Symbolism Movies

In a small, poor town, a young worker falls in love with an actress from a traveling theater troupe and tries to keep her close, dreaming and working...

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".

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

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

Dorothy (Fiona Samuel), a lone swimmer, luxuriates in tranquil bliss at a deserted pool — only to have her solitude rudely interrupted by a...

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...

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

A story of praise and destruction. A story of worshipping the darkness in the sky. Of contempt in death. Of the crown of thorns stuck in the stone...

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

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...

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

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

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

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,...

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

In a desolate world of endless horizons, black-clad figures drift through shifting states of emotion, identity, and self.

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.

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

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