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Modern Films With a Retro Look

by Giantjott • Created 7 years ago • Modified 5 years ago
These films are not necessarily period pieces, but simply employ older aesthetics.
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  • Crispin Glover, Glenne Headly, Seymour Cassel, David Paymer, Maury Chaykin, and Joe Piscopo in Bartleby (2001)

    1. Bartleby

    20011h 23mPG-1348Metascore
    6.4 (2.3K)
    A clueless boss has no idea what to do with his mundane office worker whose refusal of duties only gets worse each passing minute.
    DirectorJonathan ParkerStarsDavid PaymerCrispin GloverGlenne Headly
  • Anna Biller, Bridget Brno, Jared Sanford, Chad England, and Rob Scott in Viva (2007)

    2. Viva

    20072hR58Metascore
    5.8 (1.6K)
    Two suburban couples experiment with sex, drugs and bohemia in early 1970's Los Angeles.
    DirectorAnna BillerStarsAnna BillerJared SanfordBridget Brno
  • Samantha Robinson in The Love Witch (2016)

    3. The Love Witch

    20162hUnrated82Metascore
    6.2 (22K)
    A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, with deadly consequences.
    DirectorAnna BillerStarsSamantha RobinsonJeffrey Vincent PariseLaura Waddell
  • Kristen Hager in Manson, My Name Is Evil (2009)

    4. Manson, My Name Is Evil

    20091h 25mR
    4.6 (933)
    Perry, a sheltered chemical engineer, falls in love with Leslie, a former homecoming princess, when he becomes a jury member at her hippie death cult murder trial.
    DirectorReg HarkemaStarsPeter MacNeillGregory SmithRyan Robbins
  • Jocelin Donahue in The House of the Devil (2009)

    5. The House of the Devil

    20091h 35mR73Metascore
    6.3 (54K)
    In 1983, financially struggling college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret, putting her life in mortal danger.
    DirectorTi WestStarsJocelin DonahueTom NoonanMary Woronov
  • Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)

    6. Beyond the Black Rainbow

    20101h 50mR49Metascore
    5.9 (18K)
    Despite being under heavy sedation, a young woman tries to make her way out of the Arboria Institute, a secluded, quasifuturistic commune.
    DirectorPanos CosmatosStarsEva BourneMichael J RogersScott Hylands
  • Nicolas Cage, Ned Dennehy, and Andrea Riseborough in Mandy (2018)

    7. Mandy

    20182h 1mNot Rated83Metascore
    6.5 (96K)
    The enchanted lives of a couple in a secluded forest are brutally shattered by a nightmarish hippie cult and their demon-biker henchmen, propelling a man into a spiraling, surreal rampage of vengeance.
    DirectorPanos CosmatosStarsNicolas CageAndrea RiseboroughLinus Roache
  • Cigarette Girl (2009)

    8. Cigarette Girl

    20091h 33mNot Rated
    6.0 (56)
    In the near future laws against smoking have increased to the point where you must live in a certain part of town called the Smoking Section if want to smoke cigarettes. Once you have passed the line of demarcation you just know you've crossed the tracks because things get a little grimier, a little more industrial. The sky is a little blacker. The mood is heavier. Someone might get hurt. Cigarettes now cost $63.49 a pack, yet the money derived from this tax obviously isn't going toward this dystopian corner of the city. If you travel there to smoke or to buy (because it is also illegal to buy on the 'clean' side of town) there are several options, but the main place is the Vice Club. There you will find old fashion Cigarette Girls like our heroine with no name. The Vice Club was actually a cigarette factory built in 1935 and designed by the very best deco influenced architects. The original owners even installed a giant 50 foot long Iron cigarette on top of the building that tipped into an gigantic ashtray. One hundred years later that cigarette is cancer coated with rust but still tilts back and forth - if the wind is strong enough, making a horrible squeak on it's axis that is heard through out the city. Cigarette Girl becomes an angel of death when she stops smoking and starts killing on the third day to alleviate her acute psychological withdrawal manifested primarily by the ghost of a cowboy who is always on her back to keep smoking. Cigarette Girl would rather kill than smoke.
    DirectorJohn Michael McCarthyStarsChristopher Tyzhai AllenD'Army BaileyHelen Bowman
  • Superstarlet A.D. (2000)

    9. Superstarlet A.D.

    20001h 10mUnrated
    4.7 (217)
    This musical sci-fi fantasy follows one woman's search for her grandmother's historic burlesque film across a surreal post-apocalyptic desert landscape!
    DirectorJohn Michael McCarthyStarsKerine ElkinsGina VelourMichèle Carr
  • The Saddest Music in the World (2003)

    10. The Saddest Music in the World

    20031h 40mR78Metascore
    7.0 (6.5K)
    A musical of sorts set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, where a beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world. Musicians from around the world descend on the city to try and win the $25,000 prize.
    DirectorGuy MaddinStarsIsabella RosselliniMark McKinneyMaria de Medeiros
  • The Forbidden Room (2015)

    11. The Forbidden Room

    20152h 10mNot Rated83Metascore
    6.2 (3.5K)
    In this non-linear amalgamation, submarine crewmen and a woodsman wend their way through a voyage of odd experiences.
    DirectorsGuy MaddinEvan JohnsonStarsRoy DupuisClara FureyLouis Negin

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