Existentialist Film

Existentialism in Film:

• "Existentialism in Film 1"
• The Being of Entities in the World
• "Phenomenology and Red Desert"
• The Ister - David Barison and Daniel Ross (2004)
• Robert Bresson
• Josef von Sternberg

Existentialist Films:

• Nanook of the North - Robert Flaherty (1922)
• Our Hospitality - Buster Keaton and John G. Blystone (1923)
• The Last Laugh - F. W. Murnau (1924)
• The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Dreyer (1928)
• L’Atalante - Jean Vigo (1934)
• Crime and Punishment - Josef von Sternberg (1935)
• Le Quai des Brumes (Port of Shadows) - Marcel Carné (1938)
• La Bête Humaine - Jean Renoir (1938)
• Le Jour se Léve - Marcel Carné (1939)
• The Rules of the Game (La Règle du Jeu) - Jean Renoir (1939)
• I Walked with a Zombie - Val Lewton (directed by Jacques Tourneur, 1943)
• Day of Wrath - Carl Dreyer (1943)
• Torment - Alf Sjöberg (1944)
• Crisis - Ingmar Bergman (1946)
• Prison - Ingmar Bergman (1949)
• Diary of a Country Priest - Robert Bresson (1950)
• The Flowers of Saint Francis (Francesco Guillare di Dio) - Roberto Rossellini (1950)
• Les Enfants Terribles - Jean-Pierre Melville (1950)
• Cronaca di un Amore (Story of a Love Affair) - Michelangelo Antonioni (1950)
• D.O.A. - Rudolph Maté (1950)
• Los Olvidados - Luis Bunuel (1950)
• To Joy - Ingmar Bergman (1950)
• Summer Interlude - Ingmar Bergman (1951) 
• The River - Jean Renoir (1951)
• Life of Oharu - Kenji Mizoguchi (1952)
• Tokyo Story - Yasujiro Ozu (1953)
• Ugetsu - Kenji Mizoguchi (1953) 
• I Vitelloni - Federico Fellini (1953)
• La Strada - Federico Fellini (1954)
• On the Waterfront - Elia Kazan (1954)
• Le Amiche (The Girlfriends) - Michelangelo Antonioni (1955)
• Ordet - Carl Dreyer (1955)  
• A Man Escaped - Robert Bresson (1956)
• The Wrong Man - Alfred Hitchcock (1956)
• The Seventh Seal - Ingmar Bergman (1957)  
• Wild Strawberries - Ingmar Bergman (1957)
• Il Grido (The Outcry) - Michelangelo Antonioni (1957)
• Nights of Cabiria - Federico Fellini (1957) 
• Les Mistons - Francois Truffaut (1957) 
• Hiroshima Mon Amour - Alain Resnais (1959) 
• The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups) - Francois Truffaut (1959)
• Pickpocket - Robert Bresson (1959)
• The World of Apu (Apur Sansar) -  Satyajit Ray (1959) 
• Devi (The Goddess) - Satyajit Ray (1960)  
• The Virgin Spring -  Ingmar Bergman (1960) 
• Breathless (A Bout de Souffle) - Jean-Luc Godard (1960)
• Shoot the Piano Player (Tirez sur le Pianiste) - François Truffaut (1960)
• Le Sourire (The Smile) - Serge Bourguignon (1960)
• La Dolce Vita - Federico Fellini (1960) 
• L'Avventura (The Adventure) - Michelangelo Antonioni (1960)
• Last Year at Marienbad - Alain Resnais (1961) 
• La Notte (The Night) - Michelangelo Antonioni (1961)
• Il Posto - Ermanno Olmi (1961)
• Through a Glass Darkly - Ingmar Bergman (1961)  
• Teen Kanya (Three Daughters, aka Two Daughters) - Satyajit Ray (1961) 
• Kanchenjungha - Satyajit Ray (1962)
• Abhijan (The Expedition) - Satyajit Ray (1962) 
• Jules and Jim  (Jules et Jim) - Francois Truffaut (1962)  
• Sundays and Cybele (Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray) - Serge Bourguignon (1962)
• L'Eclisse (Eclipse) - Michelangelo Antonioni (1962)
• The Trial of Joan of Arc - Robert Bresson (1962)
• The House is Black (Khaneh Syah Ast) - Forough Farrokhzad (1962)
• Le Doulos - Jean-Pierre Melville (1963)
• The Fiances (I Fidanzati) - Ermanno Olmi (1963)  
• The Householder - James Ivory (1963) 
• Mahanagar (The Big City) - Satyajit Ray (1963)  
• Winter Light - Ingmar Bergman (1963)  
• The Silence - Ingmar Bergman (1963)  
• The Birds -  Alfred Hitchcock (1963) 
• Hamlet (Gamlet) - Grigori Kozintsev (1964)
• Zorba the Greek - Michael Cacoyannis (1964)
• Red Desert (Il Deserto Rosso) - Michelangelo Antonioni (1964)
• Gertrud - Carl Dreyer (1964) 
• Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors - Sergei Parajanov (1965) 
• The Brick and the Mirror (Khesht va Ayeneh) - Ebrahim Golestan (1965) 
• Kapurush (The Coward) - Satyajit Ray (1965)
• Nayak (The Hero) - Satyajit Ray (1966) 
• La Guerre est Finie - Alain Resnais (1966)
• Blow-Up - Michelangelo Antonioni (1966)  
• Persona - Ingmar Bergman (1966)
  
