Symbolism Movies

Located in former West Berlin, Tempelhof Airport reflects the dramatic history of the 20th century. Once a Nazi showpiece, it later became a symbol...

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

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 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,...

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

During the excavation of ancient Roman ruins, an old archaeology professor accidentally opens the gate between our world and the world of the dead.

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

In a decaying house, various mystical and chaotic figures live together and roam the endless corridors with a mysterious purpose until the cycle is...

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

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 woman washes up on a beach and embarks on a surreal journey, encountering others and fragmented versions of herself in a quest for identity.

Five-year-old Vitka and her teenage cousin Larysa both yearn for a life beyond the archaic rules and restricting confines of their small, godforsaken...

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...

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...

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

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