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Goodbye to Language (2014)
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Original name: Adieu au langage
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
About a man who’s angry at his wife because she’s met another man on a park bench and they no longer even speak the same language.
Style:
surreal, experimental, atmospheric, serious, stylized, erotic, avant garde, psychedelic, art house, philosophical ...
Plot:
couple relations, introspection, battle of the sexes, love, crumbling marriage, fight, communication problem, dog, book, death, moving, society, chaos, trippy, bookstore, conversation, unsettling, nudity, argument, metaphor, couples, arts and culture, unfulfillment, young woman, female nudity ...
Time:
90s, 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
france, europe, switzerland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, atmospheric, stylized and avant garde films with plots about nude, art, couples, female nudity, surrealism, dialogue and existentialism mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Comedy genres. Some movies like Goodbye to Language: Hail Mary (1985), In Praise of Love (2001), Oh, Woe Is Me (1993), Prospero's Books (1991), Our Music (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
In this modern retelling of the Virgin birth, Mary is a student who plays basketball and works at her father's petrol station; Joseph is an earnest dropout who drives a cab. The angel Gabriel must school Joseph to accept Mary's pregnancy, ...
Style:
controversial, erotic, disturbing, art house, psychedelic ...
Plot:
female nudity, basketball, female athlete, gas station, childbirth, virgin, sex, controversy, female pubic hair, jesus, passionate kiss, car ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
switzerland
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Someone we hear talking - but whom we do not see - speaks of a project which describes the four key moments of love: meeting, physical passion, arguments/separation and making up. This project is to be told through three couples: young, adult and ...
Style:
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Plot:
art, humanity, life & death, politics, artist, philosophy, painter, existentialism, memory, existential loneliness, minimalism, women ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
france, paris france, europe, japan, tokyo
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68%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Romance about Simon Donnadieu and his decision to leave his ever-loving wife Rachel.
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Plot:
women, minimalism, miraculous event, ocean, journalism, love and romance, mysterious character, investigation, love triangle, battle zone, infidelity, supernatural romance ...
Time:
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Place:
switzerland
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66%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, Italy, Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.
Style:
experimental, psychedelic, surreal, epic, art house ...
Plot:
shakespeare, book, surrealism, magic, magic realism, nudity, children, boy, shipwreck, library, daughter, skinny dipping ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Jean-Luc Godard's poetic meditation on war, violence and defeat. The film is structured in three parts. The three segments are "Hell", "Purgatory", and "Heaven". The first segment is a montage of war images from ...
Style:
philosophical, meditative, atmospheric, serious, political ...
Plot:
politics, life philosophy, existentialism, religion, self discovery, greed, anti war, memory, journalist, poetry, death, trauma ...
Time:
year 2004, 90s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, sarajevo, europe, former yugoslavia, bosnia ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Belgium
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Philippe lives in a world controlled by a caste system. Those who play the "game" correctly become higher and more powerful. Phillipe plays the game well but his wife wants him to return to reality. Its a love story after marriage.
Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, stylized, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
couple relations, introspection, fighting the system, crumbling marriage, human nature, social decay, society, estrangement, life is a bitch, couples, dark humor, emotionless ...
Time:
2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
64%
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:
64%
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A symphony in three movements. Things such as a Mediterranean cruise, numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the passengers, almost all of whom are on holiday... Our Europe. At night, a sister and her younger brother have summoned ...
Style:
serious, contemplative, realistic, atmospheric, avant garde ...
Plot:
politics, family relations, parents and children, state affairs, society, ship, social differences, parent child relationship, justice, filmmaking, family business, dictator ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
europe, barcelona, palestinian authority, egypt, africa ...
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
Style:
art house, black and white, philosophical, intellectual, visual ...
Plot:
prostitution, prostitute, gunfight, street prostitution, shootout, lack of money, pimp, sex, female nudity, european, great ending, existentialism ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, rome italy, tokyo
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Juan and his urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. And nobody knows if these two worlds are complementary or if they strive to eliminate one another.
