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Pastoral Hide and Seek (1974)
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Pastoral Hide and Seek (1974)
Original name: 田園に死す
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.
Style: psychedelic, surreal, experimental, mind bending, disturbing, avant garde, weird, cult film
Plot: surrealism, trippy, time travel, clown, runaway, adolescence, melancholy, filmmaking, sexploitation, folk horror, desert, psychic, nun, doll, circus, cemetery, midget, death of child, coming of age, hunchback, breaking the fourth wall, freakshow, symbolism, female on male rape, female nudity ...
Time: year 1974

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out surreal, weird, psychedelic and experimental films with plots about surrealism, female nudity, magic realism, trippy, death, nudity and dream mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Horror genres. Some movies like Pastoral Hide and Seek: Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1971), The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973), Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990), The Holy Mountain (1973), Midori: The Camellia Girl (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min.
Story: In a Japanese colony, children overthrow their parental guardians and attempt to form a new society. Their plan spirals out of control and they are soon lost in a web of sexual deviation and violence.
Style: experimental, controversial, disturbing, avant garde
Plot: extreme, sex with a minor, rebellion, rape, female nudity, controversy, male nudity, girl, surrealism, boy, bare breasts, crucifix ...
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Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1971)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Conditions have been better for the nameless protagonist: his grandmother is a shoplifter and his war criminal father and sister have an unhealthy, intimate relationship with the family rabbit.
Style: avant garde, experimental, erotic drama, offbeat, disturbing ...
Plot: surrealism, female nudity, sex, youth, alienation, poetry, success, anarchy, dysfunctional family, family relations, teenager, nudity ...
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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
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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%
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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
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Midori: The Camellia Girl (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: 14-year-old Midori is the constantly abused chore girl for a freakshow. Things begin to change for her after a dwarf magician joins the freak show, but not always for the better.
Style: compassionate, sadistic, intense, manga, dark ...
Plot: body horror, circus, orphan, midget, jealousy, loss of mother, punishment, desperation, human trafficking, freak, cruelty, illusion ...
Place: japan
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Pitfall (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.
Style: surreal, experimental, psychedelic, mind bending, depressing ...
Plot: surrealism, ghost, union, supernatural, magic realism, murder, labor, trippy, asian, samurai, strike, mistaken identity ...
Time: year 1962
Place: japan
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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
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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
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24%
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Himiko (1974)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view of history.
Style: surreal, esoteric, mind bending, psychedelic, weird
Plot: religion, trippy, female protagonist, waterfall, death, outdoor sex, sex scene, shaman, incest, kingdom, japanese history, burial ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 ...
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22%
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Eggshells (1969)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Experimental allegorical story about a group of hippie students in Austin, Texas, who move into an old big house in the woods. However, something else is there and it's influencing them.
Style: psychedelic, surreal, mind bending, independent film, experimental ...
Plot: hippie, counterculture, male nudity, nudity, roommate, sexual revolution, stealing a car, commune, haunted house, symbolism, sex scene, wedding ceremony ...
Time: 60s
Place: austin texas, texas
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22%
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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22%
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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
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Time: year 1972
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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, ...
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Duration: 80 min.
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Eden and After (1970)
Genre: Drama
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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.
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Duration: 124 min.
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
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Time: year 1962, 60s, 20th century
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Duration: 43 min.
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Time: year 2002
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
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Style: art house, surreal, realistic, touching, atmospheric ...
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Time: year 2014, year 2013, 2010s, 1930s, 20th century
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Style: psychedelic, art house, philosophical, atmospheric, disturbing ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, Italy, Japan
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, ...
Style: surreal, semi serious, stylized, psychedelic, postmodern ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Day-Dream (1964)
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Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
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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 ...
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Place: spain, iberian peninsula, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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