THEME EXPLORATION

abuse of power

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Limitless
Limitless
2011 · Neil Burger
Mosaic Portrait
Mosaic Portrait
2019 · Zhai Yixiang
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
1977 · Larry Cohen
The Strange Thing About the Johnsons
The Strange Thing About the Johnsons
2011 · Ari Aster
Es La Primera Vez
Es La Primera Vez
1981 · María Novaro
Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now
1979 · Francis Ford Coppola
Das Schloß
Das Schloß
1997 · Michael Haneke
Querelle
Querelle
1982 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Dorothea Angermann
Dorothea Angermann
1959 · Robert Siodmak
Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
1971 · Konrad Wolf
A Prophet
A Prophet
2009 · Jacques Audiard
Beau travail
Beau travail
1999 · Claire Denis
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Cristian Mungiu Romania · Iasi

Extended temporal duration transforms everyday conversations into brutal moral interrogations of human culpability.

 Stanley Kubrick United States

His films meticulously expose institutional power structures and their corrupting influence through visually precise narratives of control and manipulation.

 Yorgos Lanthimos Greece

His darkly surreal films deconstruct hierarchical power dynamics and psychological domination through absurdist narratives that reveal the cruelty beneath social systems.