Sightlines · a concept

action image small form

action → disclosed situation → new action.

On screen: an act discloses a partly hidden situation.

141 films in the collection register this concept · in the glossary

Across the collection

The Kid1921A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate1923The Circus1928City Lights1931Duck Soup1933It Happened One Night1934Modern Times1936My Man Godfrey1936Orphan's Picnic1936The Awful Truth1937Bringing Up Baby1938The Lady Vanishes1938Destry Rides Again1939The Philadelphia Story194049th Parallel1941The Maltese Falcon1941The Tale of the Fox1941The Palm Beach Story1942Heaven Can Wait1943I Know Where I'm Going!1945The Big Sleep1946Out of the Past1947Brighton Rock1948The Fallen Idol1948Winchester '731950Pickup on South Street1953Roman Holiday1953The Naked Spur1953A Lesson in Love1954The Big Combo1955To Catch a Thief195512 Angry Men1957The Incredible Shrinking Man1957Yojimbo1961Charade1963High and Low1963The Great Escape1963Seven Days in May1964In the Heat of the Night1967Bullitt1968Stolen Kisses1968The Party1968The Producers1968Army of Shadows1969Z1969Get Carter1971Shaft1971The French Connection1971Paper Moon1973Sleeper1973The Day of the Jackal1973Chinatown1974All the President's Men1976Marathon Man1976The Driver1978The Brood1979Gloria1980Missing1982Tootsie1982Gorky Park1983Ghostbusters1984My Beautiful Laundrette1985Pee-wee's Big Adventure1985Angel Heart1987Moonstruck1987Shallow Grave1987Bull Durham1988Crossing Delancey1988My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown1989House Party1990Glengarry Glen Ross1992My Cousin Vinny1992Police Story 3: Super Cop1992The Fugitive1993Drunken Master III1994Shallow Grave1994Bound1996Fargo1996The Arrival1996Hard Eight1997Insomnia1997L.A. Confidential1997The Cider House Rules1999Tigerland2000Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones2002Saving Face2004The Bourne Supremacy2004The Good Shepherd2004The Child2005United 932006Gone Baby Gone2007The Mist2007[REC]2007Green Zone2010Prince of Broadway2010The Secret World of Arrietty2010Le Havre2011Scream 42011The Intouchables2011The Kid with a Bike2011Jack Reacher2012Iron Man 32013American Sniper2014Kill the Messenger2014The Way He Looks2014Two Days, One Night2014Spotlight2015The Martian2015Anthropoid2016The Nice Guys2016Good Time2017Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri2017The Resistance Banker2018To All the Boys I've Loved Before2018Bacurau2019Luca2021The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It2021A Man Called Otto2022Barbarian2022Bullet Train2022Emily the Criminal2022Enola Holmes 22022Smile2022The Batman2022The Black Phone2022Anyone but You2023No Hard Feelings2023Scream VI2023Carry-On2024Number 242024The Fall Guy2024Trap2024Marty Supreme2025Sirāt2025Sore: A Wife from the Future2025The Housemaid2025The Mastermind2025Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery2025Zootopia 22025People We Meet on Vacation2026Project Hail Mary2026