Movies: Existentialism

In a dimly lit jazz club, a widower cinephile battles his buried desires. That's until he stumbles upon a mysterious cinema that unveils his suppressed longings and leads him on a journey of self-discovery through his enigmatic reflection....

Indulging in frivolous passions and contemplating the essence of being, a young woman reflects her feelings that seem to be doomed and rejuvenating at the same time....

A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him....

Set in the dark depths of a strange and mysterious power supply complex, ELLIOT tells the tale of a conflicted humanoid (Elliot) struggling to maintain his reality and understand his true identity. Elliot is thrust into a disconcerting downward spira...

A surreal musical comedy set in a world where the avant-garde and the mainstream are reversed....

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Directed by Armand Bouvier, "S'asseoir" is a four-hour French comedy that masterfully blends absurdist humor with the profound existential philosophy of Albert Camus....

The young man, originally a Jew, is deeply burdened by the consequences of war, in which he had lost his loved ones. He is considering himself mandatory to take revenge to former commander of the concentration camp where his family was killed, and wh...

a young timid boy who is doubtful about faith and religion is beaten by curiosity and ends up wandering into a peculiar church and encountering a celestial yet godlike girl....

In a waiting room in the space between the living and the beyond, an unlikely pair sits impatiently for their final reckoning....

In Tokyo, a girl and her boyfriend spend a night talking about their life, their precarious condition and their difficulties to earn a living, their place in the world, if ever they have one......

"Les jeux sont faits," is a fantasy film based on a screenplay by French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. A society heiress and a resistance fighter are tragically killed at the same moment and meet in the afterlife. They are offered a se...

A film that immerses its audience in subjective states of consciousness they might experience when they die, imagining what they can see and think and hear in a seamless but fragmentary flow of poetic images, words and music. The viewer undertakes a ...

One million Dutchmen (out of 16 million) play soccer. Almost two million fish at least once a year. Fishing might be the most remarkable sport in the world. The documentary V.I.S.S.E.N (FISHING) dives into the world of Dutch fish and fishermen. Above...

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

A short film recounting the travels of a lonely astronaut confronted by the unknown. Unfolding as a mystery, it becomes a carefully subtle, autobiographical examination of the feeling of loneliness and the existential issue of not understanding life ...

In search of housing, a student stumbles upon an advertisement for renting an apartment at a very reasonable fee—and promptly agrees with a woman who recently laid her son to rest, complying with all her conditions. The young man settles into the apa...

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Two men who share an apartment, with vastly different outlooks on life, are pushed further and further away from each other, as one of them slowly approaches an existential crisis, and the other seems to slowly give up hope for change....

In a quiet garden where time feels suspended, a young dreamer with a broken watch and a plucked flower shares a bench, unknowingly sparking a quiet venture. Shepherded by an enigmatic individual, through time, mortality, and the fragility of life....