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Drowning by Numbers (1988)
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Drowning by Numbers (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 118 min.
Story: An ironic black comedy of love and death that takes place an a lyrically beautiful landscape. Three related women, all named Cissie Colpitts share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings. The local coroner is in love with all three women and helps to disguise the murders.
Style: surreal, black comedy, dark comedy, art house, humorous, disturbing, witty, talky, erotic, postmodern ...
Plot: surrealism, drowning, friendship, murder, investigation, sex, satire, murder by drowning, murder mystery, coroner, mathematics, unlikely criminals, dysfunctional marriage, family problems, dialogue, female nudity, femme fatale, vengeance, life & death, fraud, revenge, women, obsession, swimming, nudity ...
Time: 80s
Keyword: avant-garde, cricket the game

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, realistic, offbeat and humorous films with plots about female nudity, couples, sex, surrealism, male nudity, dark humor and satire mostly in Drama, Comedy and Mystery genres. Some movies like Drowning by Numbers: 8 ? Women (1999), The Belly of an Architect (1987), A Zed & Two Noughts (1985), The Draughtsman's Contract (1982), The Acid House (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Decline of the American Empire (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Remy (married), Claude (a homosexual), Pierre (involved with a girlfriend) and Alain (a bachelor) discuss sex, the female body and their affairs ...
Style: talky, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sincere ...
Plot: infidelity, sex, sadomasochism, depression, love and romance, battle of the sexes, couple relations, couples, human nature, dishonesty, radical, relationships ...
Time: 80s
Place: canada, quebec, montreal
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8 ? Women (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: After the death of his wife, wealthy businessman Philip Emmenthal and his son Storey open their own private harem in their family residence in Geneva (they get the idea while watching Federico Fellini's 8½ and after Storey is "given" ...
Style: surreal, erotic, sexy, talky, clever ...
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Time: year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place: switzerland, europe, japan, geneva switzerland
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The Belly of an Architect (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The American architect Kracklite arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibiton for a French architect, Boullée, famous for his oval structures. Tirelessly dedicated to the project, Kracklite's marriage quickly dissolves along with his health.
Style: art house, talky, sexual, aesthetic, experimental ...
Plot: architect, artist, art, cancer, dialogue, infidelity, obsession, painter, painting, melancholy, insanity, tragedy ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Oliver Deuce, a successful doctor, is shattered when his wife is killed in a freak car accident involving a car being driven by Alba Bewick colliding with a very large rare bird. His twin brother Oswald is researching how carcasses decay at the ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, dark comedy, erotic, black comedy ...
Plot: death, obsession, amputation, surrealism, grief, car accident, zoologist, bestiality, zoo, death of wife, brother brother relationship, absurdism ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Peter Greenaway's first fiction feature (after the mock-documentary The Falls) made him immediately famous and was named one of the most original films of the 1980s by British critics. The action is set in the director's beloved 17th ...
Style: atmospheric, talky, stylized, surreal, witty ...
Plot: murder, adultery, manipulation, art, artist, boss and employee, dishonesty, power relations, society, sexual dysfunction, social climbing, social differences ...
Time: 17th century, year 1982
Place: england, europe
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The Acid House (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: THE ACID HOUSE is a surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, dark comedy, disturbing, humorous ...
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Time: 90s
Place: scotland, europe
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Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Six outwardly average individuals have elaborate fetishes they indulge with surreptitious care. A mousy letter carrier makes dough balls she grotesquely ingests before bed. A shop clerk fixates on a TV news reader while he builds a machine to ...
Style: surreal, experimental, sexy, dark comedy, psychedelic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: surrealism, erotica, masturbation, fetish, dark humor, satire, food, sexual relations, stop motion, sex scene, forbidden love, sexual content ...
Time: year 1996
Place: czechoslovakia
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The House of Yes (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Jackie-O is anxiously awaiting the visit of her brother home for Thanksgiving, but isn't expecting him to bring a friend. She's even more shocked to learn that this friend is his fiance. It soon becomes clear that Jackie Kennedy's ...
Style: dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, independent film, absurd ...
Plot: incest, dysfunctional family, mental illness, family problems, twins, brother sister incest, female protagonist, thanksgiving, eccentric family, secrets, family life, sexual fantasy ...
Time: year 1997, 80s, 90s, year 1983
Place: virginia, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Montenegro (1981)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Sweden, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Marilyn Jordan, an American, lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and family. Her behavior is bizarre, perhaps mad: she poisons the dog's milk and advises the dog not to drink it; she sets the sheets afire as her husband sleeps; she ...
Style: dark comedy, sexy, cult classic, surreal, humorous ...
Plot: mad woman, immigrant, male nudity, sexuality, erotica, dark humor, nudity, death, insanity, adultery, storytelling, blood ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place: balkan, europe, stockholm sweden, former yugoslavia, eastern europe
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The New Age (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Peter and Katherine Witner are Southern California super-yuppies with great jobs but no center to their lives. When they both lose their jobs and begin marital infidelities, their solution is to start their own business together. In order to find ...
Style: satirical, disturbing, melancholic, meditative, cynical ...
