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wild nights

8 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
A Thousand and One Nights with Toho
A Thousand and One Nights with Toho
1947 · Kon Ichikawa
Il fiore delle mille e una notte
Il fiore delle mille e una notte
1974 · Pier Paolo Pasolini
Kismet
Kismet
1955 · Vincente Minnelli
Night Games
Night Games
1966 · Mai Zetterling
The Plainsman
The Plainsman
1936 · Cecil B. DeMille
1001 Nights of Pleasure
1001 Nights of Pleasure
1972 · Antonio Margheriti
Le Palais des mille et une nuits
Le Palais des mille et une nuits
1905 · Georges Méliès
Human Nature
Human Nature
2001 · Michel Gondry
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Werner Herzog → Germany

His films obsessively capture human madness, primal instincts, and the chaotic collision between civilization and raw nature through visionary intensity.

David Lynch → United States

He masterfully explores the dark, surreal underbelly of American life where desire, fear, and psychological breakdown unleash in dreamlike nocturnal worlds.

Gaspar Noé → France/Argentina

His transgressive cinema plunges into excess, intoxication, and the violent extremes of human experience with unflinching aesthetic experimentation.

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