THEME EXPLORATION

outsider protagonist

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Shoah
Shoah
1985 · Claude Lanzmann
Shrek
Shrek
2001 · Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson
Cat People
Cat People
1942 · Jacques Tourneur
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Bourne Ultimatum
2007 · Paul Greengrass
Fifty Shades of Grey
Fifty Shades of Grey
2015 · Sam Taylor-Johnson
Tapage Nocturne
Tapage Nocturne
1979 · Catherine Breillat
Whiskey with Vodka
Whiskey with Vodka
2009 · Andreas Dresen
Hellboy
Hellboy
2004 · Guillermo del Toro
Rear Window
Rear Window
1954 · Alfred Hitchcock
Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
1928 · William Wyler
Au Bonheur des Dames
Au Bonheur des Dames
1930 · Julien Duvivier
A Woman’s Story
A Woman’s Story
1963 · Mikio Naruse
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union

His protagonists are spiritual seekers and intellectuals alienated from society, searching for meaning in philosophical and metaphysical isolation.

 David Lynch United States

He creates deeply disturbing outsider narratives where ordinary people confront surreal, nightmarish forces that expose their disconnection from reality.