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The Dance of Reality (2013)
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The Dance of Reality (2013)
Original name: La danza de la realidad
Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 133 min.
Story: “Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.” This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in 1929 in Tocopilla, a coastal town on edge of the Chilean desert, where this film was shot. It was there where he discovered the fundamentals of reality, as he underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family.
Style: art house, surreal, atmospheric, touching, realistic, serious, mind bending, psychedelic, mindfuck, funny ...
Plot: surrealism, childhood, father son relationship, coming of age, family life, dysfunctional family, kids in trouble, family relations, youth, misfit, street kid, parents and children, society, family problems, social misfits, magic realism, childhood memory, art, trippy, biopic, erotica, lgbt, experiment, hippie, spirit ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, year 2014, 1930s, 20th century, 30s
Place: chile, latin america
Keyword: avant-garde, jewish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out surreal, art house, serious and weird films with plots about surrealism, magic realism, female nudity, dream, death, trippy and male nudity mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Biography genres. Some movies like The Dance of Reality: Endless Poetry (2016), Enter the Void (2009), Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982), The Holy Mountain (1973), The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Endless Poetry (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Chile, UK, France, Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A portrait of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s and 50s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic circle of the time.
Style: surreal, sexy, psychedelic, mind bending, captivating ...
Plot: surrealism, poetry, history of chile, gay, poet, father son relationship, male nudity, family relations, youth, piano, art, mother son relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 2010s, future
Place: chile, santiago chile
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 7.2
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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 ⇓
100%
Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
Style: psychedelic, surreal, psychological, disturbing, experimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: rock, rock and roll, music, teacher, surrealism, loss of father, musician, rock music, visceral, drug addiction, trippy, childhood ...
Time: year 1982, 1940s, 20th century, 1950s, 60s ...
Place: england, europe, london, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Holy Mountain (1973)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A Mexican master leads a Christ figure and other disciples to a mountain of immortal wise men. The scandal of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky's flood of sacrilegious imagery and existential symbolism in The ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, avant garde, disturbing, art house ...
Plot: alchemist, enlightenment, male nudity, hermaphrodite, trippy, surrealism, crucifix, symbolism, bird, mountain, spiritual journey, castration ...
Time: year 1973, 20th century, 70s
Place: mexico, latin america, peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Poland
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Set in pre- World War II era. A young man is on a strange train to see his dying father in a sanatorium. But the place is going to ruin and recalls a lot of memories from the past. He is beset by soldiers from the past, colonial black mercenaries, ...
Style: surreal, mind bending, psychological, psychedelic, dark ...
Plot: surrealism, alternate reality, metaphysics, female nudity, mental disorder, time travel, magic realism, macabre, trippy, existentialism, parallel universe, politics ...
Time: year 1973, 20th century
Place: eastern europe, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
 7.2
 31K
The Gopher (1970)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Mexico
Duration: 125 min.
Story: El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man. El Topo (the mole) claims to be God, while dressed as a gunfighter in black, ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, disturbing, allegory, experimental ...
Plot: desert, surrealism, murder, boy, revenge, rape, religion, suicide, church, violence, russian roulette, gunfighter ...
Time: year 1970
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ 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 ⇓
22%
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The Tree of Life (2011)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his ...
Style: philosophical, surreal, artsy, atmospheric, visually stunning ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: philosophy, childhood, grief, coming of age, spirituality, father son relationship, parenthood, existentialism, family relations, domineering father, hopes, religion ...
Time: 1950s, 2010s, year 2011, prehistory, 20th century ...
Place: texas, america, usa, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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My Ain Folk (1973)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 55 min.
Story: When Jamie's maternal grandmother dies, he and his brother Tommy are separated - Tommy is taken off to a welfare home and Jamie goes to live with his other grandmother and uncle. His life is far from happy, filled with silence, rejection and ...
Style: bleak, art house, depressing, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot: youth, children, childhood, autobiography, neglect, biopic, teenage life, family life, siblings relations, parents and children, boarding school life, down on your luck ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1973
Place: scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 ⇓
20%
 7.5
 23K
Santa Sangre (1989)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, dark, psychedelic, atmospheric ...
Plot: surrealism, circus, serial killer, revenge, psychology, clown, extreme, art, magic realism, schizophrenia, macabre, funeral ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 8.0
 52K
Mirror (1975)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.
Style: surreal, atmospheric, avant garde, art house, serious ...
Plot: world war two, childhood, surrealism, poetry, memory, dream, winter, stream of consciousness, mirror, minimal dialogue, woods, levitation ...
Time: year 1935, 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1975 ...
Place: soviet union, russia, ussr, moscow russia, europe ...
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20%
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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 ⇓
20%
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 ⇓
20%
 6.7
 397
Aglaya (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Hungary, Romania, Poland
Duration: 116 min.
