Modernism movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant modernism movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out avant garde, art house, surreal, atmospheric, melancholic and stylized films and TV shows about / with modernism, female nudity, art, couples, loneliness, nude, surrealism, melancholy, female full frontal nudity and male nudity plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in France, Italy, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as modernism: The Moderns (1988), Bliss (2011), Bauhaus - A New Era (2019), Last Year at Marienbad (1961), L'Eclisse (1962), Red Desert (1964), Persona (1966), Mouchette (1967), Hour of the Wolf (1968), Mirror (1975).
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Nick Hart is a struggling American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920s Paris. He spends most of his time drinking and socializing in local café's and pestering gallery owner Libby Valentin to sell his paintings. He ...
Style:
clever, humorous, surreal, expressionism, realistic ...
Plot:
art, sensuality, artist, painter, writers, painting, forgery, collector, love, drinking, glamour, expatriate ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, new york, canada
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Bliss tells the story of Katherine Mansfield in her early 20s as she leaves New Zealand and begins her journey as a writer.
Style:
historical drama, poetic, period piece, sensitive, reflective ...
Plot:
modernism, biopic, writer's life, female protagonist, coming of age, character study, friendship, literary, female empowerment, writers, teenage girl, tuberculosis ...
Time:
edwardian era
Place:
england
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
1919. World War I has just ended. Dörte Helm, a young art student in Weimar, follows Walter Gropius’ call and joins the newly-founded Bauhaus school. A love story grows between Gropius and Dörte, adding fuel to the fire of the ensuing scandal ...
Style:
inspirational, historical drama, avant garde, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
interwar period, biopic, teacher student relationship, art history, artist, love, architecture, modernism, couples, fall in love, love affair, art school ...
Time:
year 1919, 1910s, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Takes place in a chateau, an ambiguous story of a man and a woman who may or may not have met last year at Marienbad.
Style:
surreal, mind bending, sexy, experimental, psychological ...
Plot:
hotel, surrealism, memory, obsession, uncertainty, stream of consciousness, alternate reality, amnesia, haunted by the past, dishonesty, hopes, destiny ...
Time:
20th century, year 1961, 60s
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed by the man's materialistic nature.
Style:
black and white, art house, philosophical, visual, neorealism ...
Plot:
stock broker, loneliness, sports car, minimalism, passion, art, love, great ending, existentialism, love story, unrequited love, crazy love ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s, 20th century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe, los angeles, usa ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Amid the modern wastelands and toxic factories of Italy, wife and mother Giuliana (Monica Vitti) desperately tries to conceal her tenuous grip on reality from those around her, especially her successful yet neglectful husband, Ugo (Carlo Chionetti). ...
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, realistic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
loneliness, depression, fog, ship, hypochondriac, extramarital affair, existentialism, mother son relationship, society, factory, passion, car accident ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
europe, italy
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer. Alma eventually ...
Style:
mind twisting, cerebral, surreal, black and white, sexual ...
Plot:
surrealism, mute character, actress, silence, patient, existentialism, medical, nordic, art, dream, alienation, insanity ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Robert Bresson plumbs great reservoirs of feelings with one of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film.
Style:
art house, black and white, depressing, contemplative, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
child abuse, coming of age, suicide, adolescence, minimalism, betrayal, sexual abuse, solitude, existentialism, children, poacher, humiliation ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, japan, tokyo, paris france
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An artist in crisis is haunted by nightmares from the past in Ingmar Bergman's only horror film, which takes place on a windy island. During "the hour of the wolf" - between midnight and dawn - he tells his wife about his most painful ...
Style:
gothic, creepy, atmospheric, surreal, black and white ...
Plot:
surrealism, macabre, insanity, nightmare, artist, island, isolation, insomnia, existentialism, obsession, mental illness, homosexual subtext ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe, europe, germany
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.
Style:
cerebral, atmospheric, surreal, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
childhood, surrealism, world war two, poetry, stream of consciousness, dream, winter, memory, coming of age, mirror, levitation, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1935, 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1975 ...
Place:
soviet union, russia, moscow russia, ussr, europe ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Biopic about Zelda Fitzgerald, as played by Natasha Richardson
Style:
melancholic, historical romance, period drama
Plot:
writers, mental illness, schizophrenia, alcoholism, marriage, biopic, modernism, female protagonist, flapper, hospitalization, socialite, tragic romance ...
