Symbolism movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant symbolism movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, psychological, surreal, disturbing, weird and serious films and TV shows about / with symbolism, surrealism, female nudity, blood, death, nude, existentialism, hallucination, nudity and violence plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as symbolism: The Lost Symbol (2021), Enemy (2013), Mother! (2017), The Da Vinci Code (2006), The Platform (2019), Subconscious Cruelty (2000), Nocturnal Animals (2016), The Annunciation (1984), Compulsion (2016), The Lighthouse (2019).
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The early adventures of young Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, who must solve a series of deadly puzzles to save his kidnapped mentor and thwart a chilling global conspiracy.
Style:
dramatic, enigmatic, suspense, tense, serious ...
Plot:
secret society, riddles and clues, kidnapped, secret service, symbol, symbolism, conspiracy, police investigation, conspiracy theory, kidnapping, investigation, secret ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
washington d.c.
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Spain, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
Style:
surreal, psychological, twist ending, mind bending, clever ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
doppelganger, obsession, mental illness, symbolism, paranoia, nightmare, lookalikes, infidelity, disturbed individual, spider, surrealism, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 2013, year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, twisted, mysterious, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
vandalism, symbolism, pregnant woman, surrealism, cannibalism, uninvited guest, nightmare, supernatural horror, death, riot, sex, pregnancy ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s
Place:
america
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Malta, France, UK
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
When the curator of the Louvre is found murdered in the famed museum's hallowed halls, Harvard professor, Robert Langdon and cryptographer, Sophie Neve must untangle a deadly web of deceit involving the works of Leonardo da Vinci.
Style:
exciting, intellectual, suspenseful, suspense, clever ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, family friendly, girls' night, adult
Plot:
conspiracy, treasure hunt, holy grail, religion, twists and turns, investigation, christianity, ancient mystery, riddles and clues, secrets, secret society, conspiracy theory ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 1st century, 21st century
Place:
london, italy, europe, paris france, england ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two people per level. An unknown number of levels. A platform with food for all of them. Are you one of those who think too much when they are up? Or of those who have no guts when they are down? If you discover it too late, you will not live out of ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological thriller, mind bending ...
Plot:
survival, struggle for survival, confined, food shortage, cannibalism, social injustice, prison, social differences, isolation, rivalry, danger, survival horror ...
Time:
future, 2010s
Place:
iberian peninsula
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A surrealistic anthology of horror films; four segments structured as an intense fever dream...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, rough, anthology, suspense ...
Plot:
symbolism, surrealism, dead child, torture, birth, killing, incestuous desire, pregnancy, cannibalism, extreme, danger, gory ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family ...
Style:
neo noir, psychological thriller, suspense, sexy, visually stunning ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, writers, husband wife relationship, abortion, murder, divorce, rape, loss of family, infidelity, flashback, rape and murder, art ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
texas, los angeles, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Annunciation (in Hungarian: Angyali üdvözlet) is a Hungarian film directed by András Jeles in 1984, based on The Tragedy of Man (1861) by Imre Madách. When Adam (Péter Bocsor) and Eve (Júlia Mérő), having succumbed to Lucifer's ...
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
bible, children, devil, symbolism, philosophy, angel, coming of age, religions or cults, obsessive quest, heroes, ancient history, time ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
ancient greece, athens greece, france, paris france, prague ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Sadie, a young female novelist, and an enigmatic woman named Francesca, are enticed by an ex-lover to join him at his Italian villa for a weekend celebration being held to honor the release of Sadie's latest book. Once there, Sadie begins to ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, surreal, psychological horror, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female captive, castle, sex orgy, lesbian interest, orgy, debauchery, lesbian lover, lesbian sex, surrealism, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, symbolism, lesbian ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The story of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Style:
black and white, minimal cast, suspense, gothic horror, mysterious ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
isolation, nightmare, lighthouse keeper, lighthouse, drunkenness, symbolism, hallucination, fight, storm, madness, violence, bird ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, 90s, year 2019, victorian era ...
Place:
new england, nova scotia, canada
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon investigates a mysterious symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. He discovers evidence of the unimaginable, the rebirth of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati, the most powerful ...
Style:
intellectual, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, satanic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, family friendly, adult
Plot:
conspiracy, illuminati, twists and turns, investigation, murder, riddles and clues, catholicism, danger, religions or cults, vatican, secret society, catholic church ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe, geneva switzerland, harvard university
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Denmark, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
1000 AD, for years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are escape, beginning a journey into the heart of ...
Style:
surreal, disturbing, bleak, art house, brutal ...
Plot:
viking, danger, norse mythology, death, lone wolves, warrior, vengeance, mute, all male cast, violence, nordic, new world ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 10th century, year 2009, ancient times ...
Place:
jerusalem, highlands, scotland, europe, holy land
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Poland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Style:
disturbing, sexy, dark, psychological, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
insanity, depression, cruelty, guilt, controversy, fear, violence, woods, female nudity, nudity, black magic, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
At the turn of the century, the Angels returned to Earth, seeking to wipe out humanity in an apocalyptic fury. Devastated, mankind's last remnants moved underground to wait for the day when the Angels would come back to finish the job. Fifteen ...
Style:
anime, mecha, psychological, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
kids, teens, teen drama
Plot:
loneliness, existentialism, self doubt, father son relationship, psychological trauma, loss, depression, giant robot, young heroes, post apocalypse, suffering, piloted giant robot ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
japan
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Some time ago, the asteroid Kumaria exploded in the depths of space. The resulting fragments became a meteor shower that rained down on Earth, and for some reason, bears all over the world rose up and attacked humanity! In "Man vs. Bear," ...
Style:
anime, yuri, psychological, avant garde, surreal ...
