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THEME EXPLORATION

food theft

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Chips Ahoy
Chips Ahoy
1956 · Jack Kinney
Fast Food Nation
Fast Food Nation
2006 · Richard Linklater
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014 · Wes Anderson
Something to Remind Me
Something to Remind Me
2002 · Christian Petzold
In the Grey
In the Grey
2026 · Guy Ritchie
Sausage Party
Sausage Party
2016 · Greg Tiernan
A Calamitous Elopement
A Calamitous Elopement
1908 · D.W. Griffith
Blood Orange
Blood Orange
1953 · Terence Fisher
Caccia tragica
Caccia tragica
1947 · Michelangelo Antonioni
Heat and Mud
Heat and Mud
1950 · Kon Ichikawa
How to Steal a Million
How to Steal a Million
1966 · William Wyler
Money Crazy
Money Crazy
1977 · John Woo
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Hirokazu Koreeda → Japan

His film 'Shoplifters' centers on a family's survival through petty theft including food, exploring poverty and morality with profound compassion.

Ken Loach → United Kingdom

His socially conscious films like 'I, Daniel Blake' depict food insecurity and theft as consequences of systemic inequality and poverty.

Yorgos Lanthimos → Greece

His provocative films explore transgressive behavior and survival instincts, with food scarcity and theft as recurring motifs of human desperation.

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