THEME EXPLORATION

Parisian underworld

12 films · 2 directors
FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Chicken Feed for Little Birds
Chicken Feed for Little Birds
1963 · Marcel Carné
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
Casino
Casino
1995 · 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
Jean-Pierre Melville France

Master of French noir who crafted definitive underworld films set in Paris such as 'Le Samouraï' (1967) and 'Le Doulos' (1962), exploring the code and aesthetics of criminal life.

 Jacques Audiard France

Contemporary filmmaker whose visceral explorations of Paris's criminal and marginalized communities in films like 'Dardenne' and social dramas capture the modern Parisian underworld with poetic realism.