Movies like Prospero's Books

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Prospero's Books (1991)
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Prospero's Books (1991)
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, surreal, psychedelic, epic, art house, non-linear, psychotronic, postmodern, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Plot: shakespeare, book, magic, surrealism, nudity, children, magic realism, magician, boy, dialogue, decadence, stage play, acid trip, shipwreck, library, daughter, island, memory loss, legends and myths, parents and children, royal family, escapades, vengeance, rivalry, danger ...
Time: 90s, 17th century, year 1991
Keyword: avant-garde

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Most similar movies to Prospero's Books

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out stylized, serious, atmospheric and surreal films with plots about surrealism, female nudity, male nudity, trippy, death, betrayal and nudity mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Comedy genres. Some movies like Prospero's Books: The Tempest (2010), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973), The Legend of Kaspar Hauser (2012), The Tempest (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Tempest (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. Prospera (a female version of Shakespeare's Prospero) is the usurped ruler of Milan who has been banished to a mysterious island with her daughter. Using her magical powers, she draws her ...
Style: surreal, serious, captivating, stylized, atmospheric ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: shakespeare, sorceress, spirit, storm, vengeance, escapades, danger, betrayal, family relations, wizards and magicians, curses spells and rituals, imaginary ...
Time: 17th century, 16th century
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Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real ...
Style: fairy tale, surreal, dark fantasy, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience: kids, date night, teen fantasy, adult, teen drama
Plot: monster, mythology, fantasy world, macabre, creature, imagination, magical, legends and myths, good versus evil, maze, young heroes, imaginary ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place: spain, europe
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The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Poland
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Set in pre- World War II era. A young man is on a strange train to see his dying father in a sanatorium. But the place is going to ruin and recalls a lot of memories from the past. He is beset by soldiers from the past, colonial black mercenaries, ...
Style: surreal, mind bending, psychological, psychedelic, dark ...
Plot: surrealism, alternate reality, metaphysics, female nudity, mental disorder, time travel, magic realism, macabre, trippy, existentialism, parallel universe, politics ...
Time: year 1973, 20th century
Place: eastern europe, poland
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The Legend of Kaspar Hauser (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Arriving on a deserted beach in the Mediterranean sea, in a time and a place unspecified, Kaspar Hauser is forced to confront the evil of a Grand Duchess who feels threatened by the power she exercises over the community.
Style: surreal, experimental, atmospheric, stylized, serious ...
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The Tempest (1979)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Prospero, a potent magician, lives on a desolate isle with his virginal daughter, Miranda. He's in exile, banished from his duchy by his usurping brother and the King of Naples. Providence brings these enemies near; aided by his vassal the ...
Style: avant garde, independent film, offbeat, atmospheric, stylized ...
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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 ...
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Goodbye to Language (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Switzerland, France
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 ...
Plot: introspection, battle of the sexes, couple relations, love, crumbling marriage, fight, communication problem, dog, book, unsettling, bookstore, moving ...
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Medea (1969)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.
Style: spiritual, psychedelic, neorealism, epic, surreal ...
Plot: greek mythology, ancient world, mythology, ancient history, ancient, antiquity, greek, myth, vengeance, female nudity, filicide, legends and myths ...
Time: ancient times, year 1969
Place: ancient greece, greece
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Hamlet (2015)
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Duration: 184 min.
Story: From its sell-out run at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre comes a film version of this unique and critically acclaimed production of Hamlet with BAFTA-nominee Maxine Peake in the title role. This ground-breaking stage production, directed by ...
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Duration: 101 min.
Story: In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home
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Audience: teens, pre-teens, date night, teen fantasy, kids ...
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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, ...
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Style: psychedelic, art house, philosophical, atmospheric, disturbing ...
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Style: erotic, art house, sexy, surreal, enigmatic ...
Audience: adult
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
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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: surreal, disturbing, art house, visually appealing, cerebral ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy
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Story: “Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.” This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. Alejandro ...
Style: art house, surreal, realistic, touching, atmospheric ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
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Duration: 92 min.
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Style: scary, disturbing, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: family friendly
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20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
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Hamlet (1996)
Genre: Drama
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Electra, My Love (1974)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 70 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, captivating, stylized, atmospheric
Plot: ancient history, female nudity, revenge, strength, surrealism, murder, rivalry, vengeance, danger, state affairs, obsession, legends and myths ...
Place: greece, ancient greece
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The Belly of an Architect (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The American architect Kracklite arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibiton for a French architect, Boullée, famous for his oval structures. Tirelessly dedicated to the project, Kracklite's marriage quickly dissolves along with his health.
Style: art house, talky, sexual, aesthetic, experimental ...
Plot: architect, artist, art, cancer, dialogue, infidelity, obsession, painter, painting, melancholy, insanity, tragedy ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
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41%
Mushi-Shi: The Movie (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 131 min.
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Style: serious, stylized, exciting, captivating, anime ...
Plot: supernatural, heroes, escapades, danger, battles, plague, infected, supernatural power, superhero, countryside, doctor, healer ...
Place: japan, asia
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41%
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The Fall (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, South Africa, India
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, ...
Style: surreal, offbeat, fairy tale, visually appealing, visual ...
Audience: kids, date night, adult
Plot: hospital, surrealism, suicide attempt, escape from reality, magic realism, imagination, storytelling, suicide, imaginary kingdom, friendship, stuntman, child ...
Time: 1920s, year 2006, 2000s, 20th century, 1910s
Place: india, los angeles, california, cambodia, taj mahal ...
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41%
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Leolo (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The story of an imaginative boy who pretends he is the child of a sperm-laden Sicilian tomato upon which his mother accidentally fell.
Style: surreal, disturbing, art house, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot: coming of age, masturbation, insanity, bestiality, surrealism, dysfunctional family, dark humor, magic realism, imagination, youth, madness, children ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: canada, quebec, montreal, sicily
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Knight of Cups (2015)
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: stylized, art house, meditative, philosophical, talky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: love, temptation, desert, multiple storylines, tarot card, humanity, visceral, existentialism, obsession, trippy, photography, couples ...
Time: 21st century
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The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Peter Greenaway's first fiction feature (after the mock-documentary The Falls) made him immediately famous and was named one of the most original films of the 1980s by British critics. The action is set in the director's beloved 17th ...
Style: atmospheric, talky, stylized, surreal, witty ...
Plot: murder, adultery, manipulation, art, artist, boss and employee, dishonesty, power relations, society, sexual dysfunction, social climbing, social differences ...
Time: 17th century, year 1982
Place: england, europe
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