Movies: Expressionism

This film explains what James Ensor (1860-1949) meant for the development of art and makes palpable where he got his inspiration from....

A traumatized man returning home from war discovers that his wife has slipped into the underclass....

In the Republic of Utopia, because of the bad economic crisis ailing the nation, the Jews are made the scapegoats for the economic and social ills affecting the population; therefore, the government decides to expel them. Leo Strakosch is among the e...

Estranged lovers reconnect through the power of the Magic Conch Shell....

An abstract, experimental, personal reappraisal of experiences and crises - the project was the result of an experiment....

A young man has been mutilated into a cyborg warrior, known as Bovine Rider, by the intergalactic alien council called FORESIGHT. FORESIGHT instruct him to battle another rider to complete his training so that they can have a warrior to control and l...

In this film essay, critic Peter Buchka explores the German cinema of the 1920s, ranging from the disquieting images of Fritz Lang's Metropolis to the castrating sexuality of Marlene Dietrich in Die Blaue Engel. The program provides an introduction t...

A banker, after a prophetic meeting with a Gypsy fortune teller, becomes delusional as he searches for a trunk which the seer has told him holds the key to either his happiness or his death. This film is considered lost....

For the whole of his long life Emil Nolde, the leading German Expressionist, luxuriated in colour. Before the First World War in Berlin he made many paintings of the theater, music-hall and opera; he loved flowers and even coaxed a garden out of the ...

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A film student goes to sleep and wakes up in a world similar to German expressionism, but the beings in that world have similarities with the girl....

A vampire tries to sleep, but a terrible predator approaches....

A student film, expressionist adaptation of Joker (2019, dir. Todd Phillips) in stop motion....

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A cashier in a bank in a small German town is alerted to the power of money by the visit of a rich Italian lady. He embezzles 60,000 Marks and leaves for the capital city, where he attempts to find satisfaction in politics, sport, love and religion....

Between the depths of grief and the bliss of friendship, Gabriel teams up with his friends to create a film written by his late grandfather, who passed away during the COVID-19 pandemic....

No Days Off for Death” is a film that depicts an altered rendition of our own world to explore themes of grief and over corporatisation, the narrative takes place from two perspectives that ultimately come together; one of a nameless Grim Reaper (onl...

Documentary about the life and work of Mário Eloy, one of the greatest painters of the second generation of modernism in Portugal....

Student Raskolnikow, who has written an article about laws and crime, proposing the thesis that un-ordinary people can commit crimes if their actions are necessary for the benifit of mankind, murders an old woman, who operates a crooked loaning house...

A dystopian future set in a totalitarian world , where a young man's life is about to change....