Symbolism Movies

A young orphan wakes up after wetting his bedsheet. Living under the supervision of nuns, he'll spend night and day attempting to amend his "mistake".

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,...

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

Full of determination and uncertainty, Nutmeg pursues her daydream to escape a dull reality with a Walkman and her case of few sentimental belongings.

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...

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

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

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...

A rare clip from 1994 warning of the dangers that lurk in America: homosexuals and Satanists.

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.

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

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

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