10. Rope (1948) - Alfred Hitchcock

This is an anti-existentialist movie and Alfred Hitchcock, the master of suspense, toys with his audience. 'Rope' is one of his most audacious films ever, purposely created as a one-shot film: an experiment in real-time. Starring James Stewart, the movie brings up references to the Nietzsche philosophy, as well as containing Freudian allusions.

9. The Seventh Seal (1957) - Ingmar Bergman

Director Ingmar Bergman made a cinematic model of existentialism, a man’s apocalyptic search for meaning. This extraordinary tale is about a knight who challenges Death to a fateful game of chess. Although this movie is about understanding themselves in terms of philosophical questions, the Swedish director also wants the audience to experience this film with the issues of the problem of evil, philosophy of religion and existentialism. 

8. La Dolce Vita (1960) - Federico Fellini

Directed by Federico Fellini, 'La Dolce Vita' possess a dark and frequent sense of humor about the lavish lifestyles of people in Rome. This movie feels as though Fellini is attempting to communicate with his audience about the seven deadly sins, which happens during seven deranged nights and seven dawns.

7. Love and Death (1975) - Woody Allen

Considered a satire of everything about Russians, Woody Allen has managed to mix his anxiety and fearfulness into a nonstop comedy on war and peace, crime and punishment, and fathers and sons. Allen pitches us about love and death, what he as a human has learned about life, that our mind is great but the body has all the fun.

6. Blade Runner (1982) - Ridley Scott

'Blade Runner' is a feature film based on the science fiction novel by Philip K Dick. The movie portrays what it means to be human in the cybernetics era, raising questions such as: if artificial intelligence were placed in a body that looked and acted human, would it be considered a human? Would androids differ in any important way from the humans who created them? Existentialism.

5. Barton Fink (1991) - The Coen Brothers

Directed and written by Joel and Ethan Coen, they use film as a visual medium to tell Barton Fink’s story that strongly depicts his life consumed by pride of his art which gets destroyed as soon as he enters the Hollywood playground. The film portrayed Fink as an impotent intellectual man who sells himself out while telling himself he is doing the right thing.

4. The Truman Show (1998) - Peter Weir

The movie, starring Jim Carrey, shows us that everything about Truman is fake. His relationships, work, and his life was displayed for millions of TV viewers. What is real? This film is a reference to the thoughts of the great philosophers. It is a sophisticated film but it gives the audience a ride to be the judge of social behavioral for this adventure.

3. The Matrix (1999) - The Wachovski Brothers

This movie contains a great deal of religious and philosophical theories, which have been brought up by many philosophers, and it is still being viewed and studied today in the academic world. The idea of what we see in this world is a mere shadow of what truly exists, and that we have not seen what the world really is via our eyes. So, what is reality? It is about our senses and thoughts, which deceive us. By providing a limited amount of message on what we have, it could alter or change our perception of reality based upon the variance that was given. Our brain is pretty petrifying, isn’t it?

2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) -  Michel Gondry

Directed by Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine is a romantic comedy drama movie starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet. It’s written by Charlie Kauffman, who’s behind breathtaking films such as 'Being John Malkovich' (1999), 'Adaptation' (2002) and 'Synecdoche, New York' (2008). It’s deep, personal, and rich, but fragile when things go wrong. Michel Gondry cleverly explores the memory, relationships, loss and the connections between these two souls.

1. The Fountain (2006) - Darren Aronofsky

Directed by Darren Aronofsky, the man behind 'Pi' (1998), 'Requiem for a Dream' (2000) and 'Black Swan' (2010), 'The Fountain' is a movie about spirituality and immortality, life and death, abiding love, the tree of life and the fountain of youth. This is quite a complex story and eventually holds up well over time. 

Honorable mentions: 'A Clockwork Orange' (1971) by Stanley Kubrick, 'Solaris' (1972) by Andrei Tarkovsky, 'The Shawshank Redemption' (1994) by Frank Darabont, '12 Angry Men' (1957), 'Inception' (2010) by Christopher Nolan, 'The Stranger' (1967) by Luchino Visconti.