THEME EXPLORATION

jealousy and manipulation

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
A Woman Is a Woman
A Woman Is a Woman
1961 · Jean-Luc Godard
The Rough and the Smooth
The Rough and the Smooth
1959 · Robert Siodmak
All About Eve
All About Eve
1950 · Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Gone Girl
Gone Girl
2014 · David Fincher
Les Biches
Les Biches
1968 · Claude Chabrol
Italian Blood
Italian Blood
1911 · D.W. Griffith
Closer
Closer
2004 · Mike Nichols
Star 80
Star 80
1983 · Bob Fosse
Rebecca
Rebecca
2020 · Ben Wheatley
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
1933 · Fritz Lang
Chinese Roulette
Chinese Roulette
1976 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Burning
Burning
2018 · Lee Chang-dong
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Alfred Hitchcock United Kingdom

His films masterfully explore psychological manipulation and obsessive jealousy through suspenseful narratives like Vertigo and Rear Window.

 Luis Buñuel Spain

He dissected jealousy and sexual manipulation with surrealist brilliance in films like That Obscure Object of Desire and The Phantom of Liberty.

 Ari Aster United States

His contemporary works like Hereditary and Midsommar depict manipulation and jealousy within intimate relationships with deeply unsettling precision.