THEME EXPLORATION

workplace automation

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Desk Set
Desk Set
1957 · Walter Lang
The Front Page
The Front Page
1974 · Billy Wilder
Monsters, Inc.
Monsters, Inc.
2001 · Pete Docter
A Useful Life
A Useful Life
2010 · Federico Veiroj
Lionheart
Lionheart
2018 · Genevieve Nnaji
Dreileben: Beats Being Dead
Dreileben: Beats Being Dead
2011 · Christian Petzold
Ek Din
Ek Din
2026 · Sunil Pandey
Office Romance
Office Romance
2026 · Ol Parker
Patlabor EZY: File 1
Patlabor EZY: File 1
2026 · Kozo Kaiho
Smart Working
Smart Working
2026 · Svevo Moltrasio
Both You and I
Both You and I
1946 · Mikio Naruse
Bread and Roses
Bread and Roses
2000 · Ken Loach
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Charlie Chaplin United Kingdom

His masterpiece 'Modern Times' (1936) is the definitive cinematic critique of industrial automation and its dehumanizing effect on workers.

 Rainer Werner Fassbinder Germany

His films like 'The Merchant of Four Seasons' explore alienation and the grinding dehumanization of work under capitalist systems.

 Bong Joon-ho South Korea

His works including 'Snowpiercer' and 'Parasite' examine systemic class divisions where automation and labor exploitation structure entire societies.