Symbolism Movies

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

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

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...

Yes, here he is, the best preacher in the world, here to warn the country about the dangers of Satanism in America. Plenty of interviews with...

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

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

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 young man, alone in his room, is visited by a mysterious voice, who forces him to reveal the murder he committed.

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 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".

Dark, tragic comedy about a judgmental mother who learns her teenage daughter is into much older men, testing relationships and perceptions as one...

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 cinematic experiment inspired by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s music.

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

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

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

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