Movies like The Idiots

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The Idiots (1998)
 6.7
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The Idiots (1998)
Original name: Idioterne
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 “inner-idiots” and thus not only facing and breaking their outer appearance but also their inner.
Style: art house, surreal, disturbing, controversial, experimental, sexy, erotic, satirical, dark comedy, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: male nudity, dogme 95, sex orgy, commune, mental illness, sex scene, community, stupidity, public nudity, strong sexual content, sex, orgy, male pubic hair, explicit sex, mentally challenged, unsimulated sex, dogma, group sex, sexual relations, society, prank, nudity, erotica, art, disability ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place: denmark
Keyword: avant-garde, disgust, flat

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out offbeat, realistic, art house and surreal films with plots about female nudity, nudity, sex, male nudity, sex scene, female full frontal nudity and society mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like The Idiots: Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013), Shortbus (2006), The Big Feast (1973), Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013), Mifune (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Germany, Belgium, UK, France, Sweden
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.
Style: erotic, disturbing, sexual, sexy, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, sex addict, bdsm, lust, nymphomaniac, sexual perversion, explicit sex, nudity, nymphomania, sexuality, sex scene, erection ...
Time: year 2013, 20th century, 90s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 35K
Shortbus (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A group of New Yorkers caught up in their milieu converge at an underground salon infamous for its blend of art, music, politics, and carnality. The characters converge in a weekly Brooklyn social/artistic/sexual salon "Shortbus", loosely ...
Style: sexual, erotic, art house, sex comedy, sensual ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: sex, gay, nudity, explicit sex, group sex, gays and lesbians, masturbation, male nudity, sexuality, homosexual, real sex, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Germany, Belgium, UK, France, Sweden, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men since she was a young teenager ...
Style: erotic, sexual, disturbing, art house, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, lust, sexuality, sex addict, explicit sex, erection, sex scene, nymphomaniac, erotica, nudity, masturbation, deviant sex ...
Time: 90s, year 2013, 20th century, 80s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.1
 8K
Mifune (1999)
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Kresten, newly wed, is on the threshold of a great career success in his father-in-law´s company. But when the death of his own father takes him back to his poverty-stricken childhood home, far out in the country, his career plans fall apart. For ...
Style: clever, dark comedy, romantic, semi serious, psychological ...
Plot: dogme 95, orgasm, small town, dogma, disability, nordic, farm, sexual tension, prostitution, male nudity, fishing village, village ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: denmark, copenhagen, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
 7.7
 44K
Naked (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Johnny flees Manchester for London, to avoid a beating from the family of a girl he has raped. There he finds an old girlfriend, and spends some time homeless, spending much of his time ranting at strangers, and meeting characters in plights very ...
Style: disturbing, talky, compassionate, realistic, philosophical ...
Audience: adult
Plot: existentialism, sexual abuse, drifter, humiliation, nihilism, rape, alienation, voyeurism, sexual humiliation, rough sex, rapist, secrets ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: london, england, europe, united kingdom, manchester
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 1K
Free Fall (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary, South Korea, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: An old woman flies past six floors after jumping from the roof of her apartment block. Six stories on the poor state of humanity, told with humour and rare imagination to the accompaniment of a pulsating soundtrack from Amon Tobin. A woeful ...
Style: anthology, surreal, humorous, semi serious, suspense ...
Plot: male nudity, dark humor, family relations, unsupportive spouse, obsession, couple relations, social decay, society, guru, couples, parents and children, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Canterbury Tales (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.
Style: surreal, anthology, disturbing, controversial, erotic ...
Plot: male nudity, devil, hell, burned alive, erotica, surrealism, male pubic hair, gays and lesbians, hot guys, female pubic hair, lgbt, eroticism ...
Time: medieval times, middle ages, year 1971, 14th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
46%
WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Yugoslavia, West Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A dense film that cuts up footage of a primary plot of two young Yugoslavian girls, one a politico and the other a sexpot, and an affair with a visiting Russian skater. Mixing metaphors of Russia's relationship with Yugoslavia, intercut with ...
Style: avant garde, surreal, experimental, controversial, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: erection, sex, surrealism, communist, psychology, satire, trippy, communism, mature, badass, sexology, porn ...
Time: year 1971, 60s, 20th century
Place: former yugoslavia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 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 ⇓
42%
 6.8
 19K
Taxidermia (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Hungary, Austria, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Three generations of men, including a pervert that constantly seeks for new kinds of satisfaction, an obese speed eater and a passionate embalmer.
Style: disturbing, dark comedy, surreal, controversial, cult classic ...
Plot: surrealism, perversion, body horror, misfit, parents and children, taxidermy, rejection, extreme, goofy hero, social misfits, family relations, violent ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 7.2
 25K
Manderlay (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, France, Germany, UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: In 1933, after leaving Dogville, Grace Margaret Mulligan sees a slave being punished at a cotton farm called Manderlay. Officially slavery is illegal and Grace stands up against the owners of the farm. She stays with some gangsters in Manderlay and ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, psychological, art house, thought provoking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: slavery, racism, plantation, freedom, gangster, torture, blacks and whites, fighting the system, interracial relations, father daughter relationship, class struggle, righting the wronged ...
