The World of Apu (1959), Children of Paradise (1945), Ugetsu (1953), Regular Lovers (2005), The Rules of the Game (1939), La Strada (1954), Days of Heaven (1978), Three Seasons (1999) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Poetic Realism movies.
Storyline: Set in a small town in North Carolina, George Washington is the story of a tight-knit multi-racial group of working-class kids caught in a tragic lie. After a twelve-year-old girl breaks up with her boyfriend for a sensitive, deeply introspective thirteen-year-old boy named George, a bizarre series of events and an innocent cover-up launches their insular group on individual quests for redemption.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: independent film, drama, coming of age, american south, poverty, childhood, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Mussolini's Italy, late 1930s: the Finzi-Contini are one of the leading wealthy Jewish families. Their adult children gather friends for tennis and parties at their lovely grounds, with the rest of the world at bay, while politics close in.—OJT
Plot Keywords: world war ii, italian cinema, historical drama, fascism, love story, tragedy, jewish culture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Lemmy Caution, an American private-eye, arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet. His very American character is at odds with the city's ruler, an evil scientist named Von Braun, who has outlawed love and self-expression.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, film noir, dystopian, artificial intelligence, existentialism, detective story, totalitarianism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young German (Rudiger Vogler) and his companions (Hanna Schygulla, Hans Christian Blech) discuss dreams, poetry and politics.
Plot Keywords: road movie, drama, 1970s, existentialism, self-discovery, loneliness, identity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: There are two parts to this film: sequences of life in the fishing village of La Pointe Courte (a government inspector's visit, the death of a child) alternate with others following a couple - He is from La Pointe Courte, she is Parisian - coming to terms with their changing relationship.—Alison Smith <mla22@cc.keele.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: art film, black and white, experimental film, realism, marital relationship, social class, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On New Year's Eve, a beautiful but penniless young woman (Catherine Hessling) trudges through the snowy streets of Paris attempting to sell matches to the wealthy passers-by. After staring longingly into the windows of restaurants at the safe and warm patrons within, the match girl attempts to escape the snow and cold by huddling into a corner near a toy shop. As the girl tries to warm herself with her matches, the shop's window display comes alive and beckons her into a fantasy world.
Plot Keywords: silent film, drama, short film, black and white, tragedy, poverty, holiday film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Captain Smith is spared his mutinous hanging sentence after captain Newport's ship arrives in 1607 to found Jamestown, an English colony in Virginia. The initially friendly natives, who have no personal property concept, turn hostile after a 'theft' is 'punished' violently on the spot. During an armed exploration, Smith is captured, but spared when the chief's favorite daughter Pocahontas pleads for the stranger who soon becomes her lover and learns to love their naive 'savage' way of harmonious life. Ultimately he returns to the grim fort, which would starve hadn't she arranged for Indian generosity. Alas, each side soon brands their own lover a traitor, so she is banished and he flogged as introduction to slavish toiling. Changes turn again, leading Smith to accept a northern-more mission and anglicized Pocahontas, believing him dead, becoming the mother of aristocratic new lover John Rolfe's son. They'll meet again for a finale in England.
Plot Keywords: history, romance, adventure, drama, epic, cultural clash, nature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young Cajun boy named Alexander Napolean Ulysses Latour spends his time on a Louisiana bayou. There he plays, fishes and hunts, worrying only about the alligators which infest its waters. The boy's innocent routine changes forever when his father signs a lease agreement with an oil company which brings a derrick into their corner of the bayou.—Shannon Patrick Sullivan <shannon@mun.ca>
Plot Keywords: documentary, american film, black and white, 1940s, louisiana, child's perspective, rural life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: JR has broken up with her professor. She enlists her nervous and obnoxious younger brother Colin to take a short road trip in order to help move out her belongings. They bicker and fight, with one another and pretty much anybody they encounter, before being brought to a place of togetherness and understanding as a result of being pushed away by everybody in their lives except one another.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, poet, literature, usa, independent film, art ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a story set during the Hundred Years War, a student who has abandoned his studies in Paris, pairs with a young noblewoman with whom he has fallen in love.
Plot Keywords: love, death, medieval, war, historical drama, romance, tragedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Yosemite Valley Railroad, which runs through the breathtaking scenery and stunning vistas of the Merced River Canyon to its terminus at El Portal outside Yosemite National Park, is on the brink of failure. The grandson of a Chinese railroad laborer embarks on a romantic, but ultimately doomed, quest to save this railroad from being sold for scrap. His love of trains finds him working as a railroad-man, instead of at his father's profitable business. He manages to locate a wealthy eccentric investor to help him acquire the railroad, but its financial inviability makes this a quixotic reprieve, at best. The film also portrays the anti-Asian racism present in America at the conclusion of World War II.—Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>
Plot Keywords: independent film, black and white film, drama, historical, coming of age, american film, 1990s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Immigrant radical Bartolomeo Romagna is falsely condemned and executed for a payroll robbery. Years later, his son Mio sets out to find the truth of the crime and to bring to account the gangster Trock Estrella.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: drama, crime, film noir, mystery, courtroom, revenge, father-son relationship ...
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 ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The spiritual and peace-loving Chen resides in London's Limehouse district, where he teaches and promotes peaceful Buddhist concepts. He is attracted to the beleaguered Lucy Burrows, whose prizefighter father beats her persistently. When Chen rescues Lucy from one of her father's attacks, the boxer sets out to avenge himself on the foreigner.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, tragedy, black and white, silent film, classic, social issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cuba's embracement of Communism is honored in four vignettes dramatizing life before Fidel Castro and the revolution.
Plot Keywords: black and white, epic, historical drama, collectivism, cold war era, class struggle, collective memory ...
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