Movies like Pearls of the Deep

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Pearls of the Deep (1965)
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Pearls of the Deep (1965)
Original name: Perličky na dně
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s directors. Based on stories by the legendary writer Bohumil Hrabal, the shorts range from the surreally chilling to the caustically observant to the casually romantic, but all have a cutting, wily view of the world.
Style: anthology, avant garde, tragicomedy, fairy tale
Plot: gypsy, surrealism, fiancee, renaissance, insurance agent, satire, modernism, motorcycle race, teenager, horse, painter, artist, dark humor, police officer, train, wedding, motorcycle, racecar driver, journalist, death, restaurant, hospital, railway, singer, suicide ...
Place: eastern europe, czechoslovakia, prague, central europe, prague czechoslovakia
Keyword: czech, avant-garde, movie theatre, new wave

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, dark comedy, humorous and semi serious films with plots about renaissance, husband wife relationship, female nudity, doctor, satire, society and nudity mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Pearls of the Deep: Larks on a String (1969), The Millennial Bee (1983), Closely Watched Trains (1966), The Cry (1964), The Beggar's Opera (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Report on the Party and the Guests (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min.
Story: In Jan Němec’s surreal fable, a picnic is rudely transformed into a lesson in political hierarchy when a handful of mysterious authority figures show up. This allegory about oppression and conformity was banned in its home country but became an ...
Style: dark comedy, cult classic, mind bending, surreal, psychedelic ...
Plot: surrealism, satire, sisters, renaissance, holocaust, modernism, totalitarian regime, spirituality, sister, picnic, hound dog, symbolism ...
Time: year 1966
Place: eastern europe, balkan, czechoslovakia
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Larks on a String (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, gloomy, intellectual ...
Plot: peeping, nudity, female nudity, election, renaissance, international relations, totalitarian regime, politics, satire, bride and groom, women's prison, love of one's life ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, 1950s
Place: czech republic, eastern europe, balkan, europe, central europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Millennial Bee (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany, Austria
Duration: 162 min.
Story: Family saga taking place mostly in a small Slovakian village. The film captures the period of thirty years (1887-1917). The first part captures the life of Martin Pichandu in the development of his craft, masonry, in the second part, his son is ...
Style: epic
Plot: magic realism, renaissance, church, bee, rain, female nudity, surrealism, funeral, soldier, fireman, nudity, bricklayer ...
Time: 19th century
Place: czechoslovakia, eastern europe, balkan, prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Closely Watched Trains (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In a small town still occupied by the Germans as World War II's tide is turning toward the Allies, apprentice train-watcher Milos is oblivious to the war. Instead, he is obsessed with having his first sexual experience. Despite the favors of ...
Style: atmospheric, talky, touching, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: world war two, coming of age, satire, resistance, storytelling, politics, occupation, communism, village life, wartime life, partisan, sexuality ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1966, 1930s
Place: czech republic, eastern europe, europe, czechoslovakia, prague ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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The Cry (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: While a woman is in the hospital preparing to deliver her child, her husband has all day to reflect upon his wife and their relationship. As he tends to his job as a television repairman, Slavek fondly remembers how he first met Ivana and the days ...
Style: freeze frame, non-linear
Plot: modernism, renaissance, flashback, hospital, pregnancy, pregnant woman, newborn, chess, baby, dream, newlyweds, birth ...
Place: eastern europe, prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Beggar's Opera (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of adapted compositions, beginning with the original hugely successful 1728 political satire written by Englishman John Gay. Composers and writers ...
Plot: renaissance, opera, gang, politics, criminal as protagonist, criminal, psychological manipulation, manipulative person, manipulative woman, scheme, manipulative behavior, male female relationship ...
Place: eastern europe
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23%
Fruit of Paradise (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story is an allegory of Adam and Eve, in a modern (made in the '60s) Health Retreat. The action involves our hero wandering the grounds where she becomes obsessed with a mysterious man in red, who may or may not be a killer.
Style: surreal, art house, avant garde, erotic, psychedelic ...
Plot: adam and eve, surrealism, trippy, renaissance, sisters, modernism, woman, garden, sister, swamp, manipulative behavior, misandry ...
Time: year 1970
Place: eastern europe, czechoslovakia, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
It's Better to Be Healthy and Wealthy than Poor and Sick (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A satiric tragi-comedy about two women and their lover Robert who is an emigrant that keeps coming back. This film shows chaotic post-communist Europe after the fall of totalitarianism. Two opposite characters, women, meet during the Velvet ...
