THEME EXPLORATION

frontier capitalism

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1971 · Robert Altman
Woman Obsessed
Woman Obsessed
1959 · Henry Hathaway
Once Upon a Time in the West
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968 · Sergio Leone
The Revenant
The Revenant
2015 · Alejandro G. Iñárritu
L'Atalante
L'Atalante
1934 · Jean Vigo
Salesman
Salesman
1969 · Maysles Brothers
Crook Buster
Crook Buster
1925 · William Wyler
Maria Chapdelaine
Maria Chapdelaine
1934 · Julien Duvivier
Oklahoma!
Oklahoma!
1955 · Fred Zinnemann
Porcile
Porcile
1969 · Pier Paolo Pasolini
The White Buffalo
The White Buffalo
1977 · J. Lee Thompson
Brothers
Brothers
2018 · Jacques Audiard
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Werner Herzog Germany

His films explore the destructive ambition of individuals pushing into untamed territories, from Aguirre to Fitzcarraldo, revealing the obsessive madness of frontier expansion.

 Damien Leone Italy

His Spaghetti Westerns mythologize and critique the ruthless individualism and lawlessness of frontier capitalism, where survival and profit override morality.