• Au Hasard Balthazar - Robert Bresson (1966)
• Mouchette - Robert Bresson (1967)
• Le Samourai - Jean-Pierre Melville (1967)
• Accident - Joseph Losey (1967) 
  
• Bonnie and Clyde - Arthur Penn (1967) 
• Hour of the Wolf - Ingmar Bergman (1968)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick (1968)
• Gaav (The Cow) - Dariush Mehrjui (1969)
• The Color of Pomegranates - Sergei Parajanov (1969)  
• Army of Shadows - Jean-Pierre Melville (1969) 
• Le Cercle Rouge - Jean-Pierre Melville (1970)
• The Adversary (Pratidwandi) - Satyajit Ray (1970)  
• La Rupture - Claude Chabrol (1970)
• Five Easy Pieces - Bob Rafelson (1970)
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller - Robert Altman (1971)
• The Go-Between - Joseph Losey (1971)
• King Lear (Korol Lir) - Grigori Kozintsev (1971) 
• Solaris - Andrei Tarkovsky (1972)
• Cries and Whispers - Ingmar Bergman (1972)
  
• The Spirit of the Beehive - Víctor Erice (1973)
  
• Badlands - Terrence Malick (1973) 
• The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser - Werner Herzog (1974)
• Lancelot du Lac - Robert Bresson (1974)
• Thieves Like Us - Robert Altman (1974)
• The Conversation - Francis Ford Coppola (1974)
  
