Allegory movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant allegory movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out allegory, surreal, weird, cult classic, psychological and thought provoking films and TV shows about / with storytelling, existentialism, dialogue, philosophy, runaway, mentor, murder, cult, catastrophe and society plots mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as allegory: Inception (2010), Arrival (2016), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), District 9 (2009), Zootopia (2016), Children of Men (2006), Eden and After (1970), The Matrix (1999), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Brazil (1985).
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2.8M
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another ...
Style:
psychological, mind bending, cerebral, clever, twist ending ...
Audience:
date night, teens, adult
Plot:
dream, virtual reality, memory, alternate reality, teamwork, imagination, subconscious, philosophy, twists and turns, fictional reality, existentialism, lucid dream ...
Time:
year 2010, future, 2000s, 2010s, near future
Place:
japan, paris france, los angeles, iran, tokyo ...
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852K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
Style:
psychological, philosophical, intellectual, reflective, twist ending ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
first contact, alien, female protagonist, linguist, ufo, extraterrestrial, alien contact, time, alien invasion, creature, science, alien race ...
Time:
year 2016, future, 2010s
Place:
montana, china, america, massachusetts, venezuela ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
A robotic boy, the first programmed to love, David is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David. Without final ...
Style:
philosophical, thought provoking, futuristic, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, teens, teen drama
Plot:
artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, androids and robots, androids, distopia, adoption, robot, imagination, boy, destiny, machine, child abuse ...
Time:
future, year 2001, 2000s, near future, distant future ...
Place:
new york, persia, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
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748K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA, New Zealand, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Aliens land in South Africa and, with their ship totally disabled, have no way home. Years later, after living in a slum and wearing out their welcome the 'Non-Humans' are being moved to a new tent city overseen by Multi-National United ...
Style:
serious, biting, suspense, tense, breathtaking ...
Audience:
chick flick, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
alien, extraterrestrial, distopia, space and aliens, alien encounter, metamorphosis, mutation, ufo, alien invasion, first contact, social commentary, transformation ...
Time:
year 2009, future, 2000s, year 2000, year 1982 ...
Place:
africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
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622K
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Determined to prove herself, Officer Judy Hopps, the first bunny on Zootopia's police force, jumps at the chance to crack her first case - even if it means partnering with scam-artist fox Nick Wilde to solve the mystery.
Style:
feel good, 3d animation, funny, witty, computer animated ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
anthropomorphic animal, anthropomorphism, furry, conspiracy, happy ending, female protagonist, stereotypes, friendship, racial relations, police, rabbit, discrimination ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, 21st century
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.
Style:
atmospheric, neo noir, depressing, apocalyptic, visually stunning ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
apocalypse, distopia, dystopia, chaos, redemption, end of the world, dystopian future, heroic mission, pandemic, fertility, post apocalyptic, dying ...
Time:
future, near future, distant future, year 2006, 2000s ...
Place:
england, london, europe, washington state, seattle ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a ...
Style:
fairy tale, allegory, surreal, sexual, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
innocence, teenage girl, folk horror, wedding night, surrealism, menstruation, folklore, magic realism, older man younger woman relationship, supernatural, female protagonist, vampire ...
Time:
19th century, year 1970, near future
Place:
central europe, eastern europe, europe, czech republic
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: France, Czechoslovakia, Tunisia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman. Once they sample his "fear powder" the students experience a series of hallucinations.
Style:
allegory, erotic, disturbing, avant garde, experimental ...
Plot:
surrealism, torture, unsettling, parallel universe, modernism, fetish, death, desert, nihilism, painting, eroticism, female nudity ...
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2.2M
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
Style:
philosophical, thought provoking, cerebral, mind bending, surreal ...
Audience:
date night, manly, kids, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot:
artificial intelligence, philosophy, dystopia, virtual reality, existentialism, distopia, cyberpunk, alternate reality, martial arts, gunfight, hacker, simulated reality ...
Time:
future, 20th century, year 1999, near future, 22nd century ...
Place:
persia, los angeles
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Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Demonic gang-leader Alex goes on the spree of rape, mugging and murder with his pack of "droogs". But he's a boy who also likes Beethoven's Ninth and a bit of "the old in-out, in-out". He later finds himself at the ...
