Lockdown has reawakened the joy of drifting through city streets – both on screen and off.

Richard Lester’s 1960s travels extend beyond The Beatles to the dark side of flower power.

The enigma of Ferrara leads to a fixation on Antonioni.

In Basu Chatterjee’s Delhi vs Bombay story, the dilemma is eternal: solidity or adventure?

Life’s beautiful mundanities during a time of dread are seen in a truthful film about war.

Body horror, violence and the sprawl of 1990s Warsaw litter an unnerving Żuławski film.

This flâneur does anything but stroll in a Senegalese drama about colonial legacy.

Visconti and Roeg’s tourist-gaze classics epitomise Venice as the city of death and mystery.

In Ticket of No Return the camera observes a woman’s trip to oblivion through glass, darkly.

Concrete brutalism meets a London that’s run out of swing in Straight on till Morning.

To Demy, Nantes was a city full of beauty, sadness and poignant memories.

Douglas Sirk’s return to Germany, Interlude, is a lost masterpiece of longing and confinement

Chantal Akerman’s New York on film is filled with understanding of its urban choreography

Cohen’s wanderings through the Québécois city make perfect winter viewing.

Long before Squid Game, Lee Jungjae starred in another critique of consumerist dreams.

Coppola’s One from the Heart is a feverish Vegas fantasy that revels in its smoke and mirrors.

Hou Hsiao-hsien’s fluorescent Taipei tale takes a look at history and youthful temptation.