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THEME EXPLORATION

scientific crisis

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Breakfast of Champions
Breakfast of Champions
1999 · Alan Rudolph
Strange Impersonation
Strange Impersonation
1946 · Anthony Mann
The Cloverfield Paradox
The Cloverfield Paradox
2018 · Julius Onah
Percy's Progress
Percy's Progress
1974 · Ralph Thomas
Sexual Drive
Sexual Drive
2021 · Kōta Yoshida
The Sex Machine
The Sex Machine
1975 · Pasquale Festa Campanile
Winter Light
Winter Light
1963 · Ingmar Bergman
Die Hard
Die Hard
1988 · John McTiernan
A Trip to the Moon
A Trip to the Moon
1902 · Georges Méliès
Der Angriff der Gegenwart auf die übrige Zeit
Der Angriff der Gegenwart auf die übrige Zeit
1985 · Alexander Kluge
Germany in Autumn
Germany in Autumn
1978 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Andrei Rublev
Andrei Rublev
1966 · Andrei Tarkovsky
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Werner Herzog → Germany

His films obsessively explore humanity's clash with nature and the limits of scientific knowledge, questioning enlightenment rationality through documentaries and narratives.

Andrei Tarkovsky → Soviet Union

His science fiction masterpieces like *Stalker* and *Solaris* probe the epistemological crisis when science confronts the unknowable and the spiritual.

David Cronenberg → Canada

His body horror and biotech films interrogate the crisis between human biology and technological intervention, questioning scientific progress itself.

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