Movies like The Serpent's Egg
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The Serpent's Egg (1977)
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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, nazism, world war two, nordic, sex, female nudity, reptile, masturbation, inspector, nudity, nazi, art, conspiracy, great depression, quantum physics, german soldier, smoking, judaism, realism, voyeurism, investigation, unemployment, clinic, world war one, politics ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s, pre world war two, 20s
Place:
germany, berlin germany, middle east, europe, american
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Most similar movies to The Serpent's Egg
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, atmospheric and psychological films with plots about nude, drinking alcohol, drinking, storytelling, dialogue, guilt and death mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Serpent's Egg: The Good German (2006), The Inheritors (1998), Walk on Water (2004), Keane (2004), Hour of the Wolf (1968). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
neo noir, period piece, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, world war two, investigation, nazi, sex shop, justice, haunted by the past, journalism, uncover truth, love of one's life, love affair, cold war ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 2006, post world war two, year 1945 ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany, europe
Similarity:
100%
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:
serious, realistic, gloomy, atmospheric, allegory
Plot:
village life, poverty, master servant relationship, swindle, sex, class differences, sexuality, manor, last will and testament, farm, rape, farm hand ...
Time:
year 1998, 20th century, 1930s, 1890s, 19th century ...
Place:
austria, europe, america, new york
Similarity:
100%
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:
captivating, suspenseful, sincere, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, mossad, terrorist, male pubic hair, gay club, lgbt, hitman, homoeroticism, redemption, glbt, murder ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
israel, germany, berlin germany, argentina, lebanon ...
Similarity:
100%
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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, missing child, little girl, missing person, schizophrenia, self destructing, delusion, parents and children, life is a bitch, danger, poverty ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
46%
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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:
gothic, creepy, atmospheric, surreal, black and white ...
Plot:
surrealism, macabre, insanity, nightmare, artist, island, isolation, insomnia, existentialism, obsession, mental illness, homosexual subtext ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe, europe, germany
Similarity:
45%
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, cerebral, surreal, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
nightmare, depression, isolation, self pity, animal cruelty, suicide, guilt, female nudity, psychology, dialogue, insanity, nordic ...
Time:
year 1969, 20th century, 60s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
44%
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:
erotic drama, erotic, disturbing, sexual, non-linear ...
Plot:
female nudity, erotica, rape victim, voyeurism, rape, public sex, extramarital affair, perversion, obsession, infidelity, wedding ring, sexual promiscuity ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1980
Place:
vienna, britain, austria, europe, new york ...
Similarity:
44%
140K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 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:
mind twisting, cerebral, surreal, black and white, sexual ...
Plot:
surrealism, mute character, actress, silence, patient, existentialism, medical, nordic, art, dream, alienation, insanity ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
Similarity:
43%
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120K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After India's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.
Style:
psychological, gothic, suspenseful, bleak, twisted ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
danger, mysterious character, under the surface, antisocial behavior, fatal attraction, psychopath, attempted rape, family relations, masturbation, estate, family problems, death ...
Time:
year 2013, year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, connecticut
Similarity:
43%
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:
gloomy, political thriller, sincere, political, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
surveillance, cold war, spy, communism, berlin wall, stasi, politics, redemption, espionage, iron curtain, life philosophy, voyeurism ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1989, 2000s, 90s ...
Place:
east germany, germany, berlin germany, europe, soviet union ...
Similarity:
43%
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, breathtaking, art house, cerebral, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
punishment, children, sexual abuse, cruelty, physical appearance, suicide, child abuse, death, small town, authoritarianism, transgression, priest ...
Time:
year 1914, year 2009, 1910s, pre world war one, 2000s ...
Place:
germany, northern germany, europe, italy
Similarity:
43%
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, medicine, trauma, friendship, espionage, obsession, haunted by the past, murder, missing child, state affairs ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
paris france, europe, france, germany
Similarity:
43%
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, nudity, private investigator, female nudity, investigation, corruption, femme fatale, small town, injustice, power relations, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
connecticut, new england, usa
Similarity:
42%
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, rough, psychological thriller, neo noir, independent film ...
Plot:
small town, sheriff, snow, small town life, alcoholism, dysfunctional family, insanity, abusive father, domestic violence, addiction, character study, drinking ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place:
new hampshire, usa, canada
Similarity:
42%
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:
suspenseful, psychological, neo noir, political, intense ...
