THEME EXPLORATION

power and privilege

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now
1979 · Francis Ford Coppola
Senso
Senso
1954 · Luchino Visconti
Querelle
Querelle
1982 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Das Schloß
Das Schloß
1997 · Michael Haneke
Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
1971 · Konrad Wolf
La Habanera
La Habanera
1937 · Douglas Sirk
A Prophet
A Prophet
2009 · Jacques Audiard
Beau travail
Beau travail
1999 · Claire Denis
Gladiator
Gladiator
2000 · Ridley Scott
Raise the Red Lantern
Raise the Red Lantern
1991 · Zhang Yimou
Nightmare Alley
Nightmare Alley
2021 · Guillermo del Toro
Spider-Man
Spider-Man
2002 · Sam Raimi
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Luis Buñuel Spain

His surrealist films systematically deconstruct bourgeois privilege and expose the absurdity of class hierarchies through darkly comic social critique.

 Ken Loach United Kingdom

His realist dramas unflinchingly document how institutional power structures and systemic inequality crush working-class lives with unflinching empathy.