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The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz (2000)
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The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The last day of creation. A stranger arrives in London. No one knows who he is or where he has come from. By the time he leaves, the entire universe will have been erased.
Style: surreal, exciting, mind bending, humorous, futuristic, suspenseful, semi serious, disturbing, clever, offbeat ...
Plot: taxi driver, abduction, save the world, chaos, danger, human nature, state affairs, dark humor, law enforcement, political unrest, chaos and mayhem, surrealism, apocalypse, satire, end of the world, distopia, doomsday, body swapping, mysterious character, taxi, eclipse, absurdism, space and aliens, postmodernism
Time: future
Place: london, england, europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out offbeat, surreal, humorous and semi serious films with plots about surrealism, dark humor, society, satire, danger, chaos and apocalypse mostly in Comedy, Drama and Fantasy genres. Some movies like The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz: The Stone Raft (2002), WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971), Rapture-Palooza (2013), The Red Spectacles (1987), The Temptation of St. Tony (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Stone Raft (2002)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Spain, Portugal, Netherlands
Duration: 117 min.
Story: An inexplicable crack in the Pyrenees Mountains provokes excitement and scientific curiosity. As the geological fracture deepens and widens, the European community begins to disassociate itself from the calamity, and panic ensues among tourists and ...
Style: surreal, sincere, semi serious, contemplative, road movie ...
Plot: chaos, save the world, chaos and mayhem, on the road, evacuation, supernatural, political unrest, ocean, collision, dark humor, heroes, danger ...
Place: spain, portugal, europe
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A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, Germany, Norway, France, Denmark
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.
Style: surreal, realistic, talky, lyrical, dark comedy ...
Plot: power relations, society, odd couple, teaching the ways of the world, absurdism, partner, misfit, on the road, dark humor, surrealism, existentialism, humanity ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: eastern europe
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88%
WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Yugoslavia, West Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A dense film that cuts up footage of a primary plot of two young Yugoslavian girls, one a politico and the other a sexpot, and an affair with a visiting Russian skater. Mixing metaphors of Russia's relationship with Yugoslavia, intercut with ...
Style: avant garde, surreal, experimental, controversial, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: erection, sex, surrealism, communist, psychology, satire, trippy, communism, mature, badass, sexology, porn ...
Time: year 1971, 60s, 20th century
Place: former yugoslavia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on the concept of "New America" in the year 2097, two decades after a nuclear apocalypse, Tex Kennedy, two robotic ex-secret service agents, and a female cannibal journey to find a famously dangerous area known as the "Threshold ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, apocalyptic, dark comedy, futuristic ...
Plot: apocalypse, politics, post apocalypse, save the world, survival, satire, dystopian future, society, escapades, danger, dark humor, chaos ...
Time: future
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Rapture-Palooza (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two teens battle their way through a religious apocalypse on a mission to defeat the Antichrist.
Style: funny, parody, humorous, surreal, stylized ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, chick flick
Plot: apocalypse, religion, good versus evil, devil, save the world, dark humor, survival, unlikely hero, satire, god, partner, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa
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79%
The Red Spectacles (1987)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Summer 1995. With the arrival of the "Age of Cats", the former Kerberos police unit is now disbanded. However one member remains, a stray dog who returns to his old roost after a three-years exile. This wild dog no longer has a master, but ...
Style: surreal, anime, experimental, claymation, semi serious ...
Plot: cyberpunk, superhero, shootout, surrealism, food poisoning, distopia, violent content, dystopian future, dark humor, law enforcement, lone wolves, rebellion ...
Time: 90s, future, 20th century
Place: japan, asia
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79%
The Temptation of St. Tony (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Estonia, Finland, Sweden, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A mid-level manager who develops an aversion to being "good" finds himself confronting the mysteries of middle-age and morality as he loses grasp of what was once his quiet life.
Style: surreal, psychological, suspenseful, bleak, black and white ...
Plot: surrealism, cannibalism, moral dilemma, losing-it hero, temptation, fighting the system, rebellion, rebelliousness, midlife crisis, society, depression, mental disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, estonia
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79%
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Takeshis' (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, ...
Style: surreal, semi serious, stylized, psychedelic, postmodern ...
Plot: surrealism, obsession, yakuza, dark humor, actor's life, lifestyle, showbiz, identity crisis, wannabe, lookalikes, audition, filmmaking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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79%
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The Last Days of the World (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The life of a student named Kanou is transformed when a tiny man informs him that Earth will soon be annihilated. Kanou decides to do just as he pleases with the time he has left, leading to strange adventures that could be real -- or just a dream.
