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The Meaning of Life: Movies That Seem to Capture the Entirety of Our Existence

The top 6 are films that I genuinely think seem to capture everything, 7 - 10 are honourable mentions and the rest are other people's suggestions (that I may or may not endorse).

Please read the notes for more details.

Suggestions and discussion welcome.

I will only add suggestions that have a sentence or two to go into the notes.

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  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • The Tree of Life
  • The Turin Horse
  • Mirror
  • Yi Yi
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
  • A Ghost Story
  • Magnolia
  • Synecdoche, New York
  • Blade Runner 2049
  • It's Such a Beautiful Day
  • Ikiru
  • The Fountain
  • Ordet
  • Being There
  • Walkabout
  • Nashville
  • Amadeus
  • Ran
  • Au Hasard Balthazar
  • Wild Strawberries
  • PlayTime
  • Dark City
  • A Serious Man
  • Blade Runner
  • The Holy Mountain
  • American Beauty
  • The Thin Red Line
  • Waking Life
  • Wings of Desire
  • After Life
  • Paterson
  • Fallen Angels
  • I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  • Sansho the Bailiff
  • Rashomon
  • The Room
  • Before Sunrise
  • Soul
  • The Seventh Seal
  • Man with a Movie Camera
  • Ad Astra
  • Mr. Nobody
  • Grizzly Man
  • Koyaanisqatsi
  • Stalker
  • Cloud Atlas
  • All That Jazz
  • Woman in the Dunes
  • Punch-Drunk Love
  • An Elephant Sitting Still
  • Songs from the Second Floor
  • Jesus of Nazareth
  • 20th Century Women