THEME EXPLORATION

escape from modernity

12 films · 3 directors
FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Down By Law
Down By Law
1986 · Jim Jarmusch
The Maze Runner
The Maze Runner
2014 · Wes Ball
The Holiday
The Holiday
2006 · Nancy Meyers
Escape from East Berlin
Escape from East Berlin
1962 · Robert Siodmak
Palermo Shooting
Palermo Shooting
2008 · Wim Wenders
Iron Man
Iron Man
2008 · Jon Favreau
The Human Surge 3
The Human Surge 3
2024 · Eduardo Williams
Trainspotting
Trainspotting
1996 · Danny Boyle
I Even Met Happy Gypsies
I Even Met Happy Gypsies
1967 · Aleksandar Petrović
The Leopard
The Leopard
1963 · Luchino Visconti
Ashes
Ashes
2012 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Nine Lives
Nine Lives
1957 · Arne Skouen
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Terrence Malick USA

His films explore humanity's spiritual yearning and escape from technological alienation through nature, memory, and transcendence.

 Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union/Russia

He crafts meditative, deliberately paced cinema that rejects commercial modernity in favor of philosophical introspection, spirituality, and the poetic.

 Werner Herzog Germany

His documentaries and films obsessively pursue primal landscapes and untamed nature as counterforces to industrial civilization and rational modernity.