Style: semi serious, humorous, atmospheric, road movie, mind bending ...
Plot: high school, teenage life, dysfunctional family, dark humor, dull life, family problems, escapades, danger, youth, unfulfillment, sexual content, profanity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
The Bothersome Man (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Norway, Iceland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment - even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but ...
Style: surreal, enigmatic, psychological, psychedelic, mindfuck ...
Plot: dystopia, suicide attempt, parallel universe, exile, accountant, nightmare, emotionless, new job, isolation, confined, captivity, confusion ...
Time: distant future
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Set the Thames on Fire (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Two young men plot to escape a dystopian future London ruled by corporate tyrant The Impresario
Style: unusual plot structure, humorous, suspense, disturbing, contemplative ...
Plot: surrealism, friendship, thief, teenage boy, alternate reality, society, youth, danger, chase, escapades, disaster, banquet ...
Place: london
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78%
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Spike Jonze’s debut feature film is a love story mix of comedy and fantasy. The story is about an unsuccessful puppeteer named Craig, who one day at work finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for ...
Style: surreal, cerebral, mind bending, psychological, offbeat ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: surrealism, puppeteer, subconscious, psychology, philosophy, existentialism, satire, lesbianism, insanity, body swapping, mind control, magic realism ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city
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78%
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Bartleby (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: An adaptation of Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" told in the setting of a modern office.
Style: surreal, semi serious, humorous, dark comedy, art house ...
Plot: insubordination, office, mysterious character, dark humor, boss and employee, workplace, fish out of water, workplace intrigue, workplace situations, name calling, employer employee relationship, fired from the job ...
Time: year 2001
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78%
Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. A story about our need for love, our confusion, greatness and smallness and, most of all, our vulnerability. It is a story with many characters, among them a father and his mistress, his ...
Style: surreal, black comedy, art house, philosophical, talky ...
Plot: surrealism, loneliness, multiple storylines, dark humor, existentialism, insanity, poetry, religions or cults, human nature, worldwide chaos, nordic, obsession ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
Place: russia, eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Six outwardly average individuals have elaborate fetishes they indulge with surreptitious care. A mousy letter carrier makes dough balls she grotesquely ingests before bed. A shop clerk fixates on a TV news reader while he builds a machine to ...
Style: surreal, experimental, sexy, dark comedy, psychedelic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: surrealism, erotica, masturbation, fetish, dark humor, satire, food, sexual relations, stop motion, sex scene, forbidden love, sexual content ...
Time: year 1996
Place: czechoslovakia
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77%
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Friction (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Filmmaker Cullen Hoback travels to a private high school where he writes a script about a real couple and the student who comes between them.
Style: semi serious, surreal, humorous, captivating, enigmatic ...
Plot: love triangle, filmmaking, artists and showbiz, social relations, couple relations, lifestyle, youth, actor's life, high school life, teachers and students, surrealism, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
The Michelle Apartments (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A black comedy that sees a man on a business trip gets mixed up in the lives of the inhabitants of a low-rent apartment building, including a femme fatale with murder on her mind.
Style: dark comedy, independent film, suspenseful, semi serious, offbeat ...
Plot: hotel, motel, murder, small town, frame up, couple relations, couples, dishonesty, chaos and mayhem, small town life, intrigue, dark humor ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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The Wrong Door (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Wrong Door is a comedy sketch show, first aired on BBC Three on 28 August 2008. The programme is the first comedy show in which almost all of the sketches have a CGI element. As such, it was produced under the working title of The CGI Sketch ...
Style: surreal, semi serious, exciting, humorous, sketch comedy ...
Plot: chaos, imaginary, parallel world, escapades, battles, heroes, danger, androids and robots, wizards and magicians, superhero, sketch, dinosaur ...
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Human Highway (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Human Highway is a 1982 comedy film starring and co-directed by Neil Young under his pseudonym Bernard Shakey. Dean Stockwell co-directed the film and acted along with Russ Tamblyn, Dennis Hopper, and the band Devo. Included is a collaborative ...
Style: dark comedy, cult classic, apocalyptic, independent film, surreal ...
Plot: post apocalypse, rock, apocalypse, distopia, epidemic, pop music, punk rock, punk, acid, surrealism, post-apocalyptic future, friends ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' (which lasted two minutes and twenty eight seconds, including the signing of the peace treaty) is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and ...
Style: dark comedy, apocalyptic, psychedelic, surreal, psychotronic ...
