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Horse Tail (2023)
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Original name: Koński ogon
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
The ponytail is a dumpster version of the Oedipus myth. Diana, a prostitute from Vienna, returns to the city. She has a trace, memory gaps, and milk started flowing from her breasts. Twenty-year-old orphan-outcast May suspects that she may be its author. Diana's return coincides with one made in the neighboring forest. May is arrested for being violent on police officer Max's wife.
Style:
tense, sinister, art house, independent film, melancholic, surreal, ambiguous ending, grim, neo noir, psychological horror ...
Plot:
female nudity, motherhood, female protagonist, trauma, prostitution, memory loss, alienation, identity, female bonding, moral ambiguity, symbolism, orphan, getting home, outsider, small town, female pubic hair, forest, taboo, river, police procedural, incest, mother son incest, sex with mother, forced incest, male pubic hair ...
Place:
vienna
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out art house, melancholic, tense and psychological films with plots about identity, moral ambiguity, female protagonist, psychological drama, isolation, female nudity and alienation mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Horse Tail: Lose My Self (2014), Illusion (2022), Big Big World (2016), Terra Nova (1998), Windows on Monday (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 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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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, art house, ambiguous ending, slow cinema, erotic ...
Plot:
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353
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, Belgium, Lebanon
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
lebanon
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Country: Switzerland
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, melancholic, art house, independent film
Plot:
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Plot:
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Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Anna, a divorced single mother, employs a mysterious young woman called Lise to care for her children.
Style:
tense, melancholic, art house, independent film, dark ...
Plot:
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377
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Hungary
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 111 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Style:
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Story:
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Story:
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