Movies and TvShows featuring "the-meaning-of-life" theme.

The film follows a group of elderly office clerks who rebel against their corporate masters and turn their building into a pirate ship. The film is broken into distinct sketches, exploring topics such as the miracle of birth, growth and learning, fighting each other, middle age, live organ transplants, the meaning of life, the autumn years, and death. Through satire and surrealism, the film ultimately delivers the message to be nice to people, live together in peace, and find meaning in everyday life.

The Visitor follows the story of a lonely university professor who finds a new sense of purpose when he befriends a Syrian immigrant and his family. After a wrongful arrest, Walter meets Tarek, a young immigrant and former drummer, and his mother Zainab, a jewelry-maker. As Walter gets to know the family, he discovers their struggles and helps them navigate the challenges of living in a new country. Through their friendship, the characters find hope, connection, and a renewed sense of identity.

Faced with a terminal diagnosis, a filmmaker enlists his family on an intimate and darkly humorous journey to help them come to terms with his illness.

Pictures of the Old World is a poetic documentary about a Czech village and its elderly inhabitants. The film captures the beauty and melancholy of a dying village, highlighting the slow decline and the fading memories of its long-time residents.

What is the purpose of our existence ? What is the soul ? Which are the power of mind, of conscience ? What is our link to nature ? Pondering these existential questions, this movie invites us to find out an universal wisdom, meeting shamans, healers, yogis, but also philosophers and doctors. From Mongolia plains to the Amazonian forest, it leads us far than we expected at first.

Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and televisions shows. Viewers who are especially fans of Nakadai will appreciate how the actor comically rants about here. His home life is almost disastrous, with a ditzy (but attractive) wife, three young children, a loud school nearby that’s controlled by a corrupt businessman he loathes, and frequent visits from layabout friends. And the grey-furred, green-eyed cat!

A Baker and a Train Driver meet during a festival to play a game of chess. While playing the game, both exchange ideas about Life and Death and their future destinies.

A humorous and insightful documentary that takes a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Monty Python's 'The Meaning of Life'. The film provides an entertaining and informative exploration of the creative process, the challenges faced by the cast and crew, and the overall significance of the cult classic comedy.

The film portrays the isolated life caused by the pandemic in 2019. The difficulties of home life became more evident in this period. The most obvious of these hardships was the existential crisis. Because individuals tried to find their identities again. In this short film, I explain that the search for identity occurs when one goes out of societal restrictions, both internally and externally.

Two friends, plagued by bouts of 'existentiality', begin to doubt their existence and spiral into trying to find what life is truly about.