Cinema Atlas
Discover Ask the Atlas World Map Directors My List Newsletter
THEME EXPLORATION

disease

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Poetry
Poetry
2010 · Lee Chang-dong
The Mosquito Net
The Mosquito Net
2010 · Agustí Vila
Ashes
Ashes
2012 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Trouble Every Day
Trouble Every Day
2001 · Claire Denis
Mimic
Mimic
1997 · Guillermo del Toro
Bubu (Bubu de Montparnasse
Bubu (Bubu de Montparnasse
1971 · Mauro Bolognini
Damouré Speaks About AIDS
Damouré Speaks About AIDS
1992 · Jean Rouch
The Fugitive Kind
The Fugitive Kind
1960 · Sidney Lumet
Foot and Mouth
Foot and Mouth
1955 · Lindsay Anderson
The Quiet Duel
The Quiet Duel
1949 · Akira Kurosawa
Thou Shalt Not
Thou Shalt Not
1910 · D.W. Griffith
Lorenzo’s Oil
Lorenzo’s Oil
1992 · George Miller
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
David Cronenberg → Canada · Toronto

Flesh becomes a philosophical battleground where desire, technology, and biological horror converge.

Joachim Trier → Denmark

He systematically examines disease—both physical and mental—as a manifestation of human suffering and existential crisis in works like Dancer in the Dark and Melancholia.

James Wong → Hong Kong

His visually poetic films use disease and epidemic as backdrops to explore isolation, longing, and the fragility of human connection in contemporary urban life.

Cinema Atlas
About Newsletter Privacy Terms
© Cinema Atlas 2026 · An independent world-cinema guide
Discover Search Ask the Atlas My List Newsletter