10 Movies Designed To Give You An Existential Crisis

Sci-fi movies are able to tap into humanity's existential angst in a very particular way, typically by drawing attention to just how cosmically insignificant Earth is - and by extension, we are.

Though countless sci-fi films have tackled this thematic over the decades, not one has approached it quite as thoughtfully as Stanley Kubrick's masterful 2001: A Space Odyssey.

In a single match cut, Kubrick spans human progress from early man's discovery of basic tools to a satellite orbiting in space, in turn confessing the fleeting passage of time, and how each of us is destined to see only the smallest sliver of life on Earth.

Elsewhere Kubrick's film ponders the prospect of A.I. threatening or surpassing humanity, and concedes just how little we truly know for sure about the wider universe.

Few films will make you feel so small or your everyday annoyances so insignificant, that on the grander universal timeline, your time spent alive is nothing more than a faint blip.