Movies like Alice 1988

If you like "Alice" you are looking for surreal, disturbing and art house movies about / with surrealism, alice in wonderland, stop motion, mushroom, little girl, trippy and child protagonist themes of Animation, Adventure and Fantasy genre shot in Czechoslovakia or Switzerland.
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Alice (1988)
 7.4
 14K
Alice (1988)
Original name: Něco z Alenky
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, UK, West Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit. She becomes surrounded by living inanimate objects and stuffed dead animals, and must find a way out of this nightmare- no matter how twisted or odd that way must be. A memorably bizarre screen version of Lewis Carroll’s novel ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’.
Style: surreal, disturbing, art house, atmospheric, experimental, absurd, mindfuck, psychological, adult animation, psychedelic ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: surrealism, alice in wonderland, stop motion, mushroom, little girl, trippy, child protagonist, female protagonist, wonderland, anthropomorphic animal, absurdism, fantasy world, visceral, rabbit, arthouse horror, youth, danger, children, coming of age, minimal dialogue, european, magic realism, folk horror, book, dream ...
Time: year 1988, 1800s, 80s, 20th century, 19th century, 1860s
Place: czech republic, czechoslovakia, central europe, australia
Keyword: dreams, avant-garde, russian, reboot

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Most similar movies to Alice

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out surreal, weird, psychedelic and cult classic films with plots about surrealism, trippy, imaginary, danger, stop motion, escapades and nightmare mostly in Animation, Fantasy and Drama genres. Some movies like Alice: Blood Tea and Red String (2006), Watership Down (1978), Angel's Egg (1985), Greedy Guts (2000), The House (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Blood Tea and Red String (2006)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: A handmade stop-motion fairy tale for adults that tells the tale of the struggle between the aristocratic White Mice and the rustic Creatures Who Dwell Under the Oak over the doll of their heart's desire.
Style: surreal, semi serious, atmospheric, stylized, cult classic ...
Plot: stop motion, imaginary kingdom, obsession, escapades, fall in love, society, rescue, rich and poor, doll, surrealism, puppet, human relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 39K
Watership Down (1978)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.
Style: emotional, adult animation, disturbing, serious, sad ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: rabbit, friendship, blood, journey, animal, violent, mature, survival, vegan, folk horror, literary, anthropomorphism ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, 20th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 12K
Angel's Egg (1985)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min.
Story: A mysterious young girl wanders a desolate, otherworldly landscape, carrying a large egg.
Style: anime, gothic, avant garde, dark fantasy, surreal ...
Plot: surrealism, egg, girl, little girl, flood, angel, religion, minimal dialogue, moving, bible, steampunk, arthouse horror ...
Place: europe, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 7K
Greedy Guts (2000)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story: When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However the woman takes the ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, mindfuck ...
Audience: kids
Plot: surrealism, killer child, folk horror, absurdism, tree, baby, monster, dark humor, obsession, couple relations, parents and children, macabre ...
Time: 90s
Place: czechoslovakia, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.8
 22K
The House (2022)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy.
Style: surreal, adult animation, anthology, dark comedy, experimental ...
Plot: stop motion, country house, surrealism, house, generation, anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic mouse, family home, old dark house, isolated house, cartoon mouse, virus ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 4K
Lesson Faust (1994)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czech Republic, France, UK, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A very free adaptation of Marlowe's 'Doctor Faustus', Goethe's 'Faust' and various other treatments of the old legend of the man who sold his soul to the devil. Svankmajer's Faust is a nondescript man who, after ...
Style: surreal, art house, experimental, claymation, philosophical ...
Plot: surrealism, faust, stop motion, mythology, fantasy world, deal with the devil, occult, folk horror, devil, supernatural ability, dark humor, superhero ...
Time: 90s
Place: prague, czechoslovakia, europe, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Wolf House (2018)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror
Country: Chile, Germany
Duration: 75 min.
Story: María, a girl from Colonia Dignidad, in Chile —a kind of sectarian community, tyrannically mastered by the ruthless Paul Schäfer, a German madman, religious fanatic and child predator, who would end up turning the place into a torture center at ...
Style: disturbing, surreal, adult animation, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: stop motion, military dictatorship, wolf, fleeing, colony, political persecution, running for your life, political prisoner, runaway, political unrest, toys, xmas ...
Place: chile, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
James and the Giant Peach (1996)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands.
Style: surreal, dark fantasy, feel good, touching, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: stop motion, magic, surrealism, orphan, childhood, friendship, youth, giant, aunt, young heroes, escapades, buddies ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1948
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, england, empire state building manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: When Sophie, a shy young woman, is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking home.
