Blade Runner 2049 (2017), The Swimmer (1968), Tuvalu (1999), Gok-seong (2016), Orlando (1992), Shadow (2018), The Oyster and the Wind (1997), Annihilation (2018) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Metaphorical movies.
Storyline: Eric's seemingly happy world comes to an abrupt end when a weird stranger, Henry, forces his way into his life. His annoying, cynical way of doing things pushes Eric to the brink of madness. But when more shady characters surface threatening to do him serious harm if he doesn't join in their dirty business, his life is destined to go right off the rails. Backed into a corner and with no way out, Eric has no choice but to rely on Henry. But can he be trusted?—Rotten T.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, thriller, mystery, psychological, experimental film, independent film, futuristic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Pre-teen Jeliza-Rose's parents are hopeless drug addicts. When pa, rocker Noah, finds ma's OD'd, he fears to be charged with homicide and takes Jeliza along to his ma's place, in a desolate country region. With Noah dead in his chair, the girl mentally transfers to a fantasy world she and her doll heads enter magically. Jeliza's adventures also star the crazy locals, notably Dell, and Dell's grown but intellectually disabled brother Dickens.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, dark, surreal, psychological, coming of age, horror, fairy tale ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A housewife (Lee Eun-Woo) becomes enraged with jealousy over her husband's (Cho Jae-Hyun) affair. Meanwhile, their son (Seo Young-Joo) sits in the periphery, observing their violent confrontations. One evening, the housewife takes a kitchen knife into their bedroom to exact revenge on the father. The father though is able to repel her attack and throws her out of the bedroom. The mother then goes into the son's room.—anonymous
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, thriller, mystery, psychological, surreal, art film, experimental ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A theatre director's latest project takes on a life of its own when her young star takes her performance too seriously.
Plot Keywords: experimental, drama, psychological, coming of age, surreal, female protagonist, theater ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An alien entity inhabits the earthly form of a young woman who combs the roads and streets of Scotland in search of the human prey she came to plunder. She seduces her isolated and forsaken male victims into an otherworldly dimension where they are stripped and consumed. However, existence in all its complexity begin to change the alien visitor. She begins to discover herself as human with tragic and terrifying consequences.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, thriller, mystery, art film, psychological thriller, british film, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A solitary man who does not speak Spanish is an underground courier. Two men who are both thuggish and philosophical send him to Madrid with cryptic instructions. Over the course of a few days, he receives his instructions from a series of distinctive individuals who provide words of philosophy or of warning and also give him a matchbox with a tiny piece of paper, which he reads then eats, accompanied by espresso served in two cups. He is quiet, self-contained, focused on his work. He has rules. He encounters and at times transmits a violin, diamonds, a guitar, and a map. Is he a smuggler? Merely an independent conduit? Or, something else?
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, mystery, art film, independent film, espionage, slow paced ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Michael Laemie (played by Brian Madorsky) is a young boy living in a typical 1950's suburbanite home... except for his bizarre and horrific nightmares, and continued unease around his parents. Especially his father, Nick Laemie (played by Randy Quaid). Young Michael begins to suspect his parents are cooking more than just hamburgers on the grill outside, but has trouble explaining his fears to his new-found friend Sheila, or the school's social worker.—Jeff Mercer <riffer@afn.org>
Plot Keywords: horror, comedy, black comedy, cannibalism, suburban life, family secrets, psychological thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jack and Judy are husband and wife, and Howard is Judys father. They live in some fictional undemocratic and repressive country, and tell us a story about their lives, mostly from Jack's point of view.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: drama, literary adaptation, psychological drama, intellectual, political, totalitarianism, social critique ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Paul and Marguerite have loved each other for five years, their love is organic, visceral and strong, constantly switching from the real to the absolute and from the absolute to the tragic. Paul wants to rebuild and master everything. He separates beings and things and puts everything in boxes. Marguerite is romantic and advances in discovery. There are no ulterior motives in his actions. Paul is part of a daily life, he is in the repetition of things. Unlike Marguerite, whose trajectory borrows a sense of purity and morality from tragedy. And obviously a sense of destiny.
