My Life to Live (1962), Fight Club (1999), The Seventh Seal (1957), Where Is Kyra? (2017), The Graduate (1967), Mondays in the Sun (2002), Harold and Maude (1971), Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Existential Crisis movies.
Storyline: A spiritual man (Samuel L. Jackson) and a suicidal professor (Tommy Lee Jones) have a philosophical debate.
Plot Keywords: drama, philosophical, dialogue-driven, existential, faith, hope, despair ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A troubled loner, Bob Maconel, imagines blowing up the tower in Los Angeles where he works. He takes a revolver to his office intent on killing colleagues, and then himself. At home, he holds conversations with his fish, who encourage him to do it. His supervisor picks on him. As he's screwing his courage to the sticking place, he drops a bullet; while on the floor looking for it, another colleague does exactly what Bob has been planning. Bob emerges a hero and the one colleague he likes, a woman with a bright smile, is severely wounded. Can Bob help her through despair and find himself and joy in life? Or, as everyone says, is this impossible for a man like him?
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, black comedy, loneliness, mental breakdown, revenge, oppression, social outcast ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jude, Luke, Marc, Paulie and Pete are liberal-minded roommates and grad students at a Iowa post-secondary institution. Every Sunday for the past year, they have hosted a dinner party, inviting a friend over to have an open-minded discussion about whatever topics are of interest. On a dark and stormy night when Pete was supposed to bring a friend for one of those dinners, he instead comes home with Zachary Cody, who rescued a stranded Pete whose car broke down. They invite Zach to stay for dinner instead of Pete's missing friend. They soon find out that Zach is among other things a racist neo-Nazi, which brings up a potentially dangerous situation for Jewish Marc and black Luke. After some physical altercations and verbal threats, Marc ends up stabbing Zach dead out of what he considers self-defense. As the friends discuss what to do about Zach, they finally come to the conclusion that in killing Zach, they have done society a service. So they ponder 'why not invite other ...
Plot Keywords: black comedy, moral dilemma, murder, political satire, dinner party, extremism, ideological conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Alice's father left when she was a child. She continued to share her life with him in letters that she sent not realising that he never received them. Eventually, they all come back with "Dead Letter Office" stamped on the front. As an adult, she becomes consumed with a desire to find him and takes a job with the Dead Letter Office, convinced that she can use them to fulfill her romantic notions of a reunion with her father. What awaits her at the DLO is far more than that ...—Peter Webb <tjebi@mpx.com.au>
Plot Keywords: black comedy, independent film, social critique, bureaucracy, office politics, existentialism, workplace stress ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A corporate raider threatens a hostile take-over of a "mom and pop" company. The patriarch of the company enlists the help of his wife's daughter, who is a lawyer, to try and protect the company. The raider is enamoured of her, and enjoys the thrust and parry of legal manoeuvring as he tries to win her heart.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
Plot Keywords: wall street, greed, moral dilemma, business ethics, finance, capitalism, law ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: About a recent college grad who returns home while she tries to figure out what to do with her life.
Plot Keywords: independent film, female director, coming of age, family dynamics, low budget, realism, dialogue-driven ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After discovering that he has only months to live, Wendell Lawson (Burt Reynolds) tries to settle issues with his family, including his ex-wife (Sally Field). When he gets little empathy or even attention from his relatives, he becomes distraught and sets out to kill himself. Following many unsuccessful suicide attempts, Lawson winds up in a mental hospital, where he meets deranged fellow patient Marlon Borunki (Dom DeLuise), who is quite eager to help his new friend end his life.
Plot Keywords: black comedy, existential, absurdist, midlife crisis, psychological drama, surreal, social satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: New York, 2000. A specter in the guise of the newly-dead CEO of Denmark Corporation appears to Hamlet, tells of murder most foul, demands revenge, and identifies the killer as Claudius, the new head of Denmark, Hamlet's uncle and now step-father. Hamlet must determine if the ghost is truly his father, and if Claudius did the deed. To buy time, Hamlet feigns madness; to catch his uncle's conscience, he invites him to watch a film he's made that shows a tale of murder. Finally convinced of Claudius's guilt, Hamlet must avenge his father. Claudius now knows Hamlet is a threat and even uses Ophelia, Hamlet's love, in his own plots against the young man. Murder will out?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: shakespeare, tragedy, revenge, drama, betrayal, madness, death ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Eccentric scientist Dr.Daniel and his shy, clumsy assistant Max, lead a quiet life on their space station where they carry out illegal research into androids, until they receive an unwelcome visit from three fugitives from justice, one of whom is female. Dr.Daniel and Max are both interested in her, but one of them has rather more sinister intentions than just romance. At first, they all get along, but when one of the criminals becomes psychotic, violence erupts. Meanwhile, the space police is on their trail.—Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, artificial intelligence, dystopian, futuristic, robot, technophobia, human nature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Eddie (Sean Penn) is a confused and reckless man with a group of equally problematic friends. His roommate, caustic and sleazy Mickey (Kevin Spacey), is sleeping with Eddie's love, Darlene (Robin Wright Penn), because he can. His buddy Phil (Chazz Palminteri) is prone to violent rages that worry Eddie. All of them ruminate on their lives while consuming drugs and alcohol. Another friend, Artie (Garry Shandling), eventually arrives with a young date (Anna Paquin) who is ready for a fun night.
Plot Keywords: black comedy, drama, los angeles, hollywood, drug addiction, relationships, male friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The survivors of a nuclear holocaust fuse man with machine, creating cyborgs to assist in the rebuilding of civilization. However, when the blue-skinned androids seem to be taking over modern society, the Order of Flesh and Blood will stop at nothing to save the remnants of humanity.
Plot Keywords: science fiction, dystopian, robots, artificial intelligence, cold war, post-apocalyptic, social class ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nick is a feckless television salesman who gets fired and impulsively decides that he and his girlfriend, Beth, will move to Butte, MT, which he's read is "the city of the future." "I read that a while ago, so the future should be there by now," he enthuses. He waits until the last moment to tell Carol, his ex and Beth's best friend, about the move. While Nick is working his last day, Sid comes to the couple's house to paint it for the next tenants. He quickly develops an interest in Beth. He, Beth, and Carol get stoned and hang out. When Sid hears about the move, he tells Beth that he's never left Enfield, and has no interest in traveling. Meanwhile, Nick decides to take off on his own. When Beth gets word of this from Carol, she finds solace in Sid's arms. Sid proclaims his love the next morning, and implores Beth to stay. Meanwhile, Nick visits his childhood home, looking for his parents, has an epiphany, and decides to return to Carol.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: independent film, drama, romance, coming of age, relationships, existential, 1990s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: As the SUN burns out, an American family gathers at the end of the world, their hopes for rescue slowly crumbling as they also confront long lasting divides amongst each other.
Plot Keywords: thriller, drama, mystery, family, psychological, dark, secrets ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Five complete strangers meet on a roof at sunrise to jump to their deaths, but a strange connection of incidents makes them postpone the event.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, psychological horror, social commentary, supernatural, mystery, dark ...
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