Movies Similar to how gregor samsa became a bug (canonised)

Beau Is Afraid(2023)

Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic, Kafkaesque odyssey back home.

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion(1970)

Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.

Pushover(2023)

A man's life is upended by increasingly threatening phone calls demanding he leave a review for a paperweight purchased online.

Escape(2024)

A young man becomes convinced that the solution to all his problems is to live in jail, and he will do whatever it takes to get it.

Bondage Ecstasy(1989)

A young office worker turns into an insect. As an insect, he enters the orifices of his enemies and possesses them, allowing him to enact his revenge fantasies.

Roach Motel(2023)

Two runaway, gun-obsessed, outlaw lovers are given a task to kill two political figures in the midst of a civil revolution outside the walls where these characters are trapped, waiting for the phone call to give them a sense of purpose

Vignettes(2024)

Alex bleeds out at a get-together. Thom searches for a vanished shoe. Jimmy seeks revenge through mind control.

The Mix-up(1994)

Ihsan is a simple employee in the Ministry of Culture from the house to the office and vice versa his work colleague Nargis loves and plans to marry him. He is surprised by one of the security authorities arrested and directed a number of charges, which does not know the cause and continues to haunt him

Tenure(2025)

When a dedicated college professor is denied tenure, he turns to black magic in a moment of desperation but finds himself trapped in a private hell of his own making.

Franz Kafka(1992)

A fantasy biography of Franz Kafka, bringing to life the writer's diaries and photographs.

This Is Not(2025)

When Ty attends his friend group's annual costume party, he becomes the target of mind games and humiliation from Trey, a charismatic newcomer with an underlying darkness.

'GIVE IT UP!'(2025)

The film adaptation of Kafka’s Gibs Auf! is a live-action animation surrealist odyssey through the confusion of life in the modern world. The director’s deeply personal and referential work preserves Kafka’s absurdism and pays homage to Weimar cinema of the 1920s, but elevates the text to an existential meditation on authority, purpose and human helplessness. Put simply, it is a cinematic magnum opus that triumphs on all fronts.

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The Cockroach(2022)

The groom goes to the hairdresser to take the bride but he's been told that she has become a cockroach.

The Divinity of a City(2024)

David Bono is a hitman hired to target Orshanabi Nazzar, a high-ranking priest-bureaucrat in a temple corporation in the fictional city of Babylonia (Brussels-based). The corporation has invented a way to avoid death by recording people's lives. While gathering information and preparing for the job, David meets Ellie, with whom they slept together. However, Ellie is a member of a cult called Children of Ishtar, and David's job would interrupt their life-recording ceremony. Facing an obsessive dilemma, David tries to find a way to do his mission without killing Ellie. First, he tries to convince Ellie not to attend the ceremony, and then he hires a local crook to kidnap her while he does the job. After the successful job, Ellie frees herself from the kidnapper, discovers the truth, and leaves for Akkadia. Meanwhile, David calls to receive the rest of his payment but gets ambushed by the contractor.

The Metamorphosis(2024)

As Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning from unsettling dreams, he finds himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.

The Judgment(2016)

Adapted from the short story by Franz Kafka, The Judgment is a psychological drama exploring themes of alienation, memory, and the lines between fantasy and reality. The film follows Georg Bendemann, a young merchant living 1900s Prague, who is struggling to maintain balance in an ever changing world. As his situation deteriorates due to complicated familial relationships, we are compelled to question the very nature of what we are seeing.

¡EyL!(2023)

Two people have a plan and head to a party

The Metamorphosis(2007)

Pedro is a young man, carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders, but one day, he wakes up feeling different.

Polymorphia(2024)

After an accident leaves his face entirely bandaged, a neurotic office worker undergoes an identity crisis.