Symbolism Movies

Art critic and broadcaster Waldemar Januszczak wrote and directed this examination of a man who was not only a great painter but sculptor, wood...

In a town where everyone is planning to leave, a young boy sees a shooting star as his ticket to escape. As he spends his final hours with his little...

In a decaying house, various mystical and chaotic figures live together and roam the endless corridors with a mysterious purpose until the cycle is...

a man in black clothes brings another man in white clothes to a deserted area and the man in white has to convince the man in black to not murder him.

A staged cinematic parable, it presents in symbolic images a painful diagnosis of Poles' sense of identity in the 1970s.

Seven colors are assigned to eat the food of their own color. They don't question it, until one of them wants to take a different path.

Tells the story a woman's life (and death) through poetry and symbolism.

"Lost in the Black Hole" is Bangladesh's first-ever symbolic cult horror short film, where the director/artist has experimented on the five...

A lyrical story about love and death, realized as a message.

The Norwegian painter Edvard Munch is the author of a powerful body of work that is rooted in symbolism and expressionism. His most famous painting,...

Meet Jonathan Noel, a man with an obsessive need for order, whose life is upended by the sudden appearance of a pigeon on his front porch. His...

For anyone who has ever wondered just what that mysterious pyramid on the back of the dollar bill really represents, investigative mythologist...

Living in a small rural town, with little available emotional help around her, a young woman returns for a visit to her therapist. She finally...

This documentary interweaves celluloid and voice recordings by Maya Deren, and colleagues who knew her firsthand: Jean Rouch, Jonas Mekas, Alexander...

A cinematic experiment inspired by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s music.