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You, the Living (2007)
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You, the Living (2007)
Original name: Du levande
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Sweden, Germany, France, Denmark, Norway, Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman (Jessica Lundberg) remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.
Style: surreal, dark comedy, philosophical, melancholic, ironic, meditative, tragicomedy, black comedy, art house, visually appealing ...
Plot: life, surrealism, loneliness, life philosophy, honest, lifestyle, artist, art, alienation, nordic, philosophy, music, dream, gay, dancing, musician, friendship, mental disorder, humour, mission, nihilism, adolescence, human relationship, family drama, conversation ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, 21st century, contemporary
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe, california, new jersey
Keyword: sweden, avant-garde, dreams

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out surreal, weird, semi serious and realistic films with plots about surrealism, dream, art, existentialism, female nudity, sex and mental disorder mostly in Drama, Comedy and Music genres. Some movies like You, the Living: Songs from the Second Floor (2000), The Bothersome Man (2006), Frank (2014), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), Lost in Translation (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. A story about our need for love, our confusion, greatness and smallness and, most of all, our vulnerability. It is a story with many characters, among them a father and his mistress, his ...
Style: surreal, black comedy, art house, philosophical, talky ...
Plot: surrealism, loneliness, multiple storylines, dark humor, existentialism, insanity, poetry, religions or cults, human nature, worldwide chaos, nordic, obsession ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
Place: russia, eastern europe, scandinavia
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100%
The Bothersome Man (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Norway, Iceland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment - even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but ...
Style: surreal, enigmatic, psychological, psychedelic, mindfuck ...
Plot: dystopia, suicide attempt, parallel universe, exile, accountant, nightmare, emotionless, new job, isolation, confined, captivity, confusion ...
Time: distant future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, Germany, Norway, France, Denmark
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.
Style: surreal, realistic, talky, lyrical, dark comedy ...
Plot: power relations, society, odd couple, teaching the ways of the world, absurdism, partner, misfit, on the road, dark humor, surrealism, existentialism, humanity ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 82K
Frank (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young wannabe musician who discovers he has bitten off more than he can chew when he joins an eccentric pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank.
Style: surreal, melancholic, tragicomedy, touching, black comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: music, music band, suicide, mental illness, strange person, musician, identity, creativity, eccentricity, character study, depression, dark humor ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: ireland, britain, usa, austin texas, ethiopia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Japan, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Coffee And Cigarettes is a collection of eleven films from cult director Jim Jarmusch. Each film hosts star studded cast of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.
Style: atmospheric, philosophical, intellectual, black and white, ironic ...
Plot: musician, conversation, dialogue, addiction, actor, smoking, art, coffee, lifestyle, cafe, dark humor, deadpan ...
Time: year 2003, 1920s, 70s, 21st century
Place: usa, california, america, paris france, las vegas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Lost in Translation (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
Style: melancholic, atmospheric, offbeat, psychological, artsy ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick, family friendly
Plot: loneliness, midlife crisis, age difference, friendship, older man younger woman relationship, alienation, fish out of water, love story, unlikely couple, self discovery, relationships, adultery ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, america, yale university ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.3
 83K
Youth (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Switzerland, UK, France, Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story: YOUTH explores the lifelong bond between two friends vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing ...
Style: melancholic, talky, philosophical, touching, psychological ...
Plot: aging, composer, screenwriter, father daughter relationship, hotel, life & death, sex scene, husband wife relationship, existentialism, spa, art, orchestra ...
Time: year 2015, year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: switzerland, swiss alps, italy, venice, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 7.7
 202K
Adaptation. (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A love-lorn script writer grows increasingly desperate in his quest to adapt the book 'The Orchid Thief'.
Style: satirical, absurd, black comedy, mind bending, dark comedy ...
Plot: twins, filmmaking, depression, writer's block, writers, imagination, mentally unstable, loser, existentialism, obsession, siblings relations, eccentricity ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: florida, new york, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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The Idiots (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, France, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story: With his first Dogma-95 film director Lars von Trier opens up a completely new film platform. With a mix of home-video and documentary styles the film tells the story of a group of young people who have decided to get to know their ...
Style: art house, disturbing, surreal, controversial, experimental ...
Audience: adult
Plot: male nudity, dogme 95, sex orgy, commune, mental illness, sex scene, community, public nudity, stupidity, strong sexual content, sex, orgy ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.7
 74K
Happiness (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: The lives of many individuals connected by the desire for happiness, often from sources usually considered dark or evil.
Style: black comedy, cynical, independent film, dark comedy, depressing ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, pedophilia, rape, unhappiness, depression, therapist, obsession, relationships, loneliness, alienation, pedophile, sexual abuse ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.0
 149K
A Serious Man (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A Serious Man is the story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and F-Troop is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, philosophical, ironic, cynical ...
Plot: midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, professor, rabbi, teacher, suburban life, divorce, marijuana, religion, mysticism, life, neighbor ...
Time: year 2009, 60s, 2000s, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: minnesota, usa, poland, bolivia, israel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.4
 19K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Good Night (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Gary, a musician, is trapped in an unhappy relationship with his live-in lover, Dora. He becomes enthralled with a beautiful seductress who enters his dreams, and tries to control his dream-state so he can spend more and more time with her. When ...
Style: emotional, melancholic, humorous, sincere, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: dream, midlife crisis, friendship, obsession, advertising, unlikely friendships, couple relations, fall in love, love and romance, thirtysomething life, musician's life, lifestyle ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: europe, new york, usa, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 8.1
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Autumn Sonata (1978)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: West Germany, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional ...
Style: art house, depressing, emotional, philosophical, sincere ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, marriage, autumn, child neglect, mother daughter estrangement, pianist, reconciliation, classical music, family relations, bad mother, existentialism, women ...
