Existence Movies

Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later...

Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a...

A documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States who's main goal is to make profit even if it means losing people’s...

A gambler’s bet spiraling into chaos, a gangster's prophetic visions, a pop star’s dark entanglement, a doctor’s desperate race...

A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life leading up to that point.

In a beauty salon in Beirut the lives of five women cross paths. The beauty salon is a colorful and sensual microcosm where they share and entrust...

A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry...

Vignettes of the lives of several residents of a Vienna suburb during a heat wave.

Documentary examining the politics, music, and life of Tupac Shakur.

A young East German woman leaves her husband and business partner and relocates to a West German city to start anew as an accountant, but he soon...

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...

Experiencing extreme sleep deprivation for months, a young man tape-records his memories for preservation against sinister, clandestine watchers.

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

In a space without limits, a being without identity confronts his own existence by asking himself six fundamental questions. In his search to define...

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...

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...

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

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

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

An animator finds himself trying to explain his (lack of) artistic vision to his creations, who just aren't impressed.