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Eden and After (1970)
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Original name: L'Éden et après
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: France, Czechoslovakia, Tunisia
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.
Style:
allegory, erotic, disturbing, psychological thriller, enigmatic, experimental, surreal, controversial, avant garde, weird ...
Plot:
surrealism, torture, desert, death, parallel universe, fetish, nihilism, painting, modernism, unsettling, eroticism, violence, female nudity, logic, female full frontal nudity, french new wave, psychological drama, blindfolded
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Most similar movies to Eden and After
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out disturbing, weird, controversial and surreal films with plots about surrealism, female nudity, female full frontal nudity, sex, psychological drama, insane and fetish mostly in Drama, Horror and Mystery genres. Some movies like Eden and After: Porcile (1969), L'Immortelle (1963), She-Shaman (1996), Sleep Has Her House (2017), Strange Circus (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is condemned to be torn to pieces by some wild beasts. In the second story, Julian, the young son of a post-war German industrialist, is on the way to lie ...
Style:
controversial, disturbing, erotic, experimental, avant garde ...
Plot:
cannibalism, cannibal, zoophilia, female nudity, bestiality, male pubic hair, surrealism, death, pig, social decay, murder, nudity ...
Time:
post world war two, 60s, 20th century, middle ages
Place:
germany, europe
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A sad man meets a beautiful, secretive woman who may or may not be involved in some conspiracy ring dealing in kidnapped women used as prostitutes. After several days of their sadly passionate relationship she disappears. The sad man is unable to ...
Style:
surreal, mind bending, avant garde, psychedelic, experimental ...
Plot:
obsession, mystery woman, alternate reality, surrealism, parallel universe, fetish, femme fatale, love and romance, dealing with death, mysterious character, power relations, love affair ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
middle east, istanbul turkey, turkey
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34%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Poland, France, Switzerland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The story of an anthropology professor Michal's who as the movie progresses develops two overwhelming obsessions. The first one is a mummified, 3,000 year-old, perfectly preserved body of a Shaman he and his colleagues have recently dragged out ...
Style:
sexy, mysterious, controversial, sexual, emotional ...
Plot:
nudity, obsession, female nudity, college student, danger, couples, surrealism, professor, nymphomaniac, sex, archeological dig, young girl ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, prehistoric times
Place:
poland, europe
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The shadows of screams climb beyond the hills. It has happened before. But this will be the last time. The last few sense it, withdrawing deep into the forest. They cry out into the black, as the shadows pass away, into the ground.
Style:
experimental, slow cinema, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
darkness, nature, poem, spirit, forces of nature, supernatural, mysticism, night, macabre, romanticism, stoner, cosmology ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too much to bear.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, surreal, suspense, scary ...
Plot:
incest, child abuse, surrealism, violence, incest rape, identity crisis, flashback, revenge, father daughter incest, sex, dysfunctional family, prostitute ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
26%
310
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
While under sedation in a dentist's office, a young art student has sex fantasies about naked women, vampires and a beautiful patient he saw in the office.
Style:
experimental, erotic, disturbing, controversial, dark fantasy ...
Plot:
pink film, erotica, undead, fetish, hairy armpit, dentist, eroticism, patient, art student, vampire, sadomasochism, student ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a world overtaken by eternal darkness, the buttoned down entomologist abandons his phantoms to embrace the unknown.
Style:
surreal, art house, dark, disturbing, deep ...
Plot:
surrealism, cocoon, parallel universe, nightmare, pregnancy, life is a bitch, dangerous animal, danger, couples, gory, sexual relations, homecoming ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An artist in crisis is haunted by nightmares from the past in Ingmar Bergman's only horror film, which takes place on a windy island. During "the hour of the wolf" - between midnight and dawn - he tells his wife about his most painful ...
Style:
gothic, creepy, atmospheric, surreal, black and white ...
Plot:
surrealism, macabre, insanity, nightmare, artist, island, isolation, insomnia, existentialism, obsession, mental illness, homosexual subtext ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe, europe, germany
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
A dark secret connects Katze and Brauth, two middle aged men. Katze has the clue that his end is near. The two friends meet again after years to share their last days in the old house where everything happened a long time ago. With three women they ...
