Movies like Chelsea Girls

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Chelsea Girls (1966)
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Chelsea Girls (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 210 min.
Story: Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's art house classic follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City, presented in a split screen with a single audio track in conjunction with one side of screen.
Style: underground film, experimental, avant garde, psychedelic, art house, art film, cult classic, independent film, gay cinema, queer cinema ...
Plot: art, lgbtq, designer, surrealism, filmmaking, exploitation, house, male nudity, dominatrix, blue, midnight, reality
Time: 60s, 1960s
Place: new york
Keyword: avant-garde

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out avant garde, experimental, independent film and weird films with plots about male nudity, surrealism, female nudity, lgbt, gay, nudity and gay interest mostly in Drama, Comedy and Horror genres. Some movies like Chelsea Girls: Flaming Creatures (1963), The Garden (1990), Trash (1970), Funeral Parade of Roses (1969), Wavelength (1967). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Flaming Creatures (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story: Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously enough with several men and women, mostly of indeterminate gender, vamping it up in front of the camera and ...
Style: experimental, underground film, black and white, cult classic, psychedelic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lgbt, transsexual, surrealism, underground, lgbtq, hardcore, sexuality, gay, drag queen, sadomasochism, nudity, gay interest ...
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The Garden (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to flee them. Two men who are lovers marry and are arrested by ...
Style: realistic, serious, thought provoking, art house, disturbing ...
Plot: gay, life is a bitch, society, gender, injustice, christ allegory, humiliation, torture, passion, religion, art, surrealism ...
Time: 80s
Place: england, europe
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Trash (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The movie follows Joe (Dallesandro), a heroin addict, throughout his quest to score more drugs. The episodic plot occurs over a single day and centers around Joe's problematic relationship with his on-off, sexually frustrated girlfriend ...
Style: independent film, erotic, avant garde, disturbing, surreal ...
Plot: male nudity, welfare, pregnancy, masturbation, drug addict, bare chested male, infidelity, male prostitute, drug, lgbtq, art, lgbt ...
Time: 60s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A feverish collision of avant-garde aesthetics and grind-house shocks, Funeral Parade of Roses takes us on an electrifying journey into the nether-regions of the late-’60s Tokyo underworld. In Toshio Matsumoto’s controversial debut feature, ...
Style: avant garde, disturbing, mind bending, surreal, art house ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay bar, lgbtq, transvestite, transgender, surrealism, prostitution, gay incest, female psychopath, trippy, pink film ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: tokyo, japan
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81%
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Wavelength (1967)
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 43 min.
Story: Wavelength consists of almost no action, and what action does occur is largely elided. If the film could be said to have a conventional plot, this would presumably refer to the three “character” scenes. Snow’s intent for the film was “a ...
Style: experimental, contemplative, underground film, surreal, avant garde ...
Plot: art, fetish, underground, dealing with death, introspection, human nature, estrangement, photograph, sea, presumed dead, warehouse, indoor ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york
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The Illiac Passion (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to the "forest." There, under an apple tree, he communes with his selves, represented by ...
Style: avant garde, underground film, experimental, independent film
Plot: surrealism, antiquity, homoeroticism, greek mythology, lgbt, voice over narration, love, bisexual, mythology, greek, gay, homosexual ...
Place: ancient greece
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63%
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I, a Man (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: I, A Man is Morrissey and Warhol's commercial take on the Swedish [film] I, A Woman. Somebody suggested to Warhol that they wanted a sexploitation film in the vein of I, A Woman, and so he and Morrissey concocted I, A Man. They created the ...
Style: experimental, independent film
Plot: voyeurism, sex, male nudity, nudity, male prostitute, hustler, staircase, boredom
Time: 60s
Place: new york
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61%
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Salome (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A psychedelic re-telling of the biblical story. Salome is the daughter of the second wife of King Herod. The King is infatuated with her and after she fails to seduce the prophet John (The Baptist) she dances for the King in order to ask for his ...