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, cerebral, experimental ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
male nudity, female nudity, sex therapy, dream, countryside, family life, family relations, society, swinger couple, couples, hopes, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A superficial woman has conflict between choosing her abusive husband and her vain lover.
Style:
sensual, black and white, art house, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
married woman, love triangle, nudity, unwanted pregnancy, birth control, magazine, in love, unfaithful wife, society, couples, family relations, family problems ...
Time:
1940s, 60s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Thailand, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Netherlands
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Suffering from acute kidney failure, Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a ...
Style:
disturbing, surreal, art house, philosophical, cerebral ...
Plot:
surrealism, jungle, magic realism, supernatural, loneliness, existentialism, interspecies sex, buddhist monk, buddhism, reincarnation, life philosophy, introspection ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
asia, thailand, india, tokyo, japan
Similarity:
61%
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:
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Place:
tokyo, japan, asia
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
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surreal, atmospheric, stylized, experimental, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, paris france, vietnam, asia, europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave. The Exterminating Angel is a 1962 surrealist film, written and directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Silvia Pinal. Sharply satirical and allegorical, the film contains a view ...
Style:
surreal, dark comedy, black comedy, black and white, philosophical ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris's student revolt, the Vietnam War, and other events of the late ...
Style:
eros, avant garde, contemplative, tense, thought provoking ...
Plot:
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Time:
60s
Place:
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 182 min.
Story:
CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner, antagonistic forces at play for access to the process of (spiritual) transcendence. These factions ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
60%
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:
59%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Rick is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles. While successful in his career, his life feels empty. Haunted and confused, he finds temporary solace in the decadent Hollywood excess that defines his existence. Women provide a distraction to his daily ...
Style:
philosophical, talky, touching, art house, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
temptation, desert, storytelling, tarot card, multiple storylines, love, humanity, existentialism, visceral, mental disorder, father son relationship, decadence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, las vegas
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Wings of Desire is Wim Wender’s artistically beautiful film about the lonely and immortal life of angels during a post-war Berlin. It’s a poetic journey from the perspective of the angels of which one falls in love with a living woman and wants ...
Style:
atmospheric, lyrical, meditative, surreal, cerebral ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1987
Place:
berlin germany, germany, west germany, east germany, europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did not like her union activities.
Style:
contemplative, serious, psychological, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
europe, france, switzerland, swiss alps
Similarity:
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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:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.
Style:
surreal, cerebral, art house, atmospheric, psychedelic ...
Plot:
surrealism, sex, satire, adult humor, train, feminism, women, passion, sexual relations, social satire, man with glasses, amazon tribe ...
Time:
year 1980, 20th century, 70s, 80s, 1930s
Place:
italy, paris france
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, Germany, Norway, France, Denmark
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.
Style:
surreal, dark comedy, philosophical, cerebral, black comedy ...
Plot:
absurdism, dark humor, power relations, society, odd couple, teaching the ways of the world, partner, misfit, on the road, existentialism, surrealism, humanity ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
eastern europe, japan, tokyo
Similarity:
58%
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:
sexy, surreal, avant garde, controversial, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, sex, surrealism, communist, psychology, sexology, trippy, sexual humor, gay, sex therapy, communism, erotic art ...
Time:
year 1971, 60s, 20th century
Place:
former yugoslavia, europe
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The portrait of a woman going through a terminal illness and the tumorous lives of her husband and son.
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
terminal illness, death of mother, love letter, family relations, mother son relationship, death, couples, family problems, crumbling marriage, elderly, human nature, life is a bitch ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
Style:
road movie, surreal, art house, atmospheric, visual ...
Plot:
on the road, surrealism, lovers on the run, road trip, smuggling, on the run, vietnam war, couples, infidelity, lovers, couple relations, tragic love ...
Time:
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