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Aria
1987 • Music • Drama • Comedy
Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundt…
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
Caravaggio
1986 • Drama • Romance • History
A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Wittgenstein
1993 • Drama • Comedy • History
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose principal interest was the n…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
War Requiem
1989 • Drama • War
During World War I, British soldier Owen is mortified by the examples of cruelty that surround him in the trenches. He combats these terrifying images by maintaining hope in his…
Why matched: genres Drama, War
Jubilee
1978 • Music • Drama • Comedy
Queen Elizabeth I visits late 1970s England to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
Blue
1993 • Drama • Documentary
Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman's experiences with AIDS,…
Matched on: Jarman
Edward II
1991 • Drama • Romance • History
England, 14th century. King Edward II falls in love with Piers Gaveston, a young man of humble origins, whom he honors with favors and titles of nobility. The cold and jealous Q…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The Garden
1990 • Drama
A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi;…
Why matched: genres Drama
The Tempest
1979 • Drama • Fantasy
Prospero, a potent magician, lives on a desolate isle with his virginal daughter, Miranda. He's in exile, banished from his duchy by his usurping brother and the King of Naples.…
Why matched: genres Drama, Fantasy
The Angelic Conversation
1987 • Drama
The Angelic Conversation is a lyrical, haunting film about a young man’s search for love in a dreamlike landscape. Its tone is set by the juxtaposition of slow moving homo-erot…
Matched on: Jarman
The Last of England
1987 • Drama
The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose. A dark meditation on London under Thatcher.
Why matched: genres Drama
T.G.: Psychic Rally in Heaven
1981 • Music • Documentary
An experimental film of the group Throbbing Gristle in concert.
Why matched: genres Music, Documentary