THEME EXPLORATION

underworld descent

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
KD – The Devil
KD – The Devil
2026 · Prem
Bad Seed
Bad Seed
1934 · Billy Wilder
Breathless
Breathless
1960 · Jean-Luc Godard
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
1998 · Guy Ritchie
Love is Colder Than Death
Love is Colder Than Death
1969 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Drive
Drive
2011 · Nicolas Winding Refn
The American Soldier
The American Soldier
1970 · Margarethe von Trotta & Rainer Werner Fassbinder
After Hours
After Hours
1985 · Martin Scorsese
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
2008 · Guillermo del Toro
Animal Kingdom
Animal Kingdom
2010 · David Michôd
The Big Lebowski
The Big Lebowski
1998 · Joel Coen
Eastern Promises
Eastern Promises
2007 · David Cronenberg
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Pier Paolo Pasolini Italy

His film 'Inferno' (1967) directly adapts Dante's descent into Hell with visceral, modernist imagery that emphasizes the degradation and suffering of the underworld.

 David Lynch United States

His films like 'Mulholland Drive' and 'Eraserhead' create nightmarish underworld-like spaces where protagonists descend psychologically into fractured realities and moral darkness.