THEME EXPLORATION

failed inventions

15 films · 3 directors

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FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Whisky
Whisky
2004 · Juan Pablo Rebella
It's Not the Time of My Life
It's Not the Time of My Life
2016 · Szabolcs Hajdu
A Dedicated Machine
A Dedicated Machine
2009 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
After Liverpool
After Liverpool
1974 · Michael Haneke
Geuk-jang-jeon
Geuk-jang-jeon
2005 · Hong Sang-soo
Il Grido
Il Grido
1957 · Michelangelo Antonioni
Miracle of Flight
Miracle of Flight
1974 · Terry Gilliam
The End of the Day
The End of the Day
1939 · Julien Duvivier
Dog Gone Modern
Dog Gone Modern
1939 · Chuck Jones
Una confusión cotidiana
Una confusión cotidiana
1950 · Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
La vida inútil de Pito Pérez/The Useless Life of Pito Pérez
La vida inútil de Pito Pérez/The Useless Life of Pito Pérez
1970 · Roberto Gavaldón
Inside Llewyn Davis
Inside Llewyn Davis
2013 · Joel Coen
After the Storm
After the Storm
2016 · Hirokazu Kore-eda
Action
Action
1980 · Tinto Brass
Sunset in My Hometown
Sunset in My Hometown
2018 · Lee Joon-ik
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Werner Herzog Germany

His films obsessively document human ambition colliding with impossible odds, from the doomed quest to move a ship over a mountain to the failed pursuit of utopian dreams in the Amazon.

 David Fincher United States

He repeatedly explores brilliant plans that unravel and technologies that betray their creators, examining how human ingenuity becomes corrupted by greed and miscalculation.

 Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union

His philosophical science fiction films interrogate failed attempts to transcend human limitations, depicting technological and spiritual aspirations that collapse under the weight of human nature.