Non-narrative
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    Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1994)

    A collage of short films blends together into a semibiographical account of the reclusive classical...

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    Waking Life (2001)

    A young vagabond (Wiley Wiggins) listens to such varied subjects as existentialism, evolution,...

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    Powaqqatsi (1988)

    Music by Philip Glass accompanies scenes of Third World exploitation.

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    Prospero's Books (1991)

    Shakespeare's exiled duke (John Gielgud) tells his tale in calligraphy in this version of ``The...

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    Roma (1972)

    Director Federico Fellini shows the strange Rome he sees as a boy (Stefano Majore), as a teen (Peter...

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    Cremaster 5 (1997)

    As an opera plays, the Queen of Chain sings and executes the grand gestures of romantic suffering...

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    Decasia (2003)

    A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage...

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    Naqoyqatsi (2002)

    Filmmaker Godfrey Reggio presents abstract images which reflect the proliferation of technology.

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    Cremaster 3 (2003)

    The third film of a five-part art-installation epic -- it's part-zombie movie, part-gangster film.

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    dresden

    A typical day in the life of Alex: she has drinks with her friend, fights with her boyfriend, goes...

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    Sans Soleil

    Based on letters from a globe-trotting cameraman, this is a literate, rueful and humorous meditation...

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    The Last of England (1989)

    A striking vision of a doomed England using home movies, Super 8 film and voice over narration.

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    1 1 (1969)

    About the making of The Rolling Stones' song, Sympathy for the Devil.

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    Latcho Drom (1994)

    The journey of the Romany people told through musicians and dancers of India, Egypt, Turkey,...

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    Money Buys Happiness (2002)

    The tale follows a three-day journey through the hills and valleys of a complicated marriage....

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    Black Moon (1975)

    A host of bizarre characters dominates a tale about a girl (Cathryn Harrison) on the run from...

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    Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)

    The story of a housewife who must work the streets to earn an extra living--and who becomes the...

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    Klimt (2007)

    A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt (Malkovich) whose lavish, sexual paintings came to...

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    Koyaanisqatsi (1983)

    Filmmaker Godfrey Reggio's scenes of nature without man give way to the human presence and its...

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    Flushed (1999)

    A hidden camera records the thoughts of the utilizers of the restroom in a drab nightclub.

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    Ecce Bombo (1978)

    A student struggles with disillusionment marking the transition of a youth generation from political...

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    Cremaster 2 (1999)

    A hallucinatory quiltwork of plots involving the sentencing of convicted killer Gary Gilmore, and...

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    Gerry (2003)

    After stopping their car for a hike, two men (Casey Affleck, Matt Damon) get lost in the desert...

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    Ballet (1995)

    Documentarian Frederick Wiseman records the principal dancers of the American Ballet Theater in...

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    Vertical Features Remake (1990)

    Tongue-in-cheek, early Greenaway short reflects the incredibly meticulous encyclopedic nature of his...

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    Life Is Nice (1991)

    A study of ennui, this non-narrative account details the idle lives of two youths and the girlfriend...

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    In Black and White

    Harold Perrineau stars as an African-American writer who, in a matter of hours, must give a speech...

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    Hotel (2003)

    Tourists, a reporter and an assassin cause problems for a filmmaker (Rhys Ifans) and his crew...

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    Clouds

    Film is a succession of skies around the world, and the images are super-imposed with letters Marion...

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    Cuarenta Anos Sin Sexo

    40 Years Without Sex, this non-narrative, skit-based satirical film's title in English, refers to...