Style:
disturbing, controversial, psychedelic, philosophical, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
psychology, insanity, dystopia, surrealism, gang, rape, violent, controversy, violence, psychopath, sociopath, murder ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 90s, 70s, 80s ...
Place:
britain, london, england, united kingdom, europe
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221K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent ...
Style:
surreal, cult classic, mind bending, psychological, futuristic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dystopia, dream, satire, distopia, cyberpunk, surrealism, surveillance, absurdism, fighting the system, bureaucracy, christmas, hallucination ...
Time:
future, year 1985, year 1984
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, brazil ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In 1997, the island of Manhattan has been walled off and turned into a giant maximum security prison within which the country's worst criminals are left to form their own anarchic society. However, when the President of the United States crash ...
Style:
retro, exciting, tech noir, apocalyptic, perverse ...
Audience:
manly, teens, boys' night
Plot:
prison, cyberpunk, dystopia, escape, post apocalyptic, race against time, rescue, post apocalypse, hostage, lone hero, taxi, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, near future, 80s, year 1997, year 1981 ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
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19K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Carol, a typical upper middle-class housewife, begins to complain of vague symptoms of illness. She "doesn't feel right," has unexplained headaches, congestion, a dry cough, nosebleeds, vomiting, and trouble breathing. Her family ...
Style:
atmospheric, independent film, medical horror, disturbing, allegory ...
Plot:
allergy, psychiatrist, environment, suburbs, psychology, paranoia, isolation, environmental, female protagonist, desert, contamination, housewife ...
Time:
80s, year 1995, 90s, year 1987
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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418K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Czech Republic
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
Style:
suspenseful, futuristic, thought provoking, allegory, philosophical ...
Audience:
date night, family friendly, chick flick, adult
Plot:
train, post apocalypse, survival, distopia, dystopian future, dystopia, revolution, rebellion, violence, social differences, class struggle, winter ...
Time:
future, near future, 2030s, year 2013, year 2014 ...
Place:
east asia, britain, south korea
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Teenage runaway Cheryl splits from Ohio and ends up in Los Angeles staying at an old rundown hotel full of weirdos. The weirdest of all is George and he has a crush on Cheryl.
Style:
allegory, slasher, psychosexual thriller, dark comedy, scary ...
Plot:
voyeurism, runaway, virgin, rat, alcoholic, photographer, electrocution, peeping tom, aunt niece relationship, electric shock, female friendship, reverend ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s
Place:
los angeles, usa
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89K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Ireland, Belgium, Denmark
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young woman and her fiancé are in search of the perfect starter home. After following a mysterious real estate agent to a new housing development, the couple finds themselves trapped in a maze of identical houses and forced to raise an ...
Style:
surreal, suspense, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
trapped, psychological torture, paradox, young couple, mysterious man, human experiment, suburbs, voyeurism, evil child, buying a house, evil wins, unhappy ending ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
Style:
allegory, surreal, philosophical, black and white, psychological ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
incest, disfigured face, brother sister incest, philosophy, new identity, existentialism, face, plastic surgery, plastic surgeon, disfigured, surgery, body horror ...
Time:
year 1966, distant future, 60s
Place:
japan, asia
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17K
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, erotic, eros, allegory, disturbing ...
Plot:
lgbtq, bourgeoisie, gay, gay interest, surrealism, seduction, sex, lgbt, mysterious stranger, visitor, parable, male nudity ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe, milan italy
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Genre: Drama, History, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa's In a Grove, story takes place during the times of Tsar Alexander II. A lady-in-waiting tells the Emperor in his bedroom a metaphysical story about a 13th century prince who is killed in the woods under mysterious ...
Style:
enigmatic, allegory, psychological, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
palace intrigue, murder, forest, murder mystery, multiple perspectives, prince, emperor, symbolism, metaphysics, testimony, whodunit, legend ...
Time:
19th century
Is relevant?
360
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Musical tale about a struggle between a good Scientist and his evil Shadow.
Style:
allegory, fairy tale, psychological, philosophical, poignant ...
Plot:
egoism, princess, betrayal, good versus evil, symbolism, identity, dual identity, greed, moral dilemma, selfishness, royalty, magic realism ...
