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Zanox (2022)
2K
Original name: Zanox - Kockázatok és mellékhatások
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Hungary
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
As a result of a drug experiment, Misi will be able to travel through time, but only if he drinks from a special homemade spirit.
Style:
psychological, mind bending, surreal, existential, tense, philosophical, suspenseful, art house, independent film, dark drama ...
Plot:
travel, experimental drug, alternate reality, character study, identity crisis, experimental narrative, dark humor, minimalism, laboratory, urban, coming of age, love, teenager, time travel, time loop, past, teenage girl, teenage boy, panic, drink, hungarian
Time:
contemporary
Place:
hungary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out existential, surreal, psychological and tense films with plots about urban, identity crisis, minimalism, claustrophobia, isolation, obsession and character study mostly in Comedy, Sci-Fi and Romance genres. Some movies like Zanox: Poligamy (2009), Belonging (2019), Adiyae (2023), Bulk (2025), Clowning (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
András, the struggling screenwriter one day wakes up to find his girlfriend replaced by a different girl, who acts like nothing happened.
Style:
surreal, humorous, feel good, semi serious, offbeat ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
hungary, budapest
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey, Canada, France
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
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Style:
atmospheric, art house, tense, suspenseful, experimental ...
Plot:
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Place:
turkey
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Jeeva, a grieving youngster, who is on the verge of taking his life, finds new hope when he listens to his school-time crush Senthazhini’s song on TV. But Post a fatal accident, things take a turn for the worse when he accidentally enters an ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Action, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When an over zealous scientist pushes his experiments with string theory too far, his brane explodes. That's "brane", not "brain", meaning someone has to sort out the mess he has created. Corey Harlan is sent in – kicking ...
Style:
mind bending, suspenseful, surreal, existential, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
science gone wrong, alternate reality, multiverse, rescue mission, mad scientist, reluctant hero, moral ambiguity, urban, dark humor, cosmic horror
Similarity:
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106
Genre: Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
With his girlfriend pregnant, Dante, a pacifist hippie who makes lip balm called, Mama Earth; is struggling to keep his bills paid. After finding a mysterious flyer for a Birthday Clown Wanted, Dante calls the number and obtains the job. At the ...
Style:
independent film, dark, surreal, art house, existential ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
identity crisis, moral ambiguity, temptation, circus, urban, underworld, transformation, double life, isolation, underground, secret society, claustrophobia ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
How much do we really know about ourselves when we make a decision? What if there are multiple versions of our I within us, each with something to say?
Style:
psychological, mind bending, existential, experimental, emotional ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
identity, self discovery, consciousness, self awareness, split personality, identity crisis, existential crisis, moral ambiguity, intimate, relationships, metaphysics, memory ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Stillman, a heartbroken physics student builds a time machine when his girlfriend Debbie breaks up with him. Going back in time, Stillman attempts to fix every mistake he made to save their relationship, while dragging his best friend, Evan, along ...
Style:
romantic, sweet, surprise ending, family comedy, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, time loop, teenage girl, youth, coming of age, hopes, teenage boy, friendship, time machine, love, breakup, young love ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story of the film, in a different context of a successful and wealthy engineer named Hossam Khedive, but recently suffers from problems in his natural life resort to alternative life through a new device enters the world of dreams.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, mind bending, emotional ...
Plot:
dream, engineer, relationship problems, family problems, changing lives, lifestyle change, relationships, escape, dreamscape, technology, self discovery, virtual reality ...
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An actor is placed in dangerous situations and his fear will be broadcast to the television audience. The audience's emotions will determine whether he is sent into the future or the past.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, game show, existential ...
Plot:
time travel, travel, media manipulation, social commentary, ethical dilemma, survival, voyeurism, character study, experimental narrative, claustrophobia, mind control, identity crisis ...
Time:
70s, future
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Mümtaz and Derya are condemned to live out their last moments each day in someone else's skin.
Style:
poignant, psychological, surreal, existential, melancholic ...
