Existentialism Movies

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...

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

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

Set in the dark depths of a strange and mysterious power supply complex, ELLIOT tells the tale of a conflicted humanoid (Elliot) struggling to...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

A film that immerses its audience in subjective states of consciousness they might experience when they die, imagining what they can see and think...

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...

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,...

In search of housing, a student stumbles upon an advertisement for renting an apartment at a very reasonable fee—and promptly agrees with a...

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...

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...