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Milos Foreman (1975)
• The Passenger - Michelangelo Antonioni (1975) 
• French Connection II - John Frankenheimer (1975)  
• The Mirror - Andrei Tarkovsky (1975) 
• The Middleman (Jana Aranya) - Satyajit Ray (1976)
• Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese (1976)  
• The American Friend - Wim Wenders (1977) 
• Stroszek - Werner Herzog (1977) 
• Midnight Express - Alan Parker (1978)
• Nosferatu the Vampyre - Werner Herzog (1979)
• Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky (1979)  
• Gandhi - Richard Attenborough (1982)
• Nostalghia - Andrei Tarkovsky (1983)
• Once Upon a Time in America - Sergio Leone (1984)  
• The Runner (Davandeh) - Amir Naderi (1984)
• Brazil - Terry Gilliam (1985) 
• The Horse Thief - Tian Zhuangzhuang (1986)
• The Blind Owl (La Chouette Aveugle) - Raoul Ruiz (1987)
• As Tears Go By - Wong Kar Wai (1988)
• Dekalog - Krzysztof Kieslowski (1989)
• Hamoun - Dariush Mehrjui (1990)
• Days of Being Wild - Wong Kar Wai (1990)
• Raise the Red Lantern - Zhang Yimou (1991)
• Europa (Zentropa) - Lars von Trier (1991)  
• The Crying Game - Neil Jordan (1992)
• To Live - Zhang Yimou (1994)
• Chungking Express - Wong Kar Wai (1994)
• Ashes of Time - Wong Kar Wai (1994) 
• Through the Olive Trees (Zire Darakhatan Zeyton) - Abbas Kiarostami (1994)
• Pari - Dariush Mehrjui (1995) 
• Fallen Angels - Wong Kar Wai (1995)
• Father - Majid Majidi (1996)
• Happy Together - Wong Kar Wai (1995)
• Taste of Cherry (Ta'am-e-Gīlās) - Abbas Kiarostami (1997)
• Children of Heaven - Majid Majidi (1997)
• The Sweet Hereafter - Atom Egoyan (1997)
• The Thin Red Line - Terrence Malick (1998) 
• Little Dieter Needs to Fly - Werner Herzog (1998)
• Leila - Dariush Mehrjui (1998) 
• The Pear Tree (Derakht-e Golabi) - Dariush Mehrjui (1998)
• The Wind Will Carry Us (Bād Mā-rā Khāhad Bord) - Abbas Kiarostami (1999)
• The Color of Paradise - Majid Majidi (1999)
• Memento - Christopher Nolan (2000)
• In the Mood for Love - Wong Kar Wai (2000)
• Happy Times - Zhang Yimou (2000)
• Protest (Eteraz) - Masoud Kimiai (2000)
• Smell of Camphor, Scent of Jasmine (Booye Kafoor, Atre Yas) - Bahman Farmanarai (2000)
• Going By (Az Kenar-e Ham Migozarim) - Iraj Karimi (2001)
• Baran - Majid Majidi (2001)
• Thoth - Sarah Kernochan (2002)
• Heaven - Tom Tykwer (2002)
• The Deserted Station (Istgah-Matrouk, 2002) - Alireza Raisian
• Silence of the Sea (Khamushiye Darya) - Vahid Mousaian (2003)
• Travellers and Magicians - Khyentse Norbu (2003)
• The Lizard (Marmoulak) - Kamal Tabrizi (2004)
• Beautiful City (Shahr-e-Ziba) - Asghar Farhadi (2004)
• 2046 - Wong Kar Wai (2004)
• Sufi Soul: The Mystic Music of Islam - Simon Broughton (2005)
• The New World - Terrence Malick (2005)
• The Constant Gardener - Fernando Meirelles (2005)
• So Close, So Far (Kheili Dour, Kheili Nazdik) - Reza Mirkarimi (2005)
• Bab'Aziz - Nacer Khemir (2005)
• The Willow Tree - Majid Majidi (2005)
• Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles - Zhang Yimou (2005) 
• Still Life - Jia Zhangke (2006) 
• Rescue Dawn - Werner Herzog (2006) 
• The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (2006)
• Half Moon (Niwemang) - Bahman Ghobadi (2006)
• Taare Zameen Par (Like Stars on Earth) - Aamir Khan (2007)
• No Country for Old Men - Joel & Ethan Coen (2007)
• Lust, Caution - Ang Lee (2007)
• Departures - Yojiro Takita (2008) 
• Slumdog Millionaire - Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan (2008)
• The Song of Sparrows (Avaze Gonjeshk-ha) - Majid Majidi (2008)
• Moon - Duncan Jones (2009)
• My Tehran for Sale - Granaz Moussavi (2009)  
• Letters to Father Jacob - Klaus Härö (2009)
• Shutter Island - Martin Scorsese (2010)  
• Happy People: A Year in the Taiga - Werner Herzog and Dmitry Vasyukov (2011)
• Gold and Copper (Tala va Mes) - Homayoun Assadian (2011) 
• The Tree of Life - Terrence Malick (2011)
• Salma and the Apple (Sib o Salma) - Habibollah Bahmani (2011)  
• Life of Pi - Ang Lee (2012) 
• The Patience Stone (Syngué Sabour) - Atiq Rahimi (2012)  
• Sepideh - Reaching for the Stars - Berit Madsen (2013)  
• Coming Home - Zhang Yimou (2014)
• A Man Called Ove - Hannes Holm (2015)
• “Mrinal ki Chitthi”, Stories by Rabindranath Tagore, Episode 19 – Tani Basu (2015)
• Roma - Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
• 1917 -  Sam Mendes (2019)
  
• Nomadland - Chloé Zhao (2020)