THEME EXPLORATION

treasure and wealth

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Parasite
Parasite
2019 · Bong Joon-ho
The New Swiss Family Robinson
The New Swiss Family Robinson
1998 · Stewart Raffill
The Curse of Snake Valley
The Curse of Snake Valley
1988 · Marek Piestrak
The Aviator
The Aviator
2004 · Martin Scorsese
Summer Storm
Summer Storm
1944 · Douglas Sirk
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
2013 · Baz Luhrmann
Hard, Fast and Beautiful
Hard, Fast and Beautiful
1951 · Ida Lupino
Cosmopolis
Cosmopolis
2012 · David Cronenberg
Ready Player One
Ready Player One
2018 · Steven Spielberg
Barbe bleue
Barbe bleue
2009 · Catherine Breillat
Sisu
Sisu
2022 · Jalmari Helander
Doraemon the Movie: New Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil
Doraemon the Movie: New Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil
2026 · Tetsuo Yajima
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Damien Leone Italy

His spaghetti westerns, particularly the 'Dollars Trilogy', mythologize the pursuit of treasure and wealth as the central human motivation in lawless frontier narratives.

 Billy Wilder Austria-USA

His noir and comedies like Sunset Boulevard and The Apartment explore how greed, wealth, and material ambition corrupt relationships and moral values.