THEME EXPLORATION

moral virtue

12 films · 3 directors
FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
The Man and the Woman
The Man and the Woman
1908 · D.W. Griffith
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 American Friend
The American Friend
1977 · Wim Wenders
The American Soldier
The American Soldier
1970 · Margarethe von Trotta & Rainer Werner Fassbinder
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union

His philosophical films explore spiritual redemption and moral conscience through extended meditations on faith, sacrifice, and human responsibility.

 Ingmar Bergman Sweden

He persistently interrogates moral ambiguity, guilt, and the possibility of virtue in a world of psychological complexity and spiritual doubt.

 Yasujirō Ozu Japan

His humanistic cinema celebrates quiet moral dignity, filial duty, and the virtues of acceptance and restraint in everyday family life.