near-death experiences

His films like 'The Fountain' and 'Black Swan' obsessively explore mortality, bodily transformation, and the psychological terror of approaching death.

Works such as 'Melancholia' and 'Antichrist' confront existential dread, apocalypse, and the human psyche at its breaking point through intensely visceral imagery.

Films like 'After Life' and 'Shoplifters' meditate on mortality, memory, and the liminal spaces between life and death with profound humanistic grace.