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Seconds (1966 film) The Seventh Seal; The Seventh Victim; Simba (2019 film) Solaris (1968 film) Solaris (1972 film) Sonatine (1993 film) Sorcerer (film) Soul (2020 film) The Stairway; Stalker (1979 film) Synecdoche, New York
Existentialism is a family of philosophical views and inquiry that prioritize the existence of the human individual, study existence from the individual's perspective, and conclude that, despite the absurdity or incomprehensibility of the universe, individuals must still embrace responsibility for their actions and strive to lead authentic lives.
Author, poet, film director James Anthony Froude: April 23, 1818 – October 20, 1894 United Kingdom Historian Alberto Giacometti: October 10, 1901 – January 11, 1966 Switzerland Artist Known for his artistic style and the existential crisis within Juozas Girnius: 1915 –1994 Lithuania Philosopher Christian existentialist Fernando González
In the 1960s and 1970s, directors like Alfred Hitchcock and Roman Polanski continued to evolve the genre with films like Psycho and Rosemary’s Baby, which combined psychological horror with noir’s tense, shadowy style, creating a sense of paranoia and existential dread. More recent films have expanded horror noir's scope to include ...
Generally, Haneke's style has been described as displaying "an aesthetics of dread"; [80] [81] a feeling of "existential dread" or "ambient dread" is also present in Caché. [ 82 ] [ 83 ] The story has been described as a " psychological thriller "; [ 84 ] [ 85 ] the British Film Institute stated it employs "classical suspense strategies" to ...
Some theorists use the terms existential vacuum and existential neurosis to refer to different degrees of existential crisis. [ 4 ] [ 25 ] [ 3 ] [ 37 ] On this view, an existential vacuum is a rather common phenomenon characterized by the frequent recurrence of subjective states like boredom , apathy , and emptiness.
This is a list of apocalyptic feature-length films. All films within this list feature either the end of the world , a prelude to such an end (such as a world taken over by a viral infection), and/or a post-apocalyptic setting.
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.