A Canterbury Tale (1944), Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Orpheus (1950), The Home and the World (1984), Summer and Smoke (1961), They Might Be Giants (1971), Daughters of the Dust (1991), Faust (2011) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Poetic Narrative movies.
Storyline: A U.S. soldier (John Sweet), a British sergeant and a London girl (Sheila Sim) see minor miracles and catch a prude (Eric Portman).
Plot Keywords: english countryside, mystery, classic film, black and white, patriotism, cultural heritage, historical context ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A teacher and three schoolgirls at Appleyard College disappear in 1900.
Plot Keywords: mystery, drama, psychological thriller, historical, literary adaptation, female perspective, surrealism ...
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: When the movie opens, a woman is recalling the events that molded her perspective on the world. Years ago, her husband, a wealthy Western-educated landowner, challenged tradition by providing her with schooling, and inviting her out of the seclusion in which married women were kept, to the consternation of more conservative relatives. Meeting her husband's visiting friend from college, a leader of an economic rebellion against the British, she takes up his political cause, despite her husbands warnings. As the story progresses, the relationship between the woman and the visitor becomes more than platonic, and the political battles, pitting rich against poor and Hindu against Moslem, turn out not to be quite as simple as she had first thought.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: literary adaptation, indian cinema, nationalism, love triangle, social change, female awakening, historical drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Since childhood, spinster Alma Winemiller has loved handsome young Dr. John Buchanan, Jr.. But John has fallen hard for Rosa Zacharias, the town's sultry vamp, and descends into a seamy nightlife while ignoring Alma's dreams of romance and possible marriage.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, literary adaptation, psychological conflict, moral dilemma, loneliness, desire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: They Might be Giants chronicles the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in modern-day New York City. The fact that Sherlock Holmes is a psychotic paranoid and Dr. Watson is a female psychiatrist fascinated by his case is almost beside the point. Dr. Watson follows Holmes across Manhattan and is, against her better judgment, drawn into the master detective's world of intrigue and danger. This is a sweet, goofy and fairly romantic film that asks the questions "Whose reality is right...and does it really matter?"—John Gerrath <jagerrat@uoguelph.ca>
Plot Keywords: fantasy, adventure, comedy, musical, children, allegory, absurdist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Languid look at the Gullah culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia where African folk-ways were maintained well into the 20th Century and was one of the last bastions of these mores in America. Set in 1902.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: independent film, female director, historical drama, family saga, visual art, cultural heritage, female perspective ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A professor (Johannes Zeiler) meets a devilish moneylender (Anton Adasinsky) and sells his immortal soul in exchange for knowledge.
Plot Keywords: gothic, allegory, dark fantasy, moral dilemma, redemption, tragedy, supernatural ...
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: Spanning the 1910 decade, six years in the life of a girl named Chris, one of the numerous children of a tyrannical Scottish farmer. Years of high hopes and of disillusionment, of mirth and sorrow, of dreaming and toiling, of sweetness and violence, of love and hate, of peace and war. And in the end, the dignified loneliness of a new Chris, a woman who seems to have gone through several lives, now and forever as one with the land, the earth eternal...—Guy Bellinger
Plot Keywords: scotland, rural life, coming of age, female protagonist, literary adaptation, class conflict, tradition vs modernity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Star-crossed lovers (Harshvardhan Kapoor, Saiyami Kher) grapple with forces that try to keep them apart.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, fantasy, mythology, tragedy, musical, indian cinema ...
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