THEME EXPLORATION

subsistence commerce

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
A Fair Exchange
A Fair Exchange
1909 · D.W. Griffith
A Woman of Osaka
A Woman of Osaka
1940 · Kenji Mizoguchi
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken
1974 · Jean Rouch
Inn of Evil
Inn of Evil
1971 · Masaki Kobayashi
Moros y cristianos
Moros y cristianos
1987 · Luis García Berlanga
One Froggy Evening
One Froggy Evening
1955 · Chuck Jones
The World Moves On
The World Moves On
1934 · John Ford
Twenty Women and I
Twenty Women and I
1973 · Yannis Dalianidis
Holy Man
Holy Man
1998 · Stephen Herek
Inferno of Torture
Inferno of Torture
1969 · Teruo Ishii
La libertad
La libertad
2001 · Lisandro Alonso
Pinkus's Shoe Palace
Pinkus's Shoe Palace
1916 · Ernst Lubitsch
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Ken Loach United Kingdom

His films consistently document the struggles of working-class people navigating poverty and survival through informal labor and subsistence economies.

 Hirokazu Kore-eda Japan

He explores how marginalized families survive through petty theft, street vending, and underground economies while maintaining human dignity.