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Atomic Heart Mother (2015)
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Original name: مادر قلب اتمی
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Iran
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
On their way back from a wild party, Arine and Nobahar cause a car accident. A mysterious stranger by the name of Toofan offers to cover the costs. This won't be the last time they'll cross his path over the course of the night.
Style:
surreal, road movie, captivating, tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, dark comedy, black comedy, mind bending, psychedelic ...
Plot:
mysterious stranger, farce, absurdism, car, friends, accident, culture, surrealism, mysterious man, culture clash, car accident, night, political satire, authoritarianism, social commentary, friendship, claustrophobia, satire, moral ambiguity, confrontation, civil unrest, metaphysics, persian, censorship, political commentary ...
Place:
tehran iran, tehran, persia, iran
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out surreal, psychological, existential and art house films with plots about surrealism, satire, absurdism, social commentary, dark humor, magic realism and claustrophobia mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Comedy genres. Some movies like Atomic Heart Mother: Lovely Trash (2013), Eraser Children (2009), Iran is My Country (1999), Two/One (2019), Shirin (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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95%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Iran
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Following protests to the presidential election in 2009, an elderly woman has one night to clear her house of any politically troublesome belongings of her family. To help her out; her deceased husband, her executed brother and two martyred and ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, allegory, reflective, poignant ...
Plot:
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Place:
iran, persia
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87%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In a world of useless products, police brutality, pre-paid dreams and a list of Violations so long if you laugh too loudly you will be fined. Misner Corporation has invented a new source of energy which has given them a global monopoly on all facets ...
Style:
allegory, bleak, surreal, black comedy, dark comedy ...
Plot:
satire, consumerism, dystopia, authoritarianism, totalitarianism, anti establishment, propaganda, police brutality, rebellion, cult leader, urban decay, assassination ...
Place:
brazil, australia
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: Iran
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Sohrab, a provincial young writer, is lost in the desert on the way to Tehran to get a publication license for his book on old Persian poetry, but the trip involves some bizarre events.
Style:
road movie, intellectual, philosophical, art house, spiritual ...
Plot:
poetry, literary, journey, desert, identity, bureaucracy, publishing, magic realism, imagination, provincial life, pilgrimage, memory ...
Time:
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Place:
tehran, iran, persia
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, China, Canada, Argentina
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two men living on the exact opposite side of the world. When one sleeps, the other one is awake. But when they finally meet, a simple question arises: Who is the dream and who is the dreamer?
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, suspense, disturbing, enigmatic ...
Plot:
identity crisis, dream, self identity, hidden identity, duplicity, identity, surrealism, metaphysics, character study, intimate, minimalism, loneliness ...
Place:
shanghai
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65%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the ...
Style:
experimental, contemplative, atmospheric, stylized, emotional ...
Plot:
theater, feminism, artists and showbiz, strong female presence, iranian, minimal dialogue, arab, religious, cinema, face, women, persian ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, persia
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Iran
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Director Bahman Farmanara's second film following a 20-year exile from his native Iran depicts the spiritual crisis of a middle-aged man. In the film's dreamlike opening scene, Dr. Reza Sepidbakht (Reza Kianian), a well-off Tehran ...
Style:
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Place:
persia, iran, tehran
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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:
surreal, psychological, captivating, disturbing, art house ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A corrupted police officer insists on bribing a broke man, so he has to go to everybody and do everything in order to be able to pay him in the very night.
Style:
satirical, tense, dark comedy, black comedy, islamic
Plot:
bribery, corruption, police corruption, poverty, desperation, humanity, realism, friends, city life, class conflict, character study, moral dilemma ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
iran, persia, tehran, middle east
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Anxious dreams, hallucinations, and paranoid reality torment a young math professor in the aftermath of his wife's death in a car accident. As madness, addiction and affairs send the story spiraling towards its conclusion, the truth about what ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
obsession, haunted by the past, couple relations, life is a bitch, couples, dealing with death, mental illness, hallucination, grief, mathematics, addiction, paranoia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle, usa
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The producers of this French film took approximately 100 people, put them on a soundstage and had them improvise this film based on the premise that they are on a spaceship escaping from the dictators of earth and only have a few days to live. ...
Style:
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Plot:
orgy, improv, escape, performance art, dystopia, absurdism, social commentary, counterculture, underground, mortality, party, satire ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Iran
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
father son relationship, grief, memory, loss, longing, nostalgia, dream, identity, isolation, haunting, coming of age, journey ...
Place:
iran, tehran, persia
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
After a confusing interaction in downtown Tehran, a married couple seems to have found their doppelgängers.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
intrigue, husband wife relationship, couples, problem, family relations, male female relationship, lookalikes, relationships, married couple, character study, urban, dual identity ...
Place:
tehran
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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 ...
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Plot:
surrealism, religion, social satire, room, mansion, dinner party, absurdism, satire, class differences, piano, isolation, symbolism ...
Time:
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Place:
spain, paris france
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Country: UK
Duration: 58 min.
Story:
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Duration: 99 min.
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Plot:
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Duration: 85 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 84 min.
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Story:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
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Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
chile
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
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Story:
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Country: Iran
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Russia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Iran
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Place:
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Duration: 52 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Style:
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