THEME EXPLORATION

intellectual uprising

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011 · Rupert Wyatt
My Night at Maud's
My Night at Maud's
1969 · Éric Rohmer
Sakda (Rousseau)
Sakda (Rousseau)
2012 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Les Misérables
Les Misérables
2012 · Tom Hooper
Injustice
Injustice
2025 · Max Boekbinder & Jim Batt
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
2011 · Guy Ritchie
Aakhri Sawal
Aakhri Sawal
2026 · Abhijeet Mohan Warang
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
1971 · Roberto Rossellini
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
1972 · J. Lee Thompson
Cuban Fight Against Demons
Cuban Fight Against Demons
1972 · Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
2012 · Margarethe von Trotta
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1968 · Lindsay Anderson
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Pier Paolo Pasolini Italy

His films interrogate intellectual resistance against consumer culture and fascism through radical critique of bourgeois society and corrupted power structures.

 Jean-Luc Godard France

He deconstructs cinema itself as an act of intellectual rebellion, using fragmented narratives and political discourse to challenge conventional storytelling and ideology.

 Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union

His meditative, philosophical films explore the triumph of human consciousness and spiritual awakening against totalitarian systems and materialist ideology.