THEME EXPLORATION

frontier punishment

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Les Incendiaires
Les Incendiaires
1906 · Georges Méliès
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 Green Mile
The Green Mile
1999 · Frank Darabont
L'Atalante
L'Atalante
1934 · Jean Vigo
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
1998 · Guy Ritchie
The Revenant
The Revenant
2015 · Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Police Story
Police Story
1985 · Jackie Chan
Winchester '73
Winchester '73
1950 · Anthony Mann
Crook Buster
Crook Buster
1925 · William Wyler
El verdugo
El verdugo
1963 · Luis García Berlanga
Frankenstein Created Woman
Frankenstein Created Woman
1967 · Terence Fisher
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Francis Ford Coppola United States

Through films like 'My Darling Clementine' and 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,' Ford explored how frontier justice and punishment shaped communities and individual morality.

 Damien Leone Italy

His spaghetti Westerns, particularly 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,' present a lawless frontier where punishment is arbitrary and justice is enforced by individual survival and cunning rather than institutions.