The Look of Silence (2014), Khosla Ka Ghosla! (2006), Nostalgia (1983), The Mother and the Whore (1973), Forbidden Games (1952), Wings of Desire (1987), L'Eclisse (1962), Kings of the Road (1976) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Cultural Reflection movies.
Storyline: A number of individuals in Germany whose lives are connected in some ways, and all of them have dark sides which may shock us to the core.
Plot Keywords: drama, black comedy, social satire, german film, multi-narrative, human nature exploration, modern life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This drama takes the form of a story told using documentary material as an intrinsic part of the narrative. In this journey through the dark side of 1950s urban life, the camera follows Judith - a newly divorced woman looking for a fresh start - through the streets of Los Angeles as she encounters the strange denizens of the city, ranging from trendsetters to religious fanatics. All the tawdry and desperate faces of this world become a mirror for Judith's personal failures and struggles to claim her new life.—Fiona Kelleghan <fkelleghan@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: experimental film, documentary, american film, independent film, film noir, realism, urban life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A fable of innocence: thirteen-year-old Aviva Victor wants to be a 'mom'. She does all she can to make this happen, and comes very close to succeeding, but in the end her plan is thwarted by her sensible parents. So she runs away, still determined to get pregnant one way or another, but instead finds herself lost in another world, a less sensible one, perhaps, but one pregnant itself with all sorts of strange possibility. She takes a road trip from the suburbs of New Jersey, through Ohio to the plains of Kansas and back. Like so many trips, this one is round-trip, and it's hard to say in the end if she can ever be quite the same again, or if she can ever be anything but the same again.
Plot Keywords: independent film, black comedy, coming of age, social satire, moral dilemma, female perspective, family dynamics ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmmaker Kurosawa follows the life of "I" from boy (Mitsunori Isaki) to man (Akira Terao) in eight episodes of themes like war, nature and nuclear horror.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, allegory, dreams, surreal, poetic, nuclear fear, man and nature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After one of their friends commits suicide, strange things begin happening to a group of young Tokyo residents. One of them sees visions of his dead friend in the shadows on the wall, while another's computer keeps showing strange, ghostly images. Is their friend trying to contact them from beyond the grave, or is there something much more sinister going on?
Plot Keywords: horror, psychological thriller, supernatural, mystery, loneliness, technophobia, ghosts ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story takes place in Milwaukee during the early 1900s with a bank clerk named August Schiller who is happy with both his job and his family. He is tasked with transporting $1,000 in securities to Chicago. On the train he meets a blond seductress who convinces him to buy her a bottle of champagne, and takes him to a saloon. The next morning he awakes alone in a dilapidated bedroom and without the securities. He finds the woman and pleads with her to return the stolen securities. When he also threatens her he is knocked unconscious by the saloon owner and dragged to a nearby railroad track. As the crooks strips him of his ID and papers, Schiller recovers and struggles with the saloon owner, ultimately throwing him into the path of an oncoming train, killing him. Schiller flees and, as he is about to take his own life, sees in a newspaper that he is supposedly dead. The saloon owner's mangled body had been identified as Schiller's. Twenty years pass. Schiller is now aged and unkempt, employed to pick up trash in a park. He sees his own family go to a cemetery and place a wreath on his grave. Following other scenes in a Christmas snowstorm, Schiller makes his way to his former home, where he sees that the son whom he had taught to play violin is now a successful musician. He walks away, carrying in his pocket a dollar that his son has given him, not recognizing that the old tramp was his father.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: silent film, drama, american film, black and white film, 1920s, classic film, early cinema ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The inhabitants of the Welsh village of Llareggub offer their impressions on life's absurdities and longings.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, adaptation, village life, surrealism, black comedy, narration ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Charlie talks wealthy farmer's daughter Tillie into eloping with him (and taking her father's money). In the city Tillie gets drunk and lands in jail while Charlie runs off with her money and his old girlfriend Mabel. Later Charlie reads that Tillie (now working as a waitress) has inherited the estate of her multi-millionaire uncle. Charlie dumps Mabel and talks Tillie into moving into her uncle's villa, and Mabel arranges to become a housemaid there. The uncle (never really dead) returns and summons the police to have them all thrown out.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: comedy, silent film, slapstick, black and white, early cinema, romance, chase scene ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Don Anderson's marketing director for Mickey's fast food chain. He's the inventor of their bestselling hamburger, the Big One. Independent research has showm the presence of cow's feces in the Big One. Don is sent to Cody, Colorado, to verify if the main supplier of Mickey's, beef is efficient as it appears, and the production process is up to code. During his investigation, he discovers the horrible truth behind a simple hamburger; the reality is not like It's portrayed. Don discovers what the mass production system involves, from the temp-workers like Amber, to the exploitation of irregular immigrants. It's not only the meat being is crushed in the machinery, but our society.
