Movies like Naked Lunch
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Naked Lunch (1991)
53K
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.
Style:
psychedelic, disturbing, psychological, surreal, cerebral, philosophical, atmospheric, dark, controversial, intellectual ...
Plot:
hallucination, drugs, surrealism, addiction, drug addiction, drug addict, cockroach, insect, homosexuality, drug abuse, giant insect, insanity, murder, crazy, exterminator, nightmare, life is a bitch, repressed homosexual, reality vs fantasy, strong sexual content, delusion, dishonesty, losing-it hero, psychology, existentialism ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, year 1953, 1950s
Place:
usa, new york, canada, north africa
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Most similar movies to Naked Lunch
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out enigmatic, stylized, thought provoking and surreal films with plots about existentialism, storytelling, loneliness, surrealism, pornography, nude and melancholy mostly in Drama, Thriller and Comedy genres. Some movies like Naked Lunch: Possession (1981), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), Synecdoche, New York (2008), Barton Fink (1991), The Panic in Needle Park (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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, atmospheric, psychological, disturbing, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, monster, obsession, insanity, macabre, occult, hysteria, demon, supernatural, serial killer, existentialism, infidelity ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
berlin germany, germany, west berlin west germany, poland, east germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their ...
Style:
surreal, psychedelic, atmospheric, road movie, disturbing ...
Plot:
drugs, road trip, hallucination, lsd, drug abuse, journalism, addiction, american dream, surrealism, marijuana, trippy, psychedelia ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1965, year 1971
Place:
las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
Style:
philosophical, psychological, depressing, surreal, art house ...
Plot:
depression, existentialism, twists and turns, theater, magic realism, schizophrenic, obsession, writers, writer's life, death, philosophy, mental illness ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
124K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
Style:
surreal, psychological, neo noir, atmospheric, enigmatic ...
Plot:
twists and turns, hollywood, showbiz, murder, screenwriter, dark humor, neighbor, surrealism, serial killer, insanity, new job, film industry ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1941
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, new york, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
This movie is a stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in Needle Park in New York City. Played against this setting is a low-key love story between Bobby, a young addict and small-time hustler, and Helen, a homeless ...
Style:
depressing, disturbing, bleak, serious, rough ...
Plot:
addiction, drug addiction, drug abuse, drug addict, drugs, death of pet, heroin, heroin addict, drug use, loneliness, life philosophy, redemption ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, california, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Fight Club similar movies
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, depressing, emotional ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
addiction, drugs, heroin, insanity, drug addiction, mental illness, junkie, hallucination, drug abuse, depression, loneliness, drug addict ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
62K
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
Style:
erotic, disturbing, sexual, psychological, sexy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, sexuality, lust, erotica, deviant sex, car accident, sex scene, car, sexual perversion, female nudity, hospital, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
canada, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Japan, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a ...
Style:
art house, surreal, psychological, atmospheric, sexy ...
Plot:
surrealism, god, obsession, loneliness, hotel, male nudity, poetry, insanity, imagination, culture clash, existentialism, brutality ...
Time:
90s
Place:
tokyo, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the ...
Style:
surreal, art house, disturbing, experimental, allegory ...
Plot:
surrealism, magic realism, wilderness, cult, brainwashing, violence, catastrophe, art, artist, brutality, deadpan, death ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century
Place:
germany, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien who comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet. He starts a high technology company to get the billions of dollars he needs to build a return spacecraft. A British science-fiction film from director Nicolas ...
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, stylized, erotic, meditative ...
Plot:
alien, space and aliens, surrealism, alien invasion, alien life-form, female nudity, sex scene, distopia, humanity, disorder, oral sex, mysterious character ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Films like Trainspotting
111K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A bigoted junkie cop suffering from bipolar disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.
Style:
surreal, cynical, bleak, sexual, dark ...
Plot:
addiction, drug abuse, dark humor, insanity, antisocial behavior, manipulation, losing-it hero, drugs, self destructing, hallucination, cocaine, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scotland, hamburg germany, edinburgh scotland, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A decadent London aristocrat hires a man-servant to attend to his needs. However, the balance of power starts to shift...
Style:
sexy, thought provoking, psychological, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot:
manipulation, decadence, master and servant, servant, repressed homosexual, alcohol abuse, lgbt, surrealism, obsession, mind game, drug addiction, love ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
england, london, united kingdom, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Paul Groves, a television commercial director, is in the midst of a personality crisis. His wife Sally has left him and he seeks the help of his friend John, a self-styled guru who's an advocate of LSD. Paul asks John to be the guide on his ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological, surreal, non-linear ...
Plot:
drugs, lsd, hallucination, hippie, drug abuse, self discovery, drug addiction, cult, counterculture, midlife crisis, unfulfillment, estrangement ...
Time:
60s, 70s
Place:
los angeles, tokyo, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Peter and Katherine Witner are Southern California super-yuppies with great jobs but no center to their lives. When they both lose their jobs and begin marital infidelities, their solution is to start their own business together. In order to find ...
Style:
satirical, disturbing, meditative, melancholic, cynical ...
Plot:
dark humor, suicide, satire, adaptation, crumbling marriage, self discovery, society, filmmaking, love and romance, rise and fall, couple relations, lifestyle ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
16K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Carol, a typical upper middle-class housewife, begins to complain of vague symptoms of illness. She "doesn't feel right," has unexplained headaches, congestion, a dry cough, nosebleeds, vomiting, and trouble breathing. Her family ...