Time: 1930s, year 2005, year 2006, 20th century
Place: alabama, america, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The inhabitants of an institution in a remote country rebel against their keepers. Their acts of rebellion are by turns humorous, boring and alarming. An allegory on the problematic nature of fully liberating the human spirit, as both commendable ...
Style: black and white, cult classic, art house, surreal, disturbing ...
Plot: surrealism, rebellion, sadism, art, fighting the system, misfit, revolution, landscape, disability, extreme, life changing, freak ...
Time: year 1970, 20th century, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 8.0
 158K
Dogville (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, UK, France, Finland, Norway, Italy
Duration: 178 min.
Story: A barren soundstage is stylishly utilized to create a minimalist small-town setting in which a mysterious woman named Grace hides from the criminals who pursue her. The town is two-faced and offers to harbor Grace as long as she can make it worth ...
Style: art house, psychological, bleak, cerebral, thought provoking ...
Plot: rape, society, twists and turns, female protagonist, morality, rocky mountains, victim, vengeance, haunted by the past, brutality, storytelling, gangster ...
Time: 1930s, year 2003, 90s, year 2004, near future ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.9
 16K
Holy Smoke (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 115 min.
Story: While on a journey of discovery in exotic India, beautiful young Ruth Barron falls under the influence of a charismatic religious guru. Her desperate parents then hire PJ Waters, a macho cult de-programmer who confronts Ruth in a remote desert ...
Style: sexy, psychological, erotic, sexual, satirical ...
Plot: guru, religion, female nudity, adultery, brainwashing, psychology, battle of the sexes, tourist, jealousy, dangerous attraction, self discovery, sexuality ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: australia, india, asia, delhi, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Boss of It All (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Italy, Germany, Iceland
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An IT company hires an actor to serve as the company's president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander.
Style: surreal, talky, humorous, not serious, realistic ...
Plot: workplace, office, dishonesty, boss and employee, comedy of errors, fish out of water, actor's life, workplace situations, actor, dark humor, employer employee relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Movie in collections
 5.8
 12K
Wetlands (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Helen is a nonconformist teenage girl who maintains a conflictual relationship with her parents. Hanging out most of her time with her friend Corinna, with whom she breaks one social taboo after another, she uses sex as a way to rebel and break the ...
Style: touching, sexy, erotic, controversial, intense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional family, misfit, hospital, masturbation, brothel, sex, teenage life, sexuality, rebellion, father daughter relationship, family problems ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: germany, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 ...
Plot: drug abuse, lsd, surrealism, god, rave, breast feeding, dark humor, transformation, infidelity, murder, family relations, vandalism ...
Time: 90s
Place: scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Wayward Cloud (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: France, Taiwan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Hsiao-Kang, now working as an adult movie actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city of Taipei faces a water shortage that makes the sales of watermelons skyrocket.
Style: disturbing, erotic, surreal, humorous, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: filmmaking, sexual perversion, isolation, lifestyle, love and romance, actor's life, human nature, sex, erotica, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couple relations ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: taiwan, taipei
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 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 ⇓
41%
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 6.0
 6K
Sweet Movie (1974)
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: experimental, disturbing, controversial, surreal, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: decadence, erotica, orgy, extreme, male nudity, surrealism, dead children, virginity, virgin, male pubic hair, woman in a bikini, breast feeding ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: amsterdam, balkan, paris france, france, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Celebration (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A grandiose party to celebrate a sixtieth birthday unleashes a family drama with all the lies that conceal horrendous secrets. The eldest son, Christian, stages a showdown with the popular pater familias; his provocative, moving after-dinner speech ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, art house, disturbing, surreal ...
Plot: dogme 95, suicide, incest, family secret, child abuse, hotel, sexual abuse, haunted by the past, birthday, depression, party, birthday party ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.3
 15K
Pecker (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A Baltimore sandwich shop employee becomes an overnight sensation when photographs he's taken of his weird family become the latest rage in the art world. The young man is called "Pecker" because he pecks at his food like a bird.
Style: absurd, not serious, humorous, witty, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: photography, art, photograph, dysfunctional family, artist, art gallery, gallery, fish out of water, nudity, teenage girl, photographer, gay ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, baltimore, maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 ⇓
40%
Intimate Affairs (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When a scholar, is haunted by an overwhelming desire to understand the mystery of sex, he decides to conduct an investigation. With two beautiful assistants joining the case, the stakes are raised.
Style: talky, captivating, humorous, semi serious, psychological ...
Plot: sexuality, sex, female nudity, dark humor, looking for sex, sexual relations, lifestyle, destructive relationship, erotica, sex scene, controversy, making love ...
Time: year 2001, year 1929, 1920s
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.6
 2K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.8
 31K
Ken Park (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his ...
Style: disturbing, art house, sexual, rough, explicit ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: coming of age, sex, youth, explicit sex, strong sexual content, underage sex, incest, older woman younger man relationship, infidelity, nude, nudity, teenage sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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