Existentialist films

1995 American animated film

1999 American science fiction action thriller film

Interstellar is a 2014 epic science fiction film directed by Christopher Nolan, who co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Jonathan Nolan. It features an ensemble cast led by Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, and Michael Caine. Set in a dystopian future where Earth is suffering from catastrophic blight and famine, the film follows a group of astronauts who travel through space in search of a new home for humanity.

1968 film by Stanley Kubrick

1982 film by Ridley Scott

1979 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola

2007 film directed by Ethan and Joel Coen

1976 film directed by Martin Scorsese

2019 American animated film

1998 film directed by Peter Weir

1971 film directed by Stanley Kubrick

2000 film by Christopher Nolan

2023 film directed by Greta Gerwig

It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas fantasy drama film directed and produced by Frank Capra. It is based on the short story and booklet "The Greatest Gift", self-published by Philip Van Doren Stern in 1943, which itself is loosely based on the 1843 Charles Dickens novella A Christmas Carol.

2004 film directed by Michel Gondry

2016 science fiction film by Denis Villeneuve

Unforgiven is a 1992 American revisionist Western film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood from a screenplay by David Webb Peoples. It stars Eastwood as William Munny, an aging outlaw and killer who takes on one more job years after he turned to farming. The film co-stars Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Richard Harris.

2001 film directed by Richard Kelly

1957 film by Ingmar Bergman

is a 1950 Japanese period drama (jidaigeki) film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay he co-wrote with Shinobu Hashimoto. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, and Takashi Shimura, it follows various people who describe how a samurai was murdered in a forest. The plot and characters are based upon Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's short story "In a Grove", with the title and framing story taken from Akutagawa's "Rashōmon". Every element is largely identical, from the murdered samurai speaking through a Shinto psychic to the bandit in the forest, the monk, the assault of the wife, an

1993 film by Harold Ramis

2013 film by Spike Jonze

2022 film by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

1957 film by Ingmar Bergman

1979 film by Andrei Tarkovsky

1972 film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

2020 American computer-animated film

2004 film directed by Michael Mann

Gattaca is a 1997 American dystopian science fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol in his feature directorial debut. It stars Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman with Jude Law, Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Gore Vidal, and Alan Arkin appearing in supporting roles. The film presents a future society driven by eugenics where children are conceived through genetic selection to ensure they possess the best hereditary traits of their parents. The principal character, Vincent Freeman, played by Hawke, was conceived outside the eugenics program and struggles to overcome genetic discrimination to

1972 film by Werner Herzog

2011 film directed by Terrence Malick

1995 film directed by Richard Linklater

2011 film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn

1975 film by Andrei Tarkovsky

Blowup (also styled Blow-Up) is a 1966 psychological mystery film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, co-written by Antonioni, Tonino Guerra and Edward Bond and produced by Carlo Ponti. It is Antonioni's first entirely English-language film and stars David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave and Sarah Miles. Model Veruschka von Lehndorff is featured as herself, and Jane Birkin makes her first film appearance. The film's non-diegetic music was scored by American jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, and the English rock group The Yardbirds are seen performing "Stroll On". The cinematographer was Carlo di Palma.

2009 film by Jaco Van Dormael

1987 film by Wim Wenders

is a 1952 Japanese drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni. The film examines the struggles of a terminally ill Tokyo bureaucrat (played by Takashi Shimura) and his final quest for meaning. The screenplay was partly inspired by Leo Tolstoy's 1886 novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich.

2016 film by Martin Scorsese

1966 Swedish avant-garde psychological drama film by Ingmar Bergman

1995 film by Jim Jarmusch

1985 film by Elem Klimov

1998 film directed by Brad Silberling

2021 film directed by Shawn Levy

1953 film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot

1995 film by Mamoru Oshii

2018 film directed by Alex Garland

1969 French-Algerian film by Costa-Gavras

1959 film by Alain Resnais

1997 film directed by Abbas Kiarostami

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2001 film by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

1969 film directed by Sydney Pollack

1983 film directed by Terry Jones

2017 film directed by Tony Leondis

2013 Japanese animated film directed by Isao Takahata

'''''L'Avventura''''' (; ) is a 1960 drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Developed from a story by Antonioni with co-writers Elio Bartolini and Tonino Guerra, the film is about the disappearance of a young woman (Lea Massari) during a boating trip in the Mediterranean, and the subsequent search for her by her lover (Gabriele Ferzetti) and her best friend (Monica Vitti). It was filmed on location in Rome, the Aeolian Islands, and Sicily in 1959 under difficult financial and physical conditions. The film is noted for its unusual pacing, which emphasizes visual composition, mood, and c

1998 film by Alex Proyas

2006 film directed by Darren Aronofsky

2011 film by Joe Carnahan