Movies like The Serpent's Egg

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The Serpent's Egg (1977)
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The Serpent's Egg (1977)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The Serpent's Egg follows a week in the life of Abel Rosenberg, an out-of-work American circus acrobat living in poverty-stricken Berlin following Germany's defeat in World War I.
Style: philosophical, mind bending, psychedelic, political, suspense, political thriller, surreal, art house, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: circus, suicide, nazism, world war two, nordic, nazi, art, prostitution, conspiracy, great depression, quantum physics, smoking, judaism, realism, voyeurism, investigation, unemployment, clinic, inspector, world war one, politics, alcohol abuse, life is a bitch, rise to the top, getting home ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, pre world war two, 20s
Place: germany, berlin germany, middle east, europe
Keyword: jewish, german, sweden, american, mass

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, psychological and atmospheric films with plots about drinking, female nudity, death, murder, nudity, blood and drink mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Serpent's Egg: The Good German (2006), The Passion of Anna (1969), Hour of the Wolf (1968), Persona (1966), Keane (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Good German (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes up at a lakeside mansion during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers. Soon his ...
Style: black and white, neo noir, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: murder, world war two, investigation, nazi, justice, haunted by the past, uncover truth, journalism, sex shop, love of one's life, love affair, cold war ...
Time: year 1945, 20th century, 1940s, year 2006, post world war two
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe
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The Passion of Anna (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Andreas, a man struggling with the recent demise of his marriage and his own emotional isolation, befriends a married couple also in the midst of psychological turmoil. In turn he meets Anna, who is grieving the recent deaths of her husband and son. ...
Style: art house, surreal, cerebral, psychological, bleak ...
Plot: solitude, depression, isolation, animal cruelty, nightmare, self pity, breaking the fourth wall, psychology, dialogue, guilt, suicide, female nudity ...
Time: year 1969, 20th century, 60s
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Hour of the Wolf (1968)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An artist in crisis is haunted by nightmares from the past in Ingmar Bergman's only horror film, which takes place on a windy island. During "the hour of the wolf" - between midnight and dawn - he tells his wife about his most painful ...
Style: surreal, atmospheric, gothic, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: surrealism, insanity, artist, isolation, island, existentialism, obsession, mental illness, macabre, diary, nightmare, art ...
Time: year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Persona (1966)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer. Alma eventually ...
Style: minimal cast, psychological, surreal, sexual, atmospheric ...
Plot: existentialism, surrealism, medical, actress, mute character, dream, patient, silence, art, insanity, alienation, nurse ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Keane (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A mentally ill man searches New York for his missing eight year old daughter. He recreates her steps each day hoping for some clue to her disappearance, until he meets and befriend a woman with a daughter the same age. Could she help him with the ...
Style: sincere, touching, serious, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: kidnapping, mental illness, little girl, missing child, missing person, schizophrenia, self destructing, delusion, life is a bitch, danger, parents and children, drug abuse ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Cries & Whispers (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story: As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so deeply immersed in their own psychic pains that they can't offer her the support she needs. Maria is wracked with guilt at her husband's suicide, caused by his discovery of her ...
Style: touching, emotional, depressing, serious, psychological ...
Plot: cancer, terminal illness, maid, art, family relations, nordic, women, dialogue, obsession, existentialism, sisters, visceral ...
Time: year 1972, 19th century, turn of the century, 90s, 1900s
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The White Ribbon (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Canada
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.
Style: disturbing, black and white, art house, bleak, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: children, punishment, sexual abuse, priest, physical appearance, suicide, small town, death, child abuse, cruelty, family secret, village life ...
Time: year 1914, year 2009, 1910s, 90s, 1920s ...
Place: germany, europe, northern germany, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Bad Timing (1980)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Alex Linden is a psychiatrist living in Vienna who meets Milena Flaherty though a mutual friend. Though Alex is quite a bit older than Milena, he's attracted to her young, carefree spirit. Despite the fact that Milena is already married, their ...
Style: controversial, erotic, disturbing, art house, non-linear ...
Plot: voyeurism, female nudity, extramarital affair, obsession, infidelity, rape, rape victim, parallel universe, erotica, overdose, psychopath, investigation ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: vienna, britain, austria, europe, morocco ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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The Lives of Others (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A tragic love story set in East Berlin with the backdrop of an undercover Stasi controlled culture. Stasi captain Wieler is ordered to follow author Dreyman and plunges deeper and deeper into his life until he reaches the threshold of doubting the ...
