THEME EXPLORATION

industrial setting

12 films · 2 directors
FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Three Installations
Three Installations
1952 · Lindsay Anderson
My Father's Private Secretary
My Father's Private Secretary
1976 · Mariano Laurenti
Miroirs No. 3
Miroirs No. 3
2025 · Christian Petzold
Closely Watched Trains
Closely Watched Trains
1966 · Jiří Menzel
Poussières d’amour
Poussières d’amour
1996 · Werner Schroeter
Mamma Mia!
Mamma Mia!
2008 · Phyllida Lloyd
Making of the Spaceship
Making of the Spaceship
2009 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
24 City
24 City
2008 · Jia Zhangke
8 femmes
8 femmes
2002 · François Ozon
A House Divided
A House Divided
1931 · William Wyler
An Alligator Named Daisy
An Alligator Named Daisy
1955 · J. Lee Thompson
Antoine et Antoinette
Antoine et Antoinette
1947 · Jacques Becker
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Walter Lang Germany

His masterpiece Metropolis (1927) defines the visual language of dystopian industrial cities through expressionist cinematography and monumental factory aesthetics.

 Ken Loach United Kingdom

He authentically documents working-class life in industrial communities, exploring the human cost of manufacturing and deindustrialization in films like Kes and I, Daniel Blake.