THEME EXPLORATION

loss of power

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Raise the Red Lantern
Raise the Red Lantern
1991 · Zhang Yimou
Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane
1941 · Orson Welles
A Certain Kind of Silence
A Certain Kind of Silence
2019 · Michal Hogenauer
To the Night
To the Night
2018 · Peter Brunner
Don't Call Me Mama
Don't Call Me Mama
2025 · Nina Knag
Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now
1979 · Francis Ford Coppola
Solaris
Solaris
1972 · Andrei Tarkovsky
Wild Strawberries
Wild Strawberries
1957 · Ingmar Bergman
Babel
Babel
2006 · Alejandro González Iñárritu
Querelle
Querelle
1982 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Amour
Amour
2012 · Michael Haneke
Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
1971 · Konrad Wolf
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Akira Kurosawa Japan

Films such as Ran and Throne of Blood explore how power corrupts and inevitably crumbles, leaving characters stripped of authority and dignity.

 Billy Wilder Austria-USA

Sunset Boulevard and The Apartment penetrate the psychological devastation of lost power, relevance, and control in Hollywood and corporate America.