MesmeroWatch list, 0 saved

Movie
Poster for Kafka

Kafka

1992 · 53 min

A dense, dreamlike puzzle that feels like wandering through a claustrophobic maze of someone else's mind.

Directed by
Zbigniew Rybczyński
Genres
Documentary, Tv movie
Starring
Peter Lucas, Birgit Bofarull
Overview
Against a set which has been designed in a Kafkaesque and claustrophobic way, Rybczynski has recreated a World of Kafka which corresponds well with Kafka's maze-like novels. It is an abstract and unpredictable world where Kafka himself moves between the scenes of his own stories, from America via The Castle to Metamorphosis, and The Trial is of course the frame story throughout. Rybczynski has chosen to portray Josef K as an alter ego. Other characters become members of his own family, which means that Rybczynski makes a kind of exemplary, depth psychological close reading of his work.

Your rating is saved. See your suggestions, or find titles like this one below.

Rate it, and Mesmero finds titles that feel like it. You do not need an account.

Search YouTube for a trailer

In the UKNo streaming, rental or purchase options known.
Directed by
Zbigniew Rybczyński
Genres
Documentary, Tv movie
Starring
Peter Lucas, Birgit Bofarull
In your watch list

How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Tone
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • isolation
  • guilt
  • madness
  • family
Places
  • fantasy world
  • home
Era
timeless
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror4
Humour1
Realism3
Romance0
Tension6
Darkness8
Complexity9
Emotional weight7

More like this

Titles like Kafka

Movie

The Trial

1962

A disorienting, nightmarish descent into bureaucratic absurdity, visually striking and intellectually demanding.

Eerie, dark, slow-burn · about isolation and guilt · nonlinear

Via
  • eerie
  • dark
  • isolation
  • guilt
  • nonlinear
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
demanding
Runtime
119 min
Details
The TrialHidden from your suggestions.
Movie

BUG

A slow, clammy descent into bodily dread and quiet alienation, staged in sterile rooms that feel increasingly wrong.

Eerie, bleak, slow-burn · about identity and isolation · single location

Via
  • eerie
  • bleak
  • identity
  • isolation
  • single location
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
engaged
Details
BUGHidden from your suggestions.
Movie

Hamadria

1981

A drifting, hallucinatory descent into dread, more like a feverish dream than a story, demanding patience and surrender.

Eerie, dark, slow-burn · about identity and isolation · nonlinear

Via
  • eerie
  • dark
  • identity
  • isolation
  • nonlinear
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
demanding
Details
HamadriaHidden from your suggestions.
Movie

Kafka

1991

A slow, disorienting descent into bureaucratic nightmare, where black-and-white dread gives way to surreal color and paranoia.

Eerie, dark, slow-burn · about identity and isolation · nonlinear

Via
  • eerie
  • dark
  • identity
  • isolation
  • nonlinear
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
demanding
Runtime
98 min
Details
KafkaHidden from your suggestions.
Movie

The Man Who Sleeps

1974

A hypnotic, second-person drift through empty Paris streets, numbing and claustrophobic, like sinking into someone else's depression.

Eerie, bleak, slow-burn · about identity and isolation · nonlinear

Via
  • eerie
  • bleak
  • identity
  • isolation
  • nonlinear
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
demanding
Runtime
78 min
Details
The Man Who SleepsHidden from your suggestions.
Movie

Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life

1995

A hypnotic, dreamlike descent into a strange institution, where every frame feels like a half-remembered nightmare.

Eerie, dark, slow-burn · about identity and isolation · nonlinear

Via
  • eerie
  • dark
  • identity
  • isolation
  • nonlinear
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
demanding
Runtime
105 min
Details
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human LifeHidden from your suggestions.
Movie

Desires

1983

A strange, dreamlike drift through guilt and sin, more mood and image than story, rewarding patience with unease.

Eerie, dark, slow-burn · about identity and isolation · nonlinear

Via
  • eerie
  • dark
  • identity
  • isolation
  • nonlinear
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
demanding
Runtime
98 min
Details
DesiresHidden from your suggestions.
Movie

Mr. K

2025

A disorienting, dreamlike descent into a labyrinthine hotel where logic dissolves and identity erodes, demanding patience and rewarding unease.

Eerie, dark, slow-burn · about identity and isolation · nonlinear

Via
  • eerie
  • dark
  • identity
  • isolation
  • nonlinear
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
demanding
Runtime
96 min
Details
Mr. KHidden from your suggestions.
Movie

More Things That Happened

2007

A disorienting, dreamlike drift through unsettling fragments that rewards patience and resists easy explanation.

Eerie, dark, slow-burn · about identity and isolation · nonlinear

Via
  • eerie
  • dark
  • identity
  • isolation
  • nonlinear
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
demanding
Runtime
75 min
Details
More Things That HappenedHidden from your suggestions.
Movie

Horrors of Malformed Men

1969

A feverish, grotesque descent into madness and identity, staged with surreal theatricality and unsettling body horror.

Eerie, dark · about identity and isolation · nonlinear

Via
  • eerie
  • dark
  • identity
  • isolation
  • nonlinear
Pacing
measured
Attention
engaged
Runtime
99 min
Details
Horrors of Malformed MenHidden from your suggestions.
Movie

Angst

1983

A cold, clinical descent into a killer's mind, suffocatingly tense and deeply unsettling, with an unrelenting focus on cruelty and madness.

Same writer: Zbigniew Rybczyński · Eerie, dark, slow-burn · about isolation and madness · single location

Also
Same writer: Zbigniew Rybczyński
Via
  • eerie
  • dark
  • isolation
  • madness
  • single location
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
demanding
Runtime
75 min
Details
AngstHidden from your suggestions.
Movie

Inside

2012

A restless, talk-heavy plunge into one man's sour interior, awkward and claustrophobic, with little relief.

Dark, slow-burn · about identity and isolation · single location

Via
  • dark
  • identity
  • isolation
  • single location
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
demanding
Runtime
107 min
Details
InsideHidden from your suggestions.

Where to watch in the UK

No UK streaming, rental or purchase options are known.

Streaming data from JustWatch.TMDB

Details

Genres
documentary, tv movie
Directed by
Zbigniew Rybczyński
Starring
Peter Lucas, Birgit Bofarull
Runtime
53 min
Country
France

TMDBIMDb

Something wrong on this page? Tell us.