THEME EXPLORATION

scientific ambition

12 films · 3 directors
FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Frankenstein
Frankenstein
2025 · Guillermo del Toro
The Net
The Net
1953 · Emilio “Indio” Fernández
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
1963 · Roger Corman
The Aeronauts
The Aeronauts
2019 · Tom Harper
Singin' in the Rain
Singin' in the Rain
1952 · Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
A Trip to the Moon
A Trip to the Moon
1902 · Georges Méliès
Top Gun
Top Gun
1987 · Tony Scott
Zootopia
Zootopia
2016 · Byron Howard & Rich Moore
Viktor und Viktoria
Viktor und Viktoria
1933 · Reinhold Schünzel
Ave Maria
Ave Maria
1936 · Max Ophuls
Primary Colors
Primary Colors
1998 · Mike Nichols
Film Lesson
Film Lesson
1991 · Werner Herzog
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Denis Villeneuve Canada

His films consistently explore the consequences of scientific ambition through tension between discovery and human cost, as seen in Arrival, Blade Runner 2049, and Dune.

 David Cronenberg Canada

He pioneered body horror cinema to examine how scientific ambition transforms and corrupts the human body, from The Fly to eXistenZ.

 Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union

His philosophical sci-fi masterpieces like Stalker and Solaris probe the metaphysical limits of scientific knowledge and humanity's yearning to transcend them.