Time: year 1978, 20th century, 70s
Place: europe, eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.6
 38K
Gummo (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Solomon and Tummler are two teenagers killing time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.
Style: disturbing, surreal, dark comedy, experimental, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: sexual abuse, white trash, youth, redneck, adolescence, unsettling, coming of age, gay slur, abuse, violence, sister sister relationship, teenager ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: ohio, usa, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.7
 4K
O'Horten (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway, Germany, France, Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Odd Horton is dependable and contained: he's a train driver retiring after 40 years of service, living a simple life. His idea of adventure is to fly from one city in Norway to another. Starting on the night of his retirement dinner, Odd has a ...
Style: contemplative, surreal, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Plot: retirement, train, surrealism, train conductor, social relations, lifestyle, self discovery, elderly, unemployment, aging, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: oslo norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
About Endlessness (2019)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, Germany, Norway, France
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality, guided by a Scheherazade-esque narrator. Inconsequential moments have the same significance as historical events. Simultaneously an ode and a lament, presents a ...
Style: surreal, thought provoking, psychological, contemplative, anthology ...
Plot: surrealism, reflection, meaning of life, love and romance, family history, ambiguity, life, destiny, sin, cautionary tale, art, nordic ...
Time: 2010s, future
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Nostalgia (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th-century Russian composer. In an ancient spa town, he meets the lunatic Domenico, who years earlier had ...
Style: atmospheric, philosophical, art house, cerebral, contemplative ...
Plot: art, existentialism, philosophy, dream, poetry, storytelling, obsession, great ending, memory, redemption, writer's life, culture clash ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: soviet union, russia, ussr, rome italy, europe ...
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27%
 7.2
 15K
Berlin Calling (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A man tours clubs around the globe with his manager and girlfriend. On the eve of their largest album release he is admitted to a psychiatric clinic after overdosing at a gig.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot: techno, techno music, drug abuse, mentally unstable, rehabilitation, dj, mental institution, musician's life, lifestyle, cocaine, party, clubbing ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: berlin germany, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Science of Sleep (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.
Style: surreal, psychedelic, psychological, philosophical, meditative ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: dream, surrealism, magic, daydreamer, artist, escape from reality, existentialism, insanity, magic realism, imagination, love story, friendship ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, mexico, france, europe, latin america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
My Dinner with Andre (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, apparently playing themselves, share their lives over the course of an evening meal at a restaurant.
Style: philosophical, surreal, thought provoking, minimal cast, existential ...
Plot: conversation, restaurant, philosophy, food, existentialism, art, dialogue, cooking, dinner, realism, transcendence, occult ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1981
Place: new york, poland, middle east, manhattan new york city, sahara ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
My Life as a Dog (1985)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at the home of his aunt and uncle in 1959 Sweden.
Style: sentimental, realistic, touching, philosophical, existential ...
Plot: coming of age, children, boy, tomboy, boxing, childhood, adolescence, loneliness, terminal illness, nude model, heartwarming, friendship ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: europe, eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 7.8
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I Remember (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the ...
Style: art house, surreal, sentimental, atmospheric, visual ...
Plot: coming of age, fascism, surrealism, satire, big breasts, memory, family life, group of friends, social relations, human nature, childhood, art ...
Time: 20th century, year 1973, 1930s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.7
 66K
Night on Earth (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
Style: anthology, intellectual, independent film, dark comedy, melancholic ...
Plot: taxi, culture clash, night, taxi driver, storytelling, immigration, multiple storylines, blindness, cigarette smoking, nightlife, conversation, friendship ...
Time: 90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: paris france, rome italy, new york, helsinki finland, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and ...
Style: surreal, psychological, dark comedy, black comedy, psychedelic ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: midlife crisis, existentialism, theater, surrealism, showbiz, actor, magic realism, satire, father daughter relationship, dark humor, alter ego, art ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: new york, los angeles, america, ethiopia, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, France, West Germany
Duration: 188 min.
Story: Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.
Style: disturbing, philosophical, art house, visual, surreal ...
Plot: childhood, ghost, christmas, children, coming of age, grief, brother sister relationship, child abuse, christmas eve, abusive stepfather, marriage as hell, boy ...
Time: turn of the century, year 1982, 20th century, victorian era, 1910s ...
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
A Coffee in Berlin (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A fateful day pushes an aimless college dropout (Tom Schilling) to stop wasting his time and finally engage with life.
Style: black and white, melancholic, realistic, humorous, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, society, slacker, loneliness, depression, unlikely friendships, hopes, lifestyle, introspection, unfulfillment, unsupportive parent, misfit ...
Time: 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place: germany, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Calamari Union (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Finland
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Calamari Union is an allegorical movie that tells the story of sixteen men all of whom are called Frank (inspired by Frank Armoton) apart from a single confrere, Pekka. Collectively the Franks and Pekka are unhappy with the perceived oppression they ...
Style: black and white, cult classic, visual, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot: obsession, surrealism, human relationship, perfection, journey, helsinki, finland, blind ambition, hopes, obsessive quest, human nature, ambition, gang ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: finland, europe, helsinki finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.7
 24K
Last Days (2005)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The life and struggles of a notorious rock musician seeping into a pit of loneliness whose everyday life involves friends and family seeking financial aid and favors, inspired by rock music legend Kurt Cobain and his final hours.
Style: psychedelic, art house, bleak, intense, lyrical ...
Plot: musician, music, rock, rock music, depression, addiction, isolation, drug abuse, biopic, rock and roll, suicide, loneliness ...
Time: year 2005, 20th century, 2000s, 90s
Place: seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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