THEME EXPLORATION

surveillance and paranoia

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
The Conversation
The Conversation
1974 · Francis Ford Coppola
Companion
Companion
2025 · Drew Hancock
Stranger
Stranger
2024 · Yeo Siew Hua
The State I Am In
The State I Am In
2001 · Christian Petzold
Donnie Darko
Donnie Darko
2001 · Richard Kelly
The Third Generation
The Third Generation
1979 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Les Diaboliques
Les Diaboliques
1955 · Henri-Georges Clouzot
Raging Bull
Raging Bull
1980 · Martin Scorsese
Police Adjective
Police Adjective
2009 · Corneliu Porumboiu
The Lives of Others
The Lives of Others
2006 · Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
The Tenant
The Tenant
1976 · Roman Polanski
Dilbar
Dilbar
2013 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Christian Petzold

Suspense through silence: characters haunted by unspeakable pasts in precisely composed frames.

 D.J. Caruso USA

Caruso specializes in high-concept thrillers that transform everyday settings into spaces of mounting dread and paranoia.

 Sofia Coppola USA

His masterpiece 'The Conversation' (1974) dissects surveillance technology and moral paranoia through a wiretapper's psychological unraveling.