Movies like Little Otik
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Little Otik (2000)
7K
Original name: Otesánek
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 root as her baby and starts to pretend that it is real.
Style:
surreal, psychological, atmospheric, mindfuck, art house, suspenseful, humorous, dark, dark comedy, offbeat ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
surrealism, killer child, folk horror, baby, absurdism, arthouse horror, tree, dark humor, couple relations, monster, obsession, extreme, parents and children, stop motion, macabre, fantasy world, trippy, suffering, food, creature, pregnancy, motherhood, parenthood, pedophile, doctor ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1990s
Place:
central europe, czechoslovakia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out surreal, adult animation, weird and psychedelic films with plots about surrealism, storytelling, trippy, nightmare, stop motion, brutality and insanity mostly in Animation, Drama and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Little Otik: The House (2022), Lesson Faust (1994), Alice (1988), Santa Sangre (1989), The Wolf House (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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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:
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Plot:
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Place:
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100%
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Story:
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Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
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Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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12K
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Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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100%
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Duration: 71 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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100%
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
kids, teens, adult
Plot:
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20K
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Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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2020s
Similarity:
100%
119K
Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
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Country: USA
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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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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
japan, tokyo
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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2K
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
czechoslovakia, central europe
Similarity:
23%
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Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
adult animation, surreal, art house, experimental, psychological ...
Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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