Highest-Rated Movies about 'Modernity', Sort by Popularity

Traffic (1971), The Party (1968), Playtime (1967), The Moderns (1988), Pierrot le Fou (1965), Buffet Froid (1979), Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible (2020), Ecce Bombo (1978) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Modernity movies.

#2. The Party (1968)

Storyline: While trying to tie his shoe, bumbling extra Hrundi V. Bakshi (Peter Sellers) unwittingly triggers explosives that destroy the set of an epic war film. The furious director tells executive Fred Clutterbuck (J. Edward McKinley) to fire him. Because of a misunderstanding, Bakshi instead mistakenly receives an invitation to an exclusive party at Clutterbuck's Hollywood mansion, where he proceeds to wreak havoc on partygoers as he stumbles through what will become the wildest night he's ever seen.

Plot Keywords: actor, director, studio head, daughter, waiter, singer, hilarious ...

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#3. Playtime (1967)

Storyline: Monsieur Hulot has to contact an American official in Paris, but he gets lost in the maze of modern architecture which is filled with the latest technical gadgets. Caught in the tourist invasion, Hulot roams around Paris with a group of American tourists, causing chaos in his usual manner.

Plot Keywords: man, tourist, salesman, woman, friend, amusing, intricate ...

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#5. Pierrot le Fou (1965)

Storyline: Ferdinand Griffon, married to a wealthy Italian wife, has recently been fired from the television station where he worked. His wife forces him to go to a party at the home of her influential father, who wants to introduce him to a potential employer. Her brother brings babysitter Marianne Renoir to take care of their children. Feeling bored at the bourgeois party, Ferdinand borrows his brother-in-law's car to head home. He meets Marianne, who was his mistress five years ago and insists on calling him Pierrot, and offers to take her home. They spend the night together and he learns that she's involved in smuggling weapons. When terrorists chase her, they decide to leave Paris and his family behind and go on the run, on a crazy journey to nowhere.

Plot Keywords: man, wife, mistress, gangster, algerian, madcap, charming ...

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#6. Buffet Froid (1979)

Storyline: Black comedy about solitude and the dehumanization of the modern world, through the adventures of three men. First introduced is Alphonse Tram, an unemployed young man. His only neighbour is the police chief-inspector Morvandieu. Then a third man appears: he is Alphonse's wife's murderer... Bizarre and unreal.—Yepok

Plot Keywords: unemployed person, accountant, wife, killer, detective, man, dark ...

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#7. Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible (2020)

Storyline: The film explores the life, philosophy and impact of one of the most influential early 20th century modernists, Marcel Duchamp. The film breaks down Duchamp's ideas and applies them to both historical events and the modernist explosion that blanketed the early 20th century. Art of the Possible isn't simply a biopic; rather, the film shows how Duchamp's ideas changed the public consciousness, and our understanding of aesthetics, art, and culture. The film highlights the singular impact of Duchamp's philosophy on art, and, more importantly, examines how Duchamp's revolutionary ideas from the early 20th century have shaped the 21st century and modern day.

Plot Keywords: artist, speaker, interviewee, interviewer, painter, sculptor, intense ...

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#9. Laila's Birthday (2008)

Storyline: Abu Laila used to be a judge, but because the government doesn't have the means to renew his assignment he is forced to be a taxi driver. On the day his daughter Laila becomes seven years old his wife insists that he'll be at home early and bring her a present and a cake. Abu Laila's has nothing else on his mind then completing this mission. But the daily life in Palestine has other plans.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: taxi driver, wife, daughter, store clerk, terrorist, passenger, bleak ...

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#10. Notes From Underground (1995)

Storyline: Adapted from Dostoevsky's novella, Henry Czerny plays the narrator, Underground Man. Filled with self-hatred, he keeps a video diary where he discusses his own shortcomings and what he thinks is wrong in contemporary society. His bitterness spills over at a dinner party attended by his old college friends, an occasion which sends him running to a nearby brothel, where he meets Liza (Lee), a young prostitute.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: inspector, prostitute, neighbor, classmate, old friend, civil servant, hedonistic ...

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#11. Vita & Virginia (2018)

Storyline: Vita and Virginia is a love story of the affair and the friendship between writer Virginia Woolf "Elizabeth Debicki", and aristocrat Vita Sackville West "Gemma Arterton". In 1922, when Vita receives an invitation their paths crossed in Bloomsbury with Virginia. Their romance overcomes all social boundaries, Virginia's mental health struggles Vita's recklessness and neither will ever be the same without the other.—Merve Kurt

Plot Keywords: writer, married woman, love interest, husband, socialite, feminist, confident ...

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#12. The Stranger (1991)

Storyline: Anila (Mamata Shankar) receives a letter from a long-lost uncle she last saw 35 years ago, who hopes to stay at her family home in Calcutta, India. Her husband, Subhindra (Depankar De), immediately suspects that this "uncle" may be an impostor. So when the stranger (Utpal Dutt) arrives, he's given the third degree by husband, friends and even the family lawyer. He's only accepted by Anila's young son (Bikram Bhattacharya), who is in thrall to his stories of global travel.

Plot Keywords: wife, husband, son, stranger, friend, lawyer, airy ...

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