luxury and wealth

His films obsessively examine wealth, ambition, and moral corruption through the lives of criminals and wealthy protagonists in works like The Wolf of Wall Street and Casino.

A master of depicting aristocratic decadence and the clash between old wealth and social change in visually sumptuous films like The Leopard and Death in Venice.

He explores luxury, excess, and the American dream through richly detailed character studies in There Will Be Blood and Inherent Vice.