THEME EXPLORATION

guilt and responsibility

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
The Conversation
The Conversation
1974 · Francis Ford Coppola
Wolfsburg
Wolfsburg
2003 · Christian Petzold
Every Thing Will Be Fine
Every Thing Will Be Fine
2015 · Wim Wenders
The Empty Table
The Empty Table
1985 · Masaki Kobayashi
The Medicine Bottle
The Medicine Bottle
1909 · D.W. Griffith
The Lion King
The Lion King
1994 · Rob Minkoff
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2018 · and Rodney Rothman & Bob Persichetti & Peter Ramsey
Winter Light
Winter Light
1963 · Ingmar Bergman
Breaking the Waves
Breaking the Waves
1996 · Lars von Trier
Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
1971 · Konrad Wolf
Capernaum
Capernaum
2018 · Nadine Labaki
Les Diaboliques
Les Diaboliques
1955 · Henri-Georges Clouzot
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Krzysztof Kieślowski Poland

His Decalogue and Three Colors trilogy obsessively examine moral culpability, redemption, and the weight of personal choices across interconnected human lives.

 Michael Haneke Austria

His films like Funny Games and The Seventh Continent brutally interrogate viewer complicity and societal responsibility through provocative, morally challenging narratives.

 Yasujirō Ozu Japan

His gentle, contemplative family dramas explore unspoken guilt, generational responsibility, and the quiet moral compromises inherent in everyday life.