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 art house, realistic, weird, surreal, thought provoking and sexy films and TV shows about / with modernism, loneliness, obsession, dialogue, runaway, melancholy, catastrophe, culture clash, couples and art plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in France, Italy, Czechoslovakia and other countries.
modernism
TOP 10 movies tagged as modernism: The Moderns (1988), The Little Soldier (1963), Last Year at Marienbad (1961), Jules and Jim (1962), Through a Glass Darkly (1961), A Taste of Honey (1961), A Woman Is a Woman (1961), Viridiana (1961), Mamma Roma (1962), Red Desert (1964).
Best films
List of modernism movies
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:
surreal, clever, humorous, sexy, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
art, artist, sensuality, writers, painter, forgery, collector, love, twists and turns, nude, cult, kidnapping ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
paris france, canada, new york, france, europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young woman who belongs to a left-wing terrorist group meet and fall in love. Complications ensue when the man ...
Style:
political, sexy, melancholic, art house, witty ...
Plot:
spy, assassination, politics, fighting the system, espionage, revolution, death, hotel, torture, assassin, protest, conspiracy ...
Time:
year 1958, 50s, 60s
Place:
france, paris france, middle east, europe, algeria ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
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, psychological, atmospheric, experimental ...
Plot:
hotel, surrealism, obsession, memory, uncertainty, stream of consciousness, alternate reality, amnesia, haunted by the past, dishonesty, hopes, destiny ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In Paris, before WWI, two friends, Jules (Austrian) and Jim (French) fall in love with the same woman, Catherine. But Catherine loves and marries Jules. After the war, when they meet again in Germany, Catherine starts to love Jim... This is the ...
Style:
art house, philosophical, sexy, talky, atmospheric ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
love triangle, friendship, marriage, love, relationships, women, love story, melancholy, couples, adultery, promiscuity, unrequited love ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, pre world war two ...
Place:
france, paris france, europe, germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her family's cottage on a tiny island. Her husband, Martin, cares for her but is frustrated by her physical withdrawal. Her younger bother, Minus, is ...
Style:
psychological, art house, philosophical, serious, surreal ...
Plot:
schizophrenia, insanity, mental illness, religion, psychology, existentialism, dysfunctional family, mental disorder, island, writers, loneliness, suicide attempt ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
sweden, scandinavia, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Focuses on a working class girl who is struggling to create a life for herself with her gay co-worker after becoming pregnant from a one-night stand with a black sailor.
Style:
sexy, talky, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot:
working class, coming of age, interracial relations, friendship, social realism, family relations, single parent, single mother, dysfunctional family, mother, isolation, lgbtq ...
Time:
60s
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Exotic dancer Angéla attempts to have a child with her unwilling lover Émile. In the process, she finds herself torn between him and his best friend Alfred.
Style:
melancholic, light, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Plot:
love triangle, love, pregnancy, infidelity, loneliness, dysfunctional family, couple relations, love and romance, couples, sexual relations, fall in love, relationships ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1961
Place:
paris france, tokyo, france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.
Style:
controversial, surreal, art house, satirical, disturbing ...
Plot:
satire, religion, surrealism, dark humor, voyeurism, nun, idealism, rape, farm, catholic, sexual deviant, dwarf ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
spain, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After many years working in the streets of Roma, the middle-age whore Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) saves money to buy an upper class apartment, a fruit stand and retires from the prostitution. She brings her teenage son Ettore (Ettore Garofolo), who ...
Style:
neorealism, serious, realistic, art house, sexy ...
Plot:
prostitute, youth, prostitution, family relations, redemption, life is a bitch, parents and children, thief, friendship, hopes, human nature, parent child relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, post world war two
Place:
rome italy, europe, italy, tokyo, mexico
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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:
thought provoking, psychological, realistic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
loneliness, factory, depression, fog, existentialism, society, ship, hypochondriac, car accident, anxiety, mother son relationship, female psychopath ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
europe, italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The film stars French New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud as Paul, a romantic young idealist and literary lion-wannabe who chases budding pop star, Madeleine (Chantal Goya, a real life Yé-yé girl).
Style:
philosophical, intellectual, talky, clever, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
relationships, women, politics, revolution, counterculture, sexuality, sex, violence, french, idealism, satire, modernism ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, usa, california
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13K
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Two teenage girls, both named Marie, decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world about them. This freewheeling, madcap ...
Style:
psychedelic, experimental, surreal, avant garde, art house ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
surrealism, nihilism, feminism, absurd humor, teenage girl, women, feminist, satire, female friendship, youth, coming of age, food ...
Time:
60s
Place:
czech republic, prague, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
A dark comedy about a murder and its consequences presented in a backwards manner, where death is actually a rebirth. The film starts with an "execution" of the main protagonist and goes back to explore his previous actions and motivations.
Style:
experimental, psychotronic, dark fantasy, avant garde, absurd ...
Plot:
surrealism, female nudity, modernism, tragic romance, wedding, funeral, prison, murder, decapitation, absurdism, horse race, murder of wife ...
Place:
central europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A film director, Jean, his producer, Marc, and his assistant, Lucette, board the Trans-Europ-Express in Paris bound for Antwerp. Once in their compartment it occurs to them that the drama of life aboard the train presents possibilities for a film, ...
