Metamodern/Post-Postmodern Film and Television

A man returns to his home town after serving a prison sentence for homicide, and finds that the details of the crime have been forgotten and replaced with local legends and rumors.

A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.

Follows two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.

A lonely shoe salesman and an eccentric performance artist struggle to connect in this unique take on contemporary life.

A delusional young man strikes up an unconventional relationship with a doll he finds on the Internet.

A listless and alienated teenager helps his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while dealing with his bizarre family life back home.

Socially frustrated Barry Egan calls a phone-sex line to curb his loneliness. Little does he know it will land him in deep trouble and will jeopardize his burgeoning romance with the mysterious Lena.

The life of Mason, from early childhood to his arrival at college.

With a plan to exact revenge on a legendary shark that killed his partner, oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) rallies a crew that includes his estranged wife, a journalist, and a man who may or may not be his son.

Retired orchestra conductor Fred Ballinger is on vacation with his daughter Lena and his film director best friend Mick Boyle in the Alps when he receives an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II to perform for Prince Philip's birthday.

A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.

Three friends plan to pull off a simple robbery and go on the run.

Justin throws himself and everyone around him into chaos when he attempts to break free from his addiction to his thumb.

After being dumped by the girl he believes to be his soulmate, hopeless romantic Tom Hansen reflects on their relationship to try and figure out where things went wrong and how he can win her back.

The eccentric members of a dysfunctional family reluctantly gather under the same roof for various reasons.

A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is love-struck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.

A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.

A teenager at Rushmore Academy falls for a much older teacher and befriends a middle-aged industrialist. Later, he finds out that his love interest and his friend are having an affair, which prompts him to begin a vendetta.

As the extremely withdrawn Don Johnston is dumped by his latest woman, he receives an anonymous letter from a former lover informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him. A freelance sleuth neighbor moves Don to embark on a cross-country search for his old flames in search of answers.

A husband-and-wife team play detective, but not in the traditional sense. Instead, the happy duo helps others solve their existential issues, the kind that keep you up at night, wondering what it all means.

Two bumbling store clerks inadvertently erase the footage from all of the tapes in their video rental store. In order to keep the business running, they re-shoot every film in the store with their own camera, with a budget of zero dollars.

I.R.S. auditor Harold Crick suddenly finds his mundane Chicago life to be the subject of narration only he can hear: narration that begins to affect his entire existence, from his work to his love life to his death.

When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories forever.

A couple expecting their first child travels the U.S. seeking the perfect "family home." They have misadventures and find fresh connections with relatives and old friends who help them discover "home" on their own terms for the first time.

Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes a selfless decision regarding the unborn child.