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
Queer
Released on: 2024-11-27
Drama, Romance
In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life ami...
Sweet Mud
Released on: 2006-09-21
Drama
Set in mid-70's, 12-year old Dvir Avni navigates between the equality values of his home-born Kibbut...
The Secret Garden
Released on: 1993-08-13
Drama, Family, Fantasy
A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is ...
He Was a Quiet Man
Released on: 2007-11-23
Comedy, Drama, Romance
An unhinged office worker who planned to go on a shooting spree at his workplace struggles with his ...
Die Klasse von '99 - Schule war gestern, Leben ist jetzt
Released on: 2003-09-24
Comedy, Drama
The story of a group of contemporary young people, growing up in well-to-do small-town
Limbo
Released on:
Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Unwilling to process a near-fatal car accident, an overworked director arrives late to the set of hi...
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...
Newsies
Released on: 2017-02-16
Music, Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...
Le Pion
Released on: 1978-10-25
Comedy, Drama
Humiliated and down on his luck, a superintendent turns his life around when he decides to write a b...
Crimson Unveiled
Released on:
Drama
In a dimly lit jazz club, a widower cinephile battles his buried desires. That's until he stumbles u...
The Trial
Released on: 1962-08-25
Crime, Drama, Mystery
The surreal tale of an unassuming man who is accused of a never-specified crime and shambles through...
L'Âge d'or
Released on: 1930-11-28
Romance, Comedy, Drama
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details ...
Purple Dictatorship
Released on: 2020-03-03
Drama, Fantasy
Yeda, the green-faced woman, sells homemade bread to support the house where she lives with her sick...
The Broken
Released on: 2008-11-15
Thriller, Drama, Horror
The life of a successful radiologist spirals out of control when she sees the spitting image of hers...
Through Her Little Smile
Released on: 2025-03-14
Drama, Family
Alya, a sixth-grade student, feels insecure because she has never fasted and is often teased by her ...
Protozoa
Released on: 1993-01-01
Drama
Darren Aronofsky’s AFI short opens with angry slacker Dave sitting in a dreary, empty junkyard. Dave...
Three Walls and a Window
Released on: 2019-02-28
Drama
A nuclear family sits in front of the television. The phone rings.
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...
Amarcord
Released on: 1973-12-18
Comedy, Drama
In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local...