Style: political thriller, gloomy, political, sincere, suspense ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: surveillance, cold war, berlin wall, spy, stasi, communism, iron curtain, secrets, loneliness, voyeurism, politics, suicide ...
Time: 80s, year 2006, 20th century, 2000s, year 1984 ...
Place: east germany, germany, berlin germany, europe, soviet union ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Affliction (1997)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other events result in his slowly disintegrating mentally.
Style: psychological, bleak, rough, independent film, neo noir ...
Plot: snow, small town, alcoholism, dysfunctional family, sheriff, insanity, abusive father, small town life, domestic violence, addiction, drinking, character study ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: new hampshire, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
From the Life of the Marionettes (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Made during Bergman's tax-related exile in Germany, the film continues the story of Katarina and Peter Egermann, the feuding, childless, professional couple who appear in one episode of "Scenes From A Marriage." After Peter ...
Style: disturbing, black and white, suspense thriller, art house, psychological ...
Plot: lgbt, mental illness, prostitution, death, dream, psychiatry, nordic, labor, depression, dialogue, mental disorder, art ...
Time: year 1980, 20th century, 70s
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Stay (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his ...
Style: surreal, psychological, surprise ending, confusing, gloomy ...
Plot: suicide, surrealism, twists and turns, obsession, mental illness, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, death, unfulfillment, parallel universe, mental institution, mentally unstable ...
Time: year 2005, future, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.5
 906
The Sentinel (1992)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 139 min.
Story: After spending some time with his diplomat father in Germany, a young French medical student returns by train to Paris to resume his studies. He is puzzled by the harsh treatment he receives from customs at the border but doesn't begin to ...
Style: controversial, anthology, suspenseful, gloomy, tense ...
Plot: memory, spy, train, trauma, medicine, friendship, obsession, espionage, murder, haunted by the past, missing child, amateur detective ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, post world war two
Place: paris france, europe, france, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Mother (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it's his mother's call whether to prove ...
Style: atmospheric, suspense, tense, neo noir, disturbing ...
Plot: investigation, murder, revenge, family relations, determination, amateur detective, uncover truth, murder mystery, asian, mother, mentally challenged, character study ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 2010s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: south korea, asia, korea, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Shame (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Ingmar Bergman's psychological study of how humans react in a situation of war. The film takes place on Gotland, where invasion forces arrives.
Style: psychological, art house, political, cerebral, biting ...
Plot: existentialism, dialogue, island, nordic, civil war, war, betrayal, politics, european, world war two, female nudity, modernism ...
Time: year 1968, 20th century, 60s
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Parallax View (1974)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An ambitious reporter, investigating a senator's assassination, realizes witnesses to the shooting are systematically dying and discovers a multi-million dollar corporation which serves as a front for the recruitment of political assassins.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, neo noir, political ...
Plot: politics, corruption, conspiracy, investigation, reporter, journalism, murder, assassin, media, senator, political conspiracy, paranoia ...
Time: 70s, year 1974, 20th century
Place: seattle, los angeles, washington state, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Walk on Water (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Israel, Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Eyal, an Israeli Mossad agent, is given the mission to track down and kill the very old Alfred Himmelman, an ex-Nazi officer, who might still be alive. Pretending to be a tourist guide, he befriends his grandson Axel, in Israel to visit his sister ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, sincere, suspense ...
Plot: gay, mossad, hitman, lgbt, male pubic hair, redemption, murder, israeli, family secret, judaism, machismo, gay slur ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: israel, germany, middle east, berlin germany, argentina ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Mr. Klein (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Paris, 1942. Robert Klein cannot find any fault with the state of affairs in German-occupied France. He has a well-furnished flat, a mistress, and business is booming. Jews facing discrimination because of laws edicted by the French government are ...
Style: art house, slasher, insightful, realistic, serious ...
Plot: world war two, mistaken identity, art dealer, anti semitism, prostitute, adultery, nazi, female nudity, doppelganger, nazi occupation, art collector, french resistance ...
Time: 1940s, year 1976, 20th century, year 1942
Place: vichy, paris france, germany, france, algeria ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Hidden (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A married couple is terrorized by a series of videotapes planted on their front porch.
Style: disturbing, psychological, psychological thriller, art house, surreal ...
Plot: suicide, childhood, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, videotaping, hidden camera, family in crisis, lie, psychology, voyeurism, great ending, nightmare ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, algeria, iraq, germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Inheritors (1998)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In a small farming valley in Austria in the beginning of the 20th century a tyrannical farmer is found dead, and all the farmhands are relieved to be free of their tyrant. But the farmer was childless, so suddenly they all inherit the farm together. ...
