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O Lucky Man! (1973)
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O Lucky Man! (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story: This sprawling, surrealist musical serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in Europe.
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, cult classic, road movie, psychedelic, controversial, allegory, philosophical, mind bending, political ...
Plot: surrealism, philosophy, breast feeding, social satire, satire, coffee, traveling salesman, sex show, psychology, chess, female nudity, hotel, police corruption, mad scientist, music, lgbt, swing, saint, blues, ambition, libertine, kitchen sink realism, audition, police brutality, dark humor ...
Time: year 1973, 70s, 20th century
Place: england, scotland, europe, london, east end london, tokyo
Keyword: new wave

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out offbeat, surreal, humorous and semi serious films with plots about satire, surrealism, female nudity, society, sex, nudity and dancing mostly in Drama, Comedy and Fantasy genres. Some movies like O Lucky Man!: Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982), Britannia Hospital (1982), The Holy Mountain (1973), Being John Malkovich (1999), If.... (1968). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
Style: psychedelic, surreal, psychological, disturbing, experimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: rock, rock and roll, music, teacher, surrealism, loss of father, musician, rock music, visceral, drug addiction, trippy, childhood ...
Time: year 1982, 1940s, 20th century, 1950s, 60s ...
Place: england, europe, london, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Britannia Hospital (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by ...
Style: dark comedy, surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, cult classic ...
Plot: hospital, medical, satire, social satire, hoodie, medicine, medical experiment, naked man, frankenstein's monster, nudity, chaos, dark humor ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, 20th century, 70s
Place: britain, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Holy Mountain (1973)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A Mexican master leads a Christ figure and other disciples to a mountain of immortal wise men. The scandal of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky's flood of sacrilegious imagery and existential symbolism in The ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, avant garde, disturbing, art house ...
Plot: alchemist, enlightenment, male nudity, hermaphrodite, trippy, surrealism, crucifix, symbolism, bird, mountain, spiritual journey, castration ...
Time: year 1973, 20th century, 70s
Place: mexico, latin america, peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Spike Jonze’s debut feature film is a love story mix of comedy and fantasy. The story is about an unsuccessful puppeteer named Craig, who one day at work finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for ...
Style: surreal, cerebral, mind bending, psychological, offbeat ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: surrealism, puppeteer, subconscious, psychology, philosophy, existentialism, satire, lesbianism, insanity, body swapping, mind control, magic realism ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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If.... (1968)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The film is a caustic portrait of a traditional English boys’ boarding school, where social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. But three ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, controversial, dark comedy, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: revolution, social satire, boarding school, private school, school shooting, coming of age, boys' school, violence, teacher, adolescence, surrealism, corporal punishment ...
Time: year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place: england, britain, europe, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.0
 4K
Jubilee (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Queen Elizabeth I visits late twentieth-century Britain to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.
Style: offbeat, mind bending, grindhouse, dark, touching ...
Plot: punk rock, time travel, rock and roll, distopia, rock, surrealism, murder, dystopian future, post apocalypse, counterculture, dystopia, girl gang ...
Time: distant future, future, 17th century, 70s
Place: britain, england, london, united kingdom, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.6
 2K
200 Motels (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: "Touring makes you crazy," Frank Zappa says, explaining that the idea for this film came to him while the Mothers of Invention were touring. The story, interspersed with performances by the Mothers and the Royal Symphony Orchestra, is a ...
Style: psychedelic, surreal, mind bending, mondo, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rock, rock and roll, trippy, musician, music, satire, surrealism, pop music, dancing, counterculture, groupie, biopic ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
City of Women (1980)
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, satirical, art house, atmospheric ...
Plot: surrealism, sex, female nudity, satire, sexual relations, women, feminism, psychology, fetish, voyeurism, solidarity, human relationship ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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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 ⇓
24%
 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 ⇓
24%
 6.9
 82K
Frank (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young wannabe musician who discovers he has bitten off more than he can chew when he joins an eccentric pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank.
Style: surreal, melancholic, tragicomedy, touching, black comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: music, music band, suicide, mental illness, strange person, musician, identity, creativity, eccentricity, character study, depression, dark humor ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: ireland, britain, usa, austin texas, ethiopia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.6
 28K
Nashville (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 160 min.
Story: This movie tells the intersecting stories of various people connected to the music business in Nashville. Barbara Jean is the reigning queen of Nashville but is near collapse. Linnea and Delbert Reese have a shaky marriage and 2 deaf children. Opal ...
Style: political, independent film, cult classic, stylized, anthology ...
Plot: music, multiple storylines, satire, politics, musician, assassination, sexual content, showbiz, election, government, american politics, parallel story ...
Time: year 1975, 70s, 20th century
Place: tennessee, nashville tennessee, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Zia, distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that his ...
Style: road movie, dark comedy, humorous, independent film, surreal ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: suicide, afterlife, road trip, depression, suicide attempt, hitchhiker, friendship, on the road, mental illness, dealing with death, love story, surrealism ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
Place: turkey, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
You, the Living (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Sweden, Germany, France, Denmark, Norway, Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman (Jessica Lundberg) remembers a ...