Plot: renaissance, communism, surrealism, road trip, nudity, post cold war, magic realism, prostitution, best friend, nun, pregnancy, rape ...
Place: czechoslovakia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Most Beautiful Age (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: An artist's studio is descended upon by a group of retired men and a young mother who agree to model in the nude for money. Comedy ensues as the students and the local bureaucracy react to the models, all in need of extra money. Several running ...
Plot: renaissance, nudity, satire, female nudity, student, sculptor, retirement, repression, model, old man, irony, bureaucracy ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Black Peter (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Reality movie of a few days in the life of a Czechoslovak teenager when he starts work.
Style: avant garde, thought provoking, contemplative, biting, realistic ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, parent child relationship, adolescence, modernism, boy, communist, musician, renaissance, family relations, boys and girls, society ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe, europe, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Home Care (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Dedicated home care nurse Vlasta attends her whimsical patients in Czech wine country and lives for her husband Lada and her daughter, but one day things change and Vlasta is forced to reach outside of her comfort zone. Drama and gentle humor ...
Style: captivating, touching, talky, sincere, disturbing ...
Plot: alternative medicine, wedding ceremony, painter, medicine, death, hospital, patient, cancer, physician, nurse patient relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Tiger Theory (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The last drop for Jan's resolution is the voluntary death of his father-in-law, whose strength and patience ran dry. Grandma made decisions about Grandpa's life, old age as well as the funeral. Jan is sure that he and his wife Olga are on ...
Style: feel good, humorous, light, unusual plot structure, social ...
Plot: female antagonist, husband wife relationship, death of father, brother sister relationship, dark humor, father son relationship, psychiatrist, university, father daughter relationship, adventurer, selfish woman, manipulative woman ...
Place: prague, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Cosy Dens (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Two families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. Teenage kids think their fathers are totaly stupid, fathers are sure their children are nothing more than rebels, hating anything they say. Written by ...
Style: cult classic, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: christmas, coming of age, communism, communist, boy, comedian, dictatorship, dictator, renaissance, lovers, totalitarian regime, mission ...
Time: year 1968, year 1967, 60s
Place: czech republic, eastern europe, balkan, prague, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. A story about our need for love, our confusion, greatness and smallness and, most of all, our vulnerability. It is a story with many characters, among them a father and his mistress, his ...
Style: surreal, black comedy, art house, philosophical, talky ...
Plot: surrealism, loneliness, multiple storylines, dark humor, existentialism, insanity, poetry, religions or cults, human nature, worldwide chaos, nordic, obsession ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
Place: russia, eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
A Hoof Here, a Hoof There (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Two friends have sex just for fun. One day they make a blood test, just for fun, and they discover that one of them has AIDS, not knowing who.
Plot: sexual intercourse, renaissance, nudity, female nudity, sex, infection, promiscuity, morality, aids, male objectification, talking after sex
Place: eastern europe, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Firemen's Ball (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia, Italy
Duration: 73 min.
Story: In Milos Forman's satire on Communism set in a small Czechoslovakian town in the 1960s, the local firemen decide to organize a ball, however the proceedings are dogged by difficulty at every step. They plan to organize a beauty pageant at the ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, cult classic, surreal, allegory ...
Plot: satire, firefighter, political satire, theft, corruption, bureaucracy, small town, confusion, fire, husband wife relationship, farce, cancer ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place: czechoslovakia, czech republic, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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S.O.B. (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.
Style: funny, cynical, witty, clever, humorous ...
Plot: filmmaking, satire, depression, corpse, film producer, hollywood, cynicism, dog, tantrum, funeral, nervous breakdown, doctor ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.5
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Dodgeball (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Story: An adaptation of a best-selling novel by Michal Viewegh is a comedy about friendship, fateful loves, beauty and ugliness, alcohol, and the search for human happiness. The plot revolves around three friends - Jeff, Skippy and Tom - whose ups and ...
Style: non-linear, humorous, sexy, psychological, light ...
Plot: friendship, love, friendship between men, unrequited love, midlife crisis, high school teacher, sexual desire, sexism, 40 year old, group of friends, classmate classmate relationship, vulgar ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Shortcuts (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town. Maryska looks ethereal but loves meat and beer, while Francin is an ascetic. The strict members of the brewery board of directors ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: beer, female nudity, modernism, renaissance, family relations, pregnancy, small town, provincial life, drinking, biopic, society, couple relations ...