Style: anime, fairy tale, atmospheric, touching, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, date night, teen drama
Plot: witch, steampunk, magic, supernatural ability, imaginary, fantasy world, self discovery, magical, demon, curses spells and rituals, wizards and magicians, transformation ...
Time: year 2004, year 2005, 20th century, 1900s, 2000s ...
Place: japan, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 261K
Coraline (2009)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When Coraline moves to an old house, she feels bored and neglected by her parents. She finds a hidden door with a bricked up passage. During the night, she crosses the passage and finds a parallel world where everybody has buttons instead of eyes, ...
Style: gothic, surreal, dark fantasy, dark, scary ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, girls' night, teens, family outing ...
Plot: stop motion, children, monster, parallel world, alternate reality, weirdo, doll, secret place, heroine, fantasy world, loneliness, imagination ...
Time: year 2009, future, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place: oregon, michigan, usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Fantastic Planet (1973)
Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Fantastic Planet tells the story of “Oms”, human-like creatures, kept as domesticated pets by an alien race of blue giants called “Draags”. The story takes place on the Draags’ planet Ygam, where we follow our narrator, an Om called Terr, ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, adult animation, art house, stylized ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: trippy, surrealism, giant, dystopia, alien, slave, distopia, alien life-form, alien species, meditation, baby, utopia ...
Time: distant future, year 1973, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb (1993)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story: A boy born the size of a small doll is kidnapped by a genetic lab and must find a way back to his father in this inventive adventure filmed using stop motion animation techniques.
Style: cult classic, dark, disturbing, surreal, claymation ...
Audience: adult
Plot: stop motion, surrealism, distopia, mad scientist, minimal dialogue, dystopia, sword and sorcery, adventurer, folklore, manipulation, laboratory, artificial intelligence ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 6K
Black Moon (1975)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: There is a war in the world between the men and the women. A young girl tries to escape this reality and comes to a hidden place where a strange unicorn lives with a family: Sister, Brother, many children and an old woman that never leaves her bed ...
Style: surreal, mind bending, atmospheric, experimental, psychological ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: surrealism, breast feeding, absurdism, children, pig, death, old woman, misogyny, girl, brother sister relationship, female soldier, talking animal ...
Time: year 1975, future
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.6
 840K
Spirited Away (2001)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.
Style: anime, surreal, atmospheric, stylized, fairy tale ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, pre-teens
Plot: friendship, surrealism, supernatural, magic, witch, parallel world, fantasy world, imaginary, ghost, creature, dragon, japanese mythology ...
Time: 2000s, year 2001, year 2002, y2k, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 96K
Paprika (2006)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it: Paprika.
Style: surreal, psychological, psychedelic, anime, philosophical ...
Audience: teens, kids, adult
Plot: dream, surveillance, virtual reality, lucid dream, surrealism, villain, trippy, scientist, mental illness, hallucination, psychiatrist, introspection ...
Time: future, year 2006, 2000s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Salad Fingers (2004)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 10 min.
TV show
Story: The adventures of Salad Fingers, an unspecified mutated creature driven to madness by his loneliness.
Style: surreal, psychological, semi serious, adult animation, apocalyptic ...
Plot: insanity, dark humor, surrealism, magical creature, recluse, weirdo, creature, nightmare, mature, vulgar, strange behavior, mutant ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Black Cauldron (1985)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the Horned King. The villain hopes Hen ...
Style: fairy tale, stylized, cult classic, anime, mysterious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, horror for children
Plot: magic, princess, sword and sorcery, good versus evil, mythology, wizard, fantasy world, beast, dungeon, castle, medieval, supernatural ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, 90s
Place: england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Pied Piper (1986)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 55 min.
Story: A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed. One of Czechoslovakia's most ambitious animation projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual dark art ...
Style: fairy tale, expressionism, surreal, experimental, anime ...
Plot: stop motion, magic realism, folklore, nightmare, rat, arthouse horror, children, greed, money, part animation, puppet animation, no dialogue
Time: year 1986, medieval times
Place: czechoslovakia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Movie in collections
 7.2
 4K
Lunacy (2005)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Loosely based on two short stories by Edgar Allan Poe and inspired by the works of the Marquis de Sade. In 19th century France a young man is plagued by nightmares in which he is dragged off to a madhouse. On the journey back from his mother’s ...
Style: surreal, atmospheric, psychological, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: mental institution, psychopath, mental illness, blasphemy, doctors and patients, danger, society, social misfits, haunted by the past, curses spells and rituals, gory, sexual abuse ...
Place: czechoslovakia, europe, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Alice in Wonderland (1995)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada, Japan
Duration: 45 min.
Story: A girl follows a rabbit into a magical world.
