THEME EXPLORATION

urban ghost stories

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters
1984 · Ivan Reitman
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
Alles dreht sich, alles bewegt sich
Alles dreht sich, alles bewegt sich
1929 · Hans Richter
Germany in Autumn
Germany in Autumn
1978 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Hou Hsiao-hsien Taiwan

His films haunt urban spaces with memory and loss, treating cities as repositories of invisible histories and spectral presences.

 Wong Kar-wai Hong Kong

His neon-soaked Hong Kong cityscapes become dreamlike, melancholic worlds where characters drift like ghosts through urban alienation and temporal displacement.

 Apichatpong Weerasethakul Thailand

He transforms modern urban and rural spaces into supernatural landscapes where spirits, memory, and reality blur through slow cinema and uncanny atmosphere.