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Allegory
see all genres ›The allegory or parable frames basic human wisdoms in storytelling action and metaphor. This type of film has a lesson to teach, though the path getting there may be fraught with fantasy or gallows humor.
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Genres / Fantasy / Allegory
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The Bothersome Man
Forty year old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment, even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city but he discovers there's no way out. Andreas meets Hugo, who has...Start your free trial to watch
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December 7th
John Ford and Gregg Toland's DECEMBER 7TH was banned by the U.S. government for nearly fifty years. This restored version runs 82 minutes (with subtitles added to the controversial Japanese language sequences) whereas a censored 34 minute version of the film was released in the 1940s and earned John Ford his fourth Academy...Start your free trial to watch
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Evening Land
"In October 1975, I was invited by Stig Björkman, a Swedish filmmaker in charge of production for the Danish Film Institute, to begin research on a feature film which was to be funded chiefly by the Institute and two private producers, Steen Herdel and Ebbe Preisler. Together with Danish director/writer Poul Martinsen and...Start your free trial to watch
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Hell-Bent for Election
Chuck Jones took a break from directing Looney Tunes cartoons to make this labor-sponsored film for Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1944 Presidential campaign. It was produced by Industrial Film and Poster Service which, later rechristened United Productions of America (UPA), earned animation immortality with...Start your free trial to watch
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A Hot Stone
Based on a story by WWII-slain Soviet popular author Arkady Gaidar, this moral tale drawn in a distinctive, heroic storybook style finds a delinquent young boy trying to redeem his wrongs against a saintly village grandpa. But instead of accepting the supposedly magic, youth-restoring stone Aleksy has found, the old man...Start your free trial to watch
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I Am Jesus Christ
Jesus is back on Earth at Christmas only to find it’s become less about him and more about Santa and presents. Undaunted, he takes a job as a "Store Santa" to get the true meaning of Christmas out to the kids. But the modern world is no place for an out-of-touch savior. Can Jesus take back his holiday?Start your free trial to watch
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The Joy
THE JOY is a fairy tale about youth and courage. THE JOY tells the story of sixteen year old Luiza. She is tired of hearing about the end of the world. On Christmas Eve, her cousin João is shot in a poor neighborhood and disappears in the middle of the night. A few weeks later, while alone in her apartment in a middle class...Start your free trial to watch
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The Last of England
An apocalyptic roar of a movie, Derek Jarman's dizzying THE LAST OF ENGLAND is a lament for the country he once knew and what he feared it would become. One of Jarman's most experimental and overwhelming works, he has Tilda Swinton stalk through the remnants of industrial England, encountering visions of...Start your free trial to watch
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Madeinusa
MADEINUSA is a girl aged fourteen with a sweet Indian face who lives in an isolated village in the Cordillera Blanca Mountain range of Peru. This strange place is characterized by its religious fervor. From Good Friday at three o'clock in the afternoon (the time of day when Christ died on the cross) to Easter Sunday, the...Start your free trial to watch
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Marwencol
Outside a small bar in Kingston, New York, Mark Hogancamp was beaten nearly to death, his memories wiped away. Seeking recovery, he builds Marwencol, a miniature World War II-era town filled with doll versions of his friends, fantasies and even his attackers. As he documents the town’s dramas with his camera, the dolls become...Start your free trial to watch
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Men at Work
MEN AT WORK tells the hilarious story of four old friends who, driving back from a failed skiing trip, encounter a strange and enormous rock. The men's frivolous attempt to dislodge the rock gradually disintegrates into a tale of betrayal, defeat and renewed hope. The heroes of the film are doctors, engineers and businessmen...Start your free trial to watch
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Nada+
Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti's NADA+ is a remarkable debut feature that explores the repressive, crippling political and social aspects of today's Cuba while turning upside-down all of our comfortably clichéd expectations about the United State's island neighbor. Carla is a young postal worker who dreams of joining her...Start your free trial to watch
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Le quattro volte
LE QUATTRO VOLTE is an ineffably beautiful meditation on the mysterious cycles of life. Set in Italy's mountainous region of Calabria, it traces the path of one goat herder's soul as it passes from human to animal to vegetable to mineral. Director Michelangelo Frammartino was inspired by Pythagoras' belief...Start your free trial to watch
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Seven Servants
Archie is a rich old man who lives alone with his maid Anya. He is philosophical, funny and yet "incomplete" as a creature. He longs for affection, the true sensation of becoming "one" with all the creatures on the planet. He finds peace only when his body is energized by love and positive energy from others. He sees the...Start your free trial to watch
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Son of Man
In the state of Judea in southern Africa, violence, poverty and sectarianism are endemic. The neighboring Alliance has invaded under the pretense of restoring peace. Bloody street battles accompany the dictatorship’s incursion into its weaker satellite. Promises of a transition to open democratic rule are marred by summary...Start your free trial to watch
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Sotto il segno dello scorpione
Still active in their eighties with such well-received films as CAESAR MUST DIE, the Taviani brothers first made an international splash with this striking allegorical drama. Survivors of a disastrous volcanic eruption on one remote island flee to a neighboring isle where their forced cohabitation with the...Start your free trial to watch
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The Strange Case of Angelica
A beguiling film from master filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira, THE STRANGE CASE OF ANGELICA is a magical tale of a young photographer who falls madly in love with a woman he can never have (except in his dreams). Late one night, Isaac is summoned by a wealthy family to take the last photograph of a young...Start your free trial to watch
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Street of Crocodiles
Stephen and Timothy Quay's masterpiece, STREET OF CROCODILES is adapted from the book by Polish writer Bruno Schulz and was their first film shot on 35mm. A museum keeper spits into the eyepiece of an ancient peep-show and sets the musty machine in motion, plunging the viewer into a nightmarish netherworld...Start your free trial to watch