THEME EXPLORATION

class manipulation

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Chinese Roulette
Chinese Roulette
1976 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Funny Games U.S.
Funny Games U.S.
2007 · Michael Haneke
Something to Remind Me
Something to Remind Me
2002 · Christian Petzold
Summer Storm
Summer Storm
1944 · Douglas Sirk
The Handmaiden
The Handmaiden
2016 · Park Chan-wook
Black God White Devil
Black God White Devil
1964 · Glauber Rocha
A Woman Like Satan
A Woman Like Satan
1958 · Julien Duvivier
Diary of a Chambermaid
Diary of a Chambermaid
1963 · Luis Buñuel
La Cérémonie
La Cérémonie
1995 · Claude Chabrol
Her First Mate
Her First Mate
1933 · William Wyler
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne
Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne
1945 · Robert Bresson
Plácido
Plácido
1961 · Luis García Berlanga
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Ken Loach United Kingdom

His films expose how institutions and systems systematically manipulate and exploit working-class people through bureaucratic indifference and structural inequality.

 Bong Joon-ho South Korea

His films dissect how class divisions are manufactured and maintained through psychological manipulation, spatial segregation, and performative behavior across social hierarchies.