Story: This film is about the relationship of a mother and her daughter, the split-up of their family, the blessing and curse of belonging together and about coming of age - all this from the perspective of the young girl Aglaja. The story is based on ...
Style: atmospheric, touching, sentimental, emotional, serious ...
Plot: circus, ambition, performer's life, self discovery, dysfunctional family, desire for fame, family relations, artists and showbiz, parents and children, eccentric family, youth, family problems ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, Ana, a sensitive seven-year-old girl in a rural Spanish hamlet is traumatized after a traveling projectionist screens a print of James Whale's 1931 "Frankenstein" for the village. The ...
Style: art house, surreal, visual, contemplative, atmospheric ...
Plot: childhood, coming of age, spanish civil war, children, surrealism, existentialism, art, imagination, magic realism, youth, innocence lost, civil war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1973, year 1940
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Post Tenebras Lux (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Juan and his urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. And nobody knows if these two worlds are complementary or if they strive to eliminate one another.
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, experimental, surreal ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: countryside, family life, dream, family relations, society, sex therapy, couples, hopes, couple relations, swinger couple, tragedy, exploitation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Fando and Lis (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Fando and his partially paralyzed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar. Based on Jodorowsky's memories of a play by surrealist Fernando Arrabal.
Style: surreal, experimental, mind twisting, psychedelic, disturbing ...
Plot: surrealism, post apocalypse, nihilism, distopia, fetish, mental disorder, landscape, dystopia, unconventional romance, trippy, dream, post apocalyptic ...
Time: distant future, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, France, West Germany
Duration: 188 min.
Story: Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.
Style: disturbing, philosophical, art house, visual, surreal ...
Plot: childhood, ghost, christmas, children, coming of age, grief, brother sister relationship, child abuse, christmas eve, abusive stepfather, marriage as hell, boy ...
Time: turn of the century, year 1982, 20th century, victorian era, 1910s ...
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Color of Pomegranates (1969)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 79 min.
Story: The life of revered the 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova (Vilen Galstyan). Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women, including his ...
Style: surreal, poetic, atmospheric, avant garde, psychedelic ...
Plot: poet, surrealism, trippy, writers, poetry, biopic, medieval, magic realism, art, metaphor, death, betrayal ...
Time: 18th century, year 1969
Place: soviet union, caucasus, ussr, russia, georgia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave. The Exterminating Angel is a 1962 surrealist film, written and directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Silvia Pinal. Sharply satirical and allegorical, the film contains a view ...
Style: surreal, dark comedy, avant garde, black comedy, allegory ...
Plot: surrealism, room, social satire, religion, dinner party, satire, isolation, mansion, piano, class differences, philosophy, trapped ...
Time: year 1962, 60s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.3
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My Childhood (1972)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
Story: The first part of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars - and this escape is ...
Style: bleak, inspirational, art house, depressing, contemplative ...
Plot: youth, children, boy, childhood, labor, adolescence, love letter, union, strike, child neglect, autobiography, coming of age ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1972, year 1945
Place: scotland, europe, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Running away from the police, Aden goes to the desert where he meets an uncivilized man who has a special link with Mother-Earth. He ends up by convincing the hermit to come along with him into another desert... the big town!
Style: surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, deep, art house ...
Plot: surrealism, desert, oedipus complex, unsettling, peeping, human relationship, magic realism, incest, epilepsy, police, murder, coming of age ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Wings of Desire (1987)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Wings of Desire is Wim Wender’s artistically beautiful film about the lonely and immortal life of angels during a post-war Berlin. It’s a poetic journey from the perspective of the angels of which one falls in love with a living woman and wants ...
Style: atmospheric, surreal, meditative, lyrical, cerebral ...
Audience: date night
Plot: angel, immortality, dream, circus, love, existentialism, philosophy, mortality, library, loneliness, love story, visceral ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1987
Place: germany, berlin germany, west germany, east germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 5.3
 953
What Is It? (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: What Is It? is the name of a 2005 experimental film written, starring, funded and directed by Crispin Glover. As of 2008, the film has only been shown at independent theaters, typically accompanied by a question and answer session, slideshow and ...
Style: surreal, atmospheric, serious, avant garde, controversial ...
Plot: surrealism, down syndrome, obsession, society, social misfits, mental illness, controversy, extreme, human relationship, experiment, getting home, against the rules ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Fellini Satyricon (1969)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first century Rome.
Style: surreal, psychedelic, art house, sexual, cult classic ...
Plot: ancient rome, surrealism, gay, roman, ancient history, lgbt, decadence, hermaphrodite, ancient, animal sacrifice, banquet, slave auction ...
Time: 1st century, ancient times, year 1969
Place: rome italy, italy, ancient greece, europe, sicily ...
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18%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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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 ...
Style: surreal, mind bending, stylized, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: surrealism, supernatural, good versus evil, danger, imaginary, punk, rivalry, artists and showbiz, curses spells and rituals, apprentice, zombie, graphic violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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