Expressionism movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant expressionism movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out expressionism, serious, atmospheric, weird, psychological and stylized films and TV shows about / with death, violence, blood, macabre, murder, deadly, storytelling, danger, surrealism and brutality plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Horror genres shot in USA, UK, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as expressionism: Deadly Maria (1993), Kafka (1991), The Aerial (2007), Edvard Munch (1974), Valhalla Rising (2009), The Elephant Man (1980), Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988), Dark City (1998), The Cremator (1969), Sleepy Hollow (1999).
Best films
List of expressionism movies
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
40-year Maria is living in a monotonous and deadlocked marriage with her husband. In addition, she has to take care of her ill despotic father. One day, she falls in love with her sensitive neighbour Dieter. But her attempt to leave her gloomy ...
Style:
mystical, expressionism, tense, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
housewife, bad father, trippy, dysfunctional family, daughter, oppression, neighbor, revenge, daydreamer, parents and children, couples, family problems ...
Time:
90s
Place:
germany, europe, northern germany, hamburg germany
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11K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. ...
Style:
surreal, black and white, philosophical, cerebral, cult classic ...
Plot:
writers, conspiracy, art, politics, paranoia, distopia, paranoid, biopic, murder, death, surrealism, insanity ...
Time:
year 1991, 1910s, 20th century, year 1919, 18th century
Place:
central europe, prague
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Argentina
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
La Antena (English: The Aerial, 2007) is an Argentine drama film, written and directed by acclaimed film director Esteban Sapir. The film features Alejandro Urdapilleta, Rafael Ferro, Florencia Raggi, and others. The movie begins with a pair of ...
Style:
surreal, expressionism, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
distopia, totalitarianism, family relations, social decay, mind control, dishonesty, society, life is a bitch, human nature, revolution, corrupted ruler, child in peril ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 210 min.
Story:
A biographical film about the Norwegian Expressionist painter Edvard Munch. It was originally created as a three-part miniseries co-produced by the Norwegian and Swedish state television networks, but subsequently gained an American theatrical ...
Style:
expressionism, art film, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
painter, painting, biopic, artist, art, art history, philosophy, disease, possessiveness, child, women's rights, passion ...
Time:
year 1974, 19th century, 1870s, 1880s, 1860s ...
Place:
germany, paris france, berlin germany, copenhagen, oslo norway
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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: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Based on the true story of Joseph ...
Style:
emotional, touching, psychological, sad, poignant ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
disability, hospital, dignity, freak, melancholy, disfigurement, social misfits, cruelty, isolation, hopes, biopic, humanism ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, ancient times, 20th century, turn of the century ...
Place:
england, london, britain, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Ainar the lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofrieder in a Gimli of old.
Style:
surreal, black and white, avant garde, expressionism, independent film ...
Plot:
surrealism, smallpox, hospital, dying mother, village, epidemic, dead woman, cat, medical, seagull, fishing village, hallucination ...
Time:
year 1988, 20th century, 1900s, turn of the century
Place:
iceland, canada
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225K
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
Style:
neo noir, suspense, atmospheric, tech noir, mind bending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
memory, investigation, alternate reality, cyberpunk, distopia, amnesia, alien race, dream, virtual reality, mind control, memory loss, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, year 1998, distant future, 1940s, 90s ...
Place:
persia
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Kopfrkingl enjoys his job at a crematorium in Czechoslovakia in the late 1930s. He likes reading the Tibetan book of the dead, and espouses the view that cremation relieves earthly suffering.
Style:
dark comedy, surreal, black comedy, psychedelic, gothic ...
Plot:
crematorium, world war two, insanity, murder, anti semitism, father murders son, surrealism, renaissance, death, mental disorder, arthouse horror, funeral ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1969, year 1938, year 1939
Place:
czech republic, eastern europe, ussr, europe, prague ...
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410K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
New York detective Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of mysterious deaths in which the victims are found beheaded. But the locals believe the culprit to be none other than the ghost of the legendary Headless Horseman.