Time:
1920s
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Year 1915. Helene Schjerfbeck lives as a forgotten artist with her elderly mother in the countryside. It has been years since the last exhibit, and Helene continues to paint only because of her passion. Everything changes when art dealer finds Helen ...
Style:
historical drama, romantic drama, period drama, beautiful
Plot:
female artist, male female relationship, older woman younger man relationship, sexual attraction, museum, mental breakdown, artist, mother daughter relationship, painter, unrequited love, art dealer, heartbreak ...
Time:
1910s, year 1915
Place:
helsinki finland, finland
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Weimar, 1921. The life of 20-year-old Lotte Brendel seems to be predetermined. Her father sees her as a future wife and mother on the side of a man who is to take over the parental carpentry business. But the idiosyncratic Lotte joins a group of ...
Style:
historical drama, avant garde, atmospheric, inspirational, educational ...
Plot:
art school, modernism, coming of age, female protagonist, gender roles, creative process, love story, feminism, student life, forbidden love, bohemian, intimate ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
germany
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Denmark
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
1983. The biggest architectural competition in history, both anonymous and open, is launched under the impetus of a new socialist president, François Mitterrand. Coveted by all the biggest international architectural firms, the competition is ...
Style:
historical drama, intellectual, period piece, inspirational
Plot:
architect, architecture, biopic, ambition, modernism, anonymity, legacy, french president, cold war era, perfectionist, bare chested male, fishing ...
Time:
80s
Place:
paris france, france, italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
TV show
Story:
The story takes place between the 1920s and 1950s in Greater São Paulo. Going through historical moments, such as the Week of Modern Art, the Revolution of 1924, the economic crisis of 1929 and the Vargas Era, there is the story of Yolanda ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, captivating, romantic, dramatic ...
Plot:
biopic, love and romance, love story, romantic relationship, brazilian history, urban, class conflict, female protagonist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fall in love, in love, relationships ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A biopic of seminal 20th century artist Leonard Foujita, a contemporary of Picasso and Modigliani, who was famous for mixing up European and Japanese styles.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, intercultural, avant garde ...
Plot:
artist, biopic, painter, art, painting, relationship problems, artists' life, family problems, social problems, world war two, modernism, identity ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
paris france, japan
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Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The film consists primarily of degraded footage of landscapes shot from vehicles moving across the country; meanwhile, 537 computer-generated permutations of the film’s title appear like subtitles—the letters are scrambled over and over again, ...
Style:
avant garde, experimental, art house, satirical, meditative ...
Plot:
landscape, travelogue, found footage, political satire, cross country, rehearsal, minimalism, modernism, journey, irony, haunting, anti establishment ...
Time:
60s
Place:
canada
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In 1977 France, the Ministry of the Future chooses two “normal,” white, middle-class citizens, Claudine and Jean-Michel, for a national experiment. They will be monitored and displayed on television for six months in a model apartment outfitted ...
Style:
black comedy, satirical, absurd
Plot:
male nudity, social experiment, privacy invasion, television, satire, media manipulation, dystopia, surrealism, propaganda, ethical dilemma, bureaucracy, consumerism ...
Time:
70s, future
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 216 min.
Story:
Fleeing from post-war Europe in 1947, a visionary architect and his wife settle in Pennsylvania where a wealthy and mysterious client changes their lives forever.
Style:
epic, bleak, saga, crying, serious ...
Plot:
architect, architecture, immigrant, holocaust survivor, library, sex scene, strong sexual content, male rape, oral sex, husband wife relationship, female nudity, hand job ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s, post world war two, 20th century, year 1953 ...
Place:
philadelphia, venice, pennsylvania, italy, israel ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s directors. Based on stories by the legendary writer Bohumil Hrabal, the shorts range from the surreally ...
Style:
anthology, avant garde, tragicomedy, fairy tale
Plot:
renaissance, surrealism, gypsy, motorcycle race, insurance agent, modernism, satire, fiancee, dark humor, pub, car, old man ...
Place:
czechoslovakia, eastern europe, prague, central europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the ...
Style:
art house, atmospheric, sentimental, surreal, visual ...
