Nihilism Movies

After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage daughter, the Butcher wants to start life anew....

Life in spite of everything.

Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the 5-day period...

Chronicles three years of a middle-class family seemingly caught up in their daily routines, troubled only by minor incidents. Behind their apparent...

Upon learning that his days are numbered, a man and an old friend return to an old house that connects them by a dark secret. Along with three women...

A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior...

A dark, hip, urban story of a barren and anonymous city where the underclass' sport of choice is ram-raiding. An exciting game in which stolen cars...

A deeply religious black ex-con thwarts the suicide attempt of an asocial white college professor who tries to throw himself in front of an oncoming...

After his girlfriend commits suicide, a man becomes embroiled in gang warfare attempting to obtain a gun in hopes to kill himself.

In Taipei, four youths face alienation, loneliness, and moments of existential crisis amidst a series of minor crimes.

An anthology film consisting of four segments based on literary works by Edogawa Ranpo.

The most suffocating is the awareness that nothing is happening. All the veins are drying without the blood running through them. I came to...

Following the death of their mother, one sister tries to convince the other that she isn't really gone.

Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of...

After being hit in the head, a distraught woman must come to terms with herself on if her injury will be fatal

A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious man called Duchemin. Once they sample his "fear powder"...

The Los Angeles punk music scene circa 1980 is the focus of this film. With Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear,...

Two HIV-positive young men — a semi-employed film critic and a hot hustler — tear off on a cross-country crime spree.

A young nihilistic New Yorker copes with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia, and...

At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious,...