THEME EXPLORATION

ambition and desire

12 films · 3 directors
FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Mulholland Drive
Mulholland Drive
2001 · David Lynch
Carrie
Carrie
1952 · William Wyler
The Last Tycoon
The Last Tycoon
1976 · Elia Kazan
Singin' in the Rain
Singin' in the Rain
1952 · Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
My Night at Maud's
My Night at Maud's
1969 · Éric Rohmer
Audition
Audition
1999 · Takashi Miike
Blue Is the Warmest Color
Blue Is the Warmest Color
2013 · Abdellatif Kechiche
A Woman Is a Woman
A Woman Is a Woman
1961 · Jean-Luc Godard
Cat People
Cat People
1942 · Jacques Tourneur
Like Water for Chocolate
Like Water for Chocolate
1992 · Alfonso Arau
The Silence
The Silence
1963 · Ingmar Bergman
Querelle
Querelle
1982 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Darren Aronofsky United States

His films like 'The Wrestler' and 'Black Swan' obsessively explore how personal ambition and desire consume and destroy individuals from the inside out.

 Damien Leone Italy

His Spaghetti Westerns dissect the ruthless ambition and primal desires of men willing to sacrifice everything for power, wealth, and revenge.

 Rainer Werner Fassbinder Germany

His prolific body of work examines how desire—romantic, social, and material—corrupts individuals and structures entire systems of oppression.