Storytelling Movies, Movies about Storytelling

Here we've displayed a list of the best Storytelling films : The Saragossa Manuscript(1965), Celine and Julie Go Boating(1974), Travelers and Magicians(2003), Kiss of the Spider Woman(1985), The Man Who Invented Christmas(2017), Arabian Nights(1974), Getting to Know You(1999), Tolkien(2019), Paul, Apostle of Christ(2018), The Silver Brumby(1993), La petite chartreuse(2005), Mary Shelley(2017) ... ...

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The Saragossa Manuscript

Upon finding a book that relates his grandfather's story, an officer ventures through Spain meeting a wide array of characters, most of whom have a story of their own to tell.

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Celine and Julie Go Boating

A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives preempted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.

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Travelers and Magicians

The two men embark on parallel, if separate, journeys. Their yearning is a common one--for a better and different life. Dondup, delayed by the timeless pace of his village, is forced to ... See full summary »

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Kiss of the Spider Woman

A gay man and a political prisoner are together in a prison. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life.

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The Man Who Invented Christmas

The journey that led to Charles Dickens' creation of "A Christmas Carol," a timeless tale that would redefine Christmas.

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Arabian Nights

Ancient Arabia. A youth is chosen by a beautiful slave girl to be her new master; she is kidnapped and they must search for each other. Stories are told within stories; love, travel and the whims of destiny.

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Getting to Know You

A chance encounter alters a teenage girl's perception of herself and her outlook on life.

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Tolkien

The formative years of the orphaned author J.R.R. Tolkien as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school.

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Paul, Apostle of Christ

Luke travels Roma looking for apostle Paul, turned in Nero's prisoner, to tell his story before his execution.

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The Silver Brumby

When a man inadvertently makes Santa fall off of his roof on Christmas Eve, he finds himself magically recruited to take his place.

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La petite chartreuse

Eight-year-old Eva and her mother have a very positive CHILD-TO-CHILD-RELATION. The mother is incapable of mature behaviour when problems arise. When the mother forgets to fetch Eva at ... See full summary »

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Mary Shelley

Life and facts of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who at 16 met 21 year old poet Percy Shelley, resulting in the writing of Frankenstein.

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The Personal History of David Copperfield

A modern take on Charles Dickens's classic tale of a young orphan who is able to triumph over many obstacles.

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Drawing Restraint 9

The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto.

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Melinda and Melinda

Two alternating stories, one comedy and the other tragedy, about Melinda's attempts to straighten out her life.

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How to Make an American Quilt

Bride-to-be Finn Dodd hears tales of romance and sorrow from her elders as they construct a quilt.

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The Outrage

Travelers in the 1870s Southwest discuss a recent murder trial in which all the principals told differing stories about the events.

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All Is True

A look at the final days in the life of renowned playwright William Shakespeare.

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Interview With a Hitman

An elite hitman returns to erase his past only to find that somebody has messed with his future.

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Bedtime Stories

A hotel handyman's life changes when the lavish bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to magically come true.

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Yamashita

Aging Carmelo likes telling his grandson, Jobert about his youth in the Philippines. Jobert especially likes the stories about Carmelo's time in World War II, where he helped bury the ... See full summary »

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Decameron Nights

The main story combines bits of Giovanni Boccaccio's own life (maybe and maybe not) with three of his most fabulous stories of love. It has Boccaccio following Fiametta to a country villa ... See full summary »

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The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl

A young boy is recruited by his imaginary friends Sharkboy and Lavagirl to help save their planet.

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Dog Lover's Symphony

A former convict and drug abuser (Bernstein) meets a dog trainer who wants him to help out in her work as part of his rehabilitation. Story told by the dog.

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Mater and the Ghostlight

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A Little Something for Your Birthday

An aspiring fashion designer struggles to find success and love -- until she unexpectedly meets her soul mate on her birthday.

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The Gruffalo

Though the life of an old Buddhist priestess and her young heiress in rural Japan, a US-based filmmaker couple searches for the meaning of freedom and happiness.

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Your Friend the Rat

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Vault of Horror

Five tales: "Midnight Mess," "The Neat Job," "This Trick'll Kill You," "Bargain in Death," "Drawn and Quartered."

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The Walking Dead

A sergeant (Allen Payne) leads four Marines on their last mission: to evacuate a POW camp in 1972 Vietnam.

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