Movies: Allegory

Is there love after death? After he dies suddenly, the hapless advertising executive Daniel Miller finds himself in Judgment City, a gleaming way station where the newly deceased must prove they lived a life of sufficient courage to advance in their ...

A young man who lives with his mother and has never known his father, heads off to look for him. He finds a cynical and Machiavellian man who works as a publisher in Paris. After he attempts to kill him, he finds filial love thanks to his uncle....

500 years into the future, the earth is a dry wasteland destroyed by humans. Doctor Alma, a fluffy, brilliant Vulkeet (a cross between a parakeet and vulture) who drives a Vespa, must cure the only creatures left who can save the world by bringing ba...

The world is cloaked in winter. Christian Adkins is a Renegade soldier longing for peace and the son of the famed Liberator. Jen is an orphaned nurse desperately trying to save children. When the two soul mates are trapped together at the end of Worl...

The young but traveled Ana arrives in a manor in the countryside of Spain to work as nanny of three girls and finds a dysfunctional family....

A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious man called Duchemin. Once they sample his "fear powder" the students experience a series of hallucinations....

The film is an abstract allegory, showing two penguins with different ideas abot sea creatures that are their food or their shadows, depending on the perspective. Basically, sense-twisting animation....

The good-natured scholar Christian-Theodore arrives in a small country where miracles occur. He falls in love with the beautiful Princess, whose marriage is a matter of national importance, because her husband will become the new king. But unlike man...

A character is inside a cubical room; there is a hole in the roof, which is too high to reach. But pushing on the walls distorts the room in various ways, always appearing to bring the hole closer while still leaving it tantalizingly inaccessible....

A young engineer is supposed to do surveyings for a projected nuclear power station in an economically under-developed region and encounters strong opposition by the population. He realizes that the inhabitants are influenced by strange parapsycholog...

Leo gets abducted and carried around in the trunk of a car. The man who is holding him captive has a sinister plan. He gets Leo to bury corpses for him. In the process, Leo gets to speak with his ego and gets glimpses of his higher self. Will Leo get...

Blocks and balls fight simply because they are different, until their battle reduces everyone to the same shape....

A penniless, fast-thinking musician buys a lottery ticket which he glues to his back door, in hopes of eventually retrieving his instrument from his exasperating landlady. —but the ticket wins......

A surrealistic allergory on the loss of language and identity in the city from an indigenous perspective....

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In a lonely, rocky area dotted with human bones, the vulture takes its latest sacrifice. It then disappears into the rock hole to leave as a dove of peace with an olive branch in its beak....

Promising dancer Georgia Winters and her friends Atlas, Brighton and Stevie are changed forever when aspiring musician Kasper Hart enters their lives....

A mid-level automotive company employee is summoned to the mountain villa of owner Giovanni Nosferatu, only to discover a glossy netherworld where capitalism is the new vampirism, and escape may be impossible....

As a competitor in the most well funded pit-fighting organization in the world, a young Pitbull leads a revolt in a dangerous break for freedom....

A gothic allegory reinventing horror movie conventions while exploring the cyclical nature of life expressed through the romantic relationship between a lonely widow and her restless husband....