THEME EXPLORATION

greed and desire

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Il sogno de Giovanni Bassain
Il sogno de Giovanni Bassain
1953 · Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
My Night at Maud's
My Night at Maud's
1969 · Éric Rohmer
The Fox and the Grapes
The Fox and the Grapes
1941 · Frank Tashlin
Audition
Audition
1999 · Takashi Miike
Blue Is the Warmest Color
Blue Is the Warmest Color
2013 · Abdellatif Kechiche
A Woman Is a Woman
A Woman Is a Woman
1961 · Jean-Luc Godard
Cat People
Cat People
1942 · Jacques Tourneur
Like Water for Chocolate
Like Water for Chocolate
1992 · Alfonso Arau
King Kong vs. Godzilla
King Kong vs. Godzilla
1962 · Ishirō Honda
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
1998 · Guy Ritchie
The Silence
The Silence
1963 · Ingmar Bergman
Querelle
Querelle
1982 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Martin Scorsese USA

His films obsessively examine the corrupting nature of ambition and material desire through protagonists consumed by greed.

 Bong Joon-ho South Korea

He masterfully critiques class-based desire and the destructive lengths people go to satisfy their wants.

 Pier Paolo Pasolini Italy

His provocative cinema unflinchingly explores human desire and its violent, transgressive manifestations in society.