Films that can trigger existencial crisis

Films that can trigger existencial crisis

Melancholia (2011) Starring Kirsten Dunst as bride-to-be Justine and Charlotte Gainsberg as her sister Claire, the film explores their already strained relationship as they found another planet is about to collide with Earth.

Synecdoche, New York (2008) The story, about a theater director who's sucked into the vortex of his own impossible artistic ambitions, is unremittingly bleak, making for one of the most depressing nondocumentary films.

A Ghost Story (2017) This tale of a man who dies young and lingers around the property where he and his wife once lived is bound to be one of the most divisive films.

It's Such A Beautiful Day (2012) In the film, Bill pieces together his broken psyche and explores what it means to be alive in three chapters: "Everything Will Be Ok," "I Am So Proud Of You," and "It's Such A Beautiful Day".

Enter The Void (2009) The film begins with the death of drug dealer Oscar in Japan, and then his journey to resurrect himself to take care of his sister; all accompanied by mind-blowing trippy visuals.

First Reformed (2017) Hawke is searing as small-town pastor Ernst dealing with a crisis of faith after the death of his son during the Iraq war.

Interstellar (2014) Taking place on a dying earth, Matthew McConaughey's Cooper is on a mission to save humanity and find a hospitable planet. The crew ends up lost in space, with no earth to go back to.

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004) This movie can give an existential crisis in the way that it "makes you wish you could appreciate all those mundane things you take for granted".