Movies: Existentialism

After a wild sex session in a brothel on his 40th birthday, Luis, bitter and haughty, tries unsuccessfully to escape from the blood stain that, without explanation, grows on the sheet over the bulge formed by his lover. Desperation and what he finds ...

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

A man causes a public disturbance, policemen intervene....

A woman in her thirties who wanted more of life jumps into an extramarital affair, only to lose her husband, her job, and finally her lover as well. However, she thinks she should start anew and have fun no matter the consequences....

A lost and disillusioned film director finds himself stuck in creative limbo. A way out presents itself in the form of a peculiar film project....

A young screenwriter visits her sister for inspiration, a decision that brings only pain and disaster....

Following a one-night stand, a young insomniac wakes up in a luxurious Manhattan apartment where things are not what they seem. Something about his host is off. When she reveals that they are not alone, the red flags escalate into a waking nightmare....

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 tableaux of Life in Denmark, he carries absurdism to a happy extreme. To act out his minuscule non-dramas, h...

Rudra has come back one morning, has return to his friend Saruar's home. He had disappeared from home leaving no cue, a year ago. Saruar first came to know about Rudra's disappearance in Rudra's mother's call. Then he had gone to Rudra's home and saw...

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Randy Feltface teams up with a typewriter in this hilarious hour of spoken word and gratuitous arm movements....

An isolated teenager begins experiencing strange visions of crows and doppelgangers while he is on a train reminiscing over his past. As he is trying to find an explanation for these bizarre sightings, he is soon guided by another passenger on the tr...

A young man, in the midst of an existential crisis, goes to his uncle for help....

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...

A man experiences strange phenomena after arriving home in his car....

A burning flame, black-and-white, opens Nasos Karabelas’ “Osmosis”, a philosophical piece on life, death, loneliness and nothingness. Nothingness, this absence, this lack of something, is a major force in Karabelas’ film. It’s disorienting, just like...

Life on a conveyor belt seems great for Sushi and his Topping friends. But as he begins to contemplate his existence, Sushi wonders if there’s more to life than pimping himself out to savage consumers....

The essay was due hours ago, midnight. Yet in the early morning hours our protagonist remains, more caffeine than blood travelling his veins. While checking his notes, he drops his pen. A simple mistake, but he'd be damned if it didn't seem to have s...

The utterings of a faceless narrator are intercut with the tale of an estranged woodland inhabitant, who makes a peculiar discovery....

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 same people and same events that await him there....