Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited (2007) is a road movie focused on the three brothers' struggle to accept their father's recent death. Hoping to help himself and his two younger brothers after their father's death, Francis (Owen Wilson) organizes a journey across India. The train operates on two levels: a surrogate for their household, and to represent a spiritual journey. In the final scene, the brothers discover the freedom outside the train by shedding the grip of the

Minnelli presents the dysfunctional family by separating its members into three distinct planes, with no eye contact or emotional connection between them. Based on Henry Jones’ novel of the same title, Some Came Running explores the struggles of a small Midwest town to find meaning in life as they realize the war has shattered the values they once believed to be flawless. Overwhelmed by the new world, they would rather cling to the illusory ideals of prewar conformity. The n

Written on the Wind Directed by Douglas Sirk (1956) Robert Stack is the spoiled son of an oil baron. Rock Hudson, his childhood friend,...

Europe '51 Directed by Roberto Rossellini (1952) As the title suggests, Rossellini made the movie in 1952 about the problems of postwar...