15 Great Existential Movies That Are Worth Your Time
"In international cinema, many directors portrayed themes and aspects connected with the philosophy of existentialism, such as Michelangelo Antonioni, Jim Jarmusch, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Eustache, Alain Resnais, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Andrei Tarkovsky, Yoshishige Yoshida and many others.
Existential cinema discusses the darkest existential subjects such as anxiety, absurdity, loneliness, , death, and emptiness. But it also deals with life lived in subjectivity, portraying the struggle of everyday life in an existential perspective when people find themselves against the world, under circumstances and responsibilities that are the results their own choices.
This list brings together a selection of directors who flirted with existentialist philosophy. Of course, the list deserves to be much longer, but its intent is to illustrate in a wide range how existentialism has been employed by various directors of several nationalities".
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