THEME EXPLORATION

drinking

3 films · 2 directors

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS

Dave Attell: Captain Miserable
2007 · Beth McCarthy-Miller

His Wife’s Mother
1909 · D.W. Griffith

Sing a Song of Sex
1967 · Nagisa Oshima

DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS

Billy Wilder Austria-USA

His masterpiece 'The Lost Weekend' remains the definitive cinematic portrait of alcoholism's psychological and moral devastation.

Akira Kurosawa Japan

Repeatedly explored drinking as both escape and social critique, most poignantly in 'Drunken Angel' and 'High and Low,' examining how alcohol reflects human desperation.