The 15 Best Postmodernist Films

According to the classification of narrative structure, the film can be divided relatively into traditional film, modernist film and postmodernist film. In traditional film, the narrator is important than the character, in modernist films, the narrator almost equal to the character and in postmodernist films, character is more important than narrator. Typically, such films also break down the cultural divide between high and low art and often upend typical portrayals of gender, race, class, genre, and time with the goal of creating something that does not abide by traditional narrative expression. Here, Chilimovie list 15 best postmodernist films for you. Enjoy.

Release Date
1985-01-18
  • Rate : 7.5
  • Production Companies : Circle Films, River Road Productions
  • Director : Joel Coen, Andreas Laven, Shannon Wood
  • Stars : John Getz , Frances McDormand , Dan Hedaya
  • The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
Release Date
2001-06-15
  • Rate : 7.3
  • Production Companies : Fox Searchlight Pictures, KanZaman Productions
  • Director : Kieron Phipps, Jonathan Glazer
  • Stars : Ray Winstone , Ben Kingsley , Ian McShane
  • Ex-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading Gal to return to London for one last big job.
Release Date
2001-10-05
  • Rate : 7.7
  • Production Companies : Village Roadshow Pictures, NPV Entertainment
  • Director : Antoine Fuqua, Nicole Cummins, Kenny Bates
  • Stars : Ethan Hawke , Denzel Washington , Scott Glenn
  • On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
Release Date
2006-03-31
  • Rate : 7.1
  • Production Companies : Bergman Lustig productions, Focus Features
  • Director : Rian Johnson, Kristin Mente, Anthony Carregal
  • Stars : Joseph Gordon-Levitt , Emilie de Ravin , Nora Zehetner
  • After a phone call from his ex-girlfriend, teenage loner Brendan Frye learns that her dead body was found. Vowing to solve her murder himself, he must infiltrate high-school cliques that he previously avoided. His search for the truth brings him before some of the school’s roughest characters.
Release Date
1996-05-05
  • Rate : 7.5
  • Production Companies : JVC, Pandora Filmproduktion
  • Director : Jim Jarmusch, Jude Gorjanc, Constance L. Hoy
  • Stars : Johnny Depp , Gary Farmer , Crispin Glover
  • A fatally wounded white man is found by an outcast Native American who prepares him for the afterlife.
Release Date
1999-10-15
  • Rate : 8.8
  • Production Companies : Regency Enterprises, Fox 2000 Pictures
  • Director : Dina Waxman, Mike Topoozian, David Fincher
  • Stars : Edward Norton , Brad Pitt , Helena Bonham Carter
  • A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
Release Date
2004-06-02
  • Rate : 8
  • Production Companies : Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Pandora Cinema
  • Director : Richard Kelly, Richard L. Fox, Heather Grierson
  • Stars : Jake Gyllenhaal , Jena Malone , James Duval
  • After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Release Date
2010-07-16
  • Rate : 8.8
  • Production Companies : Legendary Pictures, Warner Bros.
  • Director : Christopher Nolan, Paula Turnbull, Steve Gehrke
  • Stars : Leonardo DiCaprio , Joseph Gordon-Levitt , Ken Watanabe
  • Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
Release Date
2010-09-24
  • Rate : 7.2
  • Production Companies : BIM Distribuzione, Wild Bunch
  • Director : Hideaki Jimbo, Toshio Hanaoka, Michael A. Williams
  • Stars : Paz de la Huerta , Nathaniel Brown , Cyril Roy
  • This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda. When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past -- where he sees his parents before their deaths -- to the present -- where he witnesses his own autopsy -- and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave.
Release Date
2013-04-05
  • Rate : 6.9
  • Production Companies : Cloud Eight Films, Pathé
  • Director : Sylvia Parker, Danny Boyle, Carlos Fidel
  • Stars : James McAvoy , Vincent Cassel , Rosario Dawson
  • A violent gang enlists the help of a hypnotherapist in an attempt to locate a painting which somehow vanished in the middle of a heist.
Release Date
2013-12-18
  • Rate : 8
  • Production Companies : Warner Bros., Annapurna Pictures
  • Director : Spike Jonze, Robert E. Kay, Thomas Patrick Smith
  • Stars : Joaquin Phoenix , Scarlett Johansson , Amy Adams
  • In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every need. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all.
Release Date
2014-04-04
  • Rate : 6.3
  • Production Companies : Scottish Screen, UK Film Council
  • Director : Nick Heckstall-Smith, Claire Hewitt, Jonathan Glazer
  • Stars : Scarlett Johansson , Jeremy McWilliams , Lynsey Taylor Mackay
  • A seductive stranger prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.
Release Date
2014-03-14
  • Rate : 6.9
  • Production Companies : Rhombus Media, Roxbury Pictures
  • Director : Denis Villeneuve, Patrick Arias, Reid A. Dunlop
  • Stars : Jake Gyllenhaal , Sarah Gadon , Mélanie Laurent
  • A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
Release Date
1986-09-19
  • Rate : 7.7
  • Production Companies : DEG, De Laurentiis Entertainment Group
  • Director : Ian Woolf, Ellen Rauch, David Lynch
  • Stars : Kyle MacLachlan , Isabella Rossellini , Laura Dern
  • Clean-cut Jeffrey Beaumont realizes his hometown is not so normal when he discovers a human ear in a field, the investigation soon catapulting him toward a disturbed nightclub singer and a drug-addicted sadist.
Release Date
1999-01-01
  • Rate : 8.2
  • Production Companies : Imagine Television, Picture Factory
  • Director : David Lynch
  • Stars : Justin Theroux , Naomi Watts , Laura Harring
  • Initially, "Mulholland Dr." was to mark David Lynch's return to television. It is a retooling of a script originally shot as a 94-minute pilot for a TV series (co-written with TV screenwriter Joyce Eliason) for the channel ABC, which had approved the script, but chose not even to air the pilot once it was done in 1999, despite Lynch's labours to cut the project to their liking. It was left in limbo until 18 month later French company Studio Canal Plus (also producer of 'The Straight Story') agreed to pay ABC $7 million for the pilot, and budget a few million more to turn the pilot into a two-hour, 27-minute movie. The cost of the film doubled to $14 million as sets had to be reconstructed and actors recalled.