Sightlines · a concept

fetish

the torn-off partial object the drive seizes.

On screen: a part-object (food, body-part, relic) charged with compulsive force.

219 films in the collection register this concept · in the glossary

Deleuze’s own examples

DBelle de Jour1967

Across the collection

Häxan1922Nosferatu1922Greed1924Un Chien Andalou1929L'Âge d'or1930The Blue Angel1930Freaks1932Scarface1932L'Atalante1934Bringing Up Baby1938Obsession1943Double Indemnity1944Laura1944Dead of Night1945Brighton Rock1948Drunken Angel1948The Red Shoes1948The Treasure of the Sierra Madre1948Criss Cross1949The Queen of Spades1949White Heat1949Gun Crazy1950The Asphalt Jungle1950The Young and the Damned1950A Streetcar Named Desire1951The Big Heat1953The Man with the Golden Arm1955Written on the Wind1956The Bridge on the River Kwai1957The Incredible Shrinking Man1957Cairo Station1958Cat on a Hot Tin Roof1958Suddenly, Last Summer1959Peeping Tom1960Psycho1960Rocco and His Brothers1960The Little Shop of Horrors1960Knife in the Water1962Le Doulos1962Viridiana1962What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?1962It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World1963Lord of the Flies1963Diary of a Chambermaid1964Onibaba1964Django1966Branded to Kill1967Oliver!1968Targets1968The Color of Pomegranates1969The Cremator1969Tristana1970Valerie and Her Week of Wonders1970Carnal Knowledge1971Dirty Harry1971Even Dwarfs Started Small1971Get Carter1971The Beguiled1971Wake in Fright1971Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory1971Frenzy1972Pink Flamingos1972The Exorcist1973The Night Porter1974The Texas Chain Saw Massacre1974The Stepford Wives1975Female Trouble1976In the Realm of the Senses1976Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom1976Taxi Driver1976Equus1977That Obscure Object of Desire1977Midnight Express1978The Shout1978Alien1979The Brood1979The Tin Drum1979Pixote1980The Gods Must Be Crazy1980Body Heat1981Kisapmata1981Modern Romance1981The Postman Always Rings Twice1981Thief1981Educating Rita1983Risky Business1983Scarface1983Under the Volcano1984Pee-wee's Big Adventure1985Tampopo1985Blue Velvet1986Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer1986Sid and Nancy1986The Fly1986Top Gun1986Fatal Attraction1987Full Metal Jacket1987Moonstruck1987The Belly of an Architect1987Dead Ringers1988Salaam Bombay!1988The Thin Blue Line1988Drugstore Cowboy1989Godzilla vs. Biollante1989Leviathan1989Sweetie1989GoodFellas1990Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!1990Cape Fear1991Delicatessen1991Life Is Sweet1991Naked Lunch1991The Silence of the Lambs1991Bad Lieutenant1992Damage1992Jamon Jamon1992Like Water for Chocolate1992Cronos1993Chungking Express1994Eat Drink Man Woman1994Léon: The Professional1994Once Were Warriors1994Shallow Grave1994The Mask1994Three Colors: White1994Crumb1995Kids1995The Blade1995Crash1996Deep Crimson1996Trainspotting1996Boogie Nights1997Gummo1997Nil by Mouth1997American History X1998Bullet Ballet1998Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas1998High Art1998Fight Club1999Three Kings1999Toy Story 21999American Psycho2000Requiem for a Dream2000Fat Girl2001Ghost World2001Hannibal2001Ichi the Killer2001Intacto2001L.I.E.2001The Piano Teacher2001Mango Yellow2002Punch-Drunk Love2002Gozu2003House of 1000 Corpses2003Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl2003Save the Green Planet!2003The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King2003Saw II2005The Child2005The Wayward Cloud2005The Darjeeling Limited2007There Will Be Blood2007Transformers2007The Hurt Locker2008Antichrist2009District 92009Fantastic Mr. Fox2009The Lovely Bones2009Thirst2009The American2010The Yellow Sea2010Shame2011The Adventures of Tintin2011Sinister2012The Bourne Legacy2012The Master2012Blue Is the Warmest Color2013Evil Dead2013Stoker2013The Wolf of Wall Street2013As Above, So Below2014Creep2014Leviathan2014Whiplash2014Wild Tales2014The Witch2016It2017Phantom Thread2017Raw2017Climax2018I Want to Eat Your Pancreas2018Isle of Dogs2018Mandy2018Tumbbad2018It Chapter Two2019The Lighthouse2019Uncut Gems2019Another Round2020Beasts Clawing at Straws2020Nightmare Alley2021Titane2021Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness2022Pearl2022White Noise2022Luther: The Fallen Sun2023Saltburn2023The Iron Claw2023The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon2023Wonka2023Beetlejuice Beetlejuice2024Lisa Frankenstein2024Longlegs2024Oddity2024The Substance2024Bring Her Back2025The Ugly Stepsister2025"Wuthering Heights"2026Evil Dead Burn2026