Style:
slasher, erotic, experimental, sexy, talky ...
Plot:
train, rape, bondage, railway, surrealism, stranger on a train, parallel universe, modernism, fetish, bdsm, s&m, nude ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
france, belgium, europe, antwerp
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine ...
Style:
sexual, erotic, psycho sexual, sexy, surreal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prostitution, prostitute, sexuality, obsession, surrealism, infidelity, female nudity, sex, self discovery, brothel, sexual relations, sexual fantasy ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, europe, france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
Style:
political, art house, philosophical, thought provoking, biting ...
Plot:
revolution, politics, anarchist, marxist, modernism, reform, isolation, protest, university, marxism, roommate, communism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
france, paris france, europe, usa, britain ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia, Italy
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
In Milos Forman's satire on Communism set in a small Czechoslovakian town in the 1960s, the local firemen decide to organize a ball, however the proceedings are dogged by difficulty at every step. They plan to organize a beauty pageant at the ...
Style:
surreal, allegory, biting, witty, humorous ...
Plot:
satire, political satire, firefighter, corruption, theft, bureaucracy, small town, confusion, fire, husband wife relationship, suspense, farce ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
czechoslovakia, eastern europe, czech republic
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town. She will track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal ? What is her purpose?
Style:
neo noir, stylized, sexy, perverse, bloody ...
Plot:
revenge, justice, serial killer, murder, wedding, femme fatale, death, betrayal, police investigation, adultery, assassination, runaway ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, 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, bleak, stylized, gloomy, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, suicide, existentialism, solitude, sexual abuse, betrayal, children, child abuse, youth, innocence lost, humiliation, poacher ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
france, tokyo, paris france, europe, japan
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15K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
Style:
surreal, road movie, disturbing, experimental, art house ...
Plot:
satire, surrealism, murder, violence, traffic jam, cannibalism, anarchism, car, distopia, cruelty, car accident, nihilism ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, ...
Style:
humorous, sexy, art house, biting, thought provoking ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
private detective, existentialism, relationships, adultery, prostitution, coming of age, hotel room, couples, female nudity, loneliness, love story, suspense ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, tokyo, europe, montmartre paris
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. They are both looking for love, without being aware that their ideal partner is very close... A film where the scenario is much less important than its feeling of euphory, according to the ...
Style:
art house, romantic, inspirational, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
twins, dancing, ballet, painting, twin sister, love story, modernism, psychology, small town, cafe, school, nun ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
In Jan Němec’s surreal fable, a picnic is rudely transformed into a lesson in political hierarchy when a handful of mysterious authority figures show up. This allegory about oppression and conformity was banned in its home country but became an ...
Style:
psychedelic, mind bending, surreal, allegory, weird
Plot:
satire, surrealism, hound dog, picnic, totalitarian regime, holocaust, modernism, conformity, symbolism, tyranny, freedom, forest ...
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
The life of revered the 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova (Vilen Galstyan). Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women, including his ...
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, experimental, art house, disturbing ...
Plot:
surrealism, writers, poet, art, death, betrayal, magic realism, avant-garde, modernism, folk, lgbt, trippy ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
russia, caucasus, armenia, georgia (former ussr)
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14K
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger (Terence Stamp) arrives, makes love to every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he ...
Style:
surreal, allegory, art house, disturbing, erotic ...
Plot:
bourgeoisie, surrealism, sexuality, mysticism, mysterious stranger, gay, lgbt, homosexuality, parable, erotica, lgbtq, female nudity ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
italy, europe, milan italy
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 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:
surreal, atmospheric, bleak, disturbing, gothic ...
Plot:
surrealism, insanity, artist, isolation, suspense, existentialism, obsession, mental illness, island, diary, nightmare, macabre ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
scandinavia, sweden, eastern europe
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24K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The film is a caustic portrait of a traditional English boys’ boarding school, where social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. But three ...
Style:
surreal, disturbing, controversial, stylized, sexy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
revolution, social satire, private school, coming of age, boarding school, boys' school, school, violence, school shooting, teacher, surrealism, corporal punishment ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe, california
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22K
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A young, English working-class boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet falcon.
Style:
bleak, realistic, depressing, emotional, sad ...
Audience:
teens, kids, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, school, boy, childhood, working class, neglected child, child protagonist, bird, friendship, teacher, sibling rivalry, bullying ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
england, united kingdom, london, scotland, britain ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story is an allegory of Adam and Eve, in a modern (made in the '60s) Health Retreat. The action involves our hero wandering the grounds where she becomes obsessed with a mysterious man in red, who may or may not be a killer.
Style:
erotic, art house, surreal, allegory, experimental ...
Plot:
adam and eve, surrealism, modernism, woman, trippy, garden, swamp, nude, emotional blackmail, childish behavior, assassination attempt, farce ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
A judge in an unnamed country interviews three actors, together and singly, provoking them while investigating a pornographic performance for which they may face a fine. Their relationships are complicated: Sebastian, volatile, a heavy drinker, in ...
Style:
art house, sexy, serious, surreal, sexual ...
Plot:
existentialism, lawyer, modernism, actor's life, human nature, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, love and romance, couple relations, performer's life, dishonesty, society ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
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