Kontroll (2003), They Call Me Jeeg (2015), Millions (2004), Borgman (2013), Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011), Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014), Looks That Kill (2020), The Invention of Lying (2009) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Modern Fable movies.
Storyline: Ghost trains and ghostly characters, figuratively speaking of course, are what run through the perpetual night of this underground metro system. Bulcsú's (Sándor Csányi) life that once was, on the surface, where the real people go home after work, who go to the movies or a fine restaurant is now replaced by the dark, cold and solitude arena of his new dwellings. He, and his motley crew of ragtag metro ticket Kontrollers must patrol the trains that run these City dwellers back and forth and with daily ritual, check that no one dare come down into their world for a free ride. With indifferent passengers, a possible love interest, a regime set on competition and to top it all a mysterious serial killer at large, Kontroll is a dark and bleak comedy of the world of the ticket inspector, who, in the end must keep this Metro system running. If not, what would be the worst that could happen, if they ever lost control? Dare you ride here for free, too?
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, black comedy, surrealism, urban loneliness, underground world, social outcasts, crime ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The film is a strange and anti-hero transposition of a very popular animated manga cartoon in the 80's called Steel Jeeg. Here, a young outlaw (Enzo) is somehow affected by radioactive waste in the Tiber waters in Rome. He subsequently finds out he has gained super powers and interprets them as a reward for never having managed to enter the criminal world that counts. The inside joke reveals itself when Enzo meets Alessia, who believes the charming hero is the personification of the hero in the cartoon she used to watch.
Plot Keywords: superhero, antihero, crime, action, comedy, dark humor, superpowers ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The UK is about to switch its currency from Pounds to Euros, giving a gang a chance to rob the poorly-secured train loaded with money on its way to incineration. But, during the robbery, one of the big bags falls literally from the sky on Damian's playhouse, a 7-year old given to talking to saints. The boy then starts seeing what the world and the people around him are made of. Ethics, being human and the soul all come to the forefront in this film.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, family, comedy, drama, children, adventure, british film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A priest and his companion hunt silently through the fields, accompanied by a braying dog. They are armed and deadly. Their quarry is Camiel Borgman (Jan Bijvoet), living in military sparseness in an underground den, near companions Ludwig and Pascal. Camiel scrapes out with some difficulty, hitching a ride with a doomed truck driver on a relentless trip to the heart of suburbia. He passes by two odd women, Brenda and Ilonka, with whom he seems to share a history. When a dirty Camiel arrives at the door of artist Marina and media executive Richard's expansive, designer-chic home, the shifting perceptions of Van Warmerdam's screenplay begin to displace and disorient the audience. Hallucinogenic elements dot the consciousness as Camiel shifts between the roles of victim and aggressor. He asks for a bath. He toys with Richard's jealousy. He is viciously beaten up by his cruelly intolerant host and left wounded on the floor. Marina seeks to assuage her guilt by allowing him a space for ...
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, black comedy, surrealism, home invasion, social parable, class conflict, moral ambiguity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A visionary sheik believes his passion for the peaceful pastime of salmon fishing can enrich the lives of his people, and he dreams of bringing the sport to the not so fish-friendly desert. Willing to spare no expense, he instructs his representative to turn the dream into reality, an extraordinary feat that will require the involvement of Britain's leading fisheries expert who happens to think the project both absurd and unachievable. That is, until the Prime Minister's overzealous press secretary latches on to it as a 'good will' story. Now, this unlikely team will put it all on the line and embark on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible, possible.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, comedy, british film, novel adaptation, dreams, faith ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A jaded Japanese woman becomes convinced that a satchel of money buried and lost in a fictional film, Fargo, is in fact, real. With a crudely drawn treasure map and limited preparation, she escapes her structured life in Tokyo and embarks on a foolhardy quest across the tundra of Minnesota in search of her mythical fortune.
Plot Keywords: adventure, drama, independent film, journey, loneliness, fantasy, quest ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story of a teenage boy who deals with the ups and downs of being lethally attractive.
Plot Keywords: youth, comedy, romance, fantasy, black comedy, coming of age, curse ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's a world where everyone tells the truth - and just about anything they're thinking. Mark Bellison is a screenwriter, about to be fired. He's short and chunky with a flat nose - a genetic setup that means he won't get to first base with Anna, the woman he loves. At a bank, on the spur of the moment he blurts out a fib, with eye-popping results. Then, when his mother's on her deathbed, frightened of the eternal void awaiting her, Mark invents fiction. The hospital staff overhear his description of Heaven, believe every word, and tell others. Soon Mark is a prophet, his first inventive screenplay makes him rich, and he's basically a good guy. But will that be enough for Anna?
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, fantasy, social satire, original story, humor, dystopian ...
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: When his dysfunctional family clashes over the holidays, young Max (Emjay Anthony) gets disillusioned and turns his back on Christmas. Meanwhile, this lack of festive spirit unleashes the wrath of Krampus: a demonic force of ancient evil intent on punishing non-believers. All hell breaks loose as beloved holiday icons take on a monstrous life of their own, laying siege to the fractured family's home and forcing them to fight for one another if they hope to survive.
Plot Keywords: horror, comedy, dark fantasy, christmas, monster, family, supernatural ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The internal minister's very sophisticated ultra-technological and plated car stops for a mechanical accident in front of a villa. The owner of the villa is De Andreis that immediately offers his help to save the minister entrapped inside the car. Everything has to be done in secret to avoid a scandal within the Roman politic world. Many attempt are done but the result is unexpectedly terrific.—1felco
Plot Keywords: political satire, comedy, italian cinema, social critique, bureaucracy, black comedy, 1980s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: As he eases into adulthood at the age of forty, Conrad Valmont (Jason Bateman), the over-educated, under-employed heir to the Valmont Hotel fortune, is cut off from his allowance following his parents abrupt divorce and tossed out into the unforgiving streets of the Upper West Side. Luckily, he is taken in by his old friend Dylan (Billy Crudup), and returns the favor by immediately falling for Dylan's girlfriend Beatrice (Olivia Wilde). As Conrad attempts to woo Beatrice while keeping both their relationship and his bank balance secret, Dylan tries to set him up with Jocelyn (Jenny Slate). Ever committed to the charade that he eventually finds difficult to maintain, Conrad quickly realizes his charm can only extend so far into debt. Now deep into an extensional reflection, will it take losing everything to make Conrad realize what he can truly become?
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, drama, urban, new york, life transition, relationships ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A charismatic womanizer receives his comeuppance after his penis mysteriously leaves his body and takes human form.
Plot Keywords: comedy, fantasy, romance, sex comedy, supernatural, absurd, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bez Stone (Alec Baldwin) is in the midst of the worst day of his life: His manuscript has been rejected by Daniel Webster (Anthony Hopkins) ; he has lost his job, and he's broke. After accidentally killing an elderly woman with his typewriter, Bez makes a desperate bargain with a sexy devil (Jennifer Love Hewitt) for 10 years of success. Then things really go to hell.
Plot Keywords: comedy, fantasy, drama, romance, moral dilemma, new york, writer ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Steve Brooks (Perry King), a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he must have a sincere relationship with a female and make her fall in love with him. If not, Steve's soul will become the property of the devil (Bruce Martyn Payne). But the devil hedges his bet, and Steve is reincarnated as a woman named Amanda Brooks (Ellen Barkin).
Plot Keywords: comedy, fantasy, body swap, romance, workplace, sexism, social satire ...
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