After the Rehearsal (1984), Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary (2002), Parasite (2019), Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001), The Silence (1963), A Pure Formality (1994), Barton Fink (1991), Burning (2018) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Metaphor movies.
Storyline: Adam Bell is a Toronto area History college professor. He is a rather somber man, largely because he is stuck in a routine, which includes a relationship with his live-in girlfriend, Mary. While watching a rental movie, he spots an actor in a bit part that looks like him. He becomes obsessed with finding out about this double of his. He learns that the actor's stage name is Daniel Saint Claire, whose legal name is Anthony Claire. Claire is a Toronto based actor with only a few on-screen credits, and is married to a woman named Helen who is currently several months pregnant. Adam then becomes obsessed with meeting Claire, who he learns upon first sighting that they look exactly the same, from the facial hair to a scar each has, but Claire who outwardly is more "put together" than Adam. Their lives become intertwined as Claire himself ends up becoming obsessed with Adam, but in a slightly different way.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, mystery, drama, surrealism, identity, dreams, reality vs illusion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Anna is becoming lost in the loneliness of her own world when she discovers she can visit another, a house she has drawn herself and occupied by a young disabled boy. But as she discovers more of the links between her fantasy world and the mundane present, she is drawn only deeper into a dream turning into a nightmare.—David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au>
Plot Keywords: fantasy, psychological thriller, surrealism, dreams, psychological horror, coming of age, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Kris is attacked one night, and hypnotized, using a grub with hypnotic properties, administered by a thief. She follows the thief's instructions to give him everything, even taking out loans. After the worms are extracted, she wakes up to find her life ruined. She's lost her job, her finances are destroyed. Years later, she meets Jeff whom she may have a lot in common with.
Plot Keywords: science fiction, drama, romance, mystery, psychological, experimental film, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A German businessman travels to Norway to finish the impossible translation of some poems into Chinese, a project of his late wife.
Plot Keywords: philosophy, existentialism, language, cultural differences, loneliness, love, misunderstanding ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bill is worried that he is 'different' to his sister and parents. They mix with other 'upper class' people while Bill is more down to earth. Even his girlfriend seems a bit odd. All is revealed when Bill returns home to find a party in full swing. Not for the weak of stomach.
Plot Keywords: horror, science fiction, thriller, body horror, satire, black comedy, cult film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set in a charmingly surreal Paris, wealthy bachelor Colin spends his time developing his pianocktail (a cocktail-making piano) and devouring otherworldly dishes prepared by his trusty chef Nicolas. When Colin learns that his best friend Chick, a fellow acolyte of the philosopher Jean-Sol Partre, has a new American girlfriend, our lonely hero attends a friend's party in hopes of falling in love himself. He soon meets Chloe and, before they know it, they're dancing to Duke Ellington and plunging headfirst into a romance. Their whirlwind courtship is tested when an unusual illness plagues Chloe; a flower begins to grow in her lungs. To save her, Colin discovers the only cure is to surround Chloe with a never-ending supply of fresh flowers.
Plot Keywords: romance, fantasy, drama, french cinema, adaptation, surrealism, poetic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Middle-aged zoo worker Natasha still lives with her mother in a small coastal town. As she struggles for independence, she has to endure the absurd reality of her life filled with gossip spread by the women around her. She is stuck and it seems that life has no surprises for her until one day... she grows a tail. Embarrassed at first, Natasha decides to go further with the transformation and use it as an opportunity to redefine herself as a person and as a woman. With the new "accessory" she gets access to the life that she has never experienced before - she starts a relationship with a man, who finds her attractive, she goes out and allows herself to be foolish for the first time in her life. But her second puberty eventually comes to an end and Natasha has to make a choice between reality and illusion.—New Europe Film Sales
Plot Keywords: fantasy, drama, black comedy, surreal, female coming-of-age, social outcast, loneliness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Aloys Adorn is a middle aged private detective who lives and works with his father. He experiences life from a safe distance, through a video camera he keeps recording 24 hours a day, and the massive collection of surveillance tapes he organizes and obsessively watches at home. But when his father dies, Aloys is left on his own and his sheltered existence begins to fall apart. After a night of heavy drinking, Aloys wakes up on a public bus to find that his camera and precious observation tapes have been stolen. Soon after, a mysterious woman calls to blackmail him. She offers to return the tapes if Aloys will try an obscure Japanese invention called 'telephone walking' with her, using his imagination as their only connection. As he is drawn deeper and deeper, falling in love with the voice on the other end of the phone, the woman opens up a new universe that may allow Aloys to break out of his isolation and into the real world.—New Europe Film Sales
Plot Keywords: drama, mystery, psychological, loneliness, detective, memory, fantasy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Brigitte's on the run from Bailey Downs, and she tries to prevent what happened to her sister, Ginger, from happening to her by shooting up with monkshood. Eventually she collapses and the police that find her assume the monkshood is an illegal drug, and she is sent to rehab. She is deprived of the only thing that will stop her from turning into a beast and killing everyone and everything in her way. She meets a girl who is quiet and not well-liked, and much like herself, by the name of Ghost that helps her deal with her new problem and to escape the werewolf curse.
Plot Keywords: horror, werewolf, sequel, supernatural, dark comedy, teen, transformation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A fairy tale-like love story between young circus artist Lola and the bear Misha, who one day transforms into a human.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, romance, drama, fairy tale, surreal, romantic, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Gloria (Anne Hathaway) is an out-of-work girl who, after getting kicked out of her apartment by her boyfriend, is forced to leave her life in New York and move back to her hometown. When news reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, South Korea, Gloria gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to this far-off phenomenon. As events begin to spin out of control, Gloria must determine why her seemingly insignificant existence has such a colossal effect on the fate of the world.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, comedy, drama, monster, female lead, self-redemption, surreal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A dramatic thriller that centers on a fish-market employee who doubles as a contract killer.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, japan, tokyo, loneliness, music, sound ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A woman, madly in love, decides to organize the escape of her husband who has received a sentence of 18 years in prison.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, adventure, french film, 1990s, surrealism, poetic, female protagonist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jacob is a young man in Los Angeles, California who lives a life of isolation by day and works as a security guard by night. This is due to a rare skin disorder developed in his youth that prevents him from being exposed to sunlight. His world opens up when he meets and falls in love with a local bartender and secret druggie, Mary, recently departing a relationship with a drug dealer. Beginning to crave blood, as everyday food no longer cures his hunger, Jacob suspects he may be a vampire, though his physician, Dr. Barnes, diagnoses him to be anemic. His condition worsens and he goes from consuming animal blood to depending on human blood for medical sustenance, a necessity which brings out his violent tendencies on people in the city.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, vampire, independent film, dark, supernatural, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Carlos (Cheech Marin) failed in the show-biz and currently works as waiter in a Mexican restaurant. There he meets Alex (Emma Samms) and dumb footballer Bruce (Vernon Wells), who celebrate their engagement with her parents. Alex' father (Terence Cooper)is less than thrilled of her fiancée and says he'd rather accept anybody else. Eventually Alex hires Carlos to present him as her new fiancée. But her father sees through the game...—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: political allegory, identity, alienation, aftermath of war, symbolism, slow pacing, visual storytelling ...
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