allegory
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    Lacombe, Lucien (1974)

    A French peasant boy (Pierre Blaise) falls in love with a Jewish girl (Aurore Clement) while working...

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    1984 (1956)

    George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting...

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    Next of Kin (1984)

    A troubled 23-year-old presents himself as the long-lost son of affluent Armenians in Atom Egoyan's...

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    Pound

    In a pound, 18 dogs wait to be adopted.

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    Soldier Blue

    A cavalry unit in Colorado is conducting two important cargoes to Fort Reunion, home of the 11th...

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    Buenos Aires Vice Versa (1997)

    Set in the crowded city of Buenos Aires, a tale about boy and a girl just out of adolescence, whose...

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    Life in Color

    A young boy living under the repression of the Franco regime finds solace and everyday comfort with...

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    Follow Me Home (1997)

    Four urban muralists set out on a cross-country road trip to repaint the White House with the colors...

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    Moonlighting (1982)

    Jeremy Irons portrays Nowak, one of four Polish laborers, living in England. In exchange for a place...

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    The Accompanist (1993)

    In 1942, during the German occupation of France, an impoverished and highly impressionable young...

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    The Addiction (1995)

    A New York anthropology grad student turns into a vampire after getting bitten by one, and then...

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    Antonia's Line (1996)

    A dying elderly woman (Willeke Van Ammelrooy) recalls returning to her Dutch hometown after World...

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    Death By Hanging (1971)

    A Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but he survives the execution. For the following two...

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    White Dog

    Keys is a trainer attempting to reprogram a vicious dog who's been trained to attack and kill people...

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    The Convent (1995)

    Professor Michael Padovic is working on a thesis to prove that Shakespeare was of Spanish, not...

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    Na Srebrnym Globie

    The labyrinthine plot deals with a group of space researchers who left the Earth to find freedom....

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    The Big Animal (2004)

    Mr. Zygmunt Sawicki, a bank employee and respectable member of a small-town community, sees a camel...

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    The Swimmer (1968)

    Based on John Cheever's story about a middle-aged man's reflections on life while traversing...

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    Monanieba (1987)

    Repentance (Pokayaniye) features Avtandil Makharadze in a dual role. As Georgian mayor Varlam...

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    Theorem (1968)

    The various members of a middle-class Milanese household are deeply affected by the arrival, and...

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    Prova d'Orchestra (1979)

    An orchestra assmbles for a rehearsal in an ancient chapel under the inquisive eyes of a TV...

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    Quintet (1979)

    During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called...

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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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    Deathwatch (1980)

    Director Bertrand Tavernier provides an unexpected feminist slant to the otherwise standard sci-fi...

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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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    The Day of the Locust

    An art director in the 1930's falls in love and attempts to make a young woman an actress despite...

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    Public Access (1995)

    To all outward appearances, Brewster is an idyllic little town with wide, clean streets, green parks...

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    Gabbeh (1997)

    On the banks of a stream in southeast Iran, an old woman and her husband are washing their gabbeh....

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    Woman in the Dunes (1964)

    Symbolic parable about a man who wanders into a seaside village, where he falls into a deep sandpit...

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    Cronicas (2005)

    To help secure his release from prison, a man (Damián Alcázar) tells a tabloid reporter (John...