THEME EXPLORATION

selflessness

4 films · 3 directors
FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
As It Is In Life
As It Is In Life
1910 · D.W. Griffith
Lazybones
Lazybones
1925 · Frank Borzage
It's a Wonderful Life
It's a Wonderful Life
1946 · Frank Capra
An Autumn Afternoon
An Autumn Afternoon
1962 · Yasujiro Ozu
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union

His films explore spiritual transcendence and the dissolution of ego through meditation on memory, time, and human connection beyond material concerns.

 Yasujirō Ozu Japan

His intimate family dramas celebrate quiet self-sacrifice and the acceptance of loss, where characters find meaning in duty to others rather than personal desires.

 Carl Theodor Dreyer Denmark

His austere, spiritually charged films—particularly about martyrs and saints—examine how individuals transcend suffering through faith and selfless devotion.