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Poll: Directors Who Get Existential

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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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    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)
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    Lars von Trier

    Existentialist movies: Dogville (2003) Antichrist (2009) Melancholia (2011)
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    Ingmar Bergman

    Existentialist Movies: The Seventh Seal (1957) Wild Strawberries (1957) Winter Light (1963) The Virgin Spring (1960) Shame (1968) Autumn Sonata (1978)
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    Martin Scorsese

    Existentialist movies: Taxi Driver (1976) The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) Bringing Out the Dead (1999) Silence (2016)
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    Darren Aronofsky

    Existentialist movies: The Fountain (2006) Black Swan (2010) Mother! (2017)
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    Charlie Kaufman

    Existentialist movies:Synecdoche, New York (2008) Anomalisa (2015)
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    Stanley Kubrick

    Existentialist movies: Paths of Glory (1957) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) A Clockwork Orange (1971)
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    Richard Linklater

    Existentialist movies: Waking Life (2001) A Scanner Darkly (2006) Boyhood (2014)
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    Béla Tarr

    Existentialist movies: The Turin Horse (2011)
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    Woody Allen

    Existentialist movies: Love and Death (1975) Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) Another Woman (1988) Irrational Man (2015)
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    Christopher Nolan

    Existentialist movies: Memento (2000) Interstellar (2014)
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    Andrei Tarkovsky

    Existentialist movies: Solaris (1972) Mirror (1975) Stalker (1979)
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    Spike Jonze

    Existentialist movies: Being John Malkovich (1999) Adaptation. (2002) Her (2013)
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    Michel Gondry

    Existentialist movies: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
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    Jean-Pierre Melville

    Existentialist movies: The Red Circle (1970) The Samurai (1967)
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    David Fincher

    Existentialist movies: Se7en (1995) Fight Club (1999) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
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    Akira Kurosawa

    Existentialist movies: Rashomon (1950) Ikiru (1952) Seven Samurai (1954) Yojimbo (1961)
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    Jim Jarmusch

    Existentialist movies: Dead Man (1995) Coffee and Cigarettes (2003) Broken Flowers (2005) Paterson (2016)
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    Ethan Coen

    And Joel Coen Existentialist movies: No Country for Old Men (2007) A Serious Man (2009) Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
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    Terry Gilliam

    Existentialist movies: The Meaning of Life (1983) Brazil (1985) The Zero Theorem (2013)
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    Alejandro Jodorowsky

    Existentialist movies: El Topo (1970) The Holy Mountain (1973) Santa Sangre (1989)
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    Federico Fellini

    Existentialist movies: La Dolce Vita (1960) 8½ (1963)
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    Michael Haneke

    Existentialist movies: The Seventh Continent (1989) 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994) The White Ribbon (2009) Amour (2012)
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    Luis Buñuel

    Existentialist movies: Viridiana (1961) The Exterminating Angel (1962)
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    Sofia Coppola

    Existentialist movies: The Virgin Suicides (1999) Lost in Translation (2003)
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    Jaco Van Dormael

    Existentialist movies: The Eighth Day (1996) Mr. Nobody (2009) The Brand New Testament (2015)
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    Mike Nichols

    Existentialist movies: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) The Graduate (1967) Closer (2004)
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    John Sayles

    Existentialist movies: Passion Fish (1992) Lone Star (1996) Limbo (1999) Sunshine State (2002)
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    Ang Lee

    Existentialist movies: The Ice Storm (1997) Brokeback Mountain (2005) Life of Pi (2012)
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    Claire Denis

    Existentialist movies: Beau Travail (1999) 35 Shots of Rum (2008) High Life (2018)
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    Louis Malle

    Existentialist movies: My Dinner with Andre (1981) The Fire Within (1963) Damage (1992)
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    Steven Soderbergh

    Existentialist movies: Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) Kafka (1991)
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    Sean Baker

    Existentialist movies: Starlet (2012) Tangerine (2015) The Florida Project (2017)

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