Existentialism Movies

What happens to a person's self when she retires and no longer has the job to lean on? Documentary filmmaker Lars Lennart Forsberg asked that...

Events take a sinister turn one night in London, when two very different couples arrive at a double-booked apartment. Actions have consequences and...

"Archaeology of Unborn Faces" is a silent cinematic excavation of the AI latent space. It stands before a digital purgatory, witnessing the agonizing...

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...

When a girl was ten-years-old she developed a brain tumor. Doctors were able to remove it, but at the expense of the perception of her own face. She...

A man and his conscience are shown on their way to paradise as the only illusion that saves him the present civilization's hell. However, it is the...

Zoetrope is a haunting and surreal film set in an apocalyptic, decaying world. Based on Franz Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony”, a man...

A silent, monochromatic mutiny against the machinery of time. An 'ownerless' man navigates an urban purgatory, bearing forensic witness to the...

When life brings Suhas, a corporate trainer, to a new city, he comes across a lively young man and a mysterious traveller girl who make him ruminate...

A teen contemplates his life after getting locked in his garage during a power outage.

An existentialist conversation divided in chapters between the animated alter ego of the author and two alien creatures that represent future...

An elderly Jewish woman, who was a teenager during the outset of the Holocaust and was forced to choose between her own life and her younger...

Two kids entangled in the pursuit of young love find themselves colliding with the life of a woman experiencing a crisis.

Four young men and a young woman sit in boredom. She smokes while one strums a lute, one looks at a magazine, and two fiddle with string. The door...

Do you need children, careers and partners to feel happy? The filmmaker Lotta Stemme has for five years documented both her own and three of her...

Born in the depths of a forgotten factory, an automaton follows its programmed curiosity through a silent world of rust and steel.

In an abandoned, timeless government archive, an unprecedented case is opened: the trial of "The Future" on charges of existential fraud against...

1962. The US Genesis 1491 space mission launches with a unique objective, based upon mankind's ongoing quest to seek answers to existential...

He really likes Poughkeepsie Crispies. Maybe too much. A darkly funny, minimalist loop of repetition, ritual, and barely-hinged performance.

Paradise Man searches for meaning in an unknowable universe.