THEME EXPLORATION

cyclical time

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Sound of Falling
Sound of Falling
2026 · Mascha Schilinski
They Caught the Ferry
They Caught the Ferry
1948 · Carl Theodor Dreyer
Time Piece
Time Piece
1965 · Jim Henson
Past Lives
Past Lives
2023 · Celine Song
Avengers: Endgame
Avengers: Endgame
2019 · Anthony Russo & Joe Russo
Back to the Future
Back to the Future
1985 · Robert Zemeckis
Dust in the Wind
Dust in the Wind
1986 · Hou Hsiao-hsien
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
1995 · Michael Haneke
Your Name.
Your Name.
2016 · Makoto Shinkai
Run Lola Run
Run Lola Run
1998 · Tom Tykwer
Syndromes and a Century
Syndromes and a Century
2006 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
36 Fillette
36 Fillette
1988 · Catherine Breillat
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union

His films like Mirror and Stalker explore cyclical patterns of memory, time, and spiritual return through philosophical narrative structures.

 Terrence Malick United States

He repeatedly examines cycles of creation, destruction, and rebirth across human and cosmic timescales in films like The Tree of Life and The New World.

 Béla Tarr Hungary

His repetitive, long-take aesthetic in films like Sátántangó and Tücsök embodies cyclical time through circular narratives and eternal recurrence.