Movies: Metaphor

Deliveryman Jong-su is out on a job when he runs into Hae-mi, a girl who once lived in his neighborhood. She asks if he'd mind looking after her cat while she's away on a trip to Africa. On her return, she introduces to Jong-su an enigmatic young man...

Sidney and Dre can attribute their lifelong friendship and the launch of their careers to one single childhood instant... witnessing the birth of hip-hop on a New York street corner. Now some 15 years later, she is a revered music critic at a nationa...

Panic attacks and memory loss signal the plight of a writer whose body is inexplicably being taken over by another woman....

In a loose retelling of the Revolutionary Girl Utena TV series, Utena Tenjou arrives at Ohtori Academy, only to be immediately swept up in a series of duels for the hand of her classmate Anthy Himemiya and the power she supposedly holds. At the same ...

A routine trick propels a tall, dark, cynical hustler into a series of life-changing encounters in this drama. But this amicable and sexually efficient rent boy begins to look at himself differently when he finds himself lost in a maze-like apartment...

A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their views while being interviewed by the driver who is no one else but the director Jafar Panahi himself. ...

The idea is simple / A married woman and a single man meet / They love, they argue, fists fly / A dog strays between town and country / The seasons pass / The man and woman meet again / The dog finds itself between them / The other is in one, / the o...

On the eve of revolution, French activist and author Marquis and his talking penis, Colin, await judgment in the Bastille for allegedly plotting against the state. While Marquis dedicates himself to his art and Colin longs for action, the provocative...

Brian comes under the addictive spell of a parasite with the ability to induce euphoric hallucinations in its hosts....

Michele is a Communist MP who loses his memory in a car crash—although nobody seems to notice. Over the course of a water polo match ahead of election day, he begins to remember his past life, revealing the picture of a man whose personal and politic...

A simple, domestic love story about a man who takes his skin off for his girlfriend, and why it probably wasn't the best idea......

A teenager's infatuation with the new bad boy at school leads him onto a dark path....

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What does a bankrupt poet with no desire to live have to say about life?...

Seven colors are assigned to eat the food of their own color. They don't question it, until one of them wants to take a different path....

Award winning animated short film by Fyodor Khitruk....

This is a fairy tale about a girl who just lived and was, and about a boy who just lived and was. You may recognize yourself in these stories, but all coincidences with real people are accidental....

The memories of a man and a woman come to life through photography and animation....

As a young man struggles through moments of uncertainty, grief, mortality and being unable to cope with the influx of emotion, he is brought along on a mental journey of self-discovery and self-worth through a language that speaks when words no longe...