Symbolism Movies

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,...

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

Disturbed by an irrational aversion to his house owner's unsettling left eye, man contemplates murder to escape the disturbing presence and restore...

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

From Malkuth to Kether and back, the whole spin of the wheel. A retelling of a series of dreams and visions experienced by the director in her Great...

Following a tragic event that shattered her life, renowned author Alice Chevalier struggles to find meaning in her existence. Searching for answers...

This compelling film represents a rare record of an original genius. In Jung on Film, the pioneering psychologist tells us about his collaboration...

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

This documentary interweaves films and voice recordings by Maya Deren with interviews featuring colleagues and contemporaries who worked with or knew...

An artist, surrounded by the mess in her studio, struggles with frustration as she tries to find inspiration for her new painting.

An old man's vision of a drowning world is clouded. He decides to take radical actions inflicting damage to his surroundings. Instigating a...

In Occupied Athens, a German woman, the wife of a Greek officer, falls in love with a teenage Jewish ice vendor. Love becomes fate: the woman dies...

Peccatum is a poetic coming-of-age story about two young women growing up in a secluded Christian community. When one of them loses her parents, she...

The Saudi family is following strict instructions from their grandfather to remain confined in the desert during the early 1990s. A series of events...

In a world where the real and the virtual overlap, a character tries in vain to escape the solitude in which spectacular-market society envelops us...

A coroner reunites with a great love from the past, realizing that the memories are more vivid than ever.

An old woman is carrying shopping bags. A child with a gun is riding a scooter. Birds are flying. A city is falling. A party is lit.

"A Lovely Place." by Melissa Adam Paulo Barbosa Inspired by Hotel California Hotels are familiar, but they are never truly home... Where every...