Plot Keywords: social critique, american culture, moral dilemma, documentary style, political satire, health crisis, consumerism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nick is a feckless television salesman who gets fired and impulsively decides that he and his girlfriend, Beth, will move to Butte, MT, which he's read is "the city of the future." "I read that a while ago, so the future should be there by now," he enthuses. He waits until the last moment to tell Carol, his ex and Beth's best friend, about the move. While Nick is working his last day, Sid comes to the couple's house to paint it for the next tenants. He quickly develops an interest in Beth. He, Beth, and Carol get stoned and hang out. When Sid hears about the move, he tells Beth that he's never left Enfield, and has no interest in traveling. Meanwhile, Nick decides to take off on his own. When Beth gets word of this from Carol, she finds solace in Sid's arms. Sid proclaims his love the next morning, and implores Beth to stay. Meanwhile, Nick visits his childhood home, looking for his parents, has an epiphany, and decides to return to Carol.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: independent film, drama, romance, coming of age, relationships, existential, 1990s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The family of 12-year-old Xiao Xiao (Liu Qing) arranges her marriage to 2-year-old Chun Guan (Zhang Yu) and sends her to a remote, rural village where she lives with her prospective in-laws and raises the boy mostly by herself. Four years later, Xiao Xiao (Na Renhua) succumbs to the charms of handsome farmhand Hua Gou (Deng Xiao-quang) but finds her reputation in danger. In a world where dishonored women can be put to death, Xiao Xiao's future is far from certain.
Plot Keywords: rural life, family tragedy, female awakening, struggle for survival, social criticism, exploration of humanity, realism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Like it or not, porn is here and it is harmful. In this controversial film, award-winning filmmaker Justin Hunt dissects the impact of pornography on societies around the globe, from how it affects the brain of the individual, to how modern technology leads to greater exposure to youth, to watching it literally tear a family apart. In what may well be one of the most devastating issues in modern culture, this film will break down the damage that porn is doing to us a human race and leave you thinking that it's clearly time that we start taking porn addiction a bit more seriously.
Plot Keywords: documentary, mental health, sexual health, social issue, modern technology, sex education, social impact ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The balding, middle-aged owner of a seafood restaurant makes three awkward attempts at extramarital romance.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, midlife crisis, marriage, infidelity, urban life, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two single women (Lea Thompson, Victoria Jackson) talk frankly about men while getting in shape at a health resort.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, sex education, youth, female perspective, dating, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Orphaned and hospitalized, young Billy (Billy Burrud) is thrilled when his favorite silent movie hero, Tim Bart (Richard Dix), visits and invites the boy to drop by his California ranch house when he recovers. Unfortunately, when the advent of talking pictures destroys Tim's career, the cowboy actor goes bankrupt and loses his home. Meanwhile, Billy has fled the sick ward to find his idol, and Tim must enlist the help of his actress pal, Gloria (Fay Wray), to convince the lad he's still a star.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, romance, hollywood, 1930s, black and white, celebrity ...
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