THEME EXPLORATION

postwar Britain

12 films · 1 director

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Orpheus
Orpheus
1950 · Jean Cocteau
Drunken Angel
Drunken Angel
1948 · Akira Kurosawa
For Better, for Worse
For Better, for Worse
1954 · J. Lee Thompson
The Rats
The Rats
1955 · Robert Siodmak
The Search
The Search
1948 · Fred Zinnemann
Early Summer
Early Summer
1951 · Yasujiro Ozu
Törst
Törst
1949 · Ingmar Bergman
A History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess
A History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess
1970 · Shohei Imamura
Street Corner
Street Corner
1953 · Muriel Box
Tasogare Sakaba
Tasogare Sakaba
1955 · Tomu Uchida
A Canterbury Tale
A Canterbury Tale
1944 · Michael Powell
King Arthur
King Arthur
2004 · Antoine Fuqua
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
David Lean United Kingdom

His films like 'Brief Encounter' and 'The Passionate Friends' capture the emotional restraint and social anxieties of postwar British society.