Mad Love
By: Lights in the Dusk

A list of films where love creates in its characters a spark of insanity; from the wild, spontaneous bursts of expression in films like L’atalante (1934), Pierrot le fou (1965) and Mauvais sang (1986), to the great depression, dark desires and violent obsession of films like The Blue Angel (1930), Vertigo (1958) and Lolita (1997). Where Men and Women are willing to destroy themselves (and others) to satisfy those feelings; even placing the need to love (and to be loved) above their own self-preservation.
-
01F.W. Murnau
-
02Josef von Sternberg
-
03Charlie Chaplin
-
04Jean Vigo
-
05William Wyler
-
06Michael Curtiz
-
07Jean Cocteau
-
08Jean Genet
-
09Alfred Hitchcock
-
10Elia Kazan
-
11Alfred Hitchcock
-
12Jean-Luc Godard
-
13Jacques Rivette
-
14Ken Russell
-
15Jerzy Skolimowski
-
16Rainer Werner Fassbinder
-
17Nagisa Ôshima
-
18Serge Gainsbourg
-
19Nagisa Ôshima
-
20Nicolas Roeg
-
21John Carpenter
-
22Jean-Luc Godard
-
23Andrzej Żuławski
-
24Derek Jarman
-
25Léos Carax
-
26Jean-Jacques Beineix
-
27Pedro Almodóvar
-
28Andrzej Żuławski
-
29Pedro Almodóvar
-
30Jean-Paul Rappeneau
-
31Philippe Garrel
-
32Léos Carax
-
33Julio Medem
-
34Michael Winterbottom
-
35Lars von Trier
-
36Gilles Mimouni
-
37Adrian Lyne
-
38Wong Kar-wai
-
39Michael Winterbottom
-
40Léos Carax
-
41Neil Jordan
-
42David Lynch
-
43Pedro Almodóvar
-
44Michael Winterbottom
-
45Wong Kar-wai
-
46Shinya Tsukamoto
-
47Apichatpong Weerasethakul
-
48Roger Michell
-
49Andrew Stanton
-
50Philippe Garrel