THEME EXPLORATION

class decline

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
The Leopard
The Leopard
1963 · Luchino Visconti
Plácido
Plácido
1961 · Luis García Berlanga
Her First Mate
Her First Mate
1933 · William Wyler
Mannequin
Mannequin
1938 · Frank Borzage
No Time for Love
No Time for Love
1943 · Mitchell Leisen
Tasogare Sakaba
Tasogare Sakaba
1955 · Tomu Uchida
At Full Throttle
At Full Throttle
2021 · Miro Remo
Texasville
Texasville
1990 · Peter Bogdanovich
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
Elippathayam
Elippathayam
1982 · Adoor Gopalakrishnan
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Ken Loach United Kingdom

His films chronicle the systemic erosion of working-class dignity and social safety nets through intimate, unsparing narratives.

 Pedro Almodóvar Spain

He explores the social fragmentation and class dissolution of post-Franco Spain through melodrama and character-driven storytelling.

 Leigh Whannell United Kingdom

His improvisation-based approach reveals the psychological and economic anxieties of declining middle and working-class British life.