Plot:
bear, symbolism, lesbian, lgbt, schoolgirl, fight, young heroes, young woman, metaphor, identity, prejudice, social commentary ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Set in the thick of the Cold War, Red Son introduces us to a Superman who landed in the USSR during the 1950s and grows up to become a Soviet symbol that fights for the preservation of Stalin’s brand of communism.
Style:
adult animation, anime, suspense, heroic, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
superhero, monster, villain, violence, revenge, superman, symbolism, fictional city, artificial intelligence, reporter, journalist, human alien ...
Time:
2020s, year 1961, year 1967, year 1983, 1940s ...
Place:
russia, south korea, nevada, ussr, washington d.c. ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's ...
Style:
touching, retro, humorous, teen, clever ...
Audience:
date night, teens, kids, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
small town, coming of age, time travel, alternate reality, adolescence, parallel world, satire, utopia, siblings relations, fantasy world, small town life, american dream ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 90s, future, year 1998 ...
Place:
america, france, paris france
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A Mexican master leads a Christ figure and other disciples to a mountain of immortal wise men. The scandal of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky's flood of sacrilegious imagery and existential symbolism in The ...
Style:
surreal, psychedelic, avant garde, atmospheric, mind bending ...
Plot:
satire, trippy, alchemist, enlightenment, surrealism, hermaphrodite, sex, spiritual journey, sex scene, absurdism, hippopotamus, lsd ...
Time:
year 1973, 70s, 20th century
Place:
mexico, south america, latin america, peru
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to find a place to heal. But someone — or something — from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her, and what begins as simmering ...
Style:
suspense, surreal, slasher, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
folk horror, intruder, body horror, countryside, domestic violence, forest, pregnancy, loss of husband, rural setting, symbolism, death of husband, supernatural ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
london
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Col. Vincent Kane is a military psychiatrist who takes charge of an army mental hospital situated in a secluded castle. Among Kane's many eccentric patients is Capt. Billy Cutshaw, a troubled astronaut in the midst of an existential crisis. ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, philosophical, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
astronaut, atheism, mental illness, insanity, therapy, psychotherapy, nervous breakdown, nightmare, psychiatric hospital, castle, religion, insane asylum ...
Time:
year 1980, year 2016, 80s
Place:
vietnam, asia
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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, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave. The Exterminating Angel is a 1962 surrealist film, written and directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Silvia Pinal. Sharply satirical and allegorical, the film contains a view ...
Style:
surreal, dark comedy, black comedy, black and white, philosophical ...
Plot:
surrealism, religion, social satire, room, mansion, dinner party, absurdism, satire, class differences, piano, isolation, symbolism ...
Time:
year 1962, 20th century, 60s
Place:
spain, paris france
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Controversial, sexy and surreal tale of a messenger, his journey and encounters with many historical events and people such as Auschwitz, the Ku Klux Klan, Frida Kahlo, Cortés and Emiliano Zapata (as a beautiful woman!)
Style:
controversial, transgressive, art house, experimental, avant garde ...
Plot:
surrealism, symbolism, sexuality, latin american history, gender bending, ku klux klan, satire, absurdism, trauma, blasphemy, moral ambiguity, eroticism ...
Place:
mexico
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ukraine, Poland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The story revolves around rebellious five-year-old Vitka, her teenage cousin Larysa and Larysa’s boyfriend, a young criminal Scar. After the death of her father, Larysa wants a different life, even if the entire community condemns her love for ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, gloomy, realistic
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
symbolism, sex scene, outdoor sex, coming of age, abused woman, little girl, first love, misery, surrealism, widow, family problems, life is a bitch ...
Place:
ukraine
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
TV show
Story:
Zoe, Matt and Nate are three 13 years old friends that lives in a small town. But one day mysterious things start happening and the kids get into a weird world where humans are not welcome.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, entertaining, funny ...
Plot:
surrealism, friends, symbolism, adventurer, friendship, friend, teamwork, adventure hero, group of friends, girlfriend, fantasy world, dream world ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The mind is a terrible thing to waste
Style:
bleak, psychedelic, dark, mind bending, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
cult leader, betrayal, psychotic, symbolism, self mutilation, mental breakdown, trauma, hallucination, isolation, paranoia, captivity, claustrophobia ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
With 8 ½ Frederico Fellini leaves a self-portrait where dreams and reality are a mix. With help from a most excellent cast and unique scenery this self reflecting film is one of his master works.
Style:
psychological, art house, cerebral, philosophical, surreal ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
surrealism, childhood, filmmaking, midlife crisis, loneliness, stream of consciousness, flashback, memory, satire, catholic, dream, actress ...
Time:
20th century, year 1963, 60s, 1930s
Place:
italy, europe, paris france, france, england ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A suburban teen girl and her little brother must stop a terrifying internet meme brought to life by the hysteria of their parents.
Style:
tense, captivating, thrilling, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
supernatural, supernatural being, parents, evil, child abuse, symbolism, creature, monster, supernatural horror, social network, teenage life, mysticism ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Spain, UK
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A successful young doctor with a beautiful wife, a happy child, and a comfortable house finds his life suddenly changed in ways he never thought possible after being injured in a serious car accident. To the outside eye Lazar Perkov has everything ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, erotic, suspense ...
Plot:
making love, afterlife, couple relations, ghost, supernatural ability, destiny, sex scene, infidelity, symbolism, paranoia, danger, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
macedonia, former yugoslavia
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A series of uncanny déjà vu events force a man to re-examine his tragic past, memory, instinct, and future.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
losing-it hero, afterlife, obsession, haunted by the past, danger, nobody believes, death in the family, a vision, loss of daughter, mathematician, mental illness, redemption ...
Time:
1940s, 60s, 90s, near future, 21st century
Place:
usa
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