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The Holy Mountain (1973)
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Original name: La montaña sagrada
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 Holy Mountain is a spiritual quest for enlightenment pitting illusion against truth. The Alchemist (Jodorowsky) assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.
Style:
surreal, psychedelic, avant garde, atmospheric, mind bending, esoteric, visually stunning, cult classic, visual, mysterious ...
Plot:
satire, trippy, alchemist, enlightenment, surrealism, hermaphrodite, sex, sex scene, hippopotamus, absurdism, spiritual journey, lsd, crucifix, symbolism, bird, hippie, insanity, extreme, occult, gold, female warrior, absurd humor, feces, female nudity, philosophy ...
Time:
year 1973, 70s, 20th century
Place:
mexico, south america, latin america, peru
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Most similar movies to The Holy Mountain
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychedelic, surreal, mind bending and weird films with plots about surrealism, magic realism, existentialism, trippy, insane, storytelling and dream mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Horror genres. Some movies like The Holy Mountain: Santa Sangre (1989), El Topo (1970), Donnie Darko (2001), The Green Knight (2021), Enter the Void (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the ...
Style:
psychedelic, surreal, dark, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
surrealism, circus, serial killer, revenge, clown, psychology, killer clown, extreme, blood, art, magic realism, funeral ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
mexico city, mexico, latin america
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Mexico
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man. El Topo (the mole) claims to be God, while dressed as a gunfighter in black, ...
Style:
experimental, surreal, disturbing, sexy, psychedelic ...
Plot:
desert, surrealism, boy, murder, revenge, religion, rape, church, violence, russian roulette, lion, dark hero ...
Time:
year 1970, 70s
Place:
south america, latin america, mexico
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Style:
psychological, surreal, mind bending, atmospheric, philosophical ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult, teen drama
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mental illness, imaginary friend, schizophrenia, psychology, time travel, insanity, parallel universe, suburbs, surrealism, time loop, trippy, schizophrenic ...
Time:
80s, year 2001, 2000s, future, 20th century ...
Place:
los angeles, america, usa, virginia, harvard university
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100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A fantasy re-telling of the medieval tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Style:
cerebral, costume drama, bleak, surreal, fairy tale ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
creature, medieval, king arthur, myth, ghost, arthurian legend, headless horseman, knight, monster, legend, monarch, fear ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 2020s
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta). When Oscar is killed by ...
Style:
psychedelic, art house, disturbing, atmospheric, philosophical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, stripper, afterlife, trippy, drug trip, lsd, sex scene, hallucination, life after death, incest, abortion, youth ...
Time:
year 2010, year 2009, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Chile, UK, France, Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A portrait of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s and 50s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic circle of the time.
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sexy, psychedelic, surreal, mind bending, captivating ...
Plot:
surrealism, poetry, history of chile, gay, father son relationship, poet, male nudity, nude, family relations, youth, piano, art ...
Time:
1940s, 2010s, future
Place:
chile, santiago chile
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
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Style:
surreal, psychedelic, sexual, art house, erotic ...
Plot:
ancient rome, surrealism, roman, gay, gay interest, hermaphrodite, big breasts, animal sacrifice, banquet, slave auction, sex, decadence ...
Time:
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Place:
rome italy, italy, sicily, ancient greece, europe ...
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
surreal, dark comedy, black comedy, black and white, philosophical ...
Plot:
surrealism, religion, social satire, room, mansion, dinner party, absurdism, satire, class differences, piano, isolation, symbolism ...
Time:
year 1962, 20th century, 60s
Place:
spain, paris france
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, disturbing, twisted, mysterious, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Poland
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Style:
surreal, psychological, psychedelic, dark, cerebral ...
Plot:
surrealism, alternate dimension, alternate reality, metaphysics, nightmare, female nudity, renaissance, magic realism, time travel, macabre, trippy, existentialism ...
Time:
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Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
childhood, philosophy, spirituality, existentialism, coming of age, death, father son relationship, hopes, parenthood, religion, grief, family relations ...
