Existentialism Movies

An essay film about Jean-Paul Sartre and the French Existentialists, featuring Roland Barthes' last interview.

He is called the 'Socrates of the North'. He is also called the forefather of existentialism: Sören Kierkegaard, born in Copenhagen in 1813. At...

The Metaphor That Became a Room is a psychological drama exploring identity, communication, and the struggle for self-understanding. Divided into two...

A man causes a public disturbance, policemen intervene.

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

The theatre company of a forgotten town puts on one last performance to escape the reality of their home fading away into nothingness.

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

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...

Aeterna is a movement-based film that explores the feeling of personal insignificance when confronted with the complexity of human existence. By...

A man sits with his cat on a lonely day and calls the operator, asking if there is a number for God. Premiered on the BBC Culture Show and featured...

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

Two computer engineers are given a strange request by a monk: Compile all 9 billion names of god. One engineer discovers a strangeness regarding the...

What starts as a desire to experience nature more intimately develops into a relatable conversation on alternative pathways through life. Two...

Set in the mountains of northeast Italy, this film may be considered an observational documentary about rural life. Although this is undeniably the...

In the cabin the conductor activates the gear lever; his motion breaks the inertia. Behind is the station, then images of the machinery, the...

As an unwavering natural force, Maj Wechselmann produces at least one film a year, which is guaranteed to show troublesome connections between...

Two brothers walk into a graveyard, yet can't find their fathers grave.

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