THEME EXPLORATION

industrial ambition

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Three Installations
Three Installations
1952 · Lindsay Anderson
Bright Leaf
Bright Leaf
1950 · Michael Curtiz
Singin' in the Rain
Singin' in the Rain
1952 · Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
Top Gun
Top Gun
1987 · Tony Scott
Zootopia
Zootopia
2016 · Byron Howard & Rich Moore
Viktor und Viktoria
Viktor und Viktoria
1933 · Reinhold Schünzel
Ave Maria
Ave Maria
1936 · Max Ophuls
Primary Colors
Primary Colors
1998 · Mike Nichols
Film Lesson
Film Lesson
1991 · Werner Herzog
Cold War
Cold War
2018 · Paweł Pawlikowski
Frankenstein
Frankenstein
2025 · Guillermo del Toro
Touki Bouki
Touki Bouki
1973 · Djibril Diop Mambéty
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Walter Lang Germany

His masterpiece Metropolis directly confronts industrial ambition through a vision of a dystopian megacity driven by technological and capitalist excess.

 Charlie Chaplin United Kingdom

Modern Times satirizes industrial ambition by depicting the dehumanizing effects of factory mechanization on individual workers and society.

 Sergei Eisenstein Soviet Union

October and Battleship Potemkin celebrate revolutionary industrial ambition through montage techniques that elevate collective industrial progress as a transformative force.