Poll: Directors Who Get Existential
These directors have touched on existential themes in a deep way in several of their films, giving interesting results that lead to intense reflections. Which of these directors has made you reflect the most on your life with their existentialist films? Discuss here
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Terrence Malick
Existentialist movies: Days of Heaven (1978) The Thin Red Line (1998) The New World (2005) The Tree of Life (2011) Knight of Cups (2015) -
Lars von Trier
Existentialist movies: Dogville (2003) Antichrist (2009) Melancholia (2011) -
Ingmar Bergman
Existentialist Movies: The Seventh Seal (1957) Wild Strawberries (1957) Winter Light (1963) The Virgin Spring (1960) Shame (1968) Autumn Sonata (1978) -
Martin Scorsese
Existentialist movies: Taxi Driver (1976) The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) Bringing Out the Dead (1999) Silence (2016) -
Darren Aronofsky
Existentialist movies: The Fountain (2006) Black Swan (2010) Mother! (2017) -
Charlie Kaufman
Existentialist movies:Synecdoche, New York (2008) Anomalisa (2015) -
Stanley Kubrick
Existentialist movies: Paths of Glory (1957) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) A Clockwork Orange (1971) -
Richard Linklater
Existentialist movies: Waking Life (2001) A Scanner Darkly (2006) Boyhood (2014) -
Béla Tarr
Existentialist movies: The Turin Horse (2011) -
Woody Allen
Existentialist movies: Love and Death (1975) Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) Another Woman (1988) Irrational Man (2015) -
Christopher Nolan
Existentialist movies: Memento (2000) Interstellar (2014) -
Andrei Tarkovsky
Existentialist movies: Solaris (1972) Mirror (1975) Stalker (1979) -
Spike Jonze
Existentialist movies: Being John Malkovich (1999) Adaptation. (2002) Her (2013) -
Michel Gondry
Existentialist movies: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) -
Jean-Pierre Melville
Existentialist movies: Le Cercle Rouge (1970) Le Samouraï (1967) -
David Fincher
Existentialist movies: Se7en (1995) Fight Club (1999) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) -
Akira Kurosawa
Existentialist movies: Rashomon (1950) Ikiru (1952) Seven Samurai (1954) Yojimbo (1961) -
Jim Jarmusch
Existentialist movies: Dead Man (1995) Coffee and Cigarettes (2003) Broken Flowers (2005) Paterson (2016) -
Ethan Coen
And Joel Coen Existentialist movies: No Country for Old Men (2007) A Serious Man (2009) Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) -
Terry Gilliam
Existentialist movies: The Meaning of Life (1983) Brazil (1985) The Zero Theorem (2013) -
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Existentialist movies: El Topo (1970) The Holy Mountain (1973) Santa Sangre (1989) -
Federico Fellini
Existentialist movies: La Dolce Vita (1960) 8½ (1963) -
Michael Haneke
Existentialist movies: The Seventh Continent (1989) 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994) The White Ribbon (2009) Amour (2012) -
Luis Buñuel
Existentialist movies: Viridiana (1961) The Exterminating Angel (1962) -
Sofia Coppola
Existentialist movies: The Virgin Suicides (1999) Lost in Translation (2003) -
Jaco Van Dormael
Existentialist movies: The Eighth Day (1996) Mr. Nobody (2009) The Brand New Testament (2015) -
Mike Nichols
Existentialist movies: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) The Graduate (1967) Closer (2004) -
John Sayles
Existentialist movies: Passion Fish (1992) Lone Star (1996) Limbo (1999) Sunshine State (2002) -
Ang Lee
Existentialist movies: The Ice Storm (1997) Brokeback Mountain (2005) Life of Pi (2012) -
Claire Denis
Existentialist movies: Beau travail (1999) 35 Shots of Rum (2008) High Life (2018) -
Louis Malle
Existentialist movies: My Dinner with Andre (1981) The Fire Within (1963) Damage (1992) -
Steven Soderbergh
Existentialist movies: Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) Kafka (1991) -
Sean Baker
Existentialist movies: Starlet (2012) Tangerine (2015) The Florida Project (2017)