Time:
1950s, year 2011, prehistory, 20th century, 50s ...
Place:
texas, southern usa, america, usa, china
Similarity:
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
surreal, psychological, avant garde, art house, experimental ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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86%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Style:
atmospheric, lyrical, meditative, surreal, cerebral ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
philosophy, love, angel, circus, dream, immortality, mortality, surrealism, existentialism, suicide, actor, love story ...
Time:
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Place:
berlin germany, germany, west germany, east germany, europe
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
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Style:
cerebral, clever, depressing, sincere, sexy ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
white trash, suburbs, sister sister relationship, youth, sexual abuse, adolescence, unsettling, teenage boy, abuse, violence, animal abuse, coming of age ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Ireland, USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
Style:
surreal, philosophical, apocalyptic, political, esoteric ...
Plot:
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Time:
future, 23rd century, 20th century
Place:
arizona
Similarity:
86%
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Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
cult classic, psychedelic, adult animation, disturbing, surreal ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rock, rock and roll, nightmare, music, teacher, surrealism, loss of father, musician, visceral, violent, corporal punishment, rock music ...
Time:
year 1982, 1940s, 20th century, 1950s, 50s ...
Place:
england, europe, london, los angeles
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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
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67%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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Style:
fairy tale, allegory, surreal, sexual, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
innocence, teenage girl, folk horror, wedding night, surrealism, menstruation, folklore, magic realism, older man younger woman relationship, supernatural, female protagonist, vampire ...
Time:
19th century, year 1970, near future
Place:
central europe, eastern europe, europe, czech republic
Similarity:
100%
108K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
Style:
atmospheric, bleak, gloomy, tense, offbeat ...
Plot:
journey, gunfight, transformation, wilderness, indians, cowboy, murder, on the road, accountant, modern west, culture clash, existentialism ...
Time:
19th century, year 1995, 1870s, 90s, victorian era
Place:
usa, cleveland ohio, pacific ocean, england
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, cult classic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
isolation, imagination, heroin, mental illness, drug addiction, surrealism, addiction, abandoned house, imaginary friend, mentally challenged, death by overdose, talking doll ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
visually stunning, offbeat, surreal, cerebral, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, date night, pre-teens, teen fantasy, kids ...
Plot:
circus, coming of age, fantasy world, magic, imaginary kingdom, alternate reality, alternate dimension, good versus evil, trippy, parallel universe, imaginary, drawing ...
Time:
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Place:
brighton, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Germany, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
surreal, cult classic, visually stunning, gothic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
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Plot:
steampunk, dystopia, children, childhood, friendship, good versus evil, surrealism, cloning, flea, trippy, escape, mad scientist ...
Time:
future
Place:
france
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
Style:
cerebral, surreal, psychedelic, philosophical, mind bending ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, adult
Plot:
female protagonist, multiverse, fight, alternate universe, surrealism, chinese immigrant, lgbt, immigrant, parallel world, midlife crisis, kung fu, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
2020s, future
Place:
brighton
Similarity:
100%
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:
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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:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium, Germany, Canada, France, UK, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.
Style:
psychological, surreal, mind bending, philosophical, thought provoking ...
Audience:
date night, teens, adult
Plot:
time, destiny, philosophy, choice, alternate reality, depression, twists and turns, butterfly effect, surrealism, utopia, multiple outcomes, parallel world ...
Time:
future, year 2009, year 1975, year 2011, 2010s ...
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he never ages and has walked the earth for 14,000 years.
Style:
philosophical, reflective, mindfuck, psychological, cerebral ...
Plot:
philosophy, immortality, atheism, religion, storytelling, immortal, dialogue, professor, society, myth, heart attack, eternal youth ...
Time:
future, medieval times, 2000s, prehistory, 17th century ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Style:
disturbing, psychedelic, captivating, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
addiction, heroin, drug addiction, drug abuse, existentialism, dark humor, counterculture, junkie, life is a bitch, subculture, dialogue, social misfits ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place:
scotland, edinburgh scotland, london, england, britain ...
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