Alice (1989), The Phantom of Liberty (1974), Persona (1966), Orpheus (1950), Le fantôme de la liberté (1974), Playtime (1967), Alice (1990), October (1928) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Visual Metaphor movies.
Storyline: Simon Pummell's epic movie tells the story of a human life, using found footage from the last 100 years of cinema, cut to a powerful score by Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead.
Plot Keywords: experimental film, documentary, visual art, music, death, growth, passage of time ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Following a banal incident in her local village, 8-year old girl Shula is accused of witchcraft. After a short trial she is found guilty, taken into state custody and exiled to a witch camp. At the camp she takes part in an initiation ceremony where she is shown the rules surrounding her new life as a witch. Like the other residents, Shula is tied to a ribbon which is attached to a coil that perches on a large truck. She is told that should she ever cut the ribbon, she'll be cursed and transformed into a goat.
Plot Keywords: fable, magical realism, female director, social critique, cultural conflict, child protagonist, tradition vs modernity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In London, the sideshow troupe of Doctor Parnassus promises the audience a journey to the "Imaginarium", an imaginary world commanded by the mind of Doctor Parnassus, where dreams come true. In the stories that Doctor Parnassus tells to his daughter Valentina, the midget Percy, and his assistant Anton, he claims to have lived for more than one thousand years; However, when he fell in love with a mortal woman, he made a deal with the devil (Mr. Nick), trading his immortality for youth. As part of the bargain, he promised his son or daughter to Mr. Nick on their sixteenth birthday. Valentina is now almost to the doomed age and Doctor Parnassus makes a new bet with Mr. Nick, whoever seduces five souls in the Imaginarium will have Valentina as a prize. Meanwhile the troupe rescues Tony, a young man that was hanged on a bridge by the Russians. Tony was chased until he finds and joins the group. Tony and Valentina fall in love with each other and the jealous Anton discovers that his ...
Plot Keywords: fantasy, adventure, surreal, allegory, magic, dreamlike, visual spectacle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: For nineteen-year-old Jay, Autumn should be about school, boys and week-ends out at the lake. But after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter, she finds herself plagued by strange visions and the inescapable sense that someone, something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay and her friends must find a way to escape the horrors, that seem to be only a few steps behind.
Plot Keywords: horror, psychological thriller, supernatural, teen, pursuit, curse, urban legend ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this cinematic concert, mesmerizing images are plucked from everyday reality, then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques. The result is a chronicle of the shift from a world organized by the principles of nature to one dominated by technology, the synthetic and the virtual. Extremes of intimacy and spectacle, tragedy and hope fuse in a tidal wave of visuals and music, giving rise to a unique, artistic experience that reflects the vision of a brave new globalized world.—Sujit R. Varma
Plot Keywords: experimental film, documentary, globalization, technology, soundtrack, passage of time, social commentary ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his social register fianceé can't accept the fact that he considers an appointment in the operating room more important that attending a cocktail party. He soon drifts into an affair with a pretty nurse who shares his passion for healing.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, science fiction, black and white, 1930s, american film, classic film, absurd ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A sound engineer's work for an Italian horror studio becomes a terrifying case of life imitating art.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, surrealism, horror, sound design, identity crisis, hallucination, british film ...
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: An artist (Anthony Higgins) trades 12 drawings for sex with the mistress (Janet Suzman) of a 17th-century English estate.
Plot Keywords: british film, period drama, art film, black comedy, mystery, 17th century, manor ...
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