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Drawing Restraint 9 (2005)
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Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, stylized, serious, experimental, disturbing, controversial, artsy, slow cinema, aesthetic ...
Plot:
surrealism, couples, society, couple relations, religions or cults, human nature, art, theory, ship, ocean, wedding, disintegration, nudity, female nudity, male nudity, sculpture, male pubic hair, whaling, nude, pubic hair, female full frontal nudity, nudity (full frontal - brief)
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
asia, japan
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Most similar movies to Drawing Restraint 9
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out surreal, experimental, weird and avant garde films with plots about surrealism, nude, nudity, female nudity, male nudity, female full frontal nudity and pubic hair mostly in Fantasy, Drama and Horror genres. Some movies like Drawing Restraint 9: Cremaster 3 (2002), Finisterrae (2010), Goodbye to Language (2014), Dreamwood (1972), Fando and Lis (1968). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, atmospheric, stylized, serious ...
Plot:
surrealism, good versus evil, supernatural, imaginary, danger, punk, rivalry, artists and showbiz, apprentice, curses spells and rituals, zombie, graphic violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Two ghosts walk along the Camino of Santiago.
Style:
surreal, contemplative, atmospheric, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
ghost, pilgrimage, introspection, on the road, supernatural, journey, wandering, surrealism, society, friendship, minimalism, human relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
About a man who’s angry at his wife because she’s met another man on a park bench and they no longer even speak the same language.
Style:
surreal, experimental, atmospheric, serious, stylized ...
Plot:
couple relations, introspection, battle of the sexes, love, crumbling marriage, fight, communication problem, dog, book, death, unsettling, bookstore ...
Time:
2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
europe, france, switzerland
Similarity:
69%
174
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
Dreamwood narrates the oniric quest of a modern argonaut in a mysterious island located somewhere on the borders of the unconscious.
Style:
experimental, avant garde, surreal, independent film, psychological ...
Plot:
children, symbolism, quest, isolation, island, journey, haunting, minimalism, minimal dialogue, ritual, male nudity, moon ...
Similarity:
65%
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Fando and his partially paralyzed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar. Based on Jodorowsky's memories of a play by surrealist Fernando Arrabal.
Style:
surreal, experimental, disturbing, avant garde, depressing ...
Plot:
surrealism, post apocalypse, post-apocalyptic future, nihilism, distopia, female nudity, journey, paraplegic, mental disorder, dystopia, landscape, fetish ...
Time:
distant future, 60s
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
A bizarre don't-even-try-to-make-sense-of-it bombardment of sexual imagery that plays like stream of consciousness from a degenerate: threesomes, foursomes, lesbians, bondage, hair-whipping (!) and, believe it or not, even kung-fu. Avant-garde ...
Style:
experimental, controversial, transgressive, avant garde, erotic ...
Plot:
explicit sex, sexual exploration, taboo, sexploitation, bondage, threesome, stream of consciousness, underground, fetishism, group sex, orgy, counterculture ...
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Musical, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
Cremaster 5 (55 min, 1997) is a five-act opera (sung in Hungarian) set in late-ninteenth century Budapest. The last film in the series, Cremaster 5 represents the moment when the testicles are finally released and sexual differentiation is fully ...
Style:
experimental, independent film, serious, mind bending, surreal ...
Plot:
surrealism, nudity, violent content, opera, wizards and magicians, introspection, gender, hopes, unfulfillment, imaginary, love and romance, human nature ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
europe, hungary, budapest
Similarity:
62%
13K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, avant garde, experimental, independent film ...
Plot:
necrophilia, surrealism, self mutilation, macabre, gory, spirituality, cruelty, chaos, nihilism, extreme, obsession, supernatural ...
Place:
america
Similarity:
62%
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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:
surreal, mind bending, art film, experimental, independent film ...
Plot:
hippie, male nudity, counterculture, nudity, bare chested male, male pubic hair, public nudity, group, house, car theft, stop motion, surrealism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
texas, austin texas
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
This is Tim Burton's Disney Channel Halloween film short that only aired once. It combines live action and stop-motion, making for a creepy adventure into the woods.
Style:
surreal, creepy, dark fantasy, gothic, experimental ...
Plot:
halloween, hansel and gretel, stop motion, adaptation, macabre, stepmother, evil stepmother, witch, woods, surrealism, robot, puppetry ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada, New Zealand
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An original story featuring performances by Cirque du Soleil. A young woman is entranced by an Aerialist. When they fall into the dreamlike world of Cirque du Soleil and are separated, they travel through the different tent worlds trying to find ...
Style:
serious, exciting, surreal, stylized, poignant ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
circus, young lovers, synchronized swimming, dancer, disorder, imaginary, fall in love, artists and showbiz, fish out of water, dancing, dance, lovers apart ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Argentina
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
La Antena (English: The Aerial, 2007) is an Argentine drama film, written and directed by acclaimed film director Esteban Sapir. The film features Alejandro Urdapilleta, Rafael Ferro, Florencia Raggi, and others. The movie begins with a pair of ...
Style:
surreal, expressionism, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
distopia, totalitarianism, family relations, social decay, mind control, dishonesty, society, life is a bitch, human nature, revolution, corrupted ruler, child in peril ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, Italy, Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.
Style:
experimental, psychedelic, surreal, epic, art house ...
Plot:
shakespeare, book, surrealism, magic, magic realism, nudity, children, boy, shipwreck, library, daughter, skinny dipping ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 17th century
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
CREMASTER 2 (1999) is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of fetal development during which sexual division begins. In Matthew Barney's abstraction of this ...
Style:
experimental, sexual, independent film, avant garde, serious ...
