Fight Club (1999), Winter Light (1963), The Big Lebowski (1998), Cabaret Balkan (1998), King Kelly (2012), Man Bites Dog (1992), SLC Punk! (1998), 99 francs (2007) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Nihilism movies.
Storyline: A nameless first person narrator (Edward Norton) attends support groups in attempt to subdue his emotional state and relieve his insomniac state. When he meets Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), another fake attendee of support groups, his life seems to become a little more bearable. However when he associates himself with Tyler (Brad Pitt) he is dragged into an underground fight club and soap making scheme. Together the two men spiral out of control and engage in competitive rivalry for love and power. When the narrator is exposed to the hidden agenda of Tyler's fight club, he must accept the awful truth that Tyler may not be who he says he is.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, dystopian, black comedy, violence, social critique, anarchism, self-destruction ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On a cold winter's Sunday, the pastor of a small rural church (Tomas Ericsson) performs service for a tiny congregation; though he is suffering from a cold and a severe crisis of faith. After the service, he attempts to console a fisherman (Jonas Persson) who is tormented by anxiety, but Tomas can only speak about his own troubled relationship with God. A school teacher (Maerta Lundberg) offers Tomas her love as consolation for his loss of faith. But Tomas resists her love as desperately as she offers it to him. This is the second in Bergman's trilogy of films dealing with man's relationship with God.
Plot Keywords: religion, crisis of faith, loneliness, pastor, black and white, existentialism, church ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When "the dude" Lebowski is mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, two thugs urinate on his rug to coerce him into paying a debt he knows nothing about. While attempting to gain recompense for the ruined rug from his wealthy counterpart, he accepts a one-time job with high pay-off. He enlists the help of his bowling buddy, Walter, a gun-toting Jewish-convert with anger issues. Deception leads to more trouble, and it soon seems that everyone from porn empire tycoons to nihilists want something from The Dude.
Plot Keywords: comedy, crime, black comedy, mystery, absurd, los angeles, kidnapping ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: People, each representing an aspect of the Serbian character, spend a hectic and frightening night in a city.
Plot Keywords: moral decay, multi-narrative, despair, hatred, revenge, social alienation, psychological trauma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two teens (Louisa Krause, Libby Woodbridge) use their cell phones to record their lives and post the videos online.
Plot Keywords: independent film, black comedy, social media, teenagers, american film, digital age, satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A camera crew follows a serial killer/thief around as he exercises his craft. He expounds on art, music, nature, society, and life as he offs mailmen, pensioners, and random people. Slowly he begins involving the camera crew in his activities, and they begin wondering if what they're doing is such a good idea, particularly when the killer kills a rival and the rival's brother sends a threatening letter.
Plot Keywords: black comedy, mockumentary, crime, violence, satire, independent film, belgian film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two punks live in Salt Lake City. The film covers their all-day routine. The realism of the character-narrated movie may be discussed. One of the punks gets ill, stays in hospital for three weeks, comes out again. Three parties are covered and one concert including a fight between punks, rednecks and others.
Plot Keywords: social critique, 1990s, identity crisis, dark comedy, coming of age, drug culture, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The life of Octave Parango, a flamboyant ad designer, filled with success, satire, misery and love.
Plot Keywords: satire, black comedy, critique of capitalism, moral decay, materialism, workplace stress, mental breakdown ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Driver and The Mechanic are 2 car freaks driving a 1955 Chevy through the southwestern U.S., looking for other cars to race. They're totally dedicated to their car, and speak with each other only when necessary. At a gas station, the pair (along with a girl who's ingratiated herself into their world) meet G.T.O; a middle-aged man who fabricates stories and. It's decided to have a race to Washington, D.C., where the winner will get the loser's car.—Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org>
Plot Keywords: road movie, car culture, existentialism, counterculture, 1970s cinema, alienation, minimalism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's 1912 and the patrons of 'The Last Chance Saloon' have gathered for their evening of whiskey to contemplate their lost faith and dreams, when Hickey (Lee Marvin) arrives. Hickey is out to convince everyone that he can help them all find peace of mind by ridding them of the foolish dreams and by bringing them back to reality. Hickey is working especially hard on Larry Slade (Robert Ryan) a former anarchist who has lost his will for life and is awaiting the eventuality of death. Larry is not affected by the cajolings of Hickey but his young companion Parritt (Jeff Bridges) is strangely affected and this leads to revelations about his own mother and feelings of betrayal and loss. As the night wears on the mood changes as everyone has the their faith and dreams slowly destroyed by Hickey. As the anger builds everyone turns on Hickey about his wife and the iceman. This leads to more revelations and with Hickey having the faint questioning of his own new found convictions.—Dr pepper <j0468@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, adaptation, broadway, stage play adaptation, alcoholism, despair, existentialism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Loveless, jobless, possibly terminally ill, Frank has had enough of the downward spiral of America. With nothing left to lose, Frank takes his gun and offs the stupidest, cruelest, and most repellent members of society. He finds an unusual accomplice: 16-year-old Roxy, who shares his sense of rage and disenfranchisement.
Plot Keywords: black comedy, violence, social satire, antihero, road movie, revenge, social criticism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Four middle-aged friends and members of the professional bourgeoisie, Ugo, a chef and restaurant owner, Marcello, an incorrigible womanizer and Alitalia pilot, Michel, a delicate television producer, and Philippe, a venerable magistrate, gather for a debaucherous weekend at the latter's Parisian villa. There, as the four men prepare for a Romanesque feast, truckloads of fine food and wine arrive, accompanied by three elegant and lithe prostitutes. Without a doubt, the rapacious and degraded hedonists are determined to eat themselves to death, one elaborate morsel after another, nevertheless, for what reason?
Plot Keywords: black comedy, satire, absurd, hedonism, decadence, death, sexuality ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: US Army war veteran Hazel Motes may not be a believing Christian, somehow observations like the state of a run-down country church, meeting the ridiculous frauds on the streets and memories inspire him to take up, after initially fierce refusal, the part of a traveling preacher when a cab driver insists he looks like one in his new hat. He starts his own new Church of Truth, without the crucified Jesus, his first disciple being an 18-year old simpleton with a 'prophetic gift'...—KGF Vissers
Plot Keywords: religion, faith, redemption, existentialism, antihero, black comedy, isolation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An idealistic girl, Patsy Newquist, saves a young apathetic photographer, Alfred Chamberlain, from a gang of hooligans. She falls for him, but he turns out to be a nihilist. They go out anyway. All this happens against the background of random shootings in NYC (at the time the play the movie is based on was written, the city was going broke). Her family accept him, but when she tries to change him and get him to find meaning in life, things go horribly wrong in a cruel twist of fate.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: black comedy, satire, absurdist, social critique, urban life, violence, psychological stress ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sam and Jonathan, a pair of hapless novelty salesman, embark on a tour of the human condition in reality and fantasy that unfold in a series of absurdist episodes.
Plot Keywords: black comedy, existentialism, absurdist, swedish film, surrealism, social critique, alienation ...
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