Movies and TvShows featuring "kafkaesque" theme.

Wild Tales is a collection of six short stories that delve into the darkest corners of human behavior. Each segment focuses on characters in distress and showcases the extremes they go to when pushed to their limits. From an airplane crash caused by a man seeking revenge on his ex-girlfriend, to a waitress seeking justice against a loan shark, to a man's downward spiral after his car is towed, these stories are filled with twists and turns that will keep audiences on the edge of their seats. With themes of revenge, road rage, and the consequences of our actions, Wild Tales is a darkly comedic anthology that examines the complexities of the human experience.

After the sudden death of his mother, an anxiety-ridden man embarks on a Kafkaesque odyssey back home, where he confronts his deepest fears and experiences surreal and bizarre encounters along the way.

In Rome, a high-ranking police officer commits a murder and tries to cover it up, believing that his position in society will protect him. As the investigation unfolds, he becomes more and more entangled in a web of guilt and paranoia.

Chattahoochee is a biographical drama based on the true story of Chris Calhoun, a Korean War hero who is mistakenly committed to a maximum-security psychiatric hospital in Florida. The movie follows Calhoun's fight against abuse, neglect, and the oppressive bureaucracy of the hospital as he tries to maintain his sanity.

The Round-Up is a powerful drama set in Austria-Hungary during a time of war and political oppression. The story follows a group of revolutionaries who are captured and imprisoned in a brutal detention camp. They endure psychological torment, torture, and even death as they fight for their freedom against the oppressive regime.

In a turn-of-the-century town, a man is arrested and thrown into a bizarre and confusing legal system. As he navigates through the bureaucracy and encounters a kangaroo court, he becomes entangled in a web of paranoia, mistaken identity, and confusion.

In a near-future Boston, an amateur stand up comedian with memory problems struggles to maintain his sobriety as he falls for his transgender best friend. After she rejects his affection, he hears of a company that can give him another chance with her. Introducing NuYou: a business that creates human clones for the modern day consumer.

David Bono is a hitman hired to target Orshanabi Nazzar, a high-ranking priest-bureaucrat in a temple corporation in the fictional city of Babylonia (Brussels-based). The corporation has invented a way to avoid death by recording people's lives. While gathering information and preparing for the job, David meets Ellie, with whom they slept together. However, Ellie is a member of a cult called Children of Ishtar, and David's job would interrupt their life-recording ceremony. Facing an obsessive dilemma, David tries to find a way to do his mission without killing Ellie. First, he tries to convince Ellie not to attend the ceremony, and then he hires a local crook to kidnap her while he does the job. After the successful job, Ellie frees herself from the kidnapper, discovers the truth, and leaves for Akkadia. Meanwhile, David calls to receive the rest of his payment but gets ambushed by the contractor.

After an accident leaves his face entirely bandaged, a neurotic office worker undergoes an identity crisis.

When a dedicated college professor is denied tenure, he turns to black magic in a moment of desperation but finds himself trapped in a private hell of his own making.

A young office worker turns into an insect. As an insect, he enters the orifices of his enemies and possesses them, allowing him to enact his revenge fantasies...

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

A mockumentary sitcom following a dysfunctional TV & Video Production class as they experience oddities and chaos never seen before in a high school.

Private Detective H. Gibson loses a case-file for the first time in his decade-spanning career. He decides to try to solve the mystery, of what it is he is supposed to be investigating.

A High School student arrives late for his class, struggles to find a late ticket and almost loses his sanity...

After mysteriously turning into a tomato, Israël must survive to his family and colleagues.

A surrealistic comedy-drama about a school shooting as seen through the eyes of a socially awkward college student named Jay. Walt Whitman, the shooter, is loosely based on Charles Whitman, but the film is not in any way a factual account of the 1966 shootings at the University of Texas.

Two runaway, gun-obsessed, outlaw lovers are given a task to kill two political figures in the midst of a civil revolution outside the walls where these characters are trapped, waiting for the phone call to give them a sense of purpose