Existence Movies

An experimental visual piece delving into concepts like afterlife and existence in an abstract but accessible way.

The film, based on a short story of the same name by Anton Chekov

After the loss of their mother, a dysfunctional family is pressed to re-examine their lives. As father and children come to terms with their own...

Two girls from different backgrounds, one an immigrant from Turkey and the other a girl who needs to get out of her father's shadow, apply to the...

Doctor Rue Wakeman and his team create a young man with skin and organs taken from other men and women. The creature (Lazarus) reads a lot of books...

A young man in the midst of an existential and identity crisis, returns to his native region following the oppression he feels in the city. He will...

An old farmer struggles to take care of his rundown farm alone, when a stranger appears and uninvited begins to help him.

In a post-human world where dreams have vanished, a solitary woman wanders through silent cities, carrying with her memories of love and humanity...

On a theatre stage, a princess lives alone in a tower. When two soldiers happen upon her, they are intrigued by how little she knows or needs. A...

What is the purpose of our existence ? What is the soul ? Which are the power of mind, of conscience ? What is our link to nature ? Pondering these...

In a studio setting, Stephen Hawking, Arthur C. Clarke and Carl Sagan (who joins them via satellite) discuss the Big Bang theory, God, our existence...

Set in the mountains of northeast Italy, this film may be considered an observational documentary about rural life. Although this is undeniably the...

A young family copes with a series of disturbing events that force them to question their relationship, their faith and their very existence.

Filmmaker Diego Gutiérrez knows that he is soon to lose two loved ones: his mother Gina Coppe and his best friend Danniel Danniel. Both ask...

A grounded child must pass his school test or he will be punished by his father forever

The movie depicts the existential issues of one person entangled in a mundane life cycle and his evasive ways of escaping it.

When an outrageously absurd event results in the world having only 2 hours left before nuclear annihilation, a group of amateur student filmmakers...

This documentary is the story of three people brought together by ayahuasca, an ancestral medicine from the Amazon rainforest. The film examines the...

In an increasingly oppressive modern age, the characters of this film are subject to the alienation and meanness that characterizes today’s...