{"title":"Best Symbolism Movies","theme":"symbolism","url":"https://framethrower.ai/list/symbolism","source":"FrameThrower","license":{"name":"CC BY 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","scope":"Covers these measurements only — the ratios, counts and rankings computed by FrameThrower. The film frames they are derived from are not licensed and no rights to them are granted.","attribution":"FrameThrower — https://framethrower.ai"},"method":"Per-frame tags (shot size, lighting key, time of day, camera angle, colour, visible objects) aggregated across the films carrying this theme, expressed as a ratio against the same measurement over the whole catalogue. Films ranked by how closely they match the theme's over-indexed elements, weighted by how distinctive each element is; one film per series.","sample":{"films":13,"listedFilms":11,"frames":1180,"baselineFrames":404689},"signature":[{"element":"suit","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.76,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00479,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00174,"observedInFrames":32},{"element":"leather jacket","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.57,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00674,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00262,"observedInFrames":45},{"element":"coat","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.51,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00434,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00173,"observedInFrames":29},{"element":"tie","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.76,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00659,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00374,"observedInFrames":44},{"element":"suit jacket","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.66,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.01003,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00604,"observedInFrames":67},{"element":"shadow","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.62,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00674,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00417,"observedInFrames":45},{"element":"blazer","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.51,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00539,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00357,"observedInFrames":36}],"cinematography":{"note":"Weakly differentiating: most dramatic genres skew dark and night-heavy. Use `signature` to tell genres apart.","values":[{"axis":"camera_angle","value":"high_angle","shareOfThemeFrames":0.1054,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0596,"ratio":1.77},{"axis":"time_of_day","value":"interior_indeterminate","shareOfThemeFrames":0.1076,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0706,"ratio":1.52}]},"palette":{"note":"Hue shares are dominated by skin tones across all genres; treat as descriptive, not distinguishing.","dominantHues":[{"hue":"orange","share":0.595,"ratio":1.31},{"hue":"red","share":0.114,"ratio":0.75},{"hue":"blue","share":0.11,"ratio":0.63},{"hue":"yellow","share":0.084,"ratio":1.1}],"meanSaturation":0.198,"baselineSaturation":0.234,"meanLuminance":0.413,"baselineLuminance":0.434},"films":[{"rank":1,"title":"Angels & Demons","year":2009,"director":"Ron Howard","cinematographer":"Salvatore Totino","exemplarScore":1.237,"framesIndexed":263,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/angels-demons-2009"},{"rank":2,"title":"The Godfather","year":1972,"director":"Francis Ford Coppola","cinematographer":"Gordon Willis","exemplarScore":1.145,"framesIndexed":61,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-godfather-1972"},{"rank":3,"title":"The Oxford Murders","year":2008,"director":"Álex de la Iglesia","cinematographer":"Kiko de la Rica","exemplarScore":0.958,"framesIndexed":216,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-oxford-murders-2008"},{"rank":4,"title":"Bugonia","year":2025,"director":"Yorgos Lanthimos","cinematographer":"Robbie Ryan","exemplarScore":0.4,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/bugonia-2025"},{"rank":5,"title":"Antichrist","year":2009,"director":"Lars von Trier","cinematographer":"Anthony Dod Mantle","exemplarScore":0.331,"framesIndexed":63,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/antichrist-2009"},{"rank":6,"title":"The Seventh Seal","year":1957,"director":"Ingmar Bergman","cinematographer":"Gunnar Fischer","exemplarScore":0.32,"framesIndexed":64,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-seventh-seal-1957"},{"rank":7,"title":"Signs","year":2002,"director":"M. Night Shyamalan","cinematographer":"Tak Fujimoto","exemplarScore":0.295,"framesIndexed":62,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/signs-2002"},{"rank":8,"title":"Edward Scissorhands","year":1990,"director":"Tim Burton","cinematographer":"Stefan Czapsky","exemplarScore":0.267,"framesIndexed":66,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/edward-scissorhands-1990"}],"outlier":{"title":"The Holy Mountain","year":1973,"exemplarScore":0.118,"note":"Carries the least of what the rest of the list is made of."}}