Style:
gothic, dark, scary, atmospheric, dark fantasy ...
Audience:
family friendly, chick flick, teens, horror for children
Plot:
supernatural, witch, ghost, murder, investigation, supernatural horror, magical, witchcraft, small town, horseman, goth, legends and myths ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 19th century, 90s, year 1999 ...
Place:
new york, new york state, britain, america, madagascar
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818K
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dames, desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge, others lust ...
Style:
neo noir, atmospheric, surreal, dark, anthology ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids, adult
Plot:
corruption, justice, revenge, comic book, vengeance, gory, vigilante, redemption, dark hero, hitman, dystopia, distopia ...
Time:
year 2005, y2k, 80s, 90s, 2000s ...
Place:
texas, iran
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1K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Edvard Munch was one of the most important artists in the period between the 19th and 20th centuries. His motif Skrik (The Scream), repeated in several techniques, became part of the 20th-century world subconsciousness – an image of fear and ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, semi autobiographical, thrilling, emotional ...
Plot:
painter, artist, biopic, grief, mental illness, social problems, life is a bitch, problem, outcast, character study, loss, addiction ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century, 20th century
Place:
oslo norway, berlin germany, copenhagen
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Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Country: Australia, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Dramatization of Russian ballet star Vaclav Nijinsky's diaries which detail his madness as well as his homosexual relationship with Ballet Russe impresario Sergei Diaghilev and his marriage to his Hungarian wife.
Style:
period piece, historical drama, intense, emotional, art house ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
diary, dance, ballet, homosexuality, mental illness, tragedy, mental breakdown, lgbtq, obsession, classical music, schizophrenia, isolation ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, year 2001
Place:
paris france, russia
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Haunted by memories and divine visions, a young woman struggles with trauma, rape and pregnancy in this poetic reimagining of the Greek myth.
Style:
expressionism
Plot:
european, myth, greek mythology, trojan war, skinny dipping, death, princess, goddess, zeus, leonardo da vinci, female nudity, terror ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young girl and her mother run a hotel during the war. When the mother dies, the girl finds herself at the mercy of her sex-crazed guests. Soon enough, a cloaked figure starts killing off everyone that tries to harm her.
Style:
gothic, expressionism, grindhouse, controversial, dark ...
Plot:
female nudity, sexual assault, rape, rape and revenge, serial killer as protagonist, sexual abuse, nervous breakdown, serial killer, world war two, murderer, bare breasts, corruption ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Set in a dilapidated indoor swimming pool (the Central Baths in Sofia), the film details the efforts of Anton, a clueless dreamer who yearns to sail the world, and Martha, the button obsessed cashier, to maintain the illusion for Anton's blind ...
Style:
surreal, visually stunning, stylized, atmospheric, expressionism ...
Plot:
skinny dipping, surrealism, love, magic realism, bathhouse, father son relationship, swimming, swimmer, swimming pool, family relations, dark humor, couples ...
Time:
year 1999
Place:
germany
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
gangster, testimony, prison, dishonesty, manhunt, haunted by the past, witnessing a crime, law enforcement, parents and children, drug addiction, betrayal, revenge ...
Time:
60s, year 1961
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to each other.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, black and white ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
evil child, creepy child, children, supernatural, church, killer child, supernatural ability, social misfits, prodigy, danger, moral dilemma, ufo ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, future
Place:
london, england, europe, united kingdom, tokyo
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Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three short tales of supernatural horror. In “The Telephone,” a woman is plagued by threatening phone calls. In "The Wurdalak,” a family is preyed upon by vampiric monsters. In “The Drop of Water,” a deceased medium wreaks havoc on ...
Style:
gothic, disturbing, atmospheric, anthology, creepy ...
Plot:
vampire, macabre, vengeance, murder, afterlife, ghost, supernatural horror, visceral, family in danger, nobility, death, revenge ...
Time:
20th century, year 1963, 1800s, 60s, 19th century ...