Plot: dystopia, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, nuclear holocaust, distopia, satire, apocalypse, epidemic, surrealism, post nuclear, doomsday, nuclear threat ...
Time: year 1969, future
Place: cornwall, england, london
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76%
Save the Green Planet! (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A traumatized young man abducts Korean leaders, believing they're toxic reptilian aliens - a fifth column launching a takeover of beloved Earth. Stumped law enforcement geniuses half-seriously hire a disgraced, disheveled private detective with ...
Style: surreal, black comedy, dark comedy, humorous, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alien invasion, alien, kidnapping, investigation, torture, dark humor, save the world, biopunk, space and aliens, twists and turns, anti hero, brutality ...
Place: south korea, korea
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76%
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Rabbits (2002)
Genre: Short, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
Story: A story of a group of humanoid rabbits and their depressive, daily life. The plot includes Suzie ironing, Jane sitting on a couch, Jack walking in and out of the apartment, and the occasional solo singing number by Suzie or Jane. At one point the ...
Style: surreal, avant garde, psychological, atmospheric, experimental ...
Plot: rabbit, dull life, dark humor, danger, confined, isolation, confinement indoors, surrealism, exploitation, trippy, extreme, arthouse horror ...
Time: year 2002
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76%
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Weekend (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
Style: black comedy, road movie, surreal, disturbing, experimental ...
Plot: satire, surrealism, cannibalism, murder, violence, traffic jam, anarchism, road trip, nihilism, cruelty, car accident, car crash ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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The Aerial (2007)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Argentina
Duration: 99 min.
Story: La Antena (English: The Aerial, 2007) is an Argentine drama film, written and directed by acclaimed film director Esteban Sapir. The film features Alejandro Urdapilleta, Rafael Ferro, Florencia Raggi, and others. The movie begins with a pair of ...
Style: surreal, suspenseful, serious, atmospheric, expressionism ...
Plot: family relations, mind control, social decay, human nature, revolution, life is a bitch, totalitarianism, dishonesty, corrupted ruler, society, child in peril, state affairs ...
Time: future
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75%
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Leolo (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The story of an imaginative boy who pretends he is the child of a sperm-laden Sicilian tomato upon which his mother accidentally fell.
Style: surreal, disturbing, art house, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot: coming of age, masturbation, insanity, bestiality, surrealism, dysfunctional family, dark humor, magic realism, imagination, youth, madness, children ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: canada, quebec, montreal, sicily
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Superstarlet A.D. (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: The world has ended. All that is left behind are individual beauty cults, groups of girls seeking safety and identity in numbers. Basing their bond on hair color and giving themselves strangely evocative gang names, the blond Phayrays (King Kong), ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, suspenseful, futuristic, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: surrealism, burlesque, dystopian future, society, gang, escapades, danger, apocalypse, chaos, post apocalypse, satire, lesbian ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Watermelon Man (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Jeff Gerber, an insurance agent, lives in a typical suburban neighborhood. He is also both racist and a fitness freak. But Jeff's bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin ...
Style: surreal, cult classic, biting, disturbing, humorous ...
Plot: racism, social commentary, culture clash, satire, black, transformation, racial issues, african american, african, black lives matter, black history, marriage ...
Time: 60s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In September 2011 writer Michel Houellebecq briefly disappeared off the face of the earth. Wild rumours began circulating on the Internet that he’d been abducted by Al-Qaeda or aliens from outer space. Some Twitter users even expressed relief that ...
Style: cynical, semi serious, humorous, deep, contemplative ...
Plot: abduction, unlikely criminals, writer's life, danger, friendship, farce, dark humor, kidnapping, writers, psychology, friends, female nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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The Infidel (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Based in a London suburb Mahmud Nasir lives with his wife, Saamiya, and two children, Rashid and Nabi. His son plans to marry Uzma, the step-daughter of Egyptian-born Arshad Al-Masri, a so-called 'Hate Cleric' from Waziristan, Pakistan. ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, surreal ...
Plot: satire, culture clash, muslim, hijab, taxi driver, self discovery, social differences, adoption, society, dark humor, rabbi, religions or cults ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, middle east, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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That Day (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A father (Michel Piccoli) is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage (Elsa Zylberstein) killed by allowing a murderous psychopath (Bernard Giraudeau) to be released from the asylum and led to his house. However, the ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, mind bending, witty ...
Plot: murder, family in crisis, serial killer, family problems, family life, hitman, couples, double murder, mental illness, obsession, mental disorder, dark humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: switzerland
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74%
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