Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995)
• August 1st, 1995 • 1h 44min
Drama
Overview
Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a better room. No other students arrive and none leave for employment. Johannes is unhappy, imperious, and detached from the school's operation. Lisa is beautiful, at first tightly controlled, then on the verge of breakdown. There's a whiff of incest. Jakob is drawn to Lisa, and perhaps she to him. As winter sets in, she becomes catatonic. Things get worse; Johannes notes that all this has happened since Jakob came. Is there any cause and effect?
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Show Me Love
Released on: 1998-10-23
Comedy, Romance, Drama
Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is fr...
Freche Mädchen
Released on: 2008-07-17
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Teenage best friends Mila, Hanna and Kati play matchmaker to their teachers while helping each other...
Mohabbatein
Released on: 2000-10-27
Drama, Romance
At a prestigious all-male university, three friends seek love outside of the school grounds; at the ...
Pretty in Pink
Released on: 1986-02-28
Romance, Drama
Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she wor...
Giving Birth to a Butterfly
Released on: 2023-05-01
Drama, Comedy, Mystery
After having her identity stolen, a woman, and her son's pregnant girlfriend, bond together on a sur...
Crimson Unveiled
Released on:
Drama
In a dimly lit jazz club, a widower cinephile battles his buried desires. That's until he stumbles u...
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Released on: 1996-03-22
Comedy, Drama
An unattractive 7th grader struggles to cope with suburban life as the middle child with inattentive...
Radio Inside
Released on: 1994-03-15
Romance, Drama
As two brothers fall in love with the same woman they must come to grips with the accidental death o...
Babette's Feast
Released on: 1987-08-11
Drama
A French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite mea...
Synecdoche, New York
Released on: 2008-10-24
Drama
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a li...
The Baby of Mâcon
Released on: 1993-09-17
Drama, History
Set halfway through the 17th century, a church play is performed for the benefit of the young aristo...
Appointment in Bray
Released on: 1971-12-22
Drama, Music, War
In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war ...
Gosford Park
Released on: 2001-12-26
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation...
The Trial
Released on: 1962-12-22
Crime, Drama, Mystery
The surreal tale of an unassuming man who is accused of a never-specified crime and shambles through...
Ben X
Released on: 2007-08-26
Drama
Harassed by bullies because of his mild autism, teen Ben finds refuge in an online computer game, wh...
Kopschuif
Released on: 2018-02-01
Drama, Horror
In Bas’s world, the voices desperately trying to contact him amount to little more than background n...
The Promise
Released on: 2005-12-15
Fantasy, Drama, Action, Thriller, Romance
An orphaned girl, driven by poverty at such a young age, makes a promise with an enchantress. In ret...
Madeleine
Released on:
Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Drama
A girl is invited to a TV show to explain why she has murdered 239 people.
Carrie
Released on: 2002-11-04
Horror, Drama, TV Movie
An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl's lonely life is dominated by relentless bullying at school and...
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Released on: 1989-10-13
Crime, Drama
The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's re...