Style: surreal, dark comedy, philosophical, melancholic, ironic ...
Plot: life, surrealism, loneliness, life philosophy, honest, lifestyle, art, artist, alienation, nordic, philosophy, music ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, 21st century
Place: eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Milky Way (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Along the way, they hitchhike, beg for food, and face the Christian dogmas and heresies from different Ages.
Style: surreal, spiritual, road movie, psychedelic, satirical ...
Plot: religion, surrealism, bible, satire, jesus christ, philosophy, jesus, anarchist, spirituality, religious, inquisition, drifter ...
Time: year 1969, 20th century, year 1964, 60s
Place: spain, paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)
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, realistic, talky, lyrical, dark comedy ...
Plot: power relations, society, odd couple, teaching the ways of the world, absurdism, partner, misfit, on the road, dark humor, surrealism, existentialism, humanity ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Watermelon Man (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Jeff Gerber, an insurance agent, lives in a typical suburban neighborhood. He is also both racist and a fitness freak. But Jeff's bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin ...
Style: surreal, cult classic, biting, disturbing, humorous ...
Plot: racism, social commentary, culture clash, satire, black, transformation, racial issues, african american, african, black lives matter, black history, marriage ...
Time: 60s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 ⇓
21%
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The Exterminating Angel (1962)
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, avant garde, black comedy, allegory ...
Plot: surrealism, room, social satire, religion, dinner party, satire, isolation, mansion, piano, class differences, philosophy, trapped ...
Time: year 1962, 60s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Morgan! (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional behavior lands him in a divorce from his wife, Leonie, trouble with the police and, ultimately, ...
Style: independent film, cynical, biting, witty, cult classic ...
Plot: gorilla, divorce, skeleton, political satire, class differences, marxism, disguise, marriage, obsession, satire, swing, eccentricity ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place: england, london, europe, united kingdom, wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.6
 36K
Interstate 60 (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.
Style: road movie, surreal, witty, enigmatic, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: road trip, self discovery, on the road, alternate reality, life philosophy, dream girl, choice, self fulfillment, wish come true, surrealism, twists and turns, highway ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.7
 1K
The New Age (1994)
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, melancholic, meditative, cynical ...
Plot: dark humor, suicide, satire, adaptation, society, self discovery, crumbling marriage, filmmaking, lifestyle, starting over, rise and fall, couple relations ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A man and his son take an allegorical stroll through life with a talking bird that spouts social and political philosophy.
Style: surreal, road movie, intellectual, spiritual, mind bending ...
Plot: satire, crow, philosophy, surrealism, mythology, hawk, travel, road trip, spirituality, mysticism, politics, on the road ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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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 ⇓
20%
 7.4
 5K
Taking Off (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lyne Tyne search for her, and in the process meet other people whose children ran away. With their children gone, the parents are now free to rediscover/enjoy life.
Style: atmospheric, social, biting, captivating, talky ...
Plot: hippie, counterculture, anti establishment, psychology, runaway, trauma, renaissance, life & death, time travel, missing child, marijuana, missing daughter ...
Time: 70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place: eastern europe, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Living in Oblivion (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nick is the director of a low-budget indie film. He tries to keep everything together as his production is plagued with an insecure actress, a megalomaniac star, a pretentious, beret-wearing director of photography and lousy catering. Divided in ...
Style: surreal, independent film, humorous, funny, talky ...
Plot: filmmaking, actor, filmmaker, nothing goes right, artists and showbiz, showbiz, friends, actor's life, lifestyle, satire, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dark humor ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
Style: feel good, light, surreal, cult classic, visually stunning ...
Plot: success, business, corruption, fighting the system, secretary, economics, industry, dark humor, christmas, journalism, newspaper, psychiatrist ...
Time: 1950s, year 1994, 90s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 ⇓
19%
Alice's Restaurant (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Alice's Restaurant is a 1969 movie adapted from a song by Arlo Guthrie. The song is Arlo Guthrie's most famous work, a talking blues based on a true story that began on Thanksgiving Day 1965. The movie reproduces the events of the song, in ...
Style: psychedelic, humorous, semi autobiographical, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: hippie, thanksgiving, counterculture, restaurant, drug addiction, garbage dump, drug abuse, hospital, addiction, bittersweet, church, small town ...
Time: 60s, year 1969, 20th century
Place: massachusetts, california, vietnam, asia, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Forbidden Zone (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A mysterious door in the basement of the Hercules house leads to the Sixth Dimension by way of a gigantic set of intestine. When Frenchy slips through the door, King Fausto falls in love with her. The jealous Queen Doris takes Frenchy prisoner, and ...
Style: psychedelic, cult classic, grindhouse, black and white, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: surrealism, female nudity, bare breasts, dysfunctional family, transgender, camp, dancing, satire, martial arts, sex, mental disorder, time travel ...
Time: year 1980, 20th century, 70s
Place: california, usa, venice california
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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