THEME EXPLORATION

class contrast

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Plácido
Plácido
1961 · Luis García Berlanga
Her First Mate
Her First Mate
1933 · William Wyler
Mannequin
Mannequin
1938 · Frank Borzage
The Man and the Woman
The Man and the Woman
1908 · D.W. Griffith
No Time for Love
No Time for Love
1943 · Mitchell Leisen
The Other Half
The Other Half
1919 · King Vidor
Up in the Clouds
Up in the Clouds
1965 · Mrinal Sen
China Is Near
China Is Near
1967 · Marco Bellocchio
Macario
Macario
1960 · Roberto Gavaldon
Miracle in Milan
Miracle in Milan
1951 · Vittorio De Sica
Seven Samurai
Seven Samurai
1954 · Akira Kurosawa
Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1964 · Jacques Demy
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Ken Loach United Kingdom

His films persistently document the struggles of working-class individuals against systemic inequality and economic hardship.

 Bong Joon-ho South Korea

He masterfully exposes class divisions through genre-blending narratives that reveal the desperation and resentment beneath social hierarchies.

 Coen Brothers Belgium

Their intimate realist approach captures the dignity and precarity of working-class life while critiquing systemic indifference to poverty.