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Cremaster 3 (2002)
 6.9
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Cremaster 3 (2002)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 182 min.
Story: CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner, antagonistic forces at play for access to the process of (spiritual) transcendence. These factions find form in the struggle between Hiram Abiff or the Architect ...
Style: surreal, mind bending, atmospheric, stylized, serious, thought provoking, psychedelic, disturbing, independent film, avant garde ...
Plot: surrealism, supernatural, good versus evil, punk, danger, imaginary, apprentice, rivalry, artists and showbiz, curses spells and rituals, zombie, graphic violence, magic, modern art, legends and myths, nudity, violent content, torture, architect, undead, abstract art, freemasonry, skyscraper, strong sexual content, nude ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Keyword: avant-garde

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, surreal, atmospheric and weird films with plots about surrealism, supernatural, imaginary, danger, trippy, magic realism and nudity mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Horror genres. Some movies like Cremaster 3: Ink (2009), Cremaster 2 (1999), Cremaster 5 (1997), Drawing Restraint 9 (2005), Prospero's Books (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ink (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Invisible forces exert power over us in our sleep. A mercenary named Ink, on a literal nightmare mission, captures the spirit of 8-year-old Emma in the dream world. To save her, the dream-givers marshal all their resources, focusing on saving the ...
Style: surreal, dark fantasy, atmospheric, fairy tale, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: another dimension, parallel universe, good versus evil, imagination, supernatural, father daughter relationship, parent child relationship, time paradox, dystopia, surrealism, existentialism, fantasy world ...
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100%
 6.5
 992
Cremaster 2 (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: CREMASTER 2 (1999) is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of fetal development during which sexual division begins. In Matthew Barney's abstraction of this ...
Style: experimental, independent film, avant garde, serious, gothic ...
Plot: murder, bee, rodeo, mormon, heavy metal, modern art, psychopath, introspection, supernatural, redemption, confined, gender ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 19th century
Place: usa, utah, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 6.4
 772
Cremaster 5 (1997)
Genre: Musical, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
Story: Cremaster 5 (55 min, 1997) is a five-act opera (sung in Hungarian) set in late-ninteenth century Budapest. The last film in the series, Cremaster 5 represents the moment when the testicles are finally released and sexual differentiation is fully ...
Style: experimental, independent film, serious, surreal, mind bending ...
Plot: surrealism, nudity, violent content, wizards and magicians, redemption, love and romance, hopes, unfulfillment, gender, imaginary, human nature, introspection ...
Time: 19th century
Place: europe, hungary, budapest
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Drawing Restraint 9 (2005)
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story: The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto
Style: surreal, stylized, atmospheric, experimental, serious ...
Plot: surrealism, couples, religions or cults, couple relations, society, human nature, art, theory, disintegration, ship, nudity, ocean ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Prospero's Books (1991)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, Italy, Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story: An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.
Style: experimental, surreal, psychedelic, psychotronic, non-linear ...
Plot: shakespeare, book, surrealism, magic, nudity, children, magic realism, decadence, acid trip, stage play, magician, dialogue ...
Time: 90s, year 1991, 17th century
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37%
 7.2
 4K
Green Snake (1993)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A mischievous snake who assumes human form interferes with the romance between her reptilian sister and a hapless man.
Style: surreal, atmospheric, stylized, serious, cult classic ...
Plot: martial arts, monk, good versus evil, hidden identity, dangerous attraction, snake, fall in love, supernatural, rivalry, danger, curses spells and rituals, clergy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted (1992)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
Story: After her boyfriend ends their relationship, the dreamself of a heartbroken woman floats through the air over an industrial wasteland singing ballads of love.
Style: surreal, cult classic, experimental, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: music, musician, dancing, crazy love, breakup, nudity, love and romance, imaginary, couples, tragic love, unfulfilled love, lovers apart ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Reflections of Evil (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Julie, a teen who died from a PCP overdose in the early '70s searches from beyond the grave for her younger brother Bob who now in the '90s is an obese watch seller suffering with sucrose intolerance.
Style: surreal, serious, rough, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: afterlife, drug abuse, mental illness, supernatural, obsession, ghost, artists and showbiz, mentally unstable, terrorism, life is a bitch, danger, supernatural ability ...
Time: 70s, september 11 2001
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 6.9
 8K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.7
 24K
Mirrormask (2005)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home
Style: stylized, surreal, offbeat, visually stunning, mindfuck ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens, date night, teen fantasy, kids ...
Plot: fantasy world, circus, magic, imaginary kingdom, trippy, coming of age, alternate reality, alternate dimension, parallel universe, good versus evil, imaginary, save the kingdom ...
Time: year 2005
Place: brighton, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Thailand, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Netherlands
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Suffering from acute kidney failure, Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, art house, visually appealing, cerebral ...
Plot: surrealism, reincarnation, jungle, magic realism, supernatural, loneliness, existentialism, buddhism, life philosophy, introspection, haunted by the past, farm ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: asia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Goodbye to Language (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 70 min.
Story: About a man who’s angry at his wife because she’s met another man on a park bench and they no longer even speak the same language.
Style: surreal, experimental, atmospheric, serious, stylized ...
Plot: introspection, battle of the sexes, couple relations, love, crumbling marriage, fight, communication problem, dog, book, unsettling, bookstore, moving ...
Time: 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place: europe, france, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Pastoral Hide and Seek (1974)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.
Style: psychedelic, surreal, experimental, disturbing, mind bending ...
Plot: surrealism, trippy, clown, filmmaking, adolescence, folk horror, melancholy, sexploitation, time travel, runaway, desert, death of child ...
