In the Last Days of the City (2016), Mondays in the Sun (2002), La planète sauvage (1973), Let the Bullets Fly (2010), Bread and Chocolate (1974), Watership Down (1978), The Legend of Paul and Paula (1973), Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Political Metaphor movies.
Storyline: As a filmmaker in Cairo deals with a loss in his life, he struggles to make a movie that captures the soul of the city.
Plot Keywords: drama, art film, independent film, urban life, loneliness, memory, nostalgia ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Vigo, a port town in Spain, has fallen on hard times. The shipbuilding industry, which was a primary source of jobs, has laid off many workers. Several of these erstwhile shipbuilders spend their newfound free time at a local bar owned by their friend Rico (Joaquín Climent). The group is headed by Santa (Javier Bardem), a steadfast pragmatist who tries to keep the spirits of the men high. Troubles are many, however, including the marital problems of Amador (Celso Bugallo) and José (Luis Tosar).
Plot Keywords: unemployment, working class, social injustice, male friendship, resistance, spanish cinema, realism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Slaves and masters dominate the narrative of the faraway world of Ygam. Set around the lifespan of Terr, a minute human shaped Om slave, and pet, of the giant blue alien Draags. Escaping into the wilderness and with a device used for intellectual advancement of the Draags, Terr finds refuge and support from fellow Oms and using the learning tool, he finds that knowledge is power and then sets to use the new found knowledge to revolt against the Draag masters...
Plot Keywords: science fiction, animation, french cinema, surrealism, fantasy, aliens, dystopian ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A hoodlum (Chow Yun-Fat) feels threatened by his town's new governor (Wen Jiang), who is really a bandit in disguise.
Plot Keywords: action, comedy, crime, martial arts, black comedy, western, gunfight ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Italian immigrant tries to become a member of Swiss society but fails as a waiter and even as a chicken plucker. He then becomes involved with shady wealthy character and tries to hide his Italian identity. He refuses to give up no matter how awful his situation.—Bill Smith <bsmith30@ix.netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, immigration, social satire, italian cinema, working class, cultural clash ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Based upon Richard Adam's novel of the same title, this animated feature delves into the surprisingly violent world of a warren of rabbits as they seek to establish a new colony free of tyranny and human intervention.
Plot Keywords: animation, adventure, drama, fantasy, british, adaptation, novel adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A married bureaucrat (Winfried Glatzeder) and a single mother (Angelica Domröse) of two meet and fall in love.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, working class, life struggles, social critique, classic film, marital issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The geologist Lance Hackett is employed by an Australian mining company to map the subsoil of a desert area covered with ant hills prior to a possible uranium extraction. His work is impeded by some aborigines who explain that this is the place where the green ants dream. Disturbing their dreaming will destroy humanity they claim. Hackett informs the company which offers various "solutions" such as a large amount of money or a percentage of a possible revenue. Invited on a trip to a city some of the aborigines sees a military aeroplane and express the wish to own it. The company buys it and gives it to the aborigines as a sign of good will. A runway is made in the desert and the plane is flown to the location. All negotiations concerning the area fail and the dispute goes to a court of the Commonwealth. Parties and experts are heard, obstacles are met such as an aborigine who is the sole survivor of his tribe (and language) and therefore no-one understands what he is saying. Two of the aborigines take off in the plane despite that there is very little fuel left. The mining company wins legally and the aborigines morally. Some aborigines arrives from the mountains and tells about a big winged ant that had fallen from the sky.—Frank Dabelstein <frank@dabelstein.dk>
Plot Keywords: science fiction, german cinema, ecology, indigenous culture, dreams, social criticism, colonialism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In an alternate version of Oakland, Cassius Green gets a telemarketing job and finds the commission paid job a dispiriting struggle as a black man selling to predominately white people over the phone. That changes when a veteran advises him to use his "white voice," and the attitude behind it to make himself more appealing to customers. With a bizarrely high-pitched accent, Cassius becomes a success even as his colleagues form a union to improve their miserable jobs. Regardless, Cassius finds himself promoted a "Power Caller" selling the most morally abhorrent but lucrative products and services as his connection to his girlfriend and colleagues fades away. However, Cassius' conscience arises anew as he finds himself in the midst of his boss' bizarre world of condescending bigoted decadence and his sinister plans to create the perfect subservient work force with Cassius' help.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, comedy, satire, social commentary, surreal, critique of capitalism, labor rights ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Adam is a seemingly ordinary guy in a very extraordinary universe. He lives humbly trying to make ends meet, but his romantic spirit holds on to the memory of a girl he loved once upon a time from another world, an inverted affluent world with its own gravity, directly above but beyond reach... a girl named Eden. Their childhood flirtation becomes an impossible love. But when he catches a glimpse of grownup Eden on television, nothing will get in the way of getting her back... Not even the law or science!
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, romance, fantasy, dystopian, class divide, social allegory, visual effects ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. She speaks with a nondescript American accent, and it's impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity. We never learn why she made her decision -- she has made it already. We don't know whom she represents, what she believes in - we only know she believes it absolutely.—FaceFilm
Plot Keywords: independent film, thriller, drama, suspense, low budget, new york, psychological ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cornelius and Zira's son Caesar leads apes to revolution in this installment of the apes saga. Dogs and cats have been wiped out by a plague and now apes are household pets that are treated like slaves. Caesar has the intelligence to fight this oppression.
Plot Keywords: science fiction, action, adventure, dystopian, futuristic, social allegory, oppression ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young immigrant is shot down while illegally crossing the border. Terrified and in shock, wounded Aryan can now mysteriously levitate at will. Thrown into a refugee camp, he is smuggled out by Dr Stern, intent on exploiting his extraordinary secret. Pursued by enraged camp director Laszlo, the fugitives remain on the move in search of safety and money. Inspired by Aryan's amazing powers, Stern takes a leap of faith in a world where miracles are trafficked for small change.—Viktória Petrányi
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, thriller, supernatural, immigration, superpower, chase, europe ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The idea is simple: A married woman and a single man meet. They love, they argue, fists fly. A dog strays between town and country. The seasons pass. The man and woman meet again. The dog finds itself between them. The other is in one, the one is in the other and they are three. The former husband shatters everything. A second film begins: the same as the first, and yet not. From the human race we pass to metaphor. This ends in barking and a baby's cries.—Production
Plot Keywords: experimental film, french cinema, visual poetry, nonlinear narrative, existentialism, art film, sound design ...
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 ...
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