Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most resembles the philosophical fairy tales and fables of Josef’s older brother, the legendary Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek. Two young poachers, more boys than men, kill a gamekeeper when they are caught illegally hunting. Panicked, they retreat into a forest that grows steadily more forbidding and deadly as their fear for the future—and guilt over their action—mounts. Loosely based on hundreds of oral folk tales and legends that haunt the woods of Czechoslovakia, Vlácil’s contemporary updating artistically underscores the relationship between man and nature, crime and punishment, isolation and society, and guilt and memory.
The Way Back Home
Drama
6.9
64: Part 2
Mystery
7.4
Hello
5.6
Red
Comedy
5.6
Rin
Drama, Mystery
6.3
The Nullarbor Nymph
4.9
Red
Drama, Action
4.5
Hello
6.1
Top Dog
Crime, Drama
5.2
The Dawn
Drama
4.5
Familia
Documentary
6.5
Assombrada
Horror, Fantasy, Drama
8.0
1,2,3 Operational Exercise
7.4
La playa vacía
Drama
4.2
Doctor Who: The Mutants
Science Fiction, Drama, Adventure
7.5
Writhing Tongue
Drama, Horror
6.2
Steel - Variations on a Theme
Documentary
10.0
Carol
Romance, Drama
7.5
I Am Nezha 2
Animation, Fantasy, Drama
9.2
Metropolis
Drama, Science Fiction
8.1
Apocalypse Now
Drama, War
8.3
Blade Runner
Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller
7.9
The Elementary Particles
Drama, Romance
6.2
Anatomy of a Murder
Crime, Drama, Mystery
7.9
All Quiet on the Western Front
Drama, War
7.8
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Adventure, Drama, Action, Romance
7.4
The Tin Drum
Drama, History, War
6.9
Ben-Hur
History, Drama, Adventure, Action
7.9
Contact
Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery
7.4
The Bridges of Madison County
Drama, Romance
7.7
Manhattan
Comedy, Drama, Romance
7.7
Finding Forrester
Drama, History
7.1
Murder She Said
Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
7.3
Murder at the Gallop
Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
7.0
Murder Most Foul
Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
7.0
Gone with the Wind
Drama, War, Romance
7.9
Fight Club
Drama, Thriller
8.4