Movies and TvShows featuring "tableau" theme.
The Color of Pomegranates is a poetic and surreal film that presents the life of an Armenian poet through episodic chapters. It explores themes of religion, love, and tradition, while taking the audience on a journey through the poet's experiences and emotions.
A Field in England is a surreal and psychedelic historical drama set in 17th-century England during the English Civil War. The film follows a group of deserters who find themselves trapped in a mysterious field while searching for a hidden treasure. As they journey through the field, they encounter hallucinations, chaos, and an occultism that tests their friendship. With elements of folk-horror and satire-comedy, A Field in England explores themes of insanity, spirituality, and the dark side of human nature.
Dog Days is a movie that explores the interconnected lives of people living in a suburban neighborhood. The film delves into themes of love, longing, fate, and bad luck as the characters navigate through various surreal and comedic situations. From random encounters to unexpected events, Dog Days takes viewers on a journey filled with laughter, drama, and reflection.
To Paint or Make Love is a French comedy-drama film directed by Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu. The movie follows a couple who visit a French village and explore new sexual experiences, including swapping partners with another couple and engaging in casual sex in front of each other. They also witness a house burning down and navigate the complexities of their own marriage. The film explores themes of sexuality, marriage, and personal fulfillment.
Perceval is a naive young knight who embarks on a journey to find the Holy Grail. Along the way, he encounters various challenges and learns valuable lessons about honor, chivalry, and the power of love.
A sly fox embarks on an adventure to outwit his enemies and regain his freedom. Along the way, he encounters various obstacles and uses his wit to overcome them.
In The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting, a secret society explores the enigma behind a missing painting and uncover a hidden message. The film takes place within a one-day timespan and blends surrealism with avant-garde elements. It delves into themes of artistic creation, conspiracy theories, and the search for meaning.
Patriotism is a short drama film that tells the story of a lieutenant and his wife who make a pact to commit suicide rather than be separated during a coup d'état. The film explores themes of honor, sacrifice, and patriotism.
When a sculptor's fiance goes missing, he becomes the prime suspect in her murder. However, he believes he is innocent and turns to a famous mentalist to help him uncover the truth. The investigation leads them to a wax museum, where the secrets of the frozen ghost will be revealed.
In a rural village, a legendary fortress is beleaguered by a curse that can only be lifted by the sacrifice of a young man buried alive. As the community faces this dark fate, various characters and their intertwining stories unfold, exploring themes of love, sacrifice, and transformation in a mythical setting.
Ashik Kerib is a poetic drama that tells the story of a wandering minstrel in Azerbaijan who embarks on a quest for love and wealth. Set against the backdrop of poverty and allegory, the film explores themes of father-daughter relationships, folklore, and surrealism. Through the minstrel's journey, the audience is taken on a captivating adventure through the beautiful landscapes and rich cultural traditions of the Caucasus region.
Jabberwocky is a unique and imaginative stop-motion animation that takes viewers on a journey through a troubled childhood. Filled with surreal imagery and off-screen narration, it explores themes of identity and fantasy.
Landscape After Battle is a powerful drama set in the aftermath of World War II, following the story of a Polish writer who survives a concentration camp. As he returns to his homeland, he experiences the devastating consequences of war and the struggle to find hope and meaning in the ruins. The film explores themes of love, loss, and the human spirit in the face of immense darkness.
From the Manger to the Cross (1912) is a biography drama that depicts the life of Jesus Christ, including his birth in Bethlehem, his teachings, the last supper, his crucifixion, and resurrection. It also portrays significant characters such as the Virgin Mary, John the Baptist, Pontius Pilate, King Herod, Judas Iscariot, Salome, and Mary Magdalene. The film explores religious themes and events in Palestine, including the Passion Play.
In a bakery in the French countryside, Father Latourte, his wife, and their staff are busy with customers, pastries, and baked goods of all kinds. The Latourtes' young daughter, called Red Riding Hood, reads by the firelight until her parents leave for a moment. She starts to play boisterously, getting the bakery staff mixed up in hijinks and pratfalls. Her father and mother return, chagrined by her escapades, and she is told to take a pot of butter and a galette to her grandmother's cottage. Red Riding Hood travels through the forest on her errand, meeting a wolf, who finds out where she is going. Encountering her friends from the village school, she happily pauses her journey to play and dance with them. Meanwhile, at a windmill near the cottage, the miller Sans-Souci has comic trouble with his mule.
Short film from Sergei Parajanov, a personal view of the director on the spectacular heritage of Niko Pirosmani (1862–1918), a Georgian primitivist painter.
An engineer's obsession with tunneling the English Channel becomes a burlesque adventure filled with obstacles, explosions, and triumph.
The protagonist of The Wooden Room is a director of documentaries, who lives with his wife - who is as stoic as he - in an isolated hut in the woods. The director is obsessed by filming marginal events in life. The closer he can get to these events with his camera, the more he becomes involved with them. In the end he falls victim to them. The film, with no dialogue and hardly any sound, is an experimental meditation on the complex, continually-changing relationship between a film-maker and his subject.
