It’s easy to get bored when you’re stuck inside day after day. Have you considered getting invested in someone else’s life instead? Like, *really* invested?

Here are five films that explore the highs and lows of spying on your neighbours (Rear Window 1954) and its more lurid quasi-remake (Body Double 1984) or frankly anyone else you can find (The Conversation 1974, Red Road 2006), along with one film that lets you know how it feels to have a watchful eye turned back on you (Hidden 2005).

Do you have any favourite films featuring a twitching curtain or the odd binocular or zoom lens?

Rob Hughes, Australian Cinémathèque, QAGOMA

Rear Window

The Conversation

Body Double

Hidden/Caché

Red Road

QAGOMA is the only Australian art gallery with purpose-built facilities dedicated to film and the moving image. The Australian Cinémathèque at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) provides an ongoing program of film and video that you’re unlikely to see elsewhere, offering a rich and diverse experience of the moving image, showcasing the work of influential filmmakers and international cinema, rare 35mm prints, recent restorations and silent films with live musical accompaniment on the Gallery’s Wurlitzer organ originally installed in Brisbane’s Regent Theatre in November 1929.

Feature image: Rear Window (1954) / Director: Alfred Hitchcock