Allegory Movies

A man may or may not have betrayed a resistance fighter during World War II. He has supposedly been shot down by the Nazis and wanders into town....

When land surveyor K arrives at a small village that houses a castle, local authorities refuse to allow him to enter. As he tries to convince the...

A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.

Over 3 studio sessions, a dancer overcomes his self-doubt and regains his self-confidence through this other character pushing him to get out of his...

The film is an abstract allegory, showing two penguins with different ideas abot sea creatures that are their food or their shadows, depending on the...

A craftsman builds a glass harmonica that enlightens him. He travels to a town where the people are obsessed with money. A bureaucrat smashes the...

A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious man called Duchemin. Once they sample his "fear powder"...

"Andha Yug"—literally 'Age of Blindness'—is an allegorical play written in the aftermath of the Partition of India by Shri Dharamvir...

A character is inside a cubical room; there is a hole in the roof, which is too high to reach. But pushing on the walls distorts the room in various...

Eloise lives alone, shutting others out of her life, committed to her art. The film follows her internal rationale as she is forced to address a...

Alma walks timidly with friends on a lovely summer's day. As one of them warmly takes a selfie of the whole group, Alma looks at the phone screen and...

When a disenfranchised, world-famous photographer is interviewed by university students and presented with a portfolio of his life's work he is...

A gothic allegory reinventing horror movie conventions while exploring the cyclical nature of life expressed through the romantic relationship...

The Big Sister - a person of colossal size - is trapped in sand in a deserted landscape. With no way to take care of herself, this burden falls on...

Karen and Wes's marriage is crumbling apart - like a sandcastle. Karen can't even make love to her husband any more - the sand has managed to get...

A penniless, fast-thinking musician buys a lottery ticket which he glues to his back door, in hopes of eventually retrieving his instrument from his...

The peaceful passage of daily life in the Pacific Ocean is upended in a flash on March 1, 1954, with the first American nuclear test at Bikini Atoll....

The action of the movie takes place in a certain fairy-tale town. The main character - the scientist Christian-Theodore discovers a lot about the...