Marat/Sade (1967), Grass (2018), Cure (1997), Wit (2001), Ugetsu (1953), Andrei Rublev (1966), The Seventh Seal (1957), Wild Strawberries (1957) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Existential movies.
Storyline: The Marquis de Sade (Patrick Magee) directs the patients of Charenton mental hospital in a play about the life of Jean-Paul Marat (Ian Richardson).
Plot Keywords: drama, historical, psychological, political, revolution, mental illness, prison ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young woman working on her laptop in a cafe overhears three dramatic stories unfolding through nearby conversations.
Plot Keywords: documentary, korean cinema, minimalist, dialogue-driven, slice of life, black and white, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Tokyo detective (Koji Yakusho) investigates a series of murders committed in exactly the same way by people who seem to have no connection.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, horror, crime, mystery, detective, serial killer, supernatural ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A bright and demanding professor (Emma Thompson) reassesses her life after finding out she has terminal ovarian cancer.
Plot Keywords: drama, medical, cancer, death, literature, professor, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the beginning of the springtime in the period of the Japanese Civil Wars of the Sixteenth Century in Lake Biwa in the Province of Omi, the family man farmer and craftsman Genjurô travels to Nagahama to sell his wares and makes a small fortune. His neighbor Tobei that is a fool man dreams on becoming a samurai, but he can not afford to buy the necessary outfit. The greedy Genjurô and Tobei work together manufacturing clay potteries, expecting to sell the pieces and enrich; however, their wives Miyage and Ohama are worried about the army of the cruel Shibata that is coming to their village and they warn their ambitious husbands. Their village is looted but the families flee and survive; Genjurô and Tobei decide to travel by boat with their wives and baby to sell the wares in a bigger town. When they meet another boat that was attacked by pirates, Genjurô decides to leave his wife and son on the bank of the river, promising to return in ten days. Genjurô, Tobei and Ohama raise a large...
Plot Keywords: classic film, period drama, ghost story, black and white, tragedy, fantasy, historical drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Andreiv Rublev charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th Century Russian history, a period marked by endless fighting between rival Princes and by Tatar invasions.
Plot Keywords: historical, biographical, art, religious, medieval, russian, painter ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Knight and his squire are home from the crusades. Black Death is sweeping their country. As they approach home, Death appears to the knight and tells him it is his time. The knight challenges Death to a chess game for his life. The Knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.
Plot Keywords: existential, philosophical, medieval, death, religion, faith, despair ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: With the exception of his elderly housekeeper Miss Agda who he treats almost like a surrogate platonic wife, widowed seventy-eight year old Dr. Isak Borg, a former medical doctor and professor, has retreated from any human contact, partly his own want but partly the decision of others who do not want to spend time with him because of his cold demeanor. He is traveling from his home in Stockholm to Lund to accept an honorary degree. Instead of flying as was the original plan, he decides to take the day long drive instead. Along for the ride is his daughter-in-law Marianne, who had been staying with him for the month but has now decided to go home. The many stops and encounters along the way make him reminisce about various parts of his life. Those stops which make him reminisce directly are at his childhood summer home, at the home of his equally emotionally cold mother, and at a gas station where the attendants praise him as a man for his work. But the lives of other people they ...
Plot Keywords: existential, aging, memory, dreams, regret, isolation, self-reflection ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a small, unnamed country there is an area called the Zone. It is apparently inhabited by aliens and contains the Room, where in it is believed wishes are granted. The government has declared The Zone a no-go area and have sealed off the area with barbed wire and border guards. However, this has not stopped people from attempting to enter the Zone. We follow one such party, made up of a writer, who wants to use the experience as inspiration for his writing, and a professor, who wants to research the Zone for scientific purposes. Their guide is a man to whom the Zone is everything, the Stalker.
Plot Keywords: philosophical, science fiction, psychological, mystery, art film, surreal, existential ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A drifting cowboy (Peter Fonda) brings along a friend (Warren Oates) when he returns to his wife (Verna Bloom) and ranch after seven years.
Plot Keywords: western, drama, revenge, redemption, outlaw, loneliness, betrayal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two friends discover mysterious items in a countryside guesthouse, including a hanging cat.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, mystery, indie film, black comedy, surreal, philosophical, cosmos ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Alexander, a journalist and former actor and philosopher, tells his little son how worried he is about the lack of spirituality of modern mankind. In the night of his birthday, the third world war breaks out. In his despair Alexander turns himself in a prayer to God, offering him everything to have the war not happen at all.
Plot Keywords: philosophical, existential, art film, apocalyptic, sacrifice, religious, surreal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tarkovsky mixes flash-backs, historical footage and original poetry to illustrate the reminiscences of a dying man about his childhood during World War II, adolescence, and a painful divorce in his family. The story interweaves reflections about Russian history and society.
Plot Keywords: art film, autobiographical, poetic, nonlinear narrative, memory, dreamlike, philosophical ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Daigo Kobayashi is a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and now finds himself without a job. Daigo decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled "Departures" thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency only to discover that the job is actually for a "Nokanshi" or "encoffineer," a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry into the next life. While his wife and others despise the job, Daigo takes a certain pride in his work and begins to perfect the art of "Nokanshi," acting as a gentle gatekeeper between life and death, between the departed and the family of the departed. The film follows his profound and sometimes comical journey with death as he uncovers the wonder, joy and meaning of life and living.
Plot Keywords: drama, death, family, grief, redemption, life and death, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In turn-of-the-century Sweden, cancer-stricken, dying Agnes is visited in her isolated rural mansion by her sisters Karin and Maria. As Agnes' condition deteriorates and pain management becomes increasingly more difficult, fear and revulsion grip the sisters, who seem incapable of empathy, and Agnes' only comfort and solace comes from her maid Anna. As the end draws closer, long repressed feelings of grudging resentment and mistrust cause jealousy, selfishness, and bitterness between the siblings to surface.
Plot Keywords: drama, swedish, women, family, death, pain, sisters ...
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