Existentialism Movies

A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior...

Seven episodes, each taking place on a different day of the week, on the theme of suicide and violent death.

Jankovics's adaptation of the eponymous play is divided into multiple parts, and depicts the creation and fall of Man throughout history.

After a catastrophic global war, a young filmmaker awakens in the carnage and seeks refuge in the only other survivor: an eccentric, ideologically...

Karrer plods his way through life in quiet desperation. His environment is drab and rainy and muddy. Eaten up with solitude, his hopelessness would...

Louise is dissatisfied with her mundane life in a bleak Parisian new-town. She rents a pied-à-terre in the city so she can experience...

What is the purpose of our existence ? What is the soul ? Which are the power of mind, of conscience ? What is our link to nature ? Pondering these...

Replikas, online chatbots, have trouble determining their place in the world. They share their thoughts with the humans they exchange with. Events...

Illa de Arousa, 1971. Maria is a woman who earns her living by seafood. She is also known on the island for helping other women in childbirth with...

As the months pass through her, Mai gives us a glimpse into old age that explores between being abandoned and being belonged, passing the time and...

Jean, in his fifties, has lost his lust for life. He leaves Canada for a faraway country, somewhere in Europe. A beautiful place to end his days, he...

A married, middle-aged professor meets a mysterious woman in the woods and has an affair with her.

"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." Daedalus weaves a tale of ambition and caution through an ancient myth, set in a...

In a world where the future is for sale, a grieving man visits a mysterious Time Spa, seeking a glimpse of his future. However, he discovers that...

Who Will You Be When the World Ends? - When it is announced that the world will end in 7 years, a young woman must decide what is truly important to...

Adem lives a repetitive and monotonous life until he finds himself caught between reality and a virtual world. In this perplexing realm, he...

"Les jeux sont faits," is a fantasy film based on a screenplay by French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. A society heiress and a...

Now the subjects of a despotic chief, far from having any favor to expect from him, as both themselves and all they have are his property, or at...

An adaptation of the J.P. Sartre story "Le Mur". What goes on in his mind and what happens outside when he has left only few more hours left to...

Jørgen Leth can squeeze poetry from a stone and wit from dust, and he can find love where the milk of human kindness runs dry. In a series of...