Plot:
gender bending, murder, bee, heavy metal, modern art, rodeo, mormon, psychopath, supernatural, imaginary, introspection, gender ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
usa, utah, chicago
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
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, psychotronic, art house ...
Plot:
surrealism, desert, oedipus complex, torture, coming of age, unsettling, magic realism, peeping, overprotective mother, human relationship, incest, epilepsy ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Estonia, Finland, Sweden, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A mid-level manager who develops an aversion to being "good" finds himself confronting the mysteries of middle-age and morality as he loses grasp of what was once his quiet life.
Style:
surreal, psychological, suspenseful, bleak, black and white ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, hell, surrealism, temptation, moral dilemma, fighting the system, rebellion, rebelliousness, midlife crisis, society, mental disorder, depression ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
estonia, europe
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Tetsuo II: Body Hammer is a 1992 Japanese science fiction/horror film directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. It is a bigger-budget reworking of the same director's 1989 movie Tetsuo: The Iron Man, utilizing similar themes and ideas to the earlier film ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, cyber, surreal, extreme horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, kidnapping, body horror, violence, cyborgs, kaiju, androids and robots, superhuman powers, surrealism, male nudity, sex scene, abduction ...
Time:
90s
Place:
tokyo, asia, japan
Similarity:
54%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Japan, South Korea, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Tokyo! is an anthology of three short films by directors Michel Gondry (France), Leos Carax (France) and Joon-ho Bong (Korea), each of whom offers an imaginative and transnatural/supernatural glimpse into the Tokyo Megapolis.
Style:
anthology, surreal, art house, cerebral, dark comedy ...
Plot:
male nudity, city life, surrealism, obsession, imagination, isolation, depression, freak, drug, creativity, fall in love, vengeance ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia, paris france, new jersey ...
Similarity:
54%
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Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Three gorgeous beauties awaken from an ancient nap and immediately begin making up for lost time, engaging in as many passionate encounters as time will allow.
Style:
independent film, semi serious, sexy, sexual, stylized
Plot:
mansion, sex, redhead, female nudity, supernatural power, orgasm, nude girl, dungeon, siblings relations, haunted by the past, time travel, sexual relations ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
“Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.” This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. Alejandro ...
Style:
art house, surreal, realistic, touching, atmospheric ...
Plot:
surrealism, childhood, coming of age, kids in trouble, dysfunctional family, family life, family relations, street kid, family problems, parents and children, misfit, youth ...
Time:
year 2013, year 2014, 2010s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
chile, latin america
Similarity:
53%
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, cerebral, psychedelic, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
surrealism, life & death, existentialism, creativity, obsession, multiple storylines, trippy, hidden identity, unfulfillment, power relations, lifestyle change, male nudity ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, seattle, tokyo
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Eccentric Professor Leviticus Wirtsus is obsessed with crossbreeding animals of different species. His research leads Wirtsus to discover a LSD-type substance called Fongaluli
Style:
psychedelic, weird
Plot:
sex with brother, coming of age, hallucinogenic drug, witch, nude girl, orgy, giant, tropical island, transformation, sailboat, magic, storm at sea ...
Place:
caribbean
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
After her boyfriend ends their relationship, the dreamself of a heartbroken woman floats through the air over an industrial wasteland singing ballads of love.
Style:
surreal, cult classic, avant garde, experimental, serious ...
Plot:
crazy love, music, lovers apart, musician, dancing, hallucination, breakup, nudity, couples, unfulfilled love, daydreamer, tragic love ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Spain, Mexico, Germany, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Toledo in the 30s: The godfather of cinematic surrealism, Luis Buñuel, the poet Federico Garcia Loca and the painter Salvador Dalí are on a search for the mythical table of King Salomon, which is known to have the power to see in the past, the ...
Style:
contemplative, surreal, clever, stylized, manga ...
Plot:
filmmaking, surrealism, ancient mystery, political unrest, artist, art history, famous, art, architecture, painter, performer's life, teleportation ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 2000s
Place:
spain
Similarity:
52%
32
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Filmed on a California beach, this arty outing features loin-cloth wearing actors silently telling the allegorical love story between Creation and Humanity on a lonely California beach.
Style:
allegory, art film, art house, experimental, poetic ...
Plot:
beach, humanity, conflict, companionship, minimalism, vanity, ritual, nudity, gift, good versus evil, symbolism, female nudity ...
Similarity:
52%
381
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In a pound, 18 dogs wait to be adopted.
Style:
controversial, grindhouse, experimental, semi serious, surreal ...
Plot:
dog, absurdism, animal shelter, satire, captivity, confined, animal life, sex in a chair, che guevara, map, chauffeur, airplane ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother.
Style:
atmospheric, humorous, stylized, semi serious, sketch comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
surrealism, absurd humor, absurdism, stupidity, imaginary, contact, daydreamer, goofy hero, creature, human relationship, unsettling, trippy ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
A young and affluent couple become fatally entangled in their own wish-fulfillment world.
Style:
weird
Plot:
abortion, advertising, doppelganger, surrealism, dominatrix, sadist, topless woman, sex scene, nun, dream, sailor, male female relationship ...
Place:
new zealand
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Prospero, a potent magician, lives on a desolate isle with his virginal daughter, Miranda. He's in exile, banished from his duchy by his usurping brother and the King of Naples. Providence brings these enemies near; aided by his vassal the ...
Style:
sexual, avant garde, independent film, experimental, atmospheric ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
shakespeare, chess, skinny dipping, male pubic hair, nudity, revenge plot, rock, atonement, island, wizards and magicians, couples, confined ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A surrealistic anthology of horror films; four segments structured as an intense fever dream...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, rough, anthology, suspense ...
Plot:
symbolism, surrealism, dead child, torture, birth, killing, incestuous desire, pregnancy, cannibalism, extreme, danger, gory ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
51%
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