modernism movies

Helvetica (2007)
7.2 / 10

Documentary

Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one...

Our Modern Maidens (1929)
5.857 / 10

Drama, Comedy

Young vivacious Billie uses her charms on influential businessman Glenn Abbott in hopes of getting her secret fiancée Gil a diplomatic appointment....

The Watergaw (2024)
0 / 10

Horror, Mystery, Drama

In the mysterious depths of the Scottish Borders unravels a chilling tale of secrets and spectral encounters as Iain Syme navigates the blurred...

HU (2012)
7.2 / 10

Documentary

A symmetrically divided building: on one side, an important public hospital, on the other, a bewildering ruin. On the horizon, Rio de Janeiro, public...

Franz Kafka's 'The Trial' (1988)
0 / 10

Documentary, Drama

BBC documentary about Franz Kafka played by GREEK TV in 1990.This documentary is one of the ten films of "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers (1988)".

James Joyce's 'Ulysses' (1988)
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Drama, Documentary

From the series "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers", this playful documentary introduces James Joyce's most famous work "Ulysses". It includes...

Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance (2001)
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Documentary

A history of the work of Merce Cunningham.

Alternate Spaces (2022)
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Documentary

A short documentary on the River Ouse, following it downstream from Lewes to Newhaven, meditating on the surrounding area.

Neutra: Survival Through Design (2019)
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Documentary, History

This insightful documentary feature from PJ Letofsky serves as a profile of iconic Austrian-American Architect Richard Neutra, whose work and legacy...

LOVELY VILLA (1969)
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Lovely Villa explores the relationship between architecture, everyday life, family, desire and the idea of ‘home’. Director Rohan Shivkumar grew...

A Charming Girl (1966)
6 / 10

Drama, Romance, Comedy

Ruxandra, a young woman just out of school, decides to become an actress, convinced that personal charm can keep instead of talent.

Arne Jacobsen’s Modern Denmark (2021)
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Documentary

Danish documentary about the disobedient schoolboy with a talent for painting, who became one of Denmark’s greatest architects. His ideas were...

The Unanswered Ives: American Pioneer of Music (2018)
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Documentary

The Unanswered Ives is the first film about Charles Ives (1874-1954), an American modernist composer, one of the first American composers of...

Mark of the Hand (1987)
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Documentary

Guyanese painter Aubrey Williams (1926-1990) returns to his homeland on a “journey to the source of his inspiration” in this vivid Arts Council...

The Blue Years (2018)
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Documentary, Animation

Rubén tries to describe the color blue as "The color of dreams, of art, of the ocean and of the firmament", thereby unleashing half a century of...

Otto G. Carlsund - en svensk modernist (2007)
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Documentary

Documentary about the Swedish modernist painter Otto G. Carlsund.

The More We Are Together (1969)
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Documentary

A portrait of Eric Lyons and Span, under the scrutiny of Ian Nairn, as well as the residents of their estates.

Het Ding (untitled, 1957) (2018)
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Documentary

Next to the Bijenkorf on the Coolsingel stands one of Rotterdam’s most famous sculptures, an untitled structure created by Russian modernist artist...

Desert Utopia: Mid-Century Architecture in Palm Springs (2010)
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Documentary, History

Southern California’s Coachella Valley, including the communities of Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Desert Hot Springs, boasts hundreds of...