THEME EXPLORATION

outlaws and lawlessness

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Mad Max
Mad Max
1979 · George Miller
Django
Django
1966 · Sergio Corbucci
3 Bad Men
3 Bad Men
1926 · John Ford
Thieves Highway
Thieves Highway
2026 · Jesse V. Johnson
Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde
1967 · Arthur Penn
Black Jack
Black Jack
1979 · Ken Loach
Dora-heita
Dora-heita
2000 · Kon Ichikawa
Johnny Guitar
Johnny Guitar
1954 · Nicholas Ray
Hell’s Heroes
Hell’s Heroes
1930 · William Wyler
Mackenna's Gold
Mackenna's Gold
1969 · J. Lee Thompson
The Girl and Her Trust
The Girl and Her Trust
1912 · D.W. Griffith
Aç Kurtlar
Aç Kurtlar
1969 · Yílmaz Güney
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Damien Leone Italy

His Spaghetti Westerns redefined outlaws as morally complex antiheroes operating in lawless frontier spaces.

 Francis Ford Coppola USA

Ford explored the tension between civilization and lawlessness, depicting outlaws and lawmen as mirror images in the American West.

 Jean-Pierre Melville France

Melville's crime films present a poetic world where professional criminals live by their own honor codes outside society's laws.