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76
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Philosophic fairy tale about kind modest man whose shadow one day leaves him only to come alive and become his sinister treacherous antagonist.
Style:
allegory, philosophical, fairy tale, surreal, poetic ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
good versus evil, kindness, happy ending, redemption, jealousy, identity crisis, magic realism, transformation, palace intrigue, betrayal, love triangle, unrequited love ...
Place:
ussr
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Greece, Poland, Australia, Slovenia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Aris, a solitary man in his late thirties, becomes a victim of an unexplained surge of memory loss disorders in his city and is forced to confront his severe amnesia through an experimental new treatment.
Style:
allegory, psychological, disturbing, captivating, comedy drama ...
Plot:
memory loss, memory lapse, epidemic, losing-it hero, illness, memory, car crash, car, photograph, photography, dancing, party ...
Place:
greece, europe
Is relevant?
96K
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In Justine’s family everyone is a vet and a vegetarian. At 16, she’s a gifted teen ready to take on her first year in vet school, where her older sister also studies. There, she gets no time to settle: hazing starts right away. Justine is forced ...
Style:
bloody, dark, psychological, creepy, sensual ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
cannibalism, coming of age, cannibal, meat, school, sex scene, vegetarian, sister sister relationship, party, peer pressure, body horror, teenage girl ...
Time:
year 2016, year 2017, 2010s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home
Style:
visually stunning, offbeat, surreal, cerebral, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, date night, pre-teens, teen fantasy, kids ...
Plot:
circus, coming of age, fantasy world, magic, imaginary kingdom, alternate reality, alternate dimension, good versus evil, trippy, parallel universe, imaginary, drawing ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
brighton, england
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168K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, UK, France, Finland, Norway, Italy
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
A barren soundstage is stylishly utilized to create a minimalist small-town setting in which a mysterious woman named Grace hides from the criminals who pursue her. The town is two-faced and offers to harbor Grace as long as she can make it worth ...
Style:
art house, psychological, bleak, philosophical, cerebral ...
Plot:
rape, society, morality, twists and turns, victim, female protagonist, vengeance, gangster, rocky mountains, sex scene, making love, haunted by the past ...
Time:
1930s, year 2003, future, near future, year 2004 ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Janet and Brad Majors, unhappily married, are separated after appearing on a game show. Janet becomes a superstar while Brad is thrown into a mental hospital. But what does fast food magnate Farley Flavors have up his sleeve?
Style:
surreal, allegory, spoof, cult classic, horror musical ...
Plot:
satire, nervous breakdown, cheerleader, brainwashing, fictional game show, social commentary, small town, insanity, psychiatric hospital, surrealism, rock band, mental health ...
Time:
year 1981, 80s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Iceland, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Tells the story of Beatrice (Sarah Polley), a tabloid journalist whose fiancé is killed by a monster in Iceland. She ends up falling in love with the monster in the end. The monster is immortal, but longs to die. Beatrice helps him achieve this by ...
Style:
fairy tale, stylized, humorous, allegory, black comedy ...
Plot:
beauty and the beast, monster, satire, dangerous attraction, love and romance, haunted by the past, fish out of water, friendship, social commentary, mad scientist, hospital, creature ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
iceland, europe, reykjavik iceland, new york
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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:
black comedy, dark comedy, allegory, surreal, cult classic ...
Plot:
satire, firefighter, political satire, corruption, bureaucracy, fire, husband wife relationship, confusion, fire brigade, small town, renaissance, farce ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place:
czech republic, eastern europe, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A vampiric doctoral student tries to follow the philosophy of a nocturnal comrade and control her thirst for blood.
Style:
philosophical, creepy, black and white, art house, scary ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
vampire, philosophy, female vampire, addiction, infection, blood, transformation, drug abuse, university, existentialism, female protagonist, anti heroine ...
Time:
90s, year 1995
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
Is relevant?
306K
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed ...
Style:
futuristic, entertaining, black comedy, cyber, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids, teens, manly
Plot:
cyberpunk, robot, cyborgs, androids and robots, dystopia, robocop, police, revenge, graphic violence, law enforcement, satire, gory ...
Time:
future, near future, 80s, year 1987
Place:
usa, detroit, michigan
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