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THEME EXPLORATION

moral compromise

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
My American Uncle
My American Uncle
1980 · Alain Resnais
Sodom and Gomorrah
Sodom and Gomorrah
1922 · Michael Curtiz
Rashomon
Rashomon
1950 · Akira Kurosawa
Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now
1979 · Francis Ford Coppola
Barry Lyndon
Barry Lyndon
1975 · Stanley Kubrick
L'Atalante
L'Atalante
1934 · Jean Vigo
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927 · F. W. Murnau
Babel
Babel
2006 · Alejandro González Iñárritu
The Act of Killing
The Act of Killing
2012 · Joshua Oppenheimer
Mama, I’m Alive
Mama, I’m Alive
1977 · Konrad Wolf
The Killer
The Killer
2023 · David Fincher
The American Friend
The American Friend
1977 · Wim Wenders
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Nathan Silver →

Unflinching observation of ordinary people navigating small moral failures and social fracture.

Stephen Frears → UK · Leicester

Exposing institutional rot through restrained narrative, unmasking complicity beneath polite surfaces.

Alan Rudolph → USA

Rudolph crafts intimate character studies suffused with jazz-like rhythms and romantic uncertainty.

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