Plot:
politics, conspiracy, reporter, corruption, political conspiracy, journalism, murder, investigation, undercover, paranoia, assassin, media ...
Time:
70s, year 1974, 20th century
Place:
seattle, los angeles, washington state, usa, latin america
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 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, depressing, cerebral, visually stunning, psychological ...
Plot:
cancer, maid, terminal illness, art, family relations, dying, nordic, women, existentialism, obsession, marriage, dialogue ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century, 1900s, 90s, year 1972 ...
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental institution, schizophrenia, psychiatrist, mental patient ...
Time:
1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 1940s, year 1945 ...
Place:
iran, persia, america, boston
Similarity:
42%
80K
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, tense, mind bending, cerebral, neo noir ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, revenge, medieval, determination, uncover truth, asian, mentally challenged, mother, mental disorder, police brutality, overprotective mother ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 2010s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
south korea, asia, east asia, korea, tokyo
Similarity:
42%
Movie in collections
92K
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, mind twisting, confusing ...
Plot:
suicide, obsession, twists and turns, death, surrealism, guilt, unfulfillment, suicide attempt, mental illness, depression, parallel universe, psychiatrist ...
Time:
year 2005, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
42%
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, art house, black and white, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
lgbt, psychiatry, crazy love, mental illness, death, women, mental disorder, art, depression, dialogue, street walker, call girl ...
Time:
year 1980, 20th century, 70s
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
41%
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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, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, anti semitism, art collector, mistaken identity, nazi occupation, doppelganger, french resistance, adultery, nude girl, art, judaism, world war ...
Time:
year 1976, 20th century, 1940s, year 1942
Place:
vichy, germany, france, algeria, europe ...
Similarity:
41%
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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, spiritual ...
Plot:
priest, altar boy, nun, clergy, isolation, introspection, haunted by the past, religion, revenge, child abuse, small town, tragic event ...
Time:
year 2015, 21st century
Place:
chile, latin america, santiago chile, pacific ocean
Similarity:
41%
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, realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, escape, small town, interracial relations, mistaken identity, gay subtext, violent content, religions or cults, disorder, criminal heroes, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
90s
Place:
south africa, canada, europe, africa, belgium ...
Similarity:
41%
Movie in collections
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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, clever, psychological thriller, tense ...
Plot:
suicide, nightmare, guilt, childhood, haunted by the past, hidden camera, dysfunctional family, videotaping, found footage, psychology, voyeurism, lie ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, algeria, germany, iraq ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Mexico
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Two corporations compete for illicit 3D manga pornography, sending spies to infiltrate each other's operations.
Style:
erotic, art house, sexual, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
bare breasts, coitus, voyeurism, voyeur, female nudity, espionage, lesbian, nudity, murder, rivalry, internet, workplace situations ...
Time:
year 2002, turn of the century
Place:
tokyo, paris france, japan
Similarity:
41%
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:
anal rape, rape, gay rape, male rape, dysfunctional family, murder, small town, gay incest, teenage boy, psychopath, family problems, life is a bitch ...
Place:
kansas, usa
Similarity:
41%
72K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he accidentally captures on film the commission of a murder. ...
Style:
cerebral, surreal, erotic, independent film, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
photographer, photography, photograph, fashion, voyeurism, corpse, murder witness, fashion photographer, fashion model, nudity, free love, photo studio ...
Time:
60s, year 1966, 20th century
Place:
london, england, europe, united kingdom, paris france
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Determined to pull in the Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett will go to any length necessary to win the coveted award. When he learns of an unsolved murder committed at a mental institution, Barrett devises a scheme to solve it and earn himself ...
Style:
independent film, suspenseful, tense, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
insanity, mental institution, psychiatrist, mental illness, macabre, murder, journalism, investigation, murder mystery, voice over narration, mental breakdown, racial slur ...
Time:
60s, year 1963, 20th century
Place:
mount fuji, america, africa, japan, usa
Similarity:
41%
16K
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, betrayal, politics, war, world war two, european, female nudity, political prisoner ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, scandinavia, tokyo, israel
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.
Style:
psychological, suspense, sexy, disturbing, cerebral ...
Plot:
revenge, torture, politics, haunted by the past, brutality, dictatorship, doctor, humiliation, lawyer, justice, storytelling, attempted murder ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place:
chile, latin america, south america, eastern europe, barcelona ...
Similarity:
40%
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