeting romance unfolds through silences, glances, and interruptions, revealing a cinema attuned to the smallest gestures. This duality—between the monumental and the minimal—defines a body of work where the epic is grounded in human fragility, and the intimate resonates on a historical scale. This collection invites audiences to revisit this singular filmography as a continuous exploration of how personal experience and vast historical forces are inextricably intertwined.
Latest Addition: Train Dreams
A Public collection, created by siphus007 on 29 Jan 2026
15 films in collection, 0 stars
Exploring particular resonating depictions of the above
Latest Addition: The Voice of the Moon
A Public collection, created by FILMOTECA SEU MANOLO on 21 Apr 2026
21 films in collection, 0 stars
Federico Fellini (1920–1993) is one of the most influential and recognizable filmmakers in the history of cinema. More than a director, he was a creator of worlds, someone who transformed memories, dreams, fantasies, and personal neuroses into universal images. His cinema dissolves the boundaries between reality and imagination, between autobiography and spectacle, giving rise to a style so singular it generated its own adjective: Felliniesque. Origins and Formation Fellini was born in Rimini, a coastal town in northern Italy whose provincial, carnivalesque, and contradictory atmosphere would deeply shape his work. From a young age, he was drawn to drawing, caricature, and humor, working as a cartoonist and contributing to satirical magazines. In the 1940s, he moved to Rome and began writing screenplays for cinema. During this period, he became close to Italian Neorealism, collaborating with Roberto Rossellini on landmark works such as Rome, Open City. This phase gave him narrative rigor and social sensitivity—elements he would later reinvent in a deeply personal way. From Reality to Imagination Although he began within the orbit of Neorealism, Fellini quickly moved away from its austere aesthetic. His early films as a director—The White Sheik and I Vitelloni—already revealed an interest in marginalized, nostalgic, and dreamlike characters. International recognition came with La Strada, a tragic fable about love, cruelty, and innocence. The film won the Academy Award and introduced the world to the essential collaboration between Fellini and his wife, Giulietta Masina, a central presence in his work. The Creative Explosion: La Dolce Vita and 8½ With La Dolce Vita, Fellini definitively broke with any traditional notion of narrative. The film is a fragmented, morally ambiguous, and visually exuberant portrait of Roman high society. It marked an era, scandalized conservative audiences, and redefined modern cinema. He followed it with his most self-reflexive work: 8½. The film follows a director in creative crisis, blending childhood memories, erotic fantasies, and reflections on the act of creation itself. 8½ became an absolute landmark in films about filmmaking. The Felliniesque Universe From the 1960s onward, Fellini fully embraced the imaginary: • Grotesque yet tender characters • Circuses and carnivalesque environments • Exaggerated, melancholic eroticism • Religion, guilt, and desire in constant tension • Dreams treated as concrete reality This style reaches maturity in films such as Amarcord, a lyrical and satirical evocation of childhood in Rimini, and Roma, an affectionate mosaic of the Eternal City.
Latest Addition: Hatfields & McCoys
A Collaborative collection, created by iceblox on 01 Oct 2008
15 films in collection, 1 stars
Includes The Ten, Deck the Halls, Hatfields & McCoys, and Fase 7
Latest Addition: The Go-Between
A Franchise collection, created by djross on 23 Aug 2024
2 films in collection, 0 stars
Includes The Go-Between, and The Go-Between
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