Movies like The Illusionist 1983

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The Illusionist (1983)
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The Illusionist (1983)
Original name: De illusionist
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two brothers end up separated for one of them has mental issues. Meanwhile one of the two follows his dream in becoming a magician. Filled with surrealism and slaspstick moments the film is a speechless adventure of emotions providing laughters and fear, emptyness and joy, but mostly a stunnig and memorable visual spectacle.
Style: atmospheric, offbeat, humorous, experimental, surreal, stylized, semi serious, silent, slapstick comedy, art house ...
Plot: magician, surrealism, mental disorder, minimal dialogue, mental institution, rescue, family relations, imaginary, siblings relations, snake, mother, mental patient, father, suicide, alternate reality, journey, dwarf, grandfather, photograph, television, bus, mirror, rabbit, flying, brother ...
Place: holland
Keyword: dutch

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, offbeat and realistic films with plots about family relations, siblings relations, surrealism, couples, love and romance, dark humor and parents and children mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like The Illusionist: Conspirators of Pleasure (1996), The Guatemalan Handshake (2006), A Zed & Two Noughts (1985), The Northerners (1992), Two-Bit Waltz (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 Guatemalan Handshake (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A mysterious power failure in a small mountain town coincides with the disappearance of one of its most eccentric young residents. Mystery piles upon mystery as his family and friends search for him, fail, and ultimately try to forget about him, an ...
Style: stylized, surreal, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: small town, social relations, friendship, best friend, family life, missing person, disorder, family relations, friends, nothing goes right, pregnancy, down on your luck ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pennsylvania
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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 ⇓
23%
The Northerners (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A black comedy set in the 1960s in a small Netherlands community, populated by a cast of eccentrics, all of whom hold a range of sexual obsessions and frustrated desires.
Style: dark comedy, cult classic, black comedy, slasher, art house ...
Plot: butcher, teenager, surrealism, hippie, neighbor, suburbs, neglect, couples, family relations, estrangement, social relations, dull life ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: netherlands, europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Two-Bit Waltz (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Suspension from school, the loss of a friend, a broken heart and lack of inspiration lead to Maude's downfall in this romp through teenage error. Your teenage years are never easy… but for Maude, things couldn't be worse. Within one ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, witty, realistic ...
Plot: siblings relations, dysfunctional family, teenage love, teenage life, family life, family relations, best friend, parents and children, eccentric family, love and romance, family problems, suicide ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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21%
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 ...
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Place: russia, eastern europe, scandinavia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Austria, Russia, France, Japan, Tajikistan, Switzerland, Uzbekistan
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The unborn child of Mamlakat is telling her story. She is 17, beautiful and vivacious, and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress. She lives with her father and brother in a small village in Central Asia. One night she is seduced by an actor from ...
Style: independent film, mesmerizing, semi serious, captivating, surreal ...
Plot: village, village life, surrealism, kurd, pregnancy, disappearance, rape, mental disorder, disabled, family relations, social relations, youth ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: germany, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Whisky (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Uruguay, Argentina, Germany, Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta, an employee at his sock factory, with whom he has a prickly relationship. the owner of a sock ...
Style: sincere, semi serious, realistic, humorous, comedy drama ...
Plot: brother brother relationship, factory, family relations, comedy of errors, hidden identity, couple relations, love and romance, disorder, family gatherings, farce, dishonesty, elderly ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: uruguay, latin america, argentina
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21%
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You're Sleeping, Nicole (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Making the most of the family home while her parents are away, 22-year-old Nicole is enjoying a peaceful summer with her best friend Véronique. But when Nicole’s older brother shows up with his band to record an album, the girls’ friendship is ...
Style: stylized, humorous, realistic, semi serious, atmospheric ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: canada, quebec, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Matterhorn (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Fred lives on his own. His wife is dead, his son has left. He leans on the church, busses, meat-and-two-veg. Then Leo appears. Leo is a tramp. Fred lets Leo move in with him. An absurdist feature debut with a laugh and a tear in stuffy Netherlands.
Style: tragicomedy, semi serious, atmospheric, humorous, realistic ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: holland, netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Jackie (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Dutch twin sisters travel to America to look for their long-lost mother.
Style: road movie, humorous, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: twins, family relations, journey, disorder, cross country, family problems, siblings, on the road, parents, happiness, lady, soul searching ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new mexico, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Pointsman (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A woman gets off a train by mistake and finds herself stranded alone with a peculiar man who doesn't even speak her language.
Style: art house, psychological, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot: train, surrealism, psychiatry, sensuality, psychology, isolation, very little dialogue, confined, opposites attract, odd couple, culture clash, couples ...
Time: 80s
Place: netherlands, holland, europe
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20%
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Eggs (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Two brothers in their seventies, Pa and Moe, have lived together all their lives in a little house in the country, the only interruption being when Pa made a weekend trip to Småland on his moped during the second World War. The past returns when ...
Style: dark comedy, cult classic, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: old man, house, radio, hostility, countryside, winter, visitor, routine, family relations, family problems, youth, misfit ...
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Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
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Plot: schizophrenia, mental illness, hallucination, brother brother relationship, love and romance, couples, family relations, misfit, mental disorder, fall in love, restaurant, psychopath ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, england
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20%
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Static (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
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Style: surreal, avant garde, psychedelic, mind bending, philosophical ...
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Time: year 1985
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Ireland, USA
Duration: 112 min.
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Style: surreal, semi serious, humorous, atmospheric, avant garde ...
Plot: switching roles, love and romance, artists and showbiz, couple relations, friends, lovers reunited, celebrity culture, tragic love, suicide, husband wife relationship, love, eccentricity ...
Time: year 2007
Place: europe, paris france, france, scotland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Chile, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 104 min.
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Style: semi serious, realistic, disturbing, humorous, offbeat
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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The End (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Wendell Lawson has only six months to live. Not wanting to endure his last few months of life waiting for the end, he decides to take matters into his own hands and enlists the help of a delusional mental patient to help him commit suicide.
Style: dark comedy, funny, black comedy, humorous, slapstick ...
Plot: terminal illness, dark humor, suicide attempt, buddy, euthanasia, mental patient, suicidal thoughts, silly humor, society, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, nothing goes right ...
Time: year 1978, 20th century, 70s
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19%
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Duration: 96 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
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Style: surreal, visually stunning, atmospheric, stylized, psychedelic ...
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 82 min.
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Duration: 94 min.
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Style: contemplative, surreal, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
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18%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 126 min.
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Style: postmodern, stylized, offbeat, humorous, surreal ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Passenger Side (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
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Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous, witty ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Pastor Jones: Heavenly Voices (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Comedy - This entry in director Jean-Claude La Marre's Pastor Jones series sees the beleaguered clergyman coping with a gap in the church budget. When he can't make a payment on one of the church's loans, the pastor fears he may have ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, sincere
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