Hagazussa: A Heathen's Curse (2017), Zama (2017), The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), Alice (1989), Andrei Rublev (1969), Kuroneko (1968), Ashes and Diamonds (1958), Wild Strawberries (1957) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Symbolism movies.
Storyline: In the 15th century, a young goatherd living alone in a mountain hut feels a dark presence in the woods.
Plot Keywords: horror, folk horror, psychological horror, medieval, supernatural, curse, isolation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the 18th century, a highly-placed servant of the Spanish crown who is obsessed with petty grudges and fantasies plots his transfer to Buenos Aires.
Plot Keywords: colonialism, historical drama, latin america, 18th century, bureaucracy, identity crisis, isolation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In an allegory of life after Gen. Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War, life in a remote village in the 1940s is calm and uneventful. Two little girls see a "Frankenstein" movie, and one of them starts wandering the countryside in search of this kind creature.
Plot Keywords: spanish cinema, child's perspective, symbolism, rural life, loneliness, classic film, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Czech director Jan Svankmajer's surreal adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic children's book, Alice (Kristyna Kohoutova) follows her stuffed rabbit through a portal inside her dresser to be whisked away to Wonderland. While the White Rabbit, Mad Hatter and Cheshire Cat are still present, the familiar magical world and bizarre characters have undergone an unsettling transformation in the director's vision through the stop-motion animation of dead animals, puppets and other assorted objects.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, adventure, dark, surreal, dreamlike, horror, gothic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A 15th-century Russian (Anatoliy Solonitsyn) who paints icons renounces his art after taking part in a peasant uprising.
Plot Keywords: historical, biographical, art, religious, medieval, russian, painter ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this ghost story based on a folk tale of feudal Japan, a group of samurai mercenaries led by Raiko Minamoto (Kei Satô) storm the home of Yone (Nobuko Otowa) and her daughter, Shigei (Kiwako Taichi), pillaging their food before raping and murdering the pair and finally burning the house down. When the samurai are set upon by vengeful vampire-like ghosts, it falls to the warrior Gintoki (Kichiemon Nakamura) to slay the malicious spirits, but his connection to the victims leads to conflict.
Plot Keywords: horror, supernatural, folklore, ghost story, black-and-white, period drama, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Communist commandant finds himself surrounded by the Polish resistance during the closing days of World War II.
Plot Keywords: war, polish cinema, world war ii, film noir, politics, moral dilemma, historical drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An old Swedish professor (Victor Sjöström) sees his life pass by in a series of nightmarish flashbacks.
Plot Keywords: drama, psychological, life reflection, loneliness, aging, dreams, memory ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A knock on the door leads to unfathomable grief as a man and his wife learn that their son died in the line of duty as a soldier.
Plot Keywords: war, family, tragedy, military, loss, grief, absurdity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Mediterranean fisherman's son (Massimo Troisi) slowly gains the confidence of an exiled Chilean poet (Philippe Noiret), who helps him woo a local barmaid (Maria Grazia Cucinotta).
Plot Keywords: post-apocalyptic, dystopian, survival, adventure, drama, war, hope ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A fire-breathing behemoth terrorizes Japan after an atomic bomb awakens it from its centuries-old sleep.
Plot Keywords: monster, sci-fi, disaster, nuclear fear, classic, black and white, horror ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: G.W. Pabst's account of a young woman's downfall emphasizes years of her catering to her sexual appetite.
Plot Keywords: silent film, psychological drama, moral decay, sexual liberation, tragedy, social criticism, fate ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Edmundo Nobile (Enrique Rambal) invites friends over for an opulent dinner party. While the guests enjoy their food, the servants disappear one by one. Afterward, the visitors retire to the salon for an evening of music and conversation -- but in the morning, they are mysteriously incapable of leaving the room. As days go by and they run out of food and water, panic and madness set in. The army and the police arrive, but fail in their attempts to enter the house as conditions inside deteriorate.
Plot Keywords: surrealism, black comedy, social satire, upper class, absurdity, psychological horror, fate ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An aging Swedish stage director's (Erland Josephson) ex-lover (Ingrid Thulin) and would-be lover (Lena Olin) visit him on the set.
Plot Keywords: drama, tv movie, swedish, psychological drama, theatre, actors, director ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On the island of Bora Bora, the islanders welcome Tabu (Hitu), a messenger from the chief who has come to declare the island's virgin successor. Tabu names the beautiful young Reri (Anna Chevalier), unaware that she has a lover, Matahi (Matahi). Despite Tabu's claim that if a man touches Reri, it will mean death for him, Matahi follows Tabu as he leaves the island, and kidnaps Reri. Enduring numerous hardships, the couple arrives at another island -- but find that Tabu's curse has followed them.
Plot Keywords: silent film, black and white film, romance, tragedy, colonialism, forbidden love, cultural clash ...
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