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THEME EXPLORATION

sales and commerce

9 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Salesman
Salesman
1969 · Maysles Brothers
A Fair Exchange
A Fair Exchange
1909 · D.W. Griffith
A Woman of Osaka
A Woman of Osaka
1940 · Kenji Mizoguchi
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken
Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! Mr Chicken
1974 · Jean Rouch
Inn of Evil
Inn of Evil
1971 · Masaki Kobayashi
Moros y cristianos
Moros y cristianos
1987 · Luis García Berlanga
The World Moves On
The World Moves On
1934 · John Ford
Twenty Women and I
Twenty Women and I
1973 · Yannis Dalianidis
Pinkus's Shoe Palace
Pinkus's Shoe Palace
1916 · Ernst Lubitsch
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Rainer Werner Fassbinder → Germany

His films dissect capitalism, consumer culture, and exploitative economic relationships with raw emotional intensity and critique of mercantile society.

Ken Loach → United Kingdom

He consistently explores how commerce and market forces devastate working-class lives, examining poverty, labor exploitation, and systemic economic injustice.

Abbas Kiarostami → Iran

His works subtly investigate commerce, trade, and economic survival through intimate human encounters that reveal how transactions shape relationships and morality.

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