The Trial (1962)

Crime Drama Mystery Directed by Orson Welles
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Arrested for an unnamed crime, Josef K. is trapped in a surreal bureaucratic maze where justice is unknowable and guilt is assumed.

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  1. Brazil (1985)
    "Terry Gilliam's Brazil is widely treated as Welles' The Trial's spiritual sequel — both are Kafka-rooted nightmares of a clerk accused of an unspecified crime by a totalitarian bureaucracy. The chiaroscuro lighting, off-kilter angles, and deep-focus oppression of Welles' film are the formal substrate of Gilliam's dystopia." source

The Trial (1962), directed by Orson Welles, has been cited as an influence on 1 later work, such as Brazil. Check out the citations below.