| Her (2013) | 8.0 | |
| Moulin Rouge! (2001) | 7.5 | |
| Talk to Her (2002) | 7.9 | |
| Mr. Nobody (2009) | 7.7 | |
| Adaptation. (2002) | 7.6 |
Postmodern movies and TV shows – page 5
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New films
List of postmodern movies
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Midarezaki Ouka is used to having strange things happen to him -after all, he is the head of the Great Japanese Empire Paranormal Phenomena Bureau of Measures. But when he catches a small cat girl in the shopping district stealing apples, his whole ...
Style:
anime, absurd, surreal, demonic, parody ...
Plot:
supernatural, paranormal investigation, cross dressing, fish out of water, slice of life, government agency, urban, gender bending, satire, alternate history, harem, high school life
Time:
near future
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
All this unlucky guy wanted was to make a no-budget film. But everything went wrong. Actors quit and there isn't even a camera anymore. He finds an envelope in his postbox which contains a letter and a black pill. The anonymous sender writes ...
Style:
psychological thriller, independent film, existential, surreal, experimental ...
Plot:
a vision, filmmaking, hallucination, paranoia, mental breakdown, urban, obsession, identity crisis, claustrophobia, desperation, loneliness, self destructing ...
Place:
berlin germany
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Taking place in the fifth reality to be discovered by humanity, Into The Alternate follows an inhabitant and foreign visitor as they struggle to survive within a collapsing ecosystem.
Style:
avant garde, nature documentary, experimental, art house, surreal ...
Plot:
alternate reality, survival, unsettling, experimental narrative, adaptation, haunting, macabre, alienation, minimalism, intimate, parallel universe
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Two rival gangs try to obtain the five parts of a dangerous formula held by five scientists.
Style:
mysterious, poetic, enigmatic, surreal, art house ...
Plot:
secret formula, pursuit, chase, conspiracy, paranoia, obsession, agent, cold war era, identity, investigation, moral ambiguity, spy ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
In the old days it was called hypochrondria, or black melancholia. Now, apparently, it's termed the Asthenic Syndrome. Whatever it is, Nikolai, a teacher of epicly indifferent pupils, has got it, and it's not much fun.
Style:
art house, bleak, philosophical, tragicomedy, postmodern ...
Plot:
perestroika, alienation, existentialism, satire, bureaucracy, pessimism, melancholy, absurdism, midlife crisis, urban, bitterness, spirituality ...
Time:
year 1990
Place:
ussr, soviet union
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In a world of useless products, police brutality, pre-paid dreams and a list of Violations so long if you laugh too loudly you will be fined. Misner Corporation has invented a new source of energy which has given them a global monopoly on all facets ...
Style:
allegory, bleak, surreal, black comedy, dark comedy ...
Plot:
satire, consumerism, dystopia, authoritarianism, totalitarianism, anti establishment, propaganda, police brutality, rebellion, cult leader, urban decay, assassination ...
Place:
brazil, australia
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Established and up-and-coming stand-up comedians perform a surreal reconstruction of their own material. In each sketch the comedian plays the role they were born to play - themselves
Style:
funny, sketch comedy, feel good, humorous, sitcom ...
Plot:
satire, joke, stand up comedian, actor, comedian, social satire, humour, live performance, irreverent, club, variety show, improv ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Five episodes connects on a magic bus in the center of Budapest.
Style:
anthology, experimental, independent film, surreal, absurd ...
Plot:
urban, street life, social commentary, symbolism, magic realism, dark humor, satire, bus, urban legend, folklore, night, sadness ...
Place:
budapest, hungary
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After a failed suicide attempt, a young man coping with loss and depression, submits to a series of trials that fine-tune human emotions, but his unique reaction to the tests send him on a journey that transcends both physical and perceived reality.
Style:
surreal, psychological, existential, experimental, mind bending ...
Plot:
loss, grief, mental health, depression, consciousness, human experiment, identity, alienation, isolation, neuroscience, alternate reality, intimate ...
Time:
future, near future
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle is a comedy series created by Stewart Lee. The BBC Two series debuted on 16 March 2009, and featured stand-up routines filmed at The Mildmay Club in Newington Green, and sketches based on a weekly theme, featuring ...
Style:
ironic, captivating, feel good, light, entertaining ...
Plot:
satire, comedian, stand up comedian, humour, irony, monologue, deadpan, stand up comedy, dark humor, car, live performance, stand up ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Paula, a young supporting character, studies at the Main Character School and dreams on graduating to become a lead.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, satirical, entertaining, semi serious ...
Plot:
satire, dystopia, identity, social issues, life, social problems, lifestyle, female protagonist, freedom, self discovery, class struggle, bureaucracy ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
germany
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Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Canada, Luxembourg, India
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Delta State is a Canadian animated television series, based on a comic book by Douglas Gayeton, featuring four amnesiac roommates with the ability to subconsciously enter an ethereal realm known as the Delta State. They face the dual tasks of ...
Style:
anime, adult animation, captivating, atmospheric, mind bending ...
Plot:
mind control, superhero, parallel universe, creature, teamwork, fantasy world, superhero team, supernatural being, parallel world, paranormal activity, supernatural ability, dream world ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, War
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Two self-aware characters in a "Call of Duty" style video game struggle with their screwy, frustrating existence.
Style:
meta, funny, light, entertaining, futuristic ...
Plot:
video game, virtual world, battles, computer game, showdown, fight, gamer, satire, virtual reality, exploitation, role playing, identity crisis ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Debra, Debra, and Debra are three very busy women who are all named Debra. They live in the affluent suburb of Lemoncurd and do lots of interesting activities, which keep them very busy.
