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...

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...

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

That which is above is like that which is below, and that which is below is like that which is above...also birdos and fishies are nice.

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...

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

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...

Tribal Strands is about two self-made Brooklyn hair artists, who create authentic hairstyles, leading the anti-hair discrimination movement. In...

Flor is a woman who suffers from anxiety, depression and agoraphobia, and who is secluded in her apartment for reasons beyond her control. To...

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 man breaks into people's houses at night and observes them, without stealing or violating anything. He simply looks, putting himself in their...

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

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...

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

Doina, a shepherd’s wife in ancient Romania, turns her daily routine into ritual. When nature foretells his death, her journey through grief...

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

Aurora, a young woman who is part of a religious sect with her mother, doubts the veracity of the words of Bernabé, the leader, and seeks a...

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...