Style: mockbuster, semi serious, feel good, clever, offbeat ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: alice in wonderland, fantasy world, underground, tunnel, disorder, parallel world, fish out of water, imaginary kingdom, chaos and mayhem, getting home, misfit, mysterious character ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer (2003)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: For the past 40 years, Jan Svankmajer (Faust, Conspirators of Pleasure) has been hailed as one of cinema's most consistently surprising, wildly imaginative, and remarkable surrealists of our time. Utilizing a delirious combination of puppets, ...
Style: avant garde, experimental, psychological, disturbing, surreal ...
Plot: surrealism, stop motion, puppet, human flesh, multiple storylines, humanity in peril, human existence, edgar allan poe, death, pig, guinea pig, coffin
Place: czechoslovakia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.7
 67K
Waking Life (2001)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our ...
Style: philosophical, spiritual, psychedelic, surreal, stylized ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: philosophy, existentialism, dream, trippy, surrealism, alternate reality, consciousness, bohemian life, meaning of life, life philosophy, psychology, imagination ...
Time: year 2001, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: texas, tibet
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Yellow Submarine (1968)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The Blue Meanies take over Pepperland, draining it of all its color and music, firing anti-music missiles, bonking people with green apples, and turning the inhabitants to stone by way of the pointed finger of a giant blue glove. As the only ...
Style: psychedelic, colorful, humorous, absurd, cult classic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: the beatles, surrealism, submarine, music, rock and roll, fighting the system, rock, trippy, musician, anti war, mature, dancing ...
Time: 60s, year 1968, 20th century
Place: england, europe, liverpool
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Son of the White Mare (1981)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Hungary
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The story’s main character is Fehérlófia, who is a man with superhuman power. He is born as the third son of a horse. He listened to old tales, mostly about the Forefather and the end of his reign, caused by evil dragons.
Style: psychedelic, adult animation, fairy tale, surreal, experimental ...
Plot: folklore, mythology, trippy, surrealism, princess, superhuman powers, castle, dragon, peplum, sword and sorcery, acid trip, psychedelia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
Story: Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche, in this new feature film version of Don Hertzfeldt's animated short film trilogy.
Style: philosophical, surreal, adult animation, thought provoking, atmospheric ...
Plot: surrealism, illness, mental health, mental illness, narration, dark humor, nightmare, hospital, divorced parents, loneliness, life & death, existentialism ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as ...
Style: gothic, dark fantasy, dark, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, toddlers, family outing, horror for children ...
Plot: holiday, christmas, halloween, stop motion, imaginary, goth, music, imagination, good versus evil, objects come to life, imaginary kingdom, fantasy world ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Alice in Wonderland (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 187 min.
TV show
Story: Classic tale of a girl named Alice who follows a white rabbit down a hole into Wonderland, where she can change sizes by eating and drinking and animals talk. After escaping the disturbing Queen of Hearts, she finds that she has ended up on the ...
Style: offbeat, fairy tale, atmospheric, humorous, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: imaginary kingdom, alice in wonderland, rabbit, parallel world, youth, alternate dimension, friendship, danger, fantasy world, imaginary friend, curses spells and rituals, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Italy, Canada, Japan, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Alice, an unpretentious and individual 19-year-old, is betrothed to a dunce of an English nobleman. At her engagement party, she escapes the crowd to consider whether to go through with the marriage and falls down a hole in the garden after spotting ...
Style: fairy tale, atmospheric, surreal, gothic, visually appealing ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, teens, chick flick ...
Plot: fantasy world, magic, escape from reality, magical, imaginary kingdom, transformation, teenage girl, dream, cat, imaginary, alice in wonderland, good versus evil ...
Time: 19th century, year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, 1870s ...
Place: cornwall, england, london, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 6K
Paperhouse (1988)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Anna is becoming lost in the loneliness of her own world when she discovers she can visit another, a house she has drawn herself and occupied by a young disabled boy. But as she discovers more of the links between her fantasy world and the mundane ...
Style: scary, disturbing, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: nightmare, children, mother daughter relationship, supernatural, boy, visceral, transformation, serial killer, father daughter relationship, coming of age, supernatural ability, dream world ...
Place: britain, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 6K
Time Masters (1982)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Switzerland, West Germany, UK, Hungary
Duration: 78 min.
Story: On planet Perdide, an attack of giant hornets leaves Piel – a young boy – alone in a wrecked car with his dying father. A mayday message reaches their friend Jaffar, an adventurer travelling through space. On board Jaffar’s shuttle are the ...
Style: stylized, surreal, psychedelic, anime, atmospheric ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, adult
Plot: time travel, trippy, space opera, rescue, child in peril, evil alien, survival, space adventure, sword and sorcery, conspiracy, alien life-form, space ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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