THEME EXPLORATION

corruption and institutional power

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Cold War 1994
Cold War 1994
2026 · Leung Lok-Man
Child's Play
Child's Play
1972 · Sidney Lumet
System
System
2026 · Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari
Memories of Murder
Memories of Murder
2003 · Bong Joon-ho
Law Breakers
Law Breakers
1971 · Marcel Carné
Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma
Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma
1975 · Pier Paolo Pasolini
Nightmare Alley
Nightmare Alley
2021 · Guillermo del Toro
Collective
Collective
2019 · Alexander Nanau
The Club
The Club
2015 · Pablo Larraín
Terribly Happy
Terribly Happy
2008 · Henrik Ruben Genz
Free Fall
Free Fall
2014 · Malek Akkad
Blue Collar
Blue Collar
1978 · Paul Schrader
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Luis Buñuel Spain

His surrealist films systematically deconstruct institutional hypocrisy, religious authority, and bourgeois corruption through absurdist critique.

 Sidney Lumet United States

His unflinching examinations of institutional systems—police, justice, finance—reveal how power corrupts from within bureaucratic structures.