Style: psychedelic, experimental, avant garde, weird
Plot: surrealism, underground, hardcore, nudity, orgy, female nudity, last supper, executioner, male pubic hair, crucifix, diamond, fire ...
Time: 1st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Bike Boy (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Joe Spencer, a member of a motorcycle gang, is taking a shower. After his bout with personal hygiene, Joe encounters Andy Warhol's "superstars," who engage him in conversation. The superstars crack jokes he doesn't understand and ...
Style: avant garde, experimental, independent film
Plot: lgbt, bestiality, motorcycle, fashion, homosexuality, flower shop, veteran, palm reading, flagellation, affair, female nudity, bare breasts ...
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58%
Eden and After (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Czechoslovakia, Tunisia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman. Once they sample his "fear powder" the students experience a series of hallucinations.
Style: allegory, disturbing, avant garde, enigmatic, surreal ...
Plot: surrealism, torture, unsettling, fetish, modernism, parallel universe, painting, desert, death, nihilism, eroticism, female nudity ...
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57%
The Public Woman (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and in a short time she is unable to draw the line between ...
Style: erotic, avant garde, deep, existential, cult classic ...
Plot: erotica, female orgasm, nude model, filmmaking, orgasm, female nudity, surrealism, manipulation, sexy girl, sex scene, insanity, doppelganger ...
Place: france, paris france
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57%
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Naked Lunch (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.
Style: psychedelic, surreal, disturbing, neo noir, philosophical ...
Plot: hallucination, surrealism, drug addiction, paranoia, addiction, exterminator, insect, homosexuality, beat generation, giant insect, cockroach, secret agent ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, year 1991, 90s, 50s ...
Place: north africa, usa, new york
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54%
The Catcher in the Rye (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: This film consists of 75 minutes and 6 seconds of blue screen.
Style: avant garde, disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: abstract art, surrealism, absurdism
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53%
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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 ...
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53%
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream That One Calls Human Life (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Japan, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a ...
Style: black and white, art house, surreal, cult classic, psychological ...
Plot: surrealism, poetry, servant, dream, manipulation, incest, love letter, spirituality, boarding school, power relations, family relations, mind game ...
Time: 90s
Place: england, europe
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53%
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The Trip (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Paul Groves, a television commercial director, is in the midst of a personality crisis. His wife Sally has left him and he seeks the help of his friend John, a self-styled guru who's an advocate of LSD. Paul asks John to be the guide on his ...
Style: atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological, surreal, grindhouse ...
Plot: lsd, hippie, drug, drug abuse, counterculture, hallucination, self discovery, drug addiction, midlife crisis, unfulfillment, estrangement, weed ...
Time: 60s, year 1967
Place: los angeles
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53%
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Porcile (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is condemned to be torn to pieces by some wild beasts. In the second story, Julian, the young son of a post-war German industrialist, is on the way to lie ...
Style: controversial, disturbing, experimental, erotic, art film ...
Plot: cannibalism, cannibal, zoophilia, female nudity, surrealism, death, bestiality, male nudity, social decay, murder, nudity, communism ...
Time: post world war two, 60s, 20th century, middle ages
Place: germany, europe
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51%
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Frig (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Frig — a film in three parts (Love, Shit and Sperm) — is an experimental drama beginning with the end of a love affair. Love and the resulting experience are presented as a metaphor that goes beyond the personal and into a deeper consideration ...
Style: avant garde, art house, allegory, experimental, queer cinema ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay interest, performance art, art, dance, imposture, sadomasochism, bare chested male, male pubic hair, anal rape, perversity ...
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50%
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Postcards from London (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story of a beautiful teenager Jim who, having traveled from rural Essex, finds himself in Soho where he falls in with a gang of unusual high class male escorts – The Raconteurs – who specialize in post-coital conversation. From shy novice to ...
Style: captivating, psychological, tense, disturbing, avant garde ...
Plot: rent boy, male prostitute, male escort, escort, male nudity, prostitution, lgbt, lgbtq, gay, city life, workplace, society ...
