THEME EXPLORATION

moral compromise

43 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
My American Uncle
My American Uncle
1980 · Alain Resnais
Sodom and Gomorrah
Sodom and Gomorrah
1922 · Michael Curtiz
Rashomon
Rashomon
1950 · Akira Kurosawa
Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now
1979 · Francis Ford Coppola
Barry Lyndon
Barry Lyndon
1975 · Stanley Kubrick
L'Atalante
L'Atalante
1934 · Jean Vigo
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927 · F. W. Murnau
Babel
Babel
2006 · Alejandro González Iñárritu
The Act of Killing
The Act of Killing
2012 · Joshua Oppenheimer
Mama, I’m Alive
Mama, I’m Alive
1977 · Konrad Wolf
The Killer
The Killer
2023 · David Fincher
The American Friend
The American Friend
1977 · Wim Wenders
A Separation
A Separation
2011 · Asghar Farhadi
The Shop on Main Street
The Shop on Main Street
1965 · Ján Kadár
Dekalog
Dekalog
1989 · Krzysztof Kieślowski
No
No
2012 · Pablo Larraín
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
2011 · Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Police Adjective
Police Adjective
2009 · Corneliu Porumboiu
Son of Saul
Son of Saul
2015 · László Nemes
The Conformist
The Conformist
1970 · Bernardo Bertolucci
Time of the Gypsies
Time of the Gypsies
1988 · Emir Kusturica
Animal Kingdom
Animal Kingdom
2010 · David Michôd
Force Majeure
Force Majeure
2014 · Ruben Östlund
Rocco and His Brothers
Rocco and His Brothers
1960 · Luchino Visconti
Tangerines
Tangerines
2013 · Zaza Urushadze
Big Bad Wolves
Big Bad Wolves
2013 · Aharon Keshales
Black Book
Black Book
2006 · Paul Verhoeven
Cabaret Balkan
Cabaret Balkan
1998 · Goran Paskaljević
Matador
Matador
1986 · Pedro Almodóvar
Rolling
Rolling
2015 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The Sin
The Sin
1965 · Henry Barakat
Checkpoint
Checkpoint
1999 · Ralph Thomas
City on Fire
City on Fire
1987 · —
Just Between Us
Just Between Us
2010 · Rajko Grlić
Murder, My Sweet
Murder, My Sweet
1944 · Edward Dmytryk
Show Me Love
Show Me Love
1999 · Fernando H. Uribe
State of Fear
State of Fear
1990 · Janusz Kijowski
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
2002 · Park Chan-wook
Terribly Happy
Terribly Happy
2008 · Henrik Ruben Genz
Terrorizer
Terrorizer
1986 · Edward Yang
7 Dogs
7 Dogs
2026 · Adil El Arbi
Blast
Blast
2026 · Subash K Raj
Dridam
Dridam
2026 · Martin Joseph
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Nathan Silver

Unflinching observation of ordinary people navigating small moral failures and social fracture.

 Stephen Frears UK · Leicester

Exposing institutional rot through restrained narrative, unmasking complicity beneath polite surfaces.

 Alan Rudolph USA

Rudolph crafts intimate character studies suffused with jazz-like rhythms and romantic uncertainty.