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Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After being heralded by Jean-Luc Godard as the great hope of the New American Cinema, Peter Emanuel Goldman relocated to Paris just in time for 1968. Social dissolution permeates WHEEL OF ASHES, a stripped-down account of a young man's ...
Style:
existential, avant garde, art film, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
existential crisis, alienation, introspection, religion, hallucination, surrealism, symbolism, isolation, a vision, psychological torment, male protagonist, urban ...
Time:
60s
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.
Style:
thought provoking, satirical, melancholic, tragicomedy, black comedy ...
Plot:
electric chair, office, existential crisis, social satire, dehumanization, bureaucracy, alienation, identity crisis, isolation, absurdism, office politics, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place:
europe
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: India, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Maya, a film star, a diva, has reached a personal deadlock in life. She has seen it all done it all but a black hole of emptiness engulfs her entire being. She tries to commit suicide but ends up alive and caught in a strange but beautiful journey, ...
Style:
existential, surreal, philosophical, melancholic, art house ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
self discovery, female protagonist, life & death, identity crisis, existential crisis, character study, mental illness, alienation, hallucination, surrealism, loneliness, suicide attempt ...
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146
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
SUPERWORLD is a story about God and the world: a world whose heroine WORKS the till and a God we never see nor hear, but whose presence we feel throughout the film. Lead actress Ulrike Beimpold delivers a remarkable, moving performance as a woman ...
Style:
melancholic, ambiguous ending, slow cinema, surreal
Plot:
character study, existential crisis, middle aged woman, female protagonist, midlife crisis, isolation, hallucination, alienation, slow burn, minimalism, crisis of faith, small town ...
Place:
austria
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, UK, USA, Greece
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Tommaso is an American expat film director living in Rome with his young wife and their daughter. Disoriented by his past misgivings and subsequent unexpected blows to his self-esteem, Tommaso wades through this late chapter of his life with an ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, realistic, sincere, melancholic ...
Plot:
family relations, character study, parents and children, creative block, life philosophy, existential crisis, midlife crisis, society, disorder, couples, lifestyle, friendship ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
rome italy
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Pulled into an otherworldly adventure with cute sidekicks and superpowers, you’d think Osamu hit the jackpot. Nope! From a time before pixels, the early 20th-century gloomy author just wants to find a quiet place to meet his maker, not to rack up ...
Style:
dark comedy, tragicomedy, dark fantasy, melancholic, period piece ...
Plot:
isekai, suicide, slice of life, existential crisis, reluctant hero, bittersweet, existentialism, anti hero, loneliness, misanthropy, magic realism, literary ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Serbia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Luca is a forty-year-old teacher experiencing a relationship crisis with his wife, Sara, who is much wealthier than him. During the lockdown, Luca finds himself a bystander in the life of his new neighbor, Amanda, and decides to bridge the distance ...
Style:
melancholic, tense, suspense
Plot:
quarantine, loneliness, character study, isolation, existential crisis, midlife crisis, guilt, claustrophobia, introspection, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, obsession ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
rome italy
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Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 5 min.
TV show
Story:
Life can be tough. Especially if you're a video game character like Carl and Frances - two Principal Commanders in the first person shooter "Ring Planet". Facing death, gunfire and relentless teabagging at the hands of their players, ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, 3d animation, feel good, light ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
video game, soldier, silly humor, disorder, nothing goes right, computers and web, gamer, satire, existential crisis, rehearsal, friendship, frustration ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A rich Italian's shocking suicide means different things to his twin brother (Lou Castel), mother (Emmanuelle Riva) and pregnant lover (Angela Molina).
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, semi autobiographical
Plot:
suicide, twins, character study, grief, mourning, loneliness, existential crisis, midlife crisis, family secret, infidelity, small town, provincial life ...
