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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?
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Lars von Trier
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Ingmar Bergman
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Martin Scorsese
Existentialist movies: Taxi Driver (1976) The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) Bringing Out the Dead (1999) Silence (2016) -
Darren Aronofsky
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Charlie Kaufman
Existentialist movies:Synecdoche, New York (2008) Anomalisa (2015) -
Stanley Kubrick
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Richard Linklater
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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
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Spike Jonze
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Michel Gondry
Existentialist movies: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) -
Jean-Pierre Melville
Existentialist movies: The Red Circle (1970) The Samurai (1967) -
David Fincher
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Akira Kurosawa
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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
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Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Federico Fellini
Existentialist movies: La Dolce Vita (1960) 8½ (1963) -
Michael Haneke
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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
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Mike Nichols
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John Sayles
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Ang Lee
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Claire Denis
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Louis Malle
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Steven Soderbergh
Existentialist movies: Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) Kafka (1991) -
Sean Baker