THEME EXPLORATION

mortality and fate

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Death Takes a Holiday
Death Takes a Holiday
1934 · Mitchell Leisen
Ringu
Ringu
1998 · Hideo Nakata
Three
Three
1965 · Tadashi Sawashima
Le Porte del Silenzio
Le Porte del Silenzio
1991 · Lucio Fulci
Morir (o no
Morir (o no
2000 · Ventura Pons
Remorse at Death
Remorse at Death
1948 · Fei Mu
He Dies at the End
He Dies at the End
2010 · Damian McCarthy
Life or Something Like It
Life or Something Like It
2002 · Stephen Herek
Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1964 · Jacques Demy
Macario
Macario
1960 · Roberto Gavaldon
Barry Lyndon
Barry Lyndon
1975 · Stanley Kubrick
Past Lives
Past Lives
2023 · Celine Song
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Ingmar Bergman Sweden

His masterpieces like 'The Seventh Seal' and 'Fanny and Alexander' obsessively probe the human confrontation with death, God, and the inescapability of fate.

 Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union/Russia

Through meditative, philosophical films like 'Stalker' and 'Mirror,' he explores mortality as an existential mystery interwoven with memory, time, and spiritual destiny.

 Terrence Malick United States

His poetic cinema in films like 'The Tree of Life' and 'A Hidden Life' wrestles with mortality, divine providence, and humanity's place within an indifferent or purposeful universe.