Movies and TvShows featuring "kafkaesque" theme.

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.

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.

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.

A young man who has grown up in captivity and surrounded by books goes outside for the first time.

The film adaptation of Kafka’s Gibs Auf! is a live-action animation surrealist odyssey through the confusion of life in the modern world. The director’s deeply personal and referential work preserves Kafka’s absurdism and pays homage to Weimar cinema of the 1920s, but elevates the text to an existential meditation on authority, purpose and human helplessness. Put simply, it is a cinematic magnum opus that triumphs on all fronts.

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.

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

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.

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 the desolation of the frontier, a woman hires a gunslinger to track down her brother's murderer. As their journey unfolds, they face violence, tragedy, and the harsh reality of the wild west.

No Smoking is a dark comedy that follows the surreal journey of a man who becomes obsessed with smoking and goes to extreme lengths to kick the habit. As the story unfolds, it becomes clear that smoking is just a metaphor for the protagonist's larger issues of conformity, arrogance, and control. The film is filled with ambiguity and surreal elements, keeping viewers on the edge of their seats.

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

A man's life is upended by increasingly threatening phone calls demanding he leave a review for a paperweight purchased online.

A rural doctor is urgently summoned to attend to a gravely ill young boy. Grappling with the pressures of his profession and the demands of his household, he embarks on a tumultuous journey that forces him to confront the darker facets of human frailty, both physical and moral.

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 film is a Kafkaesque tale of an insignificant Water Inspector who arrives at a giant remote building in order to register the residents’ water meters. Before he knows of it, he finds himself trapped inside the building facing an “Alice in NO-Wonderland”-like maze of obstacles. In his attempt to escape, perception of reality, the rational, and the remnants of his human existence is turned upside down.

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.

Traveling salesman in a small town before WW2 makes a solemn promise to kill himself. Later he finds that the local people took him very seriously.

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

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.