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THEME EXPLORATION

temptation and moral decline

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Eagles of the Republic
Eagles of the Republic
2026 · Tarik Saleh
Sátántangó
Sátántangó
1994 · Béla Tarr
The Devil's Advocate
The Devil's Advocate
1997 · Taylor Hackford
The Last Page
The Last Page
1952 · Terence Fisher
Un Soir de rafle
Un Soir de rafle
1931 · Henri-Georges Clouzot
What Drink Did
What Drink Did
1909 · D.W. Griffith
La Tentation de Saint-Antoine
La Tentation de Saint-Antoine
1898 · Georges Méliès
Side Street
Side Street
1950 · Anthony Mann
Indecent Proposal
Indecent Proposal
1993 · Adrian Lyne
Opéra national de Paris: L'histoire de Manon
Opéra national de Paris: L'histoire de Manon
2015 · Cédric Klapisch
Consenting Adults
Consenting Adults
1992 · Alan J. Pakula
Beauty Is Not a Sin
Beauty Is Not a Sin
2024 · Nicolas Winding Refn
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Rainer Werner Fassbinder → Germany

His films obsessively explore how desire, materialism, and social pressure corrupt individuals and relationships, tracing moral degradation through intimate psychological portraiture.

Michael Haneke → Austria

He examines how temptation and moral compromise emerge from bourgeois comfort and societal hypocrisy, often depicting the slow erosion of ethics in contemporary life.

Joachim Trier → Denmark

His provocative cinema repeatedly interrogates moral surrender and the destructive power of temptation through transgressive narratives that challenge viewers' ethical boundaries.

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