Existentialism Movies

Who Will You Be When the World Ends? - When it is announced that the world will end in 7 years, a young woman must decide what is truly important to...

A mother reflects on the freedom of youth and restrictions of adulthood as she reads a bedtime story.

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...

A small mistake in timing... A man who has given up on life is stopped by something unexpected: Death itself. Their encounter leads to a tragicomic...

Two lonely souls briefly connecting while on entirely different paths.

A film that immerses its audience in subjective states of consciousness they might experience when they die, imagining what they can see and think...

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...

An orphaned teenager is visiting his parents’ grave - once a place of solace, now a reminder of his growing emptiness.

He is called the 'Socrates of the North'. He is also called the forefather of existentialism: Sören Kierkegaard, born in Copenhagen in 1813. At...

Paradise Man searches for meaning in an unknowable universe.

a young timid boy who is doubtful about faith and religion is beaten by curiosity and ends up wandering into a peculiar church and encountering a...

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 man sits with his cat on a lonely day and calls the operator, asking if there is a number for God. Premiered on the BBC Culture Show and featured...

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

An existentialist conversation divided in chapters between the animated alter ego of the author and two alien creatures that represent future...

Born in the depths of a forgotten factory, an automaton follows its programmed curiosity through a silent world of rust and steel.

experimental piece exploring existentialism, time, age and space

A young boy searches for the meaning of life, but instead must learn to cope with issues much greater than himself.

A priestess in “Serafisk Sang”, virginal in “Pastorale”, botanic in “Sommertanz” and finally a witch in...