Plot:
mortality, body swapping, identity, empathy, existential crisis, identity crisis, rehearsal, ethical dilemma, fate, isolation, desperation, memory ...
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In a dream world, the exaggerated lives of six teenagers are thrown into a world of drugs in crime in a typical crime plot in a not so typical world of stolen cocaine, penicillin, Fire Saws, and Carl Jung.
Style:
surreal, dark comedy, psychological, suspenseful, experimental ...
Plot:
teenager, drug, violence, drug traffic, moral ambiguity, mature, dream world, loss of innocence, alternate reality, identity crisis, coming of age, urban ...
Place:
pennsylvania
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
mind bending, psychological thriller, suspenseful, surreal, tense ...
Plot:
neuroscience, consciousness, artificial intelligence, dream, ethical dilemma, identity crisis, experimental technology, female protagonist, female scientist, lucid dream, moral ambiguity, laboratory ...
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63%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Taking place in the fifth reality to be discovered by humanity, Into The Alternate follows an inhabitant and foreign visitor as they struggle to survive within a collapsing ecosystem.
Style:
avant garde, nature documentary, experimental, art house, surreal ...
Plot:
alternate reality, survival, unsettling, experimental narrative, adaptation, haunting, macabre, alienation, minimalism, intimate, parallel universe
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A couple from Burgos, Alfredo and Teresa, travel to New York where they intend to “switch off” and do all of the things listed in the guidebook. But the moment they land, they start to notice signs, some subtle and others rather less so, that in ...
Style:
captivating, humorous, tense, metafiction, surreal ...
Plot:
surrealism, disorientation, alternate reality, time loop, fictional reality, family relations, husband wife relationship, marital problem, male female relationship, puzzle, time travel, time traveler ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Meet Berd 'The Nerd' in a story of a man with no story to tell - until he falls asleep that is.
Style:
offbeat, dark comedy, surreal, neurotic, absurd ...
Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
art house, psychological, existential, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot:
devil, temptation, supernatural, regret, melancholy, memory, symbolism, obsession, writers, fate, moral dilemma, television director ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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46%
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, anthology, thought provoking, thrilling, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
near future
Similarity:
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A detective investigates a murder, only to find that the victim is... himself. Soon, he discovers multiple versions of himself, not all of them friendly.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, rough, detective, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, travel, murder, juggling, clone, police detective, conspiracy, victim, multiverse, identity crisis, alternate reality, paradox ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
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3K
Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Drugdealer wants get out of the circle with his pregnant girlfriend and a time loop effect makes it more complicated.
Style:
suspense, dark, tense, crime drama, neo noir ...
Plot:
time loop, time travel, time, rehearsal, drug dealer, criminal underworld, pregnancy, betrayal, desperation, escape, claustrophobia, moral dilemma ...
Place:
hungary
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, mind bending, suspenseful, dark comedy, action thriller ...
Plot:
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Place:
arizona, las vegas, mexico
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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820
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, futuristic, enigmatic ...
Plot:
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Time:
near future
Similarity:
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Genre: Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil, Chile
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A man who is tormented by his intuitions and by dreams goes away to find answers to his discomfort. Revelations are made to him along his path, until he meets his soul mate and is prepared to the Blue Desert.
Style:
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Plot:
self discovery, desert, life philosophy, revelation, symbolism, transcendence, introspection, self awareness, serendipity, relationships, human existence, meaning of life ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological thriller, dark, tense, suspenseful, mind bending ...
Plot:
trauma, identity crisis, secrets, memory loss, post traumatic stress, flashback, slow burn, mature, claustrophobia, character study, amnesia, isolation ...
Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
self destructing, regret, character study, memory, loneliness, flashback, alienation, manipulation, slow burn, urban decay, fatalism, urban ...
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Country: Italy, Poland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Retro-futuristic timetravel-mystery.
Style:
unusual plot structure, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, dramatic, captivating, disturbing, romantic drama ...
Plot:
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Time:
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