THEME EXPLORATION

desire and temptation

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
My Night at Maud's
My Night at Maud's
1969 · Éric Rohmer
Beauty Is Not a Sin
Beauty Is Not a Sin
2024 · Nicolas Winding Refn
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
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927 · F. W. Murnau
Querelle
Querelle
1982 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The Silence
The Silence
1963 · Ingmar Bergman
Mulholland Drive
Mulholland Drive
2001 · David Lynch
Paura e amore
Paura e amore
1988 · Margarethe von Trotta
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Billy Wilder Austria-Hungary

Cynical wit meets human vulnerability; sophisticated comedies exposing society's hypocrisies.

 David Fincher USA

His films obsessively explore the darkest aspects of human desire, manipulation, and the psychological games people play to satisfy obsessive wants.

 Wong Kar-wai Hong Kong

He crafts visually intoxicating narratives centered on passionate yearning, unrequited love, and the melancholic beauty of desire left unfulfilled.