Movies: Existentialism

In a corporate world where people walk backwards, Minus needs to control his instincts to fit in society and climb the social ladder....

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 thought. But that was without counting on the formidable resilience of the inhabitants and residents ...

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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...

The Metaphor That Became a Room is a psychological drama exploring identity, communication, and the struggle for self-understanding. Divided into two parts, the film first delves into the protagonist’s frustration with the urge to persuade others, re...

Minutes before leaving the floor that they have shared for years and ending their relationship, Gala and Marçal try to confront all those feelings that they have never been able to express....

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 ...

An eighteen-year-old on a year abroad in Israel disconnects from his own identity as a means of coping, when his path crosses with an antisocial mossad agent, who untangles a vast web of lies and abuse in the wake of an unspeakable trauma....

The film is about a filmmaker who is trying to make a better film. They are trying to make decisions with fun rather than stress. They are also trying to make decisions that will make the film more enjoyable for the audience....

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....

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....

Katrina, a naive young woman, travels to the home of Phil, her mentor/father figure, to kill him before he can divulge incriminating information to the police. However, Katrina hesitates to pull the trigger before Phil notices her, resulting in an ex...

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....

A mysterious detective appears in a desolate and dark place, with no memory of how he got there or who he is. With a cigarette in hand, he begins to explore his unfamiliar surroundings....

Sometime in the near future within a place of rot and wasted dreams, four men come looking for the Hall of Wishes within the contaminated zone of post-apocalyptic earth....

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 about his life choices and aspirations....

A man who feels paralysed by choice is sent into an existential spiral after finding a mysterious tape player that can tell the future....

Genc gets into existential crisis, loses his will and purpose for his life, as he thinks that he is the cause of his roommate's death. As an escape from this reality, he uses the virtual (reality) world....

Two friends, plagued by bouts of 'existentiality', begin to doubt their existence and spiral into trying to find what life is truly about....

Frank, an introspective astrophysics major, visits a remote lab to work with his mentor; doctor Roberts. After his arrival, he finds that Helen; a young woman seemingly from another world, a metaphysical realm, has been taken in by the doctor. The un...