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THEME EXPLORATION

cancer and illness

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Last Dance
Last Dance
1996 · Bruce Beresford
Black Swan
Black Swan
2010 · Darren Aronofsky
Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA
Ryuichi Sakamoto: CODA
2018 · Stephen Nomura Schible
The Silence
The Silence
1963 · Ingmar Bergman
Fear of Fear
Fear of Fear
1975 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Donnie Darko
Donnie Darko
2001 · Richard Kelly
Tag der Idioten
Tag der Idioten
1982 · Werner Schroeter
Taxi Driver
Taxi Driver
1976 · Martin Scorsese
Joker
Joker
2019 · Todd Phillips
American Psycho
American Psycho
2000 · Mary Harron
Repulsion
Repulsion
1965 · Roman Polanski
Tony Manero
Tony Manero
2008 · Pablo Larraín
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Ken Loach → United Kingdom

His social realist films persistently examine how illness and disease intersect with poverty and systemic inequality in modern society.

Lynne Ramsay → United Kingdom

Her psychologically intense films explore mental and physical deterioration, trauma, and the emotional landscape of suffering with visceral cinematic language.

Leigh Whannell → United Kingdom

Through improvisation-based narratives, he portrays how cancer and chronic illness disrupt ordinary lives and relationships with unflinching emotional authenticity.

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