THEME EXPLORATION

urban fear

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Bread and Alley
Bread and Alley
1970 · Abbas Kiarostami
Live from Shiva’s Dance Floor
Live from Shiva’s Dance Floor
2003 · Richard Linklater
Nobody's Hero
Nobody's Hero
2022 · Alain Guiraudie
Breathless
Breathless
1960 · Jean-Luc Godard
Miracle in Milan
Miracle in Milan
1951 · Vittorio De Sica
The Battle of Algiers
The Battle of Algiers
1966 · Gillo Pontecorvo
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
1998 · Guy Ritchie
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927 · F. W. Murnau
Moi, un noir
Moi, un noir
1958 · Jean Rouch
Under the Skin
Under the Skin
2013 · Jonathan Glazer
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
1994 · Michael Haneke
Die Hard
Die Hard
1988 · John McTiernan
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
David Fincher USA

His films like 'Se7en' and 'Zodiac' meticulously dissect urban paranoia and the psychological terror lurking within modern cities.

 Ari Aster USA

Works like 'Hereditary' and 'Midsommar' explore existential dread and the claustrophobic anxieties of contemporary life in oppressive spaces.

 Denis Villeneuve Canada

Films such as 'Prisoners' and 'Enemy' capture the suffocating tension and moral ambiguity of urban isolation and societal suspicion.