THEME EXPLORATION

mundane absurdity

9 films · 2 directors

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FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Krapatchouk
Krapatchouk
1992 · Enrique Gabriel
Storytime
Storytime
1979 · Terry Gilliam
The Crowded Train
The Crowded Train
1957 · Kon Ichikawa
The Phantom of Liberty
The Phantom of Liberty
1974 · Luis Buñuel
Arrest
Arrest
2019 · Samit Basu & Shashanka Ghosh
Clerks
Clerks
1994 · Kevin Smith
Case for a Rookie Hangman
Case for a Rookie Hangman
1970 · Pavel Juráček
Black and White in Color
Black and White in Color
1976 · Jean-Jacques Annaud
Most People Live in China
Most People Live in China
2002 · Morten Tyldum
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
David Lynch United States

His films embed profound psychological horror and existential dread within everyday suburban settings, transforming the ordinary into the deeply unsettling.

 Yorgos Lanthimos Greece

He creates deliberately stilted, ritualistic narratives in mundane situations where social conventions become grotesque and irrational power dynamics emerge from the banal.