Plot: dark humor, suicide, satire, adaptation, society, self discovery, crumbling marriage, filmmaking, lifestyle, starting over, rise and fall, couple relations ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Pillow Book (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 126 min.
Story: As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from "The Pillow Book", the diary of a 10th-century lady-in-waiting. Nagiko grows up, obsessed with books, papers, and writing on ...
Style: erotic, art house, sexy, surreal, enigmatic ...
Audience: adult
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Time: year 1996, 10th century, middle ages
Place: japan, california, asia, hong kong, tokyo ...
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46%
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Human Nature (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A philosophical burlesque, Human Nature follows the ups and downs of an obsessive scientist, a female naturalist, and the man they discover, born and raised in the wild. As scientist Nathan trains the wild man, Puff, in the ways of the world - ...
Style: surreal, humorous, philosophical, semi serious, witty ...
Plot: philosophy, farce, manners, fish out of water, surrealism, culture clash, disorder, hypocrisy, fall in love, misfit, society, odd couple ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
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A Serious Man (2009)
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Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
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Duration: 108 min.
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The Idiots (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, France, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Italy
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Country: UK, Canada
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Bliss (1985)
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Plot: advertising, surrealism, marketing, australian aboriginal, dark humor, couples, couple relations, drug dealing, redemption, life is a bitch, prostitute, self discovery ...
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Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
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Style: surreal, black comedy, art house, philosophical, talky ...
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Style: realistic, semi serious, witty, entertaining, erotic ...
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The Pornographers (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, Haru, and her family. From time to time, Haru shares her bed with Subu, though she believes her dead ...
Style: surreal, dark comedy, psychedelic, erotic, mind bending ...
Plot: filmmaking, perversion, prostitution, adult film industry, sexuality, female robot, film industry, sex, family relations, sexual perversion, dark humor, porn ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
City of Women (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.
Style: surreal, cerebral, satirical, art house, atmospheric ...
Plot: surrealism, sex, female nudity, satire, sexual relations, women, feminism, psychology, fetish, voyeurism, solidarity, human relationship ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Antonia's Line (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, UK, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Antonia's late mother has bestowed a small farm upon her. There, Antonia settles down and joins a tightly-knit but unusual community. Those around ...
Style: touching, melancholic, sentimental, independent film, art house ...
Plot: village life, strong female character, village, lesbian, philosophy, friendship, women, magic realism, free love, mathematics, generation gap, widow ...
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Place: germany, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman.
Style: philosophical, talky, humorous, witty, meditative ...
Plot: adultery, murder, infidelity, mistress, existentialism, justice, guilt, blackmail, satire, couple relations, moral dilemma, human nature ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 80s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Chumscrubber (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won't care. ...
Style: surreal, dark comedy, bleak, independent film, black comedy ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, suicide, kidnapping, youth, suburbs, drug abuse, dysfunctional family, friendship, mistaken identity, high school, teenager, parent child relationship ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Road to Wellville (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustler tries get into the breakfast-cereal business and compete against John Kellogg's corn flakes.
Style: humorous, talky, witty, hilarious, surreal ...
Plot: masturbation, eccentricity, doctor, doctors and patients, competition, countryside, cons and scams, couples, goofy hero, satire, obsession, friendship ...
Time: 20th century, year 1994, 1900s, 19th century, 1890s ...
Place: michigan, usa, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Dying of Laughter (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Nino and Bruno are two comedians who reach the heights of success with their duo act, turning them into huge TV celebrities. However, the hate between them grows as fast, and as much, as their fame
Style: dark comedy, captivating, biting, cynical, realistic ...
Plot: buddy, satire, behind the scenes, comedian, friends, dark humor, nightclub, media satire, workplace situations, rise to the top, buddies, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 90s
Place: wyoming, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a ...
Style: surreal, atmospheric, art house, sexy, cynical ...
Plot: surrealism, virginity, humiliation, maid, manipulation, sexuality, nudity, unrequited love, satire, older man younger woman relationship, absurd humor, fool ...
Time: 20th century, year 1977, 70s
Place: paris france, europe, spain, madrid, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.1
 15K
The Big Feast (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A group of men hire some prostitutes and go to a villa in the countryside. There, they engage in group sex and resolve to eat themselves to death.
Style: erotic, disturbing, art house, surreal, humorous ...
Plot: decadence, suicide, cooking, sex, food, lust, sexual promiscuity, wealth, group of friends, gluttony, society, sexuality ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place: france, europe, paris france, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Weekend (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
Style: black comedy, road movie, surreal, disturbing, experimental ...
Plot: satire, surrealism, cannibalism, murder, violence, traffic jam, anarchism, road trip, nihilism, cruelty, car accident, car crash ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Last Days of Emma Blank (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A woman living in a large country home drives her servants to mutiny with her outrageous demands as she waits for death to come for her.
Style: cynical, realistic, semi serious, humorous, slasher ...
Plot: family relations, estate, farce, dysfunctional family, family problems, lifestyle, parents and children, terminal illness, eccentric family, power relations, dark humor, master and servant ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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