THEME EXPLORATION

desire and danger

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
My Night at Maud's
My Night at Maud's
1969 · Éric Rohmer
Audition
Audition
1999 · Takashi Miike
Blue Is the Warmest Color
Blue Is the Warmest Color
2013 · Abdellatif Kechiche
A Woman Is a Woman
A Woman Is a Woman
1961 · Jean-Luc Godard
Cat People
Cat People
1942 · Jacques Tourneur
Like Water for Chocolate
Like Water for Chocolate
1992 · Alfonso Arau
The Silence
The Silence
1963 · Ingmar Bergman
Querelle
Querelle
1982 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Paura e amore
Paura e amore
1988 · Margarethe von Trotta
Mulholland Drive
Mulholland Drive
2001 · David Lynch
Summer Storm
Summer Storm
1944 · Douglas Sirk
Divergent
Divergent
2014 · Neil Burger
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
David Cronenberg Canada

His body horror films obsessively explore how physical desire and bodily transformation become sites of existential danger and corruption.

 Pedro Almodóvar Spain

He examines passionate romantic and sexual desire as a force that simultaneously liberates and destroys his characters with melodramatic intensity.

 Michael Haneke Austria

His films probe the darkest aspects of human longing and attraction, revealing how desire can mask violence, manipulation, and psychological peril.