Plot:
coming of age, satire, surrealism, big breasts, mature woman, memory, fascism, group of friends, horniness, family life, social relations, human nature ...
Time:
20th century, year 1973, 1930s
Place:
italy, europe, rome italy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 193 min.
Story:
A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives pre-empted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.
Style:
surreal, experimental, mind bending, psychedelic, art house ...
Plot:
surrealism, female nudity, friendship, feminist, female friendship, summer, nudity, masturbation, nude girl, mind game, underground, time travel ...
Time:
year 1974, 70s
Place:
france, paris france, hong kong, africa, borneo
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Bourgeois convention is demolished in Luis Buñuel’s surrealist gem. Featuring an elegant soiree with guests seated at toilet bowls, poker-playing monks using religious medals as chips, and police officers looking for a missing girl who is right ...
Style:
surreal, satirical, humorous, art house, dark comedy ...
Plot:
satire, surrealism, sadomasochism, monk, chaos, religion, courtroom, society, mistaken identity, greed, visceral, estrangement ...
Time:
20th century, year 1974, 70s
Place:
france, paris france, europe, spain
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, History, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The final part of Pasolini's Trilogy of Life series is rich with exotic tales of slaves and kings, potions, betrayals, demons and, most of all, love and lovemaking in all its myriad forms. Mysterious and liberating, this is an exquisitely ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, semi serious, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
arabian nights, naked man, erotica, sex slave, sex, oral sex, erection, male nudity, nude young male, gay, sexual promiscuity, misandry ...
Time:
year 1974, middle ages, 8th century
Place:
middle east, arabia, iran, asia, nepal ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Casanova is a libertine, collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone, and is he really an interesting person? Is he really alive?
Style:
sexy, erotic, surreal, costume drama, art house ...
Plot:
casanova, womanizer, nobility, orgy, sex, voyeurism, sexual intercourse, passion, renaissance, looking for sex, biopic, bare breasts ...
Time:
18th century, year 1976
Place:
italy, venice, rome italy, france, europe ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In Madrid, the orphan sisters Irene, Ana and Maite are raised by their austere aunt Paulina together with their mute and crippled grandmother after the death of their mother and their military father Anselmo. Ana is a melancholic girl, fascinated by ...
Style:
political, surreal, psychedelic, mind bending, depressing ...
Plot:
childhood trauma, coming of age, flashback, insomnia, poison, adultery, adulterous husband, children, female nudity, orphan, youth, childhood ...
Time:
year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place:
iberian peninsula, spain, europe, madrid
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a ...
Style:
atmospheric, sexy, surreal, art house, sexual ...
Plot:
satire, surrealism, humiliation, sexuality, sex scene, unrequited love, manipulation, maid, female nudity, frustration, rich man, absurd humor ...
Time:
20th century, year 1977, 70s
Place:
paris france, spain, europe, madrid, france
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Genre: Biography, Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Already in his childhood, Pablo Picasso shows talent for painting and is sent to the Academy of Arts in Madrid. He becomes a painter but has to live in Paris in poverty. But one day he is discovered by a rich American millionaire and starts to earn ...
Style:
surreal, saga, semi serious, humorous, slapstick ...
Plot:
painter, art, artist, painting, art history, female nudity, famous, world war one, modernism, military, nude girl, couples ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, montmartre paris, paris france, spain, europe ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, West Germany
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Anna is a film director whose job takes her all over western Europe. In each place she either already has some intimate connection, or readily makes one. People seem drawn to her, but inevitably insist on sharing their inmost secrets and discontents ...
Style:
art house, contemplative, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
lesbian, on the road, women, feminist, female nudity, existential loneliness, nude girl, filmmaking, modernism, lgbtq, woman, woman peeing ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Place:
france, brussels, germany, belgium, europe ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Oldrich "Fajolo" Fajták (Marián Bielik), a student who directs quasi-existentialist verbal abuse at his girlfriend Bela Blazejová (Jana Beláková), takes off to a formally volunteer summer work camp at a farm where he meets her ...
Style:
brutal, avant garde, crying
Plot:
renaissance, architecture, destiny, modernism, children, harvest, swimming, sun, blind woman, country, voice over narration, agriculture ...
Time:
year 1962
Place:
eastern europe
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