Time: year 1974
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.7
 243
Glass Lips (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This dialog-free film, originally presented as 33 short films, is an experimental, bizarre set of meditations and flashbacks of the grotesque.
Style: surreal, atmospheric, disturbing, realistic, serious ...
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, estrangement, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, dull life, doctors and patients, mentally unstable, wrongfully committed, dysfunctional family, homecoming, oedipus complex ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.0
 49K
Holy Motors (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story: We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, ...
Style: surreal, art house, psychedelic, cerebral, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: surrealism, existentialism, life & death, creativity, obsession, multiple storylines, trippy, hidden identity, double life, power relations, unfulfillment, lifestyle change ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Edgar Allan Poe's the Black Cat (1989)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Mark Ravenna, a famous Italian horror film director, sets out to script his latest film entitled 'Suspiria : De Profundis'. His film is based on Dario ArgentoÆs 'Suspiria' and 'Inferno' and deals with the story of ...
Style: atmospheric, suspense, scary, serious, stylized ...
Plot: witch, killer animal, edgar allan poe, demon, supernatural, filmmaking, evil, murder, strong violent content, good versus evil, rivalry, supernatural ability ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Merlin and the War of the Dragons (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In 5th Century Britian, a young Merlin struggles for his place in his known land under the tutelage of The Mage, a local wizard whom sees the young man's potential for magic, as well as face off against his evil former friend, Vendiger, whom ...
Style: exciting, captivating, entertaining, suspense, mockbuster ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: dragon, magic, medieval, battles, legends and myths, supernatural, escapades, rivalry, imaginary, danger, heroes, king arthur ...
Time: middle ages
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.4
 694
Finisterrae (2010)
Genre: Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Two ghosts walk along the Camino of Santiago.
Style: surreal, contemplative, atmospheric, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: ghost, pilgrimage, introspection, on the road, supernatural, journey, surrealism, wandering, society, friendship, human relationship, magic realism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 7.2
 87K
Enter the Void (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan
Duration: 161 min.
Story: This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta). When Oscar is killed by ...
Style: psychedelic, art house, philosophical, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: surrealism, afterlife, trippy, stripper, hallucination, drug trip, life after death, lsd, male nudity, youth, incest, abortion ...
Time: year 2010, year 2009, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Another Trip to the Moon (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The magical surrealist journey of Asa, daughter of a shaman, who confronts her own mother, fighting for her own life and freedom.
Style: captivating, psychological, surreal, disturbing, psychedelic
Plot: magic, surrealism, supernatural power, family problems, supernatural, magical creature, relationship problems, absurdism, magical, woods, rabbit, no dialogue
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
Style: surreal, atmospheric, anthology, philosophical, cerebral ...
Plot: surrealism, dream, artist, tunnel, art, magic realism, nuclear disaster, environmentalism, beautiful scenery, philosophy, fantasy world, painting ...
Time: year 1990, 80s, 20th century
Place: japan, mount fuji, asia, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.3
 5K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Set 15 years after "Twentieth Century Boys," Kanna (Airi Taira) reunites with several main characters from the first film in an attempt to stop Friend's increasing influence over the world and continued plans to eliminate humanity, as ...
Style: serious, stylized, suspenseful, exciting, manga ...
Plot: friendship, teenage life, rivalry, heroes, danger, good versus evil, terrorism, battles, haunted by the past, escapades, apocalypse, worldwide chaos ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 7.5
 4K
Pitfall (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.
Style: surreal, experimental, psychedelic, mind bending, depressing ...
Plot: surrealism, ghost, union, supernatural, magic realism, murder, labor, trippy, asian, samurai, strike, mistaken identity ...
Time: year 1962
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
They Came Back (2004)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead inexplicably come back to life and try to integrate themselves into society that has changed for them.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, surreal, psychedelic ...
Plot: back from the dead, undead, small town, supernatural, friendship, haunted by the past, social relations, living dead, dead, infection, mutant, epidemic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 3.5
 1K
Grendel (2007)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: King Higlack of the Gauths entrusts prince Finn and a fire ball weapon to his champion, slayer Beowulf. They lead twelve men on a mission to help king Hrothgar of the Danes, whose once glorious realm is terrorized by the undefeated monster Grendel. ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting, mythical ...
Plot: viking, medieval, rivalry, heroes, good versus evil, vengeance, imaginary kingdom, imaginary, danger, escapades, legends and myths, deadly creature ...
Time: middle ages
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Heart of Glass (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the ...
Style: surreal, art house, disturbing, experimental, allegory ...
Plot: surrealism, great ending, magic realism, death, folk horror, village, dream, warning, murder, village life, factory, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: year 1976
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Onmyoji: The Yin Yang Master (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: During a dark time in the Heian period, when evil forces threaten the kingdom, the emperor relies on the Onmyoji to keep the supernatural forces in line. But as political events become highly charged, friction within the order leads to betrayal. ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, atmospheric, epic, serious ...
Plot: destiny, danger, supernatural, ghost, heroic mission, escapades, intrigue, dishonesty, betrayal, battles, medieval, curses spells and rituals ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 3.4
 398
Final (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A family descends into a vortex of denial and paranoia after the death of the oldest son. Though labeled a suicide, the bizarre circumstances lead the mother, Helen, to believe there are darker forces at work
Style: serious, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, offbeat
Plot: losing-it hero, supernatural, religions or cults, chase, danger, family in danger, small town, curses spells and rituals, murder, occult, supernatural ability, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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