Existentialist films

1998 anime film directed by Kunihiko Yuyama

2012 film by Paul Thomas Anderson

2023 film directed by J. A. Bayona

1962 French science fiction featurette directed by Chris Marker

1930 film directed by Luis Buñuel

1971 film directed by George Lucas

Anomalisa is a 2015 American adult animated film directed by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson from a screenplay by Kaufman, based on his 2005 audio play of the same name that explores the Fregoli delusion, a term Kaufman used as a pen name for himself. It incorporates elements of psychological drama, romantic comedy, and self-reflexive fiction, in a similar vein as Kaufman's film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Anomalisa follows the British middle-aged customer service expert Michael Stone (David Thewlis), who perceives everyone (Tom Noonan) as identical except for Lisa Hesselman (Jenni

1962 film by Agnès Varda

1975 Belgian film by Chantal Akerman

Dekalog (, also known as Dekalog: The Ten Commandments and The Decalogue) is a 1989 Polish drama television miniseries directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski and co-written by Kieślowski with Krzysztof Piesiewicz, with music by Zbigniew Preisner. It consists of ten one-hour films, inspired by the decalogue of the Ten Commandments. Each installment explores characters facing one or several moral or ethical dilemmas as they reside in an austere housing project in 1980s Poland.

1990 film by John Patrick Shanley

1966 film by Robert Bresson

2020 film directed by Max Barbakow

2023 film by Ari Aster

1990 film directed by Adrian Lyne

1997 film by Ang Lee

1973 film by Alejandro Jodorowsky

1985 film by William Friedkin

1966 film by John Frankenheimer

2004 film directed by Shane Carruth

2008 film by Charlie Kaufman

2009 film directed by Gaspar Noé

1977 film directed by William Friedkin

2017 film directed by Paul Schrader

1964 Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara

1962 film by Orson Welles

2013 film by Terry Gilliam

2001 anime film directed by Shin'ichirō Watanabe

1976 British science fiction film by Nicolas Roeg

1956 French film by Robert Bresson

1959 film by Robert Bresson

1997 anime film directed by Hideaki Anno

1990 film by Abbas Kiarostami

2004 film by David O. Russell

1973 animated film directed by René Laloux

2017 film by David Lowery

2011 film by Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky

2001 film directed by Richard Linklater

1971 film by Richard C. Sarafian

Mouchette () is a 1967 French tragedy film directed by Robert Bresson, starring Nadine Nortier and Jean-Claude Guilbert. It is based on the novel of the same name by Georges Bernanos. Bresson explained his choice of the novel, saying, "I found neither psychology or analysis in it. The substance of the book seemed usable. It could be sieved."

1950 film by Jean Cocteau

1981 film directed by Louis Malle

1983 film by Robert Bresson

1951 film by Robert Bresson

1964 Japanese film by Kaneto Shindō

1983 film by Chris Marker

2016 film by Lucrecia Martel

1968 film by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

1993 Japanese yakuza film by Takeshi Kitano

animated film directed by Adam Elliot

1997 film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

1943 film directed by Mark Robson

Life-Size is a 2000 American fantasy comedy television film directed by Mark Rosman and starring Lindsay Lohan and Tyra Banks. It originally premiered on March 5, 2000, on ABC as part of The Wonderful World of Disney block. Lohan portrays a young girl who casts a magic spell to bring back her deceased mother and, instead, accidentally brings to life her fashion doll, played by Banks. The film then follows their relationship as the doll creates havoc while trying to fit into the real world.

1968 Soviet television film based on the novel Solaris by Stanisław Lem

2001 film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

is a 1968 Japanese jidaigeki horror film directed by Kaneto Shindō, and an adaptation of a supernatural folktale. Set during a civil war in feudal Japan, the film's plot concerns the vengeful spirits, or onryō, of a woman and her daughter-in-law, who are raped and murdered by a band of samurai. It stars Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, and Kiwako Taichi.

1959–1961 trilogy of films by Masaki Kobayashi

2009 film by Hirokazu Koreeda

2004 film by Masaaki Yuasa

1968 film by Alain Resnais