Symbolism Movies

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

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...

"A Lovely Place." by Melissa Adam Paulo Barbosa Inspired by Hotel California Hotels are familiar, but they are never truly home... Where every...

An old woman is carrying shopping bags. A child with a gun is riding a scooter. Birds are flying. A city is falling. A party is lit.

Today, few people's clothes attract as much attention as the royal family, but this is not a modern-day paparazzi-inspired obsession. Historian Dr....

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.

In a world where the real and the virtual overlap, a character tries in vain to escape the solitude in which spectacular-market society envelops us...

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...

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

A tormented painter, consumed by grief, begins a surreal journey after a visit from his partner. Through symbols and inner trials, he finds the...

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

A group of teenage boys at a sleepover begin an ordinary night together — but when one of them wakes up, he discovers something far beyond...

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

"The Boy Of The Fish" follows Noon, a young boy living in a Syrian refugee camp, who finds solace and a sense of freedom in a whale-shaped doll he...

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

Symbolic story about a person with a congenital disability who immersed himself in a paper world of ideas

An unnamed man peacefully sips cocktails at a nightclub. Simultaneously, an identical, unnamed man paints a self-portrait in an abandoned cabin in...

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.

Peccatum is a poetic coming-of-age story about two young women growing up in a secluded Christian community. When one of them loses her parents, she...