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, gloomy, allegory
Plot: village life, rape, last will and testament, farm, farm hand, world war two, summer, social injustice, murder, class differences, sexuality, sex ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 1930s, 19th century, 1890s ...
Place: austria, europe, america, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Blindness (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil, Canada, Japan, UK, Italy
Duration: 121 min.
Story: When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.
Style: apocalyptic, bleak, disturbing, intense, depressing ...
Plot: post apocalypse, plague, survival, epidemic, blindness, distopia, apocalypse, dystopia, virus, post apocalyptic, disability, pandemic ...
Time: distant future, year 2008, 21st century
Place: portugal, sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Firecracker (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A tale of murder in small-town Kansas. When Jimmy is lured away from his abusive family by a traveling sideshow carnival, he encounters Sandra, one of the main attractions. The happiness they find together causes them to confront the darkness in ...
Style: disturbing, serious, psychological, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: rape, male rape, dysfunctional family, murder, small town, teenage boy, psychopath, family problems, life is a bitch, friendship, mental illness, haunted by the past ...
Place: kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Everybody Wins (1990)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A seemingly good Samaritan hires a private detective to prove a teen sitting in prison on a murder charge is innocent. His investigation discovers deep corruption in a Connecticut town and finds the woman isn't everything she is pretending to ...
Style: neo noir, independent film, contemplative, mind bending, serious ...
Plot: private detective, private investigator, investigation, corruption, femme fatale, small town, nudity, injustice, power relations, legal investigation, life is a bitch, legal ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: connecticut, usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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The Club (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In a secluded house in a small seaside town live four unrelated men and the woman who tends to the house and their needs. All former priests, they have been sent to this quiet exile to purge the sins of their pasts, the separation from their ...
Style: suspense, atmospheric, melancholic, bleak, cynical ...
Plot: priest, altar boy, clergy, introspection, isolation, haunted by the past, religion, revenge, child abuse, nun, small town, tragic event ...
Time: year 2015, 21st century
Place: chile, latin america, pacific ocean, santiago chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.3
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The Quarry (1998)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Netherlands, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: This thriller investigates the mysterious assassination of a gay pastor in rural South Africa. Without witnesses or explanations, the crime appears to the police and others as a jigsaw puzzle without enough pieces. The police then suspect and arrest ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, gloomy, suspenseful ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, escape, small town, interracial relations, mistaken identity, gay subtext, violent content, disorder, religions or cults, clergy, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: south africa, belgium, europe, holland, canada ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
New Best Friend (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Alicia is a poor girl starting college. Hadley, Julianne and Sydney are three well-off girls in a row house. Classes begin and Alicia is paired with Hadley to work on a sociology class project. At first rejected, Alicia is finally accepted into ...
Style: intense, stylized, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: investigation, college, murder, betrayal, lesbian, teenage life, wealth, manipulation, youth, college student, divorce, menage a trois ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.7
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Faults (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Claire is under the grip of a mysterious new cult called Faults. Desperate to be reunited with their daughter, Claire's parents recruit one of the world's foremost experts on mind control, Ansel Roth.
Style: psychological, tense, disturbing, surreal, cerebral ...
Plot: kidnapping, mind control, brainwashing, redemption, religions or cults, cult leader, manipulation, life is a bitch, parents and children, sexual innuendo, death, depression ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, ...
Style: surreal, psychological, dark, atmospheric, psychedelic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: serial killer, investigation, incest, surrealism, murder, small town life, small town, mental illness, double life, rape, supernatural, violence ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, near future, 20th century, year 1988 ...
Place: washington state, canada, philadelphia, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Minus Man (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The Minus Man is a 1999 film based on the novel by Lew McCreary. It was directed by Hampton Fancher, who also wrote the screenplay. The film centers on a psychotic killer whom Fancher describes as "a cross between Psycho's Norman Bates, ...
Style: independent film, psychological, disturbing, offbeat, clever ...
Plot: serial killer, american football, psychopath, small town, killer, xmas, death, violence, murder, ugly duckling, serial murder, rap ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: oregon, vancouver
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Day of the Locust (1975)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: An art director in the 1930s falls in love and attempts to make a young woman an actress despite Hollywood who wants nothing to do with her because of her problems with an estranged man and her alcoholic father.
Style: cult classic, disturbing, cerebral, biting, cynical ...
Audience: date night
Plot: movie business, female nudity, hollywood, filmmaking, art, satire, great depression, showbiz, politics, surrealism, actor, social commentary ...
Time: 1930s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, glendale california
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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