Style:
disturbing, atmospheric, thought provoking, bleak, cerebral ...
Plot:
allergy, psychiatrist, psychology, isolation, environmental, environment, paranoia, mental disorder, suburbs, contamination, housewife, retreat ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Movies similar to Mulholland Drive
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Charlie takes an odyssey through grief during a fall weekend in New York City. His encounters are planned and chance: with a homeless man who sleeps by his building, with a friend who's dying, with the couple who lives (and noisily loves) in ...
Style:
atmospheric, surreal, psychological, talky, sexy ...
Plot:
gay, urban legend, gender, gay bashing, murder, depression, character study, lgbt, mentor, gangsters, twists and turns, dangerous attraction ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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, psychedelic, enigmatic, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
surrealism, existentialism, limousine, creativity, life & death, obsession, multiple storylines, hidden identity, double life, unfulfillment, power relations, lifestyle change ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
317K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
An epic mosaic of many interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
Style:
realistic, philosophical, sincere, depressing, surprise ending ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
depression, human nature, social problems, multiple storylines, child prodigy, introspection, dysfunctional family, loneliness, coincidence, drugs, drug addiction, death ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 60s, 50s, 1910s
Place:
los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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122K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer. Alma eventually ...
Style:
sexual, atmospheric, psychological, surreal, art house ...
Plot:
existentialism, surrealism, medical, patient, silence, nurse, art, psychiatry, mute character, insanity, women, obsession ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
sweden, eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Larsen, an aspiring poet in '20s Oslo, leaves his girlfriend to spend a year as a trapper in East Greenland. There he is teamed with a seemingly rough old sailor/trapper, Randbæk, and a scientist, Holm. Trapped in a tiny hut together as the ...
Style:
psychological, philosophical, atmospheric, sexy, breathtaking ...
Plot:
survival, winter, writer's life, bdsm, nature, disaster, male nudity, dreams, love, drugs, loneliness, french ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
tokyo, greenland
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Black Swan similar movies
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Takes place in a chateau, an ambiguous story of a man and a woman who may or may not have met last year at Marienbad.
Style:
surreal, mind bending, psychological, atmospheric, experimental ...
Plot:
hotel, surrealism, obsession, memory, uncertainty, stream of consciousness, alternate reality, amnesia, haunted by the past, dishonesty, hopes, destiny ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Style:
psychological, surreal, neo noir, atmospheric, art house ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
surrealism, twists and turns, amnesia, lesbian, hallucination, hollywood, alternate reality, obsession, nightmare, doppelganger, lesbian sex, filmmaking ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
An entomologist suffers extreme psychological and sexual torture after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village.
Style:
atmospheric, surreal, psychological, philosophical, experimental ...
Plot:
existentialism, surrealism, desert, love affair, trapped, beautiful scenery, obsession, solitude, isolation, samurai, mental disorder, love and romance ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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397K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The Machinist is the story of Trevor Reznik, a lathe-operator who is dying of insomnia. In a machine shop, occupational hazards are bad enough under normal circumstances; yet for Trevor the risks are compounded by fatigue. Trevor has lost the ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surreal, surprise ending, mind bending ...
Plot:
insanity, insomnia, hallucination, uncover truth, paranoia, obsession, twists and turns, mysterious character, suspense, losing-it hero, loneliness, schizophrenia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Bibiane is the daughter of a well-known fashion designer who dabbles in modeling when she's not busy helping to run the family business with her brother. But Bibiane has not been especially happy in her work lately, owing in part to an ...
Style:
atmospheric, harsh, meditative, psychological, cerebral ...
Plot:
abortion, suicide attempt, self discovery, haunted by the past, fall in love, life is a bitch, car accident, family problems, human nature, lust, drugs, self destructing ...
Time:
90s
Place:
norway, canada, quebec, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.
Style:
thought provoking, gloomy, road movie, compassionate, disturbing ...
Plot:
drugs, addiction, drug abuse, drug addiction, existentialism, dark humor, heroin, redemption, writers, hospital, drug addict, apocalypse ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, chicago illinois, phoenix arizona, iowa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
178K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World ...
Style:
art house, psychological, stylized, atmospheric, philosophical ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
cult, right hand man, psychiatry, religion, religions or cults, mentor, brainwashing, society, drifter, mentor protege relationship, male orgasm, belief ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1950, future ...
Place:
usa, california, san francisco, alabama, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The American architect Kracklite arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibiton for a French architect, Boullée, famous for his oval structures. Tirelessly dedicated to the project, Kracklite's marriage quickly dissolves along with his health.
Style:
art house, talky, sexual, sexy, scenic ...
Plot:
architecture, architect, artist, art, infidelity, obsession, painter, insanity, cancer, tragedy, paranoia, melancholy ...
Time:
18th century, 80s
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
199K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Spain, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
Style:
surreal, psychological, twist ending, intense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
doppelganger, infidelity, symbolism, paranoia, mental illness, nightmare, suspense, surrealism, obsession, spider, disturbed individual, twists and turns ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
20K
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he introduces her onstage, but Eric ...
Style:
erotic, sexual, cerebral, psychological, non-linear ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
stripper, voyeurism, haunted by the past, unhappiness, accountant, grief, protective male, death of daughter, illegitimate daughter, sexual content, erotica, obsession ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada, san francisco, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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