Plot Keywords: independent film, experimental film, short film, 1990s, american film, art film, surrealism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 2270, Earth is completely depleted and no one lives there anymore. Those that have money move to Rhea; but most of the population lives in orbit in space stations. Dr. Laura Portmann decides to work in the cargo ship Kassandra in an eight year travel to Station 42 that is in orbit of RH278 to raise money to meet her sister Arianne in Rhea. They keep in touch with each other, but their messages take three years to reach the other. Laura joins Captain Pierre Lacroix and his crew composed by the First Officer Anna Lindbergh; Communication Officer Miyuki Yoshida and Igor Prokoff and Claudio Vespucci. The Sky Marshall Samuel Decker joins the team since the terrorist group Luddites, led by Klaus Bruckner, is bombing the stations. Lacroix organizes shifts of eight and half months for each crew-member while the others rest in cryogenic sleep. Three years and eight months later, Laura finds that there is apparently a stowaway in the cargo compartments and Decker and Lacroix are awakened to ...
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, thriller, horror, mystery, psychological, supernatural, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Martin (deceased) is stuck in a dead-end job, welcoming the newly departed into the afterlife. All he dreams of is going 'Up There'. But his plans are thrown into disarray when he has to team up with the relentlessly chirpy Rash and together they lose a new arrival. The mismatched pair give chase and end up in a remote seaside town populated by cocky teenagers, sinister old women and the enigmatic Liz, who has 'suicide written all over her'. Can they stop bickering long enough to find the lost soul? Will Rash be reunited with his brother Chunky? And can Martin get back in time to finally get 'Up There'? UP THERE is a killer comedy about life, death and irritating friends.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, mystery, supernatural, psychological thriller, independent film, british film, low budget ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Three separate stories of love, desire and/or obsession are presented. "The Hand" tells of the desire that builds in the several years long largely professional relationship (his profession) between Xiao Zhang, the apprentice to tailor Mr. Jin, and Ms. Hua, a prostitute, the two who meet when he is first sent to take her measurements for a new dress. Sexually inexperienced, that meeting awakens Zhang's sexual desires. The story takes place during a phase of Ms. Hua's life when she becomes ill, making her unable to work and thus live to the style to which she is accustomed. In "Equilibrium", Nick Penrose is having his first session with Dr. Pearl, a therapist, Nick's anxiety and thus want to see a therapist probably due to a combination of starting a new project with his colleague Hal in their job as advertising executives, and a recurring dream he is having about a woman who he doesn't know but knows in the dream, that woman who is not his wife, Cecelia. These issues may be at play but not quite in the way he expects as shown after this therapy session. And in "The Dangerous Thread of Things", Christopher and Cloe are probably coming to the end of their relationship. They still seem to love each other but don't seem to be able to be with each other in always arguing. Their relationship is affected by each individually encountering Linda, the girl who lives in the tower across the way from their house.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: erotic, art film, romance, desire, anthology film, international co-production, psychological ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A neuron-transfer scientist experiments with the thoughts of a comatose young woman.
Plot Keywords: science fiction, psychological thriller, romance, experimental film, surreal, dreamlike, forbidden love ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Strange as Angels tells the story of Marilyn Ross, a beautiful painter in Chicago who decides to leave her mundane life behind and search for inner happiness until she meets Rodney Porter, a recently divorced journalist and the two begin an intense romance. Marilyn's is a story about the complicated notion of female independence in a post-feminist era; she feels the pull of romance, sex and longing but fears that succumbing to her desire may wrench her individuality away. Marilyn's is a soul-searching journey that explores the question of whether it is better to seek happiness within oneself or rely on love for all of life's answers.—Neon Beach Press
Plot Keywords: fantasy, drama, romance, supernatural, independent film, american film, 2000s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Three friends -Französin (Lilo Baur), Franzose (Marco Calamandrei) and Leonie (Lisa Vicari)- living on a hot world due to the rise of temperatures head to the mountains, on the way the will encounter more than one obstacle. The first one will arrive on an oil station where they will meet an hostile men who will try to steal something of their car while searching for supplies on the inside of the oil station. Once gone, in the middle of the way they will be get trapped on the road and while part of the team search for oil on a car one of them will be abducted by a group of others men. Then, the real problems will just have started.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, horror, thriller, apocalyptic, survival, disaster, mystery ...
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