10 Filmmakers Obsessed With ONE Thing

There are many filmmakers who have examined voyeurism through their camera lens throughout the decades, but none who have bathed in it as thoroughly and as frequently as Brian De Palma.

From his 1968 debut Murder A La Mod onward, voyeurism has been a focal interest of the director's, with films such as Sisters, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, and Body Double following characters preoccupied with either watching or being watched.

It's a theme which continues to present itself a half-century later in recent De Palma duds such as Passion and Domino, and even bleeds into his more conventional Hollywood entertainments like Mission: Impossible, a film focused entirely on surveillance and subterfuge.

Fascinatingly, De Palma's observational tendencies actually hearken back to his childhood, where after hearing his mother accuse his father of infidelity, he began following his father around with recording equipment, hoping to catch evidence of her accusations.

De Palma's best days as a filmmaker may be long behind him, but he's never given up on examining the psychology of those who watch.