Movies and TvShows featuring "franz-kafka" theme.

In a dystopian society, a man is falsely accused of a crime he knows nothing about. He goes through a surreal trial where he encounters bizarre characters and experiences a waking nightmare. As the trial progresses, the man's guilt complex intensifies and he begins to question his own sanity. The trial becomes a reflection of the oppressive power relations and ambiguity of the judicial system.

Kafka, an insurance clerk, gets caught in a web of secret organizations and paranoia in an alternate reality version of Prague. As he uncovers the truth, Kafka becomes entangled in a revolution and struggles to maintain his sanity.

‘The Great Wall has been completed at its most southerly point.’ So begins Kafka’s short story ‘At the Building of the Great Wall of China’, and so, at Europe’s heavily militarised south-eastern frontier, begins this film. In the shadow of its own narratives of freedom, Europe has been quietly building its own great wall. Like its famous Chinese precursor, this wall has been piecemeal in construction, diverse in form and dubious in utility. Gradually cohering across the continent, this system of enclosure and exclusion is urged upon a populace seemingly willing to accept its necessity and to contribute to its building.

The groom goes to the hairdresser to take the bride but he's been told that she has become a cockroach.

An Art and a Short Film in which the director records his childhood experiences and memories through the mischievous activities of a boy named Mohammad Saadh.

A Christmas Tale is a comedy-drama movie that revolves around a dysfunctional family as they come together during the Christmas season. The family faces various challenges and secrets which they must confront and overcome. Themes of banishment, family relationships, alcoholism, and disease intertwine with a mother-son relationship, debt, and a bone marrow transplant. The movie also features elements of a Christmas party, Christian mass, jogging, and watching TV. Family secrets, a letter, and a William Shakespeare quotation play a significant role in shaping the story. Set in France, the movie explores the complexities of relationships and features lesbian grandmother, strangers, and fireworks. Other elements include a barber, surgical operation, pianist, Christmas play, grave, dominoes, painting, and an art gallery. A fistfight, phonograph record, brother-sister relationship, photograph, and record player add further depth to the plot. The movie is set in Paris, France, and Roubaix-Flanders, and delves into themes of mental illness, nervous breakdown, and dysfunctional family dynamics.

Adapted from the short story by Franz Kafka, The Judgment is a psychological drama exploring themes of alienation, memory, and the lines between fantasy and reality. The film follows Georg Bendemann, a young merchant living 1900s Prague, who is struggling to maintain balance in an ever changing world. As his situation deteriorates due to complicated familial relationships, we are compelled to question the very nature of what we are seeing.

Adaptation of a Kafka short story, believed lost for more than 60 years.

As Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning from unsettling dreams, he finds himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.

Ihsan is a simple employee in the Ministry of Culture from the house to the office and vice versa his work colleague Nargis loves and plans to marry him. He is surprised by one of the security authorities arrested and directed a number of charges, which does not know the cause and continues to haunt him

The life of Franz Kafka in a series of independent chapters: from his birth in 19th-century Prague to his final years in Berlin and death in 1924, and his imagined future.

When a man without a family or a home arrives at a mysterious tower in a mysterious land to request to meet ‘The Law’, he is confronted by two of humanity’s greatest enemies: Time and the Truth.

Pedro is a young man, carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders, but one day, he wakes up feeling different.

Two people have a plan and head to a party

A soldier is about to be executed because of his disobedience. The execution will be carried out by an ancient machine which engraves a sentence (the committed crime) on a man's skin. What would happen if silent-film fan Franz Kafka were to ask FW Murnau to make a movie of his short story In the Penal Colony?

During a walk in the woods a man stumbles upon a gate blocked by a guard who refuses to let him through. Gaining entry quickly becomes his obsession and only goal, to the detriment of all else, including his own physical and mental health.

Free adaptation based on Kafka's "The Metamorphosis". The action is in Praga occupied by Germans, at home of a Jew family (maybe the Kafka's). Novel's room of Gregor Samsa is replaced by an enormous library.

In Class Relations, a young woman in New York navigates the challenges of class struggle and family relationships while trying to find her place in a society plagued by alienation. Based on a novel, the film explores the Brechtian themes of labor and the impact of social hierarchy on individual lives.