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THEME EXPLORATION

moral virtue

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
The Man and the Woman
The Man and the Woman
1908 · D.W. Griffith
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 American Friend
The American Friend
1977 · Wim Wenders
The American Soldier
The American Soldier
1970 · Margarethe von Trotta & Rainer Werner Fassbinder
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Ingmar Bergman → Sweden

His films profoundly examine conscience, faith, and the struggle between moral responsibility and human weakness through intimate psychological exploration.

Yasujirō Ozu → Japan

He captures moral virtue through subtle depictions of duty, family obligation, and quiet dignity in everyday life, showing ethics as lived practice rather than ideology.

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