Existentialism Movies

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.

The fact that the man succumbed one morning to an irresistible urge to sit down at the piano and play the entire Chopin Sonata in B Minor would not...

A short film recounting the travels of a lonely astronaut confronted by the unknown. Unfolding as a mystery, it becomes a carefully subtle,...

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...

A four-hour French comedy that masterfully blends absurdist humor with the profound existential philosophy of Albert Camus.

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

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

As an old man, Jan slowly begins to waste away in his retirement home. But during a day trip to the Dutch National Mobility Scooter Racing...

A constant journey from outer space to a town in Norway, where we encounter small pieces of people’s lives.

experimental piece exploring existentialism, time, age and space

Jørgen Leth can squeeze poetry from a stone and wit from dust, and he can find love where the milk of human kindness runs dry. In a series of...

A short philosophical satire that wanders between the absurd and the profound. From a silent bed stare to a prophetic lentil, Cryptex explores the...

Sartre and Camus, the two most world-famous, 20th century, French writers, form a legendary and inseparable couple. The two extraordinary thinkers...

In the midst of an existential crisis, Y. ostracizes himself to live the rest of his days in solitude - locked in an underground bunker, with a...

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...

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...

Burden of Existence is a meditative short film about loneliness, debt, poverty, gratitude, addiction, and the fragile ways what we reap sows back to...