Time:
year 1982
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A filmmaker continues shooting his film after his funding is pulled.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot:
gay, gender, gays and lesbians, dying, filmmaker, filmmaking, character study, lgbtq, memory, homosexuality, morphine, loneliness ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
"What happens when a bestselling atheist author Professor Mark Gavin loses his faith in atheism? This intense drama asks tough questions and explores why there is no such thing as coincidence."
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, intense, serious, philosophical ...
Plot:
faith, religion, atheism, moral transformation, crisis of faith, religious conversion, atheist, religious, religious faith, change of heart, lifestyle change, character change ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Giulio, a young man from Sicily, arrives in Rome to trace back Aurora, his ex-girlfriend whom he cannot forget. He stays with a couple of family friends, Rosalia and Eugenio, who have lost their only son, Nello, of the same age as Giulio. The ...
Style:
art house, ambiguous ending, tragic
Plot:
depression, mourning, unrequited love, grief, loneliness, loss, drug use, existential crisis, isolation, alienation, obsession, alcoholism ...
Place:
sicily, rome italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A man tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality.
Style:
spiritual, philosophical, contemplative, black comedy, avant garde
Plot:
death, mourning, loss, grief, father son relationship, funeral, isolation, melancholy, existential crisis, introspection, alienation, social commentary ...
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia
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Genre: Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil, Chile
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A man who is tormented by his intuitions and by dreams goes away to find answers to his discomfort. Revelations are made to him along his path, until he meets his soul mate and is prepared to the Blue Desert.
Style:
experimental, psychological, existential, philosophical, mystical ...
Plot:
self discovery, desert, life philosophy, revelation, symbolism, transcendence, introspection, self awareness, serendipity, relationships, human existence, meaning of life ...
Place:
chile, brazil
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, West Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
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Style:
philosophical, art house, surreal, period drama, pre war
Plot:
sanitarium, tuberculosis, mountain, literary, isolation, melancholy, existential crisis, symbolism, mortality, existentialism, world war one, totalitarianism ...
Time:
1910s, pre world war one
Place:
swiss alps, alps
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Zbigniew Gasior, a thirty year old singer, is a youth idol. Despite fame, money and success with the ladys, he can't neglect the emptiness in his life. The shattered dreams of his friends are not really a help, to ease his existential pains.
Style:
period piece, bleak
Plot:
loneliness, singer, character study, fame, celebrity, introspection, showbiz, alienation, identity, male protagonist, melancholy, existential crisis ...
Place:
poland
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353
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 64 min.
Story:
1982 BBC production of Bertholt Brecht's play Baal, starring and with music by David Bowie. Baal was the first full-length play written by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. It concerns a wastrel youth who becomes involved in ...
Style:
art house, bleak, cynical, controversial, period drama
Plot:
poet, debauchery, betrayal, self destructing, doom, anti hero, character study, desperation, moral ambiguity, fatalism, existential crisis, rebellion ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An officer stationed in a remote Galician outpost at the end of the First World War is dying of consumption. Suffering from feverish dreams and hallucinations, he begins to collect religious art and attends seances.
Style:
historical drama, melancholic, atmospheric, period piece, art house ...
Plot:
tuberculosis, hallucination, isolation, loneliness, existential crisis, small town, obsession, spiritualism, haunting, occult, mysticism, decadence ...
Time:
1910s, 1940s
Place:
poland, galicia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After devoting his life to publish philosophy, history and psychoanalysis, the editor Mario Zavadikner, discontented with the social and intellectual reality, decides to shoot himself at the office of his publishing house. An unexpected presence ...
Style:
tension, dark, dark comedy, thought provoking, black comedy ...
Plot:
writers, literary, book editor, suicide, suicide attempt, existential crisis, character study, publishing house, desperation, moral dilemma, philosophy, office ...
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293
Genre: Drama
Country: Latvia, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
One night, Matiss Zelcs, an employee of the Latvian national archive in Riga, notices a woman on a bridge. After passing by her without preventing her suicidal fall into the depths, a sensation of failure and guilt changes his life. He cannot forget ...
