THEME EXPLORATION

moral punishment

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
A Strange Meeting
A Strange Meeting
1909 · D.W. Griffith
Punishment Room
Punishment Room
1956 · Kon Ichikawa
Stray Dog
Stray Dog
1949 · Akira Kurosawa
Where is the Friend’s House?/Where is the Friend’s Home?
Where is the Friend’s House?/Where is the Friend’s Home?
1987 · Abbas Kiarostami
Les Incendiaires
Les Incendiaires
1906 · Georges Méliès
Side Street
Side Street
1950 · Anthony Mann
Locked
Locked
2025 · David Yarovesky
Shogun's Joy of Torture
Shogun's Joy of Torture
1968 · Teruo Ishii
Sodom and Gomorrah
Sodom and Gomorrah
1922 · Michael Curtiz
Wren Boys
Wren Boys
2017 · Harry Lighton
Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now
1979 · Francis Ford Coppola
Barry Lyndon
Barry Lyndon
1975 · Stanley Kubrick
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Carl Theodor Dreyer Denmark

His films like 'Vampyr' and 'Ordet' explore spiritual punishment and redemption through metaphysical and religious frameworks.

 Rainer Werner Fassbinder Germany

His work systematically examines how social systems and personal relationships inflict psychological punishment on individuals.

 Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union

His meditative, philosophical films like 'Stalker' and 'Mirror' probe moral culpability and spiritual consequence with profound introspection.