Here we've displayed a list of the best Modernity films : Playtime(1967), Buffet Froid(1979), Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible(2020), Ecce Bombo(1978), Laila's Birthday(2008), Notes From Underground(1995), Vita & Virginia(2018), The Moderns(1988), Traffic(1971), Berlin Alexanderplatz(1931), The Funeral(1984), The Three Ages(1923) ... ...
Comedy
France|Italy
1967
93 Minutes
Jacques Tati Barbara Dennek Jacqueline Lecomte Valérie Camille France Rumilly France Delahalle
man tourist salesman woman friend amusing intricate paris restaurant street office airport car modernity technology human connection gadgets city life tourism discovery
Monsieur Hulot curiously wanders around a high-tech Paris, paralleling a trip with a group of American tourists. Meanwhile, a nightclub/restaurant prepares its opening night, but it's still under construction.
Mystery & Thriller
France
1979
95 Minutes
Gérard Depardieu Bernard Blier Jean Carmet Denise Gence Liliane Rovère Eric Vasberg Jean Rougerie Bernard Crombey
unemployed person accountant wife killer detective man dark hilarious eerie profound apartment street police station subway serial murders police corruption crime spree alienation modernity boredom
Black comedy about solitude and the dehumanization of the modern world, through the adventures of three men. First introduced is Alphonse Tram, an unemployed young man. His only neighbour ... See full summary »
Documentary
USA|Germany
2020
86 Minutes
artist speaker interviewee interviewer painter sculptor intense profound brooding inspiring creative engaging art gallery interview room france informing documentary filmmaking art modernity artistic integrity
The film explores the life, philosophy and impact of one of the most influential early 20th century modernists, Marcel Duchamp. The film breaks down Duchamp's ideas and applies them to both... See full summary »
Comedy
Italy
1978
100 Minutes
Nanni Moretti Luisa Rossi Fabio Traversa Lina Sastri Glauco Mauri Susanna Javicoli
student mother father sister friend lover amusing dark calm rome apartment street aimless youth modernity society relationships politics existential crisis growing up quest
An ironic peak into the life of a group of Italian university students in the 1970s.
Comedy, Drama
Palestine|Tunisia|Netherlands
2008
71 Minutes
Mohammad Bakri Areen Omari Nour Zoubi Saleh Bakri Housam Abu Aishe Mahmoud Awadd Marwan Awadd Yahya Barakat
taxi driver wife daughter store clerk terrorist passenger bleak amusing powerful cheeky palestine west bank family home taxi street toy store change of career father/daughter relationship birthdays terrorism
Abu Laila used to be a judge, but because the government doesn't have the means to renew his assignment he is forced to be a taxi driver. On the day his daughter Laila becomes seven years ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1995
88 Minutes
Henry Czerny Sheryl Lee Eamonn Roche Charlie Stratton Geoffrey Rivas Jon Favreau
inspector prostitute neighbor classmate old friend civil servant hedonistic bleak emotional profound apartment office brothel dinner party street loneliness bureaucracy modernity desperation friendship
Adapted from Dostoevsky's novella, Henry Czerny plays the narrator, Underground Man. Filled with self-hatred, he keeps a video diary where he discusses his own shortcomings and what he ... See full summary »
Gay & Lesbian, Romance, Biography, Drama
Ireland|UK
2018
110 Minutes
Gemma Arterton Elizabeth Debicki Isabella Rossellini Rupert Penry-Jones Peter Ferdinando Emerald Fennell Gethin Anthony Rory Fleck-Byrne Karla Crome
writer married woman love interest husband socialite feminist confident emotional engaging gripping intense passionate london home city garden party affair modernity marriage
It's the fascinating true story about the love affair between socialite and popular author Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf.
Drama
1988
126 Minutes
Keith Carradine Linda Fiorentino John Lone Wallace Shawn Geneviève Bujold Geraldine Chaplin Kevin J. O'Connor Elsa Raven Ali Giron
artist gallery owner patron ex-wife wealthy man quirky charming paris art gallery studio mansion painting forgery love triangle hedonism modernity temptation rivalry sacrifice 1920s
An art dealer (John Lone), his wife (Linda Fiorentino) and a U.S. artist (Keith Carradine) mix with Hemingway and Gertrude Stein in 1926 Paris.
Comedy
1971
89 Minutes
Jacques Tati Maria Kimberly Marcel Fraval Honoré Bostel Tony Kneppers François Maisongrosse
auto builder manager publicist truck driver monsieur hulot airy amusing creative paris auto factory garage highway modernity cars trade show travel adventure underdog 1970s
Heavy traffic and oddball encounters plague Mr. Hulot's (Jacques Tati) journey from Paris to Amsterdam in a recreational vehicle.
Crime, Drama
1931
88 Minutes
Heinrich George Bernhard Minetti Margaret Schlegel Maria Bard Gerhard Bienert Albert Florath Paul Westermeier Jakob Tiedtke Hans Deppe Julius Falkenstein Käthe Haack
ex-convict wife girlfriend gang leader thug fascinating uneasy dark germany berlin prison subway lake courtroom crime marriage bribery murder madness modernity
An ex-convict (Heinrich George) who killed his wife tries to live clean, but old bad influences drag him down and into madness.
Comedy
1984
124 Minutes
Tsutomu Yamazaki Nobuko Miyamoto Kin Sugai
husband wife father priest amusing outlandish lighthearted madcap tokyo house hospital funeral family tradition modernity dysfunction wealth quest wretched excess 1980s
The loved one's daughter (Nobuko Miyamoto) and son-in-law (Tsutomu Yamazaki) try to arrange a traditional Japanese funeral.
Comedy
1923
60 Minutes
Buster Keaton Buster Keaton Margaret Leahy Wallace Beery Joe Roberts Lillian Lawrence H.A. Morgan Oliver Hardy Blanche Payson
hero girl villain father mother roman hilarious cheery playful city cave rome racetrack car romantic dilemma courtship family time competition modernity
A boy (Buster Keaton) loves a girl (Margaret Leahy) in parallel stories set in the Stone Age, ancient Rome and modern times.
Drama
1991
120 Minutes
Dipankar Dey Mamata Shankar Bikram Bhattacharya Utpal Dutt Dhritiman Chatterji Robi Ghosh Subrata Chatterji
wife husband son stranger friend lawyer airy lighthearted profound mellow house calcutta, india village backyard family suspicion modernity acceptance class distinctions mystery
Manmohan Mitra, an explorer, returns to India after 35 years to his only surviving relative, his niece, whom he has never seen or met. However, she and her husband refuse to believe and accept him.