Time: 2000s
Place: london
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Calla Lily (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, France, Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story: An experimental drama, Melanie, who was drugged and raped in college. Now ten years later, she is in an abusive relationship and has a child. A chance encounter with someone from her past leads her to re-evaluate her past.
Style: underground film, independent film, experimental, avant garde
Plot: surrealism, rape, flowers, school, single mother, sex scene, hidden identity, puzzle, dogme 95, handheld camera
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
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Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
Style: psychological, depressing, surreal, independent film, confusing ...
Plot: depression, existentialism, death, theater, magic realism, schizophrenic, obsession, writers, twists and turns, philosophy, writer's life, loneliness ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 90s, future, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, berlin germany, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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New old (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 67 min.
Story: Experimental film.
Style: experimental, avant garde
Plot: drum set, male nudity, female nudity
Place: france
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46%
Boys Life: Three Stories of Love, Lust, and Liberation (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Each of the three short films in this collection presents a young gay man at the threshold of adulthood. In "Pool Days," Justin is a 17-year old Bethesda lad, hired as the evening life guard at a fitness center. In the course of the ...
Style: anthology, independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, coming of age, lgbtq, sexuality, male nudity, gay interest, lgbt teen, youth, gay subtext, male homosexuality, campus ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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45%
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Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The film takes place in a seemingly abandoned house where a group of people engage in wordless acts of passion. It covers a period from evening to morning, and the sexual couplings among the members of the house becomes increasingly harrowing as ...
Style: avant garde, independent film, experimental
Plot: erotica, female pubic hair, female nudity, tap dance, female masturbation, childbirth, abandoned house, gay sex, blind woman, sex scene, lesbian cunnilingus, homosexuality ...
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45%
Fleshpot on 42nd Street (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A street whore desperately seeks love and acceptance against the backdrop of the criminal element of early 1970s Times Square.
Style: sensual, social, psychotronic, tragic ending, underground film ...
Plot: unsimulated sex, exploitation, satire, loan shark, robbery, prostitute, street life, nudity, sex for money, male nudity, sex scene, sex ...
Time: 70s
Place: greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, new york
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45%
Hooks to the Left (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Based on the journals of Nail, a male hustler who reentered the prostitution ring after 10 years in a relationship, Todd Verow's experimental documentary (shot entirely on a cell phone camera) examines the changing landscape of male ...
Style: experimental, suspense, disturbing, avant garde
Plot: gay, male prostitute, sexual content, sex worker, prostitute, eroticism, male prostitution, lgbtq, lgbt, gay interest, hustler, gay sex ...
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44%
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Flesh (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A heroin junkie works as a prostitute to support his habit and fund an abortion needed by the girlfriend of his lesbian wife. His seedy encounters with delusional and damaged clients, and dates with drag queens and hustlers are heavy on sex, drugs ...
Style: independent film, erotic, controversial, disturbing, social ...
Plot: male prostitution, gay, lgbt, hot guys, lesbian, erotica, hustler, virus, basement, passion, lgbtq, youth ...
Time: 60s
Place: new york, usa
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44%
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Central Bazaar (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 156 min.
Story: For this remarkable experimental film, the provocative avant-garde legend Stephen Dwoskin gathered together a group of strangers and filmed them as they explored their fantasies over a period of five days: a project that now sounds a little like ...
Style: avant garde, erotic, independent film, experimental, weird
Plot: erotica, female nudity, orgy, underground, makeover, male nudity, gay interest, dildo
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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
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43%
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The Inner Scar (1972)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: France
Duration: 60 min.
Story: A collage of dreams. Garrel made a name for himself with this film as a new Jean Vigo. With Nico (Velvet Underground). A poetic and painterly film that has been described as 'a collage of dreams'. The film was shot without a script, but ...
Style: experimental, avant garde, surreal, weird
Plot: poetry, female psychopath, surrealism, desert, horse riding, horse, sea, goat, waterfall, bow and arrow, male pubic hair, male nudity ...
Time: year 1972
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