Place:
london, russia, serbia, tokyo
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Satan-worshiper Prince Prospero invites the local nobility to his castle for protection against an oncoming plague, the Red Death. He orders his guests to attend a masked ball and, amidst an atmosphere of debauchery and depravity, notices the entry ...
Style:
gothic, grindhouse, suspense, surreal, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, macabre, edgar allan poe, medieval, supernatural, revenge, life & death, plague, good versus evil, folk horror, brutality, masquerade ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, victorian era
Place:
italy, europe
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25K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In medieval times, on a remote plain, a widow and her mother-in-law kill wandering samurai, put their bodies in a hole in the ground and sell their armour and valuables, until the daughter-in-law falls in love with one of their intended victims.
Style:
black and white, scary, surreal, art house, creepy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
folk horror, samurai, swamp, murder, witch, sexuality, sex, medieval, survival, danger, vengeance, samurai sword ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 14th century
Place:
japan, asia, east asia, tokyo
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Inspector Sylvester is assigned to investigate the violent murder of a fashion house model Isabella, by a masked assailant. As the investigation proceeds all of the house’s various sins, including corruption, abortions, blackmail and drug ...
Style:
slasher, scary, atmospheric, psycho sexual, psychosexual thriller ...
Plot:
serial killer, characters murdered one by one, killer, model, fashion, masked killer, whodunit, hardcore, sexploitation, fashion model, strangulation, macabre ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
europe, italy, rome italy
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Robert Morgan is the last man on earth, as far as he can tell. A plague killed everyone else on the planet several years ago. He was immune to it, and can only guess why. Vampires that were formerly human attack Morgan's home every night
Style:
gothic, grindhouse, scary, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, horror for children
Plot:
post apocalypse, vampire, dystopia, virus, disease, zombie, cemetery, chase, dracula, distopia, monster, disaster ...
Time:
future, distant future, year 1965, year 1968, 60s
Place:
italy, rome italy
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried.
Style:
suspense, gothic, psychological, scary, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, gory, murder, psychopath, manic, intrigue, murder mystery, female serial killer, danger, haunted by the past, amateur detective, darkness ...
Time:
70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe, canary islands, lebanon ...
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31K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.
Style:
slasher, creepy, dark, scary, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, killer, lesbian, dog attack, gory, writers, blood, murder mystery, investigation, obsession, female nudity, voyeurism ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
rome italy, italy, rhode island, new york, new york state ...
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74K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical procedure, Westlake becomes ...
Style:
gothic, suspense, exciting, atmospheric, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
revenge, vigilante, vengeance, disfigurement, scientist, disfigured face, gangster, superhero, comic book, violent, back from the dead, lawyer ...
Time:
90s, future, 80s, year 1989, year 1990
Place:
los angeles, usa
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
Style:
gothic, fairy tale, sad, surreal, touching ...
Audience:
date night, teens, kids, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot:
loneliness, goth, love, surrealism, christmas, love story, freak, love and romance, social misfits, teenage girl, garden, inventor ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 70s, year 1990, 50s
Place:
florida, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma. ...
Style:
surprise ending, suspense, neo noir, clever, dark comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
twists and turns, hitman, assassin, revenge, plot twist, mistaken identity, organized crime, disorder, secrets, mysterious character, mafia, master criminal ...
Time:
2000s, year 1979, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city, seattle
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 138 min.
TV show
Story:
Following a botched jewel heist, sociopath criminal Gunter Vogler is forced to assume the identity of a cop he shot and work undercover to take down the city’s crime lords.
Style:
not serious, humorous, captivating, expressionism, dark comedy ...
Plot:
farce, working undercover, criminal's revenge, dark humor, policewoman, escapades, organized crime, undercover, danger, woman with a gun, hitman, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed. One of Czechoslovakia's most ambitious animation projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual dark art ...
Style:
fairy tale, adult animation, expressionism, psychedelic, gothic horror ...
Plot:
stop motion, rat, magic realism, folklore, nightmare, money, greed, children, mysterious man, metamorphosis, folk horror, transformation ...
Time:
year 1986, medieval times
Place:
czechoslovakia, central europe
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