Style:
extreme horror, horrifying, disturbing, controversial, bloody ...
Plot:
surrealism, extreme cruelty, male nudity, masochism, nihilism, extreme, religion, cat, corpse, brutality, hardcore, violent ...
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair of scisors impaled through her heart, as she lay attached to the bedposts. Apparently, the ...
Style:
avant garde, surreal, queer horror, controversial, psychedelic ...
Plot:
surrealism, female pubic hair, lesbian, lesbianism, female nudity, nudity, priest, egg, accused of murder, fetish, parallel universe, young love ...
Time:
year 1974
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An English historian travels to Morocco to work on a study of the painter Delacroix. He hears of a rare series of engravings and embarks on a search for them that takes him through the mysterious streets of the ancient medina. He becomes obsessed ...
Style:
sexy, bleak, surreal, crying, erotic ...
Plot:
bondage, voyeurism, female whipping, voyeur, dead woman, eroticism, bdsm, fetish, ghost, dreaming, suicide, hallucination ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A film director, Jean, his producer, Marc, and his assistant, Lucette, board the Trans-Europ-Express in Paris bound for Antwerp. Once in their compartment it occurs to them that the drama of life aboard the train presents possibilities for a film, ...
Style:
erotic, sexual, neo noir, slasher, cult classic ...
Plot:
train, sadomasochism, female nudity, sex scene, nudity, rape, bondage, railway, hotel room, lust, sexuality, stranger on a train ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
antwerp, france, europe, belgium, paris france
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 51 min.
Story:
Story one of three sees a sexy young woman in a bar unaware that someone is out to do her harm via a voodoo doll; when she pays a visit to the ladies room, unseen forces rip off all her clothes, make her bleed profusely, and tear open her throat. ...
Style:
anthology, grim, transgressive, controversial, erotic ...
Plot:
sexploitation, macabre, vampire, eroticism, female victim, occult, voodoo, sexual abuse, body horror, supernatural, mutilation, female psychopath ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, Bulgaria
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A 2002 French experimental film directed by Philippe Grandrieux and starring Zachary Knighton and Anna Mouglalis. The story involves a young American who falls obsessively in love with a mysterious courtesan named Melania against the backdrop of a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, erotic, exciting ...
Plot:
obsession, social decay, nihilism, destructive relationship, society, prostitute, forbidden love, couples, dancer's life, starting over, sexual relations, relationship problems ...
Time:
turn of the century, 21st century
Place:
england, london, france, new york, europe
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, twisted, mysterious, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
vandalism, symbolism, pregnant woman, surrealism, cannibalism, uninvited guest, nightmare, supernatural horror, death, riot, sex, pregnancy ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s
Place:
america
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
An experimental film from the painter and sculptor Martial Raysse.
Style:
avant garde, experimental, allegory, art film, absurd ...
Plot:
surrealism, symbolism, improv, journey, counterculture, raft, female nudity, artist, rescue, sexual abuse, sea voyage, innocence ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Set in an anonymous Japanese metropolis, the film tells the tale of shy career woman, Rinko and Shigehiko, her hygiene-obsessed, workaholic husband. The couple explore their sexuality in a number of ways, causing their lives to be disrupted.
Style:
sexy, surreal, psychological, suspenseful, erotic ...
Plot:
couple relations, dysfunctional marriage, power relations, stalking, sexual relations, female masturbation, sex, surrealism, erotica, photograph, sexual blackmail, pink film ...
Place:
japan, europe, asia, italy, tokyo ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A married couple of artists move to a utopian town known for its absolute freedom, but behind the surface perversion and violence are spreading.
Style:
dark, surreal, experimental, disturbing, weird
Plot:
distopia, surrealism, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, abstract art, camel, desert, destruction, utopia, dwarf, dream, city ...
Place:
germany
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Bulgaria, Chile, Switzerland, Portugal
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The story of a neurotic bachelor who, after marrying a beautiful woman, submits her to increasingly deranged accusations of infidelity and pleas for forgiveness.