Style:
existential, melancholic, contemplative, intense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
suicide, loneliness, guilt, redemption, obsession, existential crisis, desperation, missing person, soul searching, memory, regret, isolation ...
Place:
latvia
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
After a robbery gone wrong, Aaron - barricaded in a rest stop bathroom - faces down the police, hallucinations, and a grim secret.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, intense, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
robbery, heist, thief, heist gone wrong, claustrophobia, desperation, showdown, criminal, attempted robbery, armed robbery, burglar, bandit ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Korea, South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
As an asteroid hurtles towards Earth with nothing to stop it, one determined teacher fights to keep her former students safe — no matter the cost.
Style:
psychological, psychological thriller, thrilling, captivating, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
apocalypse, asteroid, disaster, meteorite, threat, teacher, problem, sacrifice, doomsday, tragedy, survival, desperation ...
Time:
near future
Place:
south korea
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209
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ernesto lives in depression and decides to hire a hit-man to end his own life. However, his plan takes an unexpected turn when he meets Rita, whose love gives him a new reason to live.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, life affirming, philosophical, romantic drama ...
Plot:
depression, suicidal thoughts, depressed man, mental health, suicide, loneliness, life & death, introspection, relationships, love affair, male female relationship, love story ...
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143
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A brother and a sister live on the borderline between awareness of their actions and total unconsciousness, until they commit a sin from which there is no return.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, dark, tense, melancholic ...
Plot:
brother sister relationship, moral ambiguity, sin, siblings, loss of innocence, haunting, guilt, transgression, existential crisis, conscience, youth, isolation ...
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577
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Struggling artist Min Hee-do is offered three billion won to bet his life to a game against a rich old man, Kang No-sik, who is dying from a terminal illness. The game is for each man to dial a random phone number and guess if the person who answers ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful, dark, twist ending ...
Plot:
body swap, body swapping, identity crisis, male protagonist, manipulation, gambling, greed, existential crisis, deception, suspicion, class conflict, urban ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
seoul
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 58 min.
Story:
In Krapp's Last Tape, which was written in English in 1958, an old man reviews his life and assesses his predicament. We learn about him not from the 69-year-old man on stage, but from his 39-year-old self on the tape he chooses to listen to. ...
Style:
existential, philosophical, contemplative, art house, crying ...
Plot:
regret, reflection, memory, monologue, aging, identity, isolation, melancholy, solitude, theater, minimalism, intimate ...
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5K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
How much do we really know about ourselves when we make a decision? What if there are multiple versions of our I within us, each with something to say?
Style:
psychological, mind bending, existential, experimental, emotional ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
identity, self discovery, consciousness, self awareness, split personality, identity crisis, existential crisis, moral ambiguity, intimate, relationships, metaphysics, memory ...
Place:
italy
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220
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
43-year old Yuri is a successful psychiatrist and hypnotist. A raving and committed non-believer, he is capable of rationalizing anything…except for his own nightmares. In his dreams, he sees his ex-wife who, many years ago, committed suicide, ...
Style:
psychological thriller, atmospheric, dark, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
psychiatrist, male protagonist, nightmare, character study, male female relationship, relationships, couple relations, psychology, mental disorder, psychiatric patient, hypnosis, tragic past ...
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381
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Comedy about the crazy adventures of three friends - Alexey, Tolik and Marina, who decided to commit suicide.
Style:
light, feel good, entertaining, humorous, dark comedy ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
suicide, suicide attempt, failed attempt, dark humor, last wish, escapades, unlikely friendships, stupidity, chance meeting, life & death, relationships, taunting ...
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2.6M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, cerebral, thought provoking ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, self destructing, psychology, split personality, plot twist, nihilism, insanity, obsession, dissociative identity disorder, insomnia, identity crisis, mental illness ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, year 2013
Place:
delaware, seattle, iran, america, los angeles ...
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