THEME EXPLORATION

theater

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
L’école des femmes
L’école des femmes
1940 · Max Ophuls
The Boy Friend
The Boy Friend
1971 · Ken Russell
Sing
Sing
2016 · Garth Jennings
Across the Pacific
Across the Pacific
1942 · John Huston
Another Telepathic Thing
Another Telepathic Thing
2015 · Jonathan Demme
For a Wife’s Honor
For a Wife’s Honor
1908 · D.W. Griffith
Glumov's Diary
Glumov's Diary
1923 · Sergei Eisenstein
Labyrinth of Cinema
Labyrinth of Cinema
2020 · Nobuhiko Obayashi
Le Dernier métro
Le Dernier métro
1980 · François Truffaut
Luci del varietà
Luci del varietà
1950 · Federico Fellini
Miquette et sa mère
Miquette et sa mère
1950 · Henri-Georges Clouzot
Out One: Noli me Tangere
Out One: Noli me Tangere
1971 · Jacques Rivette
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Patrick Wilson USA

Brings Broadway intensity and dramatic precision to genre filmmaking and intimate character studies.

 Rainer Werner Fassbinder Germany

His films repeatedly explore theater as metaphor for human relationships, artifice, and the performative nature of identity and power dynamics.

 Ingmar Bergman Sweden

A former theater director whose films fundamentally interrogate the boundary between performance and reality, using theatrical techniques to examine consciousness and existential crisis.