Style:
art house, disturbing, experimental, absurd, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
paranoia, obsession, manipulation, mistrust, psychological manipulation, moral ambiguity, dark humor, unsettling, claustrophobia, surrealism, psychosis, identity crisis ...
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A disgraced children’s puppeteer returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured him his entire life.
Style:
suspense, psychological horror, phantasmagoric, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
surrealism, hallucination, puppet, supernatural, mental disorder, hardcore, madness, missing child, danger, evil, haunted house, curses spells and rituals ...
Similarity:
20%
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:
20%
398
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Kevin's wife passed away while giving birth to their first born child. He can not cope with the lose of of family and becomes obsessed with making contact with her by any means possible.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, bleak, scary, bloody ...
Plot:
violence, fetus, sex, bloodbath, violent, occult, death of wife, gory, witchcraft, extreme, curses spells and rituals, unsettling ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A blind sculptor and his mother kidnap a young woman and use her as a model. In the darkness of an abandoned warehouse, she suffers at the hands of the artist, eventually losing both her sight and her mind as whips give way to knives and knives give ...
Style:
disturbing, erotic, erotic drama, psychological, surreal ...
Plot:
sex, rape, model, sexploitation, blind man, bondage, fashion, fashion model, surrealism, blindness, dismemberment, escape attempt ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
suspense, controversial, rough, bleak, sexy ...
Plot:
torture, fetish, tragic hero, intrigue, hallucination, obsession, violence, loner, insanity, sexual abuse, gory, child abuse ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A man and his grandmother hide out from an ominous broadcast. The Grim Reaper hosts a TV show. The formerly incarcerated recount and reinterpret their first days of freedom. A suburban mom's life is upturned by the beast growing inside of her. ...
Style:
anthology, surreal, psychological, experimental, independent film ...
Plot:
surrealism, sleeping, trance, ex convict, escape from reality, dream, supernatural, grim reaper, isolation, transformation, macabre, festival ...
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20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Canada, West Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The winner (Carole Laure) of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.
Style:
sexy, controversial, disturbing, surreal, erotic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
extreme, decadence, orgy, erotica, erotic scene, surrealism, breast feeding, fetish sex, virginity, virgin, female orgasm, woman in a bikini ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
amsterdam, balkan, paris france, france, europe ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
It's summer. One endless, sexy party under the open sky. Tina and her friends are living the dream of a whole generation of decadent Berlin-party-kids. But after one excessive night she's haunted by a mysterious ugly creature in nightmares ...
Style:
surreal, enigmatic, suspense, absurd, psychotronic ...
Plot:
teenage girl, creature, mental illness, car accident, monster, mental disorder, danger, investigation, death, supernatural, life & death, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2016
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and ...
Style:
surreal, controversial, demonic, mind bending, creepy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, occult, insanity, obsession, body horror, cosmic horror, possession, supernatural power, private detective, supernatural horror, berlin wall, sex ...
Time:
year 1981, 80s, 20th century, year 1980
Place:
germany, west berlin west germany, berlin germany, europe, west germany ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Denmark
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Marian, a middle aged nurse, devotes herself to her patients like a saint. Sometimes she even takes on the role of a redeemer, by helping the gravely ill to the soothing order of ultimate silence. When she gets linked to a neighbor in an act of ...
Style:
psychological, contemplative, realistic, captivating, erotic ...
Plot:
sex scene, hospital, moral dilemma, estrangement, making love, nurse, patient, extreme, illness, women, mental illness, male masturbation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
holland, europe
Similarity:
19%
98K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Seven years after the death of his wife, company executive Aoyama is invited to sit in on auditions for an actress. Leafing through the resumés in advance, his eye is caught by Yamazaki Asami, a striking young woman with ballet training.
Style:
psychological thriller, scary, tense, twist ending, disturbing ...
Plot:
torture, femme fatale, sadism, extreme, violent, psychopath, murder, psychotic woman, sex, widower, twists and turns, revenge ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
19%
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