Franz Kafka

An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.

A land surveyor, K., is invited to the Castle to do some work for the Count,but when he arrives at the Village,he finds that nobody is expecting him. K.'s attempts to get into the Castle are as unsuccessful as his attempt to settle into the local village... (IMDB Comments)

An animated short of Kafka's "The Metamorphosis"

Sent to America by his parents to avoid a family scandal, Karl Rossmann (Christian Heinisch) - already a victim of the authority of his parents and their notions of social propriety - finds himself in this new land forced into a number of awkward, embarrassing and confusing situations that seem to increasingly extend beyond his control into nightmarish proportions. (dvdtimes.co.uk)

A land surveyor comes to a snow-covered village dominated by a castle. Even though he has been ordered to come to do some work for the castle, the exact nature of his job seems to be lost in the intimidating bureaucracy governing the village's life. Based on the unfinished novel by Franz Kafka.

Surreal events occur when a hapless country doctor visits an ill boy one cold night. (imdb)

Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and despite being "arrested," is allowed to remain free and go to work. But despite the strange nature of his arrest, Joseph soon learns that his trial, however odd, is very real, and tries desperately to spare himself from the court's judgement. (imdb)

This film is based upon the novel by Franz Kafkas from 1912.

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

An animated meditation on patience, and the frustration bred by unopened doors...

A man comes to a small village to begin his new job as an attendant at the nearby castle. But everybody in the village claims that he surely must be mistaken, there is no need for an inspector in the castle. (imdb)

Based on Kafkas "Die Verwandlung"

based on the Franz Kafka story, this movie is about a man who one day wakes up and finds that he has turned into a giant insect

Straub's brilliant condensation of one of Franz Kafka's more mysterious short stories: an acerbic look at the relationship of Western and Arab worlds. (Ferroni Brigade)

The transformation of causeless habits into taboos. (imdb)

A free adaptation of the Kafka novel. (en.wikipedia.org)

The film is based on three short stories by Franz Kafka - "The Married Couple," "In the Penal Colony" and "A Fratricide." - which are all performed by the same group of actors. (en.wikipedia.org)

A woman explorer accepts an invitation to a penal colony to investigate its justice system, where the condemned is executed without any defense. In this desolate place, she confronts an officer who is getting ready to execute a soldier. The officer demonstrates the apparatus, an instrument used to inflict capital punishment. The explorer's silent disapproval of the system brings a surprising and climactic outcome for the future of the officer, prisoner and the colony. (kybelefilms.com)

A mentally disturbed man tries to create a safe space for himself.

This documentary series uses drama and commentary to shed light on the lives and works of Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, T. S. Eliot, Henrik Ibsen, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Luigi Pirandello, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf. (imdb)

One casual morning, the daily life of Gregor Samsa takes a strange turn when he is transformed into a gigantic bug and he is forced to endure the disparaging attitude of his family and society towards him.

A stranger claiming to be a land surveyor arrives at a remote frontier village governed by a nearby castle and fights to gain the acceptance of the villagers. (imdb)

Without saying any word, a man decide to get on hunger strike, creating a great mess around him and also media attention. An adaptation of one of the most famous Kafka's tales but nowadays in Japan.

An ape, which in just five years has evolved to become human, is summoned by the Academy of Sciences to explain his experience.

An animation based on a short story by Franz Kafka about a country doctor interrupted by an alarm clock on a quiet home evening. In a bomb-ravaged room are waiting a dying child and a group of black market traders playing cards.

In an ominous Lisbon courtyard where the last executioner of the kingdom once lived, an accident is waiting to happen. After a patient game of who's observing who, four characters will collide with dire consequences. Based on the short story A Fratricide by Franz Kafka.

An adaptation of the Kafka story updated to the modern day.

Josephine lives in her non-existent, illusory world of theater, music and singing. She sincerely believes that singing is power, and thus she protects her people.

A strange doctor comes to a neighbouring village to cure a sick child. The doctor thinks the boy should stop pretending, but the boy himself begs the doctor to let him die.