THEME EXPLORATION

industrial ambition

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Three Installations
Three Installations
1952 · Lindsay Anderson
Bright Leaf
Bright Leaf
1950 · Michael Curtiz
Singin' in the Rain
Singin' in the Rain
1952 · Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
Top Gun
Top Gun
1987 · Tony Scott
Zootopia
Zootopia
2016 · Byron Howard & Rich Moore
Viktor und Viktoria
Viktor und Viktoria
1933 · Reinhold Schünzel
Ave Maria
Ave Maria
1936 · Max Ophuls
Primary Colors
Primary Colors
1998 · Mike Nichols
Film Lesson
Film Lesson
1991 · Werner Herzog
Cold War
Cold War
2018 · Paweł Pawlikowski
Frankenstein
Frankenstein
2025 · Guillermo del Toro
Touki Bouki
Touki Bouki
1973 · Djibril Diop Mambéty
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Walter Lang Germany

His masterpiece Metropolis (1927) directly visualizes industrial ambition through a dystopian vision of class struggle in a mechanized future city.

 Charlie Chaplin United Kingdom

Modern Times (1936) satirizes the dehumanizing effects of industrial ambition and factory mechanization on the individual worker.