THEME EXPLORATION

vanity and immortality

12 films · 2 directors
FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Cronos
Cronos
1993 · Guillermo del Toro
Whiskey with Vodka
Whiskey with Vodka
2009 · Andreas Dresen
Snow White and the Huntsman
Snow White and the Huntsman
2012 · Rupert Sanders
Black Adam
Black Adam
2022 · Jaume Collet-Serra
Only Lovers Left Alive
Only Lovers Left Alive
2013 · Jim Jarmusch
Father Gets in the Game
Father Gets in the Game
1908 · D.W. Griffith
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
The Man Who Could Cheat Death
1959 · Terence Fisher
The Substance
The Substance
2024 · Coralie Fargeat
La Collectionneuse
La Collectionneuse
1967 · Eric Rohmer
Terracotta Warrior
Terracotta Warrior
1989 · Zhang Yimou
Highlander
Highlander
1986 · Russell Mulcahy
Blade of the Immortal
Blade of the Immortal
2017 · Takashi Miike
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Federico Fellini Italy

His films obsessively deconstruct fame, beauty, and the human desire to transcend mortality through spectacle and artifice.

 Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union

His meditative cinema examines how art, memory, and human connection offer transcendence over the vanity of individual achievement and death.