The Man With a Movie Camera (1929), Winter Light (1963), La Notte (1961), 8 1/2 (1963), Orpheus (1950), La Collectionneuse (1967), La Dolce Vita (1960), The Silence (1963) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Modernism movies.
Storyline: Part documentary and part cinematic art, this film follows a city in the 1920s Soviet Union throughout the day, from morning to night. Directed by Dziga Vertov, with a variety of complex and innovative camera shots, the film depicts scenes of ordinary daily life in Russia. Vertov celebrates the modernity of the city, with its vast buildings, dense population and bustling industries. While there are no titles or narration, Vertov still naturally conveys the marvels of the modern city.
Plot Keywords: silent film, documentary, avant-garde, 1920s, black and white, visual poetry, everyday life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On a cold winter's Sunday, the pastor of a small rural church (Tomas Ericsson) performs service for a tiny congregation; though he is suffering from a cold and a severe crisis of faith. After the service, he attempts to console a fisherman (Jonas Persson) who is tormented by anxiety, but Tomas can only speak about his own troubled relationship with God. A school teacher (Maerta Lundberg) offers Tomas her love as consolation for his loss of faith. But Tomas resists her love as desperately as she offers it to him. This is the second in Bergman's trilogy of films dealing with man's relationship with God.
Plot Keywords: religion, crisis of faith, loneliness, pastor, black and white, existentialism, church ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Milan, after visiting dear friend Tommaso Garani that is terminal in a hospital, the writer Giovanni Pontano goes to a party for the release of his last book, and his wife Lidia Pontano visits the place where she lived many years ago. In the night, they go to a night-club, and later to a party in the mansion of the tycoon Mr. Gherardini. Along the night, Giovanni flirts with Valentina Gherardini, the daughter of the host, and then he receives a proposal to work for him in the area of communication and write the history of his company. Meanwhile, Lidia flirts with the playboy Roberto.
Plot Keywords: italian cinema, marital crisis, alienation, upper class, existentialism, black and white, literature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An Italian film director (Marcello Mastroianni) seeking the meaning of life retreats from his wife (Anouk Aimée), mistress and flatterers.
Plot Keywords: director, italian cinema, black and white, psychological drama, surrealism, art film, autobiographical ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Orphee is a poet who becomes obsessed with Death (the Princess). They fall in love. Orphee's wife, Eurydice, is killed by the Princess' henchmen and Orphee goes after her into the Underworld. Although they have become dangerously entangled, the Princess sends Orphee back out of the Underworld, to carry on his life with Eurydice.—<P.M.Laws@education.leeds.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: french film, black and white film, fantasy, poet, surrealism, love, art film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young man (Patrick Bauchau) tells himself high ideals are what kept him from sleeping with a temptress (Haydée Politoff) staying at the same St. Tropez boarding house.
Plot Keywords: 1960s, black and white, existentialism, love triangle, summer vacation, dialogue-driven, psychological analysis ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Journalist and man-about-town Marcello struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.
Plot Keywords: italian cinema, classic film, 1960s, high society, journalist, celebrity culture, existentialism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: "The Silence" is about the emotional distance between two sisters. The younger one is still attractive enough to pick up a lover in a strange city. The older one -- even though she is very ill -- would like to make a human connection also but cannot leave the hotel room. Traveling with the sisters is a small boy who escapes into the hotel, meets a troupe of dwarfs. Which sister is this little boy's mother?—Dale O'Connor <daleoc@interaccess.com>
Plot Keywords: thriller, mystery, crime, black and white, swedish film, psychological drama, existentialism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An art dealer (John Lone), his wife (Linda Fiorentino) and a U.S. artist (Keith Carradine) mix with Hemingway and Gertrude Stein in 1926 Paris.
Plot Keywords: historical, drama, art, romance, 1920s, paris, painter ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the suburbs of Rome, the translator Vittoria breaks her engagement with her boyfriend, the writer Ricardo, after a troubled night. Vittoria goes downtown to meet her mother, who is addicted to the stock market, and she meets the broker Piero on a day of crash. The materialist Piero and the absent Vittoria begin a monosyllabic relationship.
Plot Keywords: italian cinema, french cinema, romance, alienation, existentialism, cold war era, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A group of rich Italians head out on a yachting trip to a deserted volcanic island in the Mediterranean. When they are about to leave the island, they find Anna, the main character up to this point, has gone missing. Sandro, Anna's boyfriend, and Claudia, Anna's friend, try without success to find her. While looking for the missing friend, Claudia and Sandro develop an attraction for each other. When they get back to land, they continue the search with no success. Sandro and Claudia proceed to become lovers, and all but forget about the missing Anna.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, mystery, art film, italian cinema, existentialism, psychological ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Monsieur Hulot's brother-in-law is the manager of a factory where plastics are manufactured. His nephew grows up in a house where everything is fully automated and the boy is raised in a similar fashion. To take away the influence of the uncle on his son, his brother-in-law gets Hulot a job in his factory.
Plot Keywords: comedy, satire, french cinema, urban life, middle class, family relationships, nostalgia ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Paul Javal is a writer who is hired to make a script for a new movie about Ulysses more commercial, which is to be directed by Fritz Lang and produced by Jeremy Prokosch. But because he let his wife Camille drive with Prokosch and he is late, she believes, he uses her as a sort of present for Prokosch to get get a better payment. So the relationship ends.
Plot Keywords: art film, marital crisis, film industry, literary adaptation, existentialism, alienation, self-reflection ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. Then he meets a mysterious beauty, and also notices something frightfully suspicious on one of his photographs of her taken in a park. The fact that he may have photographed a murder does not occur to him until he studies and then blows up his negatives, uncovering details, blowing up smaller and smaller elements, and finally putting the puzzle together.
Plot Keywords: mystery, psychological thriller, art film, existentialism, realism, surrealism, photography ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Angela,a striptease artist, wants to have a baby and tries to persuade her boyfriend Emile to go along with the idea. Emile will have none of it so she goes after Emile's friend Alfred.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, musical, color film, paris, marriage, satire ...
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