THEME EXPLORATION

faith under siege

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
55 Days at Peking
55 Days at Peking
1963 · Nicholas Ray
W.
W.
2008 · Oliver Stone
Zulu
Zulu
1964 · Cy Endfield
Diary of a Country Priest
Diary of a Country Priest
1951 · Robert Bresson
My Night at Maud's
My Night at Maud's
1969 · Éric Rohmer
Die Hard
Die Hard
1988 · John McTiernan
Winter Light
Winter Light
1963 · Ingmar Bergman
The Exorcist
The Exorcist
1973 · William Friedkin
The Miracle of Marcelino
The Miracle of Marcelino
1990 · Ladislao Vajda
Breaking the Waves
Breaking the Waves
1996 · Lars von Trier
Divine Intervention
Divine Intervention
2002 · Elia Suleiman
Ida
Ida
2013 · Paweł Pawlikowski
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Carl Theodor Dreyer Denmark

His masterpieces like 'The Passion of Joan of Arc' and 'Vampyr' explore faith tested by doubt, persecution, and the supernatural through intensely spiritual visual language.

 Pier Paolo Pasolini Italy

Works such as 'The Gospel According to St. Matthew' and 'Canterbury Tales' interrogate religious belief against social chaos, desire, and institutional corruption with provocative intensity.

 Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union

His films including 'Stalker' and 'The Mirror' present faith as a profoundly fragile human yearning amid philosophical doubt, memory, and the search for transcendent meaning.