A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him.

Synecdoche, New York
2008
7.5/10

The Sunset Limited
2011
7.2/10

Melancholia
2011
7.1/10

Parallel
2024
6.3/10

Eleanor the Great
2025
6.8/10

Swan Song
2021
7.1/10

The Life of Chuck
2025
7.3/10

Upstream Color
2013
6.3/10

I'm Thinking of Ending Things
2020
6.5/10

Hereafter
2010
6.2/10

The Zero Theorem
2013
6.1/10

Inside Llewyn Davis
2013
7.2/10

The Double
2014
6.5/10

Urchin
2025
6.8/10

Requiem for a Dream
2000
8.0/10

Here
2024
6.5/10

The Eighth Day
1996
7.3/10

At Eternity's Gate
2018
7.0/10

Mr. Church
2016
7.4/10

No and Me
2010
6.0/10
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
1989
7.3/10