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THEME EXPLORATION

social class constraints

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Plácido
Plácido
1961 · Luis García Berlanga
The Other Half
The Other Half
1919 · King Vidor
No Time for Love
No Time for Love
1943 · Mitchell Leisen
Up in the Clouds
Up in the Clouds
1965 · Mrinal Sen
China Is Near
China Is Near
1967 · Marco Bellocchio
Parasite
Parasite
2019 · Bong Joon-ho
Umberto D.
Umberto D.
1952 · Vittorio De Sica
...And God Created Woman
...And God Created Woman
1956 · Roger Vadim
Titanic
Titanic
1997 · James Cameron
Das Madchen vom Moorhof
Das Madchen vom Moorhof
1935 · Douglas Sirk
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence
1993 · Martin Scorsese
Wild Tales
Wild Tales
2014 · Damián Szifron
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Ken Loach → United Kingdom

His films consistently expose systemic poverty and class discrimination through intimate portraits of working-class struggle against institutional indifference.

Hirokazu Koreeda → Japan

He explores how economic inequality shapes family bonds and survival, revealing the invisible barriers between social classes with profound humanistic insight.

Agnès Varda → France

Her documentaries and narratives penetrate class divisions with compassion, documenting marginalized lives and challenging bourgeois assumptions about poverty and belonging.

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