THEME EXPLORATION

debt and money-lending

12 films · 2 directors
FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Pleasures of the Flesh
Pleasures of the Flesh
1965 · Nagisa Oshima
Gomorrah
Gomorrah
2008 · Matteo Garrone
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
2006 · Gore Verbinski
365 Nights
365 Nights
1948 · Kon Ichikawa
An Arcadian Maid
An Arcadian Maid
1910 · D.W. Griffith
A River Called Titas
A River Called Titas
1973 · Ritwik Ghatak
Big City
Big City
1937 · Frank Borzage
Blazing Days
Blazing Days
1927 · William Wyler
Late Chrysanthemums
Late Chrysanthemums
1954 · Mikio Naruse
Lookin’ to Get Out
Lookin’ to Get Out
1982 · Hal Ashby
Osaka Elegy
Osaka Elegy
1936 · Kenji Mizoguchi
The Family Friend
The Family Friend
2006 · Paolo Sorrentino
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Darren Aronofsky United States

His visceral films 'Requiem for a Dream' and 'The Wrestler' explore how debt, addiction, and financial desperation drive characters toward psychological and physical self-destruction.

 Ken Loach United Kingdom

His socially conscious realist cinema, particularly 'I, Daniel Blake' and 'Sorry We Missed You', examines how modern debt systems and precarious labor trap vulnerable people in cycles of poverty and shame.