Movies And Existentialism

A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.

Unable to find the war he's been asked to cover, a frustrated war correspondent takes the risky path of co-opting the identity of a dead arms-deal acquaintance.

Hamoon's wife is leaving him. He is also unsuccessfully trying to finish his Ph. D. thesis. He is forced to reexamine his life. In a series of flashbacks and dreams, Hamoon tries to figure out what he did wrong.

An Iranian man drives his car in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.

A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy researching the life of an 18th-century composer, and instead meet a ruminative madman who tells the poet how the world may be saved.

A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.

An elderly man and his dog struggle to survive on his government pension in Rome.

Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.

A rural farmer is forced to confront the mortality of his faithful horse.

The story of a family in Waco, Texas in 1956. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence and struggles with his parents' conflicting teachings.

Adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.

Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.

A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives preempted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.

A director and his son return to a region damaged by the Guilan earthquake, hoping to find the children who appeared in his film a few years earlier.

At the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return.

A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.

Michel passes the time by picking pockets, careful to never be caught despite being watched by the police. His friend Jacques may suspect, while both men may have their eyes on Jeanne, the pretty neighbor of Michel's ailing mother.

A woman struggles to find a way to live her life after the death of her husband and child.

A model discovers a retired judge is keen on invading people's privacy.

A novice nun about to take her vows uncovers a family secret dating back to the German occupation.

The daily life of Mohammad Sardari (Zadour Bonyadi), a railway switchman on the verge of retirement, who lives with his wife and soldier son near the railway track.

A treatise on love and desire tainted by harsh reality of capitalism, in which submission to the laws of lust-as-commerce is played out by five prostitutes and their pimp, who pits them against one another so that they are incapable of standing up to him collectively.

A depiction of the off-screen relationship between the actors who play the newlyweds in the film And Life Goes On (1992).

This drama explores the grim lives of Turkish "guest workers" living in Germany.

A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.