Time: 1920s, 1910s, 20th century, pre world war one
Place: eastern europe, balkan, central europe, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Joke (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years later, he tries to get his revenge by seducing Helena, the ...
Style: disturbing, experimental, controversial, avant garde, semi serious ...
Plot: communist, communism, politics, renaissance, totalitarian regime, age-gap relationship, election, radical, exile, revenge, adultery, communist party ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1969, 50s, year 1949 ...
Place: eastern europe, prague, central europe, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Rabbit Case (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In an unusual, apolitical approach, director Jaromil Jires has fashioned a standard drama that features an older lawyer with failing health who goes to practice in the countryside. His series of odd court cases reveals more about the human condition ...
Plot: renaissance, legal, rabbit, manipulative behavior, female judge, gypsy, arrest, infertility, aunt nephew relationship, burglary, debt, hairdresser ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
I, Distressing God (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Adolf (Miloš Kopecký), the irresistible seducer of women, is fond of Janicka (Hana Lelitová), a novice opera singer. The girl, however, prefers famous men and Adolf thus does not have a single chance with her. One day in a hospital, he meets a ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: voice over narration, lesbian erotica, love triangle, older man younger woman relationship, man with glasses, intrigue, flashback, friend, manipulative behavior, female objectification, unrequited love, anti hero ...
Place: czechoslovakia, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Let's Have a Brainwash (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: This consists of four short films by different directors. Rosselini's 'Chastity' ('Illibatezza') deals with an attractive air hostess who receives the unwelcome attentions of a middle aged American. Godard's 'New ...
Style: anthology, contemplative, surreal, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: human relationship, religion, italian neorealism, love letter, thief, stewardess, satire, post-apocalyptic future, society, human nature, religions or cults, nuclear holocaust ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: italy, paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Martyrs of Love (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min.
Story: This three-part ballad, which often uses music to stand in for dialogue, remains the most perfect embodiment of Nemec’s vision of a film world independent of reality. Mounting a defense of timid, inhibited, clumsy, and unsuccessful individuals, ...
Style: anthology
Plot: magic realism, renaissance, wedding ceremony, nun, jazz singer, gypsy, absurdism, train, dog, singer, wedding, surrealism ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Barefoot (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Denmark
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Story of a small boy is forced to move out of Prague during World War 2 to a small village of Slavonice where he meets the rest of his family. He needs to make new friends and get used to a new life which is immensely different from what this city ...
Style: suspenseful, sentimental, sincere, touching, suspense ...
Plot: world war two, boy, social outcast, family relations, husband wife relationship, end of war, child protagonist, death, countryside, wartime life, abusive father, stuttering ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, year 1945, year 1943
Place: central europe, prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter's voice and stare into the eyes of death and emotional trauma with a humour that hides their pain.
Style: psychedelic, surreal, mind bending, black comedy, independent film ...
Plot: railway, medicine, grief, psychopath, female nudity, college, suffocated to death, bare chested male, mother love, entrapment, dream, police officer ...
Time: year 1972
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 ⇓
19%
That Trip We Took with Dad (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Romania, Hungary, Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Romania, 1968. Two very different brothers. Mihai is a secret police informant, Emil is a dedicated dissident. When they have the opportunity to have their ailing father’s eyes operated on in East Germany, the three set out on a moving odyssey.
Style: touching, serious, captivating, realistic, entertaining ...
Plot: road trip, cold war, arrested, family relations, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, fight, doctor, death of father, politics, life, lifestyle change ...
Time: year 1968, 60s
Place: central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Mug (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Jacek loves heavy metal and his dog. He converts the country lanes outside his door into a racing track and bombs down them in his little car. When he and his girlfriend Dagmara take to the dancefloor, everyone runs for cover. He enjoys his ...
Style: tragicomedy, ironic, uplifting, compassionate, social ...
Plot: identity crisis, disfigured face, family relations, social misfits, adaptation, heavy metal, life is a bitch, broken heart, christianity, hopes, religion, existentialism ...
Place: poland, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Loves of a Blonde (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Andula, an innocent Czech girl from a factory town, is desperately in search of love. She believes she's found it when she beds Milda, a charming young musician visiting from Prague. Milda, however, is only looking for a casual encounter, and ...
Style: art house, cynical, realistic, humorous, witty ...
Plot: working class, factory worker, one night stand, boys and girls, blonde, female protagonist, love, female nudity, small town, satire, youth, male nudity ...
Time: year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place: prague, eastern europe, czechoslovakia, balkan, europe
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19%
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