THEME EXPLORATION

wealth gap

12 films · 2 directors
FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Just Like a Woman
Just Like a Woman
1912 · D.W. Griffith
A Crazy... Crazy... 40-Year-Old Woman
A Crazy... Crazy... 40-Year-Old Woman
1970 · Yannis Dalianidis
Parasite
Parasite
2019 · Bong Joon-ho
The Aviator
The Aviator
2004 · Martin Scorsese
Summer Storm
Summer Storm
1944 · Douglas Sirk
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
2013 · Baz Luhrmann
Hard, Fast and Beautiful
Hard, Fast and Beautiful
1951 · Ida Lupino
Cosmopolis
Cosmopolis
2012 · David Cronenberg
Barbe bleue
Barbe bleue
2009 · Catherine Breillat
Shadow Play
Shadow Play
1997 · Martine Dugowson
Fifty Shades Freed
Fifty Shades Freed
2018 · James Foley
The Christophers
The Christophers
2026 · Steven Soderbergh
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Ken Loach United Kingdom

His films consistently expose systemic poverty and economic inequality through intimate portraits of working-class struggle against institutional indifference.

 Bong Joon-ho South Korea

He masterfully uses genre and visual storytelling to expose the violent tensions between social classes and the desperation born from economic despair.