Movies: Symbolism

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. Lucy Worsley, Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, reveals that it has always been this way. Explo...

The Norwegian painter Edvard Munch is the author of a powerful body of work that is rooted in symbolism and expressionism. His most famous painting, "The Scream", painted in 1893, has become the symbol of existential anguish. He obsessively sought to...

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....

In the rural Ukraine, in a ghostly world where fantasy tears the veil of reality, life fiercely fights death every day and old values and vengeance reign over people's souls, Vitka, an imaginative and rebellious little girl, is the fascinated witness...

Dallas, an American golf tutor, arrives in a quiet Sydney suburb to teach at the local school and sets about causing chaos with the family she stays with....

During the excavation of ancient Roman ruins, an old archaeology professor accidentally opens the gate between our world and the world of the dead....

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Dark, tragic comedy about a judgmental mother who learns her teenage daughter is into much older men, testing relationships and perceptions as one woman's denial leads to 'exceptance.'...

In a small, poor town, a young worker falls in love with an actress from a traveling theater troupe and tries to keep her close, dreaming and working hard to rebuild a new town while the troupe increasingly faces decline and the end of its run....

This compelling film represents a rare record of an original genius. In Jung on Film, the pioneering psychologist tells us about his collaboration with Sigmund Freud, about the insights he gained from listening to his patients' dreams, and about the ...

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

"Lost in the Black Hole" is Bangladesh's first-ever symbolic cult horror short film, where the director/artist has experimented on the five metaphoric characters to represent the various meanings of things through expression, symbolism, and numerolog...

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 Quest....

Yes, here he is, the best preacher in the world, here to warn the country about the dangers of Satanism in America. Plenty of interviews with "victims of ritual abuse" recounting "true experiences" of their lives being destroyed by secret Satanic cul...

For anyone who has ever wondered just what that mysterious pyramid on the back of the dollar bill really represents, investigative mythologist William Henry digs deep into history to demystify the symbols that the founding fathers employed to represe...

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

"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 names "Bahr." Set against the challenging realities of camp life, Noon’s journey is both a story of res...

Full of determination and uncertainty, Nutmeg pursues her daydream to escape a dull reality with a Walkman and her case of few sentimental belongings....

A coroner reunites with a great love from the past, realizing that the memories are more vivid than ever....

A lyrical story about love and death, realized as a message....