allegory
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    The Passion of Darkly Noon

    After the death of his parents, a young man roams the countryside and collpases from exhaustion. He...

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    The Fountain

    The various inhabitants of a crumbling apartment building in Moscow struggle to get by.

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    Angel of Fire

    Following an incestuous affair with her father, a pregnant 15-year-old trapeze artist is treated...

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    El Jardin de las Delicias

    The greedy relatives of an amnesic and paralytic 45 years old millionaire try him to recover his...

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    Per le Antiche Scale (1975)

    In this drama, set during the 1930s, the head shrink at an Italian insane asylum believes that...

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    Ubit Drakona

    Dragon, a bloody dictator, is challenged by Lancelot, who comes to save the girl, and to liberate...

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    Bolse Vita

    A portrait of a bunch of transients in Central Europe immediately after the fall of...

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    A Single Spark

    In 1970, Jeon Tae-Li, a young labor activist in South Korea, committed suicide by self-immolation as...

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    Frozen (1998)

    Shot in 1994, just five years after the Tiananmen Square incident, and based on a true story... A...

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    El Elefante y la Bicicleta

    Set in 1925 on an island off Cuba's coast, a fable about an ex-con who returns to his island...

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    Stalker

    Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker, an allegorical science fiction film like his earlier...

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    A Idade Da Terra

    Brazilian director Glauber Rocha has come up with a confusing socio-political film, a visual and...

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    Le Desert des tartares (1976)

    With fear and trepidation, the military division encamped in a desert fort await the return of a...

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    Ascendancy

    An interesting approach to the English-Irish tensions, this is the first feature film done by...

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    Poussiere d'Empire

    In an allegorical film meant to convey the durability of a people, Vietnamese director Lam Le...

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    Possession (1981)

    Usually misattributed to the horror genre, this challenging and highly unusual drama stars Isabelle...

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    Les Annees lumieres

    An astronomer discovers the Dream Galaxy and with it, the girl of his dreams.

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    Noa at 17

    Noa at Seventeen is set in Israel in 1951. Noa (Dalia Shimko) is the teenaged daughter of...

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    Dead of Night (1974)

    When a Vietnam war casualty (Richard Backus) returns to his parents (John Marley, Lynn Carlin), he...

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    Mephisto (1982)

    An actor (Klaus Maria Brandauer) in his prime sells out for glory in Nazi Germany.

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    Abwarts (1985)

    A stuck elevator is used as an allegory for modern German society in this provocative drama. Within...

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    Four Days in July

    Two couples in Northern Ireland, one catholic and one Protestant, find themselves seperated by...

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    Calmos (1977)

    Two middle-aged victims of the war of the sexes, Paul and Albert (Jean-Pierre Marielle and Jean...

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    Harvest 3000 Years

    An allegory of oppression and domination in the lives of a young girl, her family, and the landlord...

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    El Topo (2006)

    An experimantal tale in which classic Americana and avant-garde European cinema sensibilities meet...

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    La Decade Prodigieuse (1971)

    In this ponderous French mystery-drama, based on an Ellery Queen story, blackmail would seem to be...

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    Solaris (1975)

    A Soviet psychologist (Donatas Banionis) probes the unknown at a space station on a strange planet.

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    A Separate Peace

    Seven teenage prep-school students become young men as they face the realities of WW II in this...

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    La Grande Bouffe (1973)

    A group of men hire some prostitutes and go to a villa in the countryside. There, they engage in...

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    Jonathan

    Daring for its time, this speculative German movie uses vampirism as a metaphor for European...