Style:
surreal, absurd, entertaining, funny, feel good ...
Plot:
housewife, satire, suburbs, suburban life, lifestyle, slice of life, wealthy family, female protagonist, deadpan, alienation, small town, women
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Five very different characters are thrown together in one weird, mashed up day. It started out like any other, but 24 hours later everything had changed. South West 9 takes you through the windscreen of the new millenium. The death of idealism, ...
Style:
multicultural, tense, postmodern, neo noir
Plot:
drug addict, rave, drug dealing, drug use, violence, urban, drug, rebellion, subculture, frustration, protest, alienation ...
Place:
england
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
In this live boosh presentation you will see Howard wrestle with the problems of the universe in tiny shorts while Vince gets his hair extra big and flounces about, Bob fossil's dance moves will turn you on then anger you over and over until ...
Style:
absurd, surreal, sketch comedy, satirical, captivating ...
Plot:
satire, live performance, musician, music, absurdism, variety show, irreverent, camp, performance art, urban, comedian, joke ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Wreck-It Ralph is the 9-foot-tall, 643-pound villain of an arcade video game named Fix-It Felix Jr., in which the game's titular hero fixes buildings that Ralph destroys. Wanting to prove he can be a good guy and not just a villain, Ralph ...
Style:
humorous, 3d animation, sweet, not serious, parody ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, teens, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
heroes, friendship, disguise, hacker, prejudice, disorder, master of disguise, good versus evil, imaginary, obsessive quest, villain, medal ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, year 1982, year 1987, 80s ...
Place:
california, usa
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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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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
Style:
neo noir, suspense, psychological, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
small town, murder, police investigation, psychopath, investigation, investigator, character study, police corruption, murder mystery, insomnia, death, guilt ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
alaska, persia, usa, north america, los angeles
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433K
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the ...
Style:
hilarious, funny, humorous, cult classic, parody ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
religion, monty python, satire, mistaken identity, absurdism, ancient rome, dark humor, medieval, ancient, roman empire, god, sarcasm ...
Time:
1st century, ancient times, biblical epic, 20th century, year 1979 ...
Place:
jerusalem, palestine, ancient greece, greece, middle east ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, France, Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and ultimately the fall of Versailles.
Style:
visually stunning, period piece, visual, costume drama, factual ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
queen, french revolution, historical character, french history, royal court, royal family, decadence, royalty, aristocracy, teenage girl, monarchy, princess ...
Time:
18th century, ancient times, year 2006, victorian era, georgian era ...
Place:
france, versailles, europe, austria, vienna ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Deathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a virgin's blood. They're welcomed at the crumbling estate of indebted Marchese Di Fiore, who's desperate to marry off his daughters to rich ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, sexy, grindhouse, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
vampire, rape, exploitation, blood, erotica, dracula, satire, supernatural, vampire bite, illness, sex horror, lesbian incest ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
italy, europe, paris france, england, romania ...
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26K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into ...
Style:
avant garde, realistic, semi serious, spiritual, meta ...
Plot:
filmmaking, filmmaker, hidden identity, trial, uncover truth, cons and scams, legal, courtroom, iranian, reporter, mistaken identity, true crime ...
Time:
year 1990, 20th century, 80s, year 1989
Place:
tehran iran, iran, middle east, persia, kurdistan ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, Italy, Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.
Style:
experimental, psychedelic, surreal, epic, art house ...
Plot:
shakespeare, book, surrealism, magic, magic realism, nudity, children, boy, shipwreck, library, daughter, skinny dipping ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 17th century
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A police detective is in charge of the investigation of a brutal murder, in which a beautiful and seductive woman could be involved.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, detective, neo noir ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
femme fatale, obsession, sex, nudity, manipulation, seduction, sexual tension, dangerous attraction, police investigation, murder, fatal attraction, strong sexual content ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, bay area, persia, oakland california, california ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his accomplices and active participants. Ben provides casual commentary on the nature of his work and ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, mockumentary, humorous, brutal ...
Plot:
serial killer, brutality, macabre, rape, violent, found footage, gory, satire, sadistic psychopath, visceral, art, dark humor ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1992
Place:
europe, brussels, belgium, brussels belgium
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Richard and Priscilla Parker are an ordinary suburban couple whose lives are invaded and rocked by their hedonistic, secretive new neighbors, Eddy and Kay Otis.
Style:
sexy, psychological, suspenseful, erotic, psychosexual thriller ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
swinger couple, wife swapping, mate swapping, swingers, sex, cheating on husband, murder, sexual content, manipulation, protagonist as suspect, lawyer, infidelity ...
Time:
90s, year 1992
Place:
san francisco
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Hungary, Italy, Germany, France
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
This story takes place in a small town on the Hungarian Plain. In a provincial town, which is surrounded with nothing else but frost. It is bitterly cold weather — without snow. Even in this bewildered cold hundreds of people are standing around ...
Style:
serious, philosophical, black and white, slow cinema, tense ...
Plot:
philosophy, surrealism, chaos, musician, delusion, circus, magic realism, social relations, danger, small town life, village life, european ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
Place:
hungary, europe
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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: Drama, Fantasy, History, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in America, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy, a rich but sheltered American girl who joins the growing ...
Style:
surreal, psychedelic, sexy, stylized, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, family outing, adult
Plot:
anti war, hippie, freedom, music, vietnam war, artist, dancing, love story, fall in love, political unrest, young lovers, passion ...
Time:
60s, year 2007, y2k, 20th century, year 1968
Place:
new york, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, california, manhattan new york city ...
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