Movies like Tropical Malady

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Tropical Malady (2004)
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Tropical Malady (2004)
Original name: สัตว์ประหลาด
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Thailand, France, Germany, Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A romance between a soldier and country boy splinters into a mythical venture based on Thai folklore.
Style: surreal, slow cinema, serious, psychological, atmospheric, suspense, mind bending, experimental, contemplative, philosophical ...
Plot: gay, jungle, shaman, lgbt, friendship, love and romance, danger, human nature, mysticism, lgbtq, mythology, folklore, surrealism, storytelling, minimalism, gays and lesbians, gender, mental disorder, underground, journey, gay asian, alienation, glbt, magic realism, soldier ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: thailand, asia, indiana, bangkok thailand
Keyword: thai, avant-garde, movie theatre, watching a movie

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, art house, contemplative and realistic films with plots about male nudity, friendship, family relations, love and romance, sex, cigarette smoking and lgbt mostly in Drama, Romance and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Tropical Malady: Blissfully Yours (2002), Cemetery of Splendor (2015), Undertow (2009), Mysterious Object at Noon (2000), Happy Together (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Thailand, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Netherlands
Duration: 114 min.
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 ...
Plot: surrealism, reincarnation, jungle, magic realism, supernatural, loneliness, existentialism, buddhism, life philosophy, introspection, haunted by the past, farm ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: asia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Blissfully Yours (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The story of a love affair that begins during a picnic on the Thai-Burmese border.
Style: contemplative, sexy, sincere, touching, melancholic ...
Plot: sensuality, picnic, forbidden love, immigrant, countryside, on the road, explicit sex, real sex, infidelity, illegal immigrant, summer, nudity ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place: asia, thailand, burma
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Cemetery of Splendor (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Thailand, UK, Germany, France, Malaysia, South Korea, Mexico, USA, Norway
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In a hospital, ten soldiers are being treated for a mysterious sleeping sickness. In a story in which dreams can be experienced by others, and in which goddesses can sit casually with mortals, a nurse learns the reason why the patients will never be ...
Style: surreal, art house, enigmatic, romantic, mind bending ...
Plot: soldier, sleeping, hospital, medium, disability, cemetery, illness, zen, parallel world, self discovery, diary, metaphor ...
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.7
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Undertow (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Peru, Colombia, France, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions.
Style: emotional, sincere, serious, touching, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay love, homosexuality, lgbt, gay, homosexual, gay relationship, ghost, gay latino, gay slur, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, male homosexuality ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: peru, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Thailand, Netherlands
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Mysterious Object at Noon is part fiction, part documentary, and part pseudo-documentary about several unrelated lives in Thailand. The film crew set out on an expedition across Thailand, from the north to the south, documenting several lives along ...
Style: psychological, surreal, contemplative, slow cinema, art house ...
Plot: kidnapping, political unrest, life is a bitch, society, down on your luck, working class, countryside, minimalism, mental disorder, underground, folklore, politics ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
Place: thailand, asia, bangkok thailand, vietnam, cambodia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.7
 34K
Happy Together (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A couple take a trip to Argentina in search of a new beginning, but instead find themselves drifting ever further apart.
Style: art house, emotional, visual, independent film, visually appealing ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay asian, loneliness, love, tango, lgbtq, heartache, lgbtqi, lgbt, melancholy, glbt, sexuality ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, year 1996
Place: buenos aires argentina, hong kong, china, asia, latin america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
His Secret Life (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When Antonia's husband Massimo is killed in a car accident, she accidentally discovers that he has been having a same-sex affair with a produce wholesaler named Michele.
Style: sentimental, touching, serious, sincere, psychological ...
Plot: gay, friendship, aids, gay relationship, infidelity, adultery, transsexual, marriage, depression, self discovery, relationships, gays and lesbians ...
Place: london, amsterdam, milan italy, rome italy, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Fellini Satyricon (1969)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first century Rome.
Style: surreal, psychedelic, art house, sexual, cult classic ...
Plot: ancient rome, surrealism, gay, roman, ancient history, lgbt, decadence, hermaphrodite, ancient, animal sacrifice, banquet, slave auction ...
Time: 1st century, ancient times, year 1969
Place: rome italy, italy, ancient greece, europe, sicily ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 7.2
 87K
Enter the Void (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan
Duration: 161 min.
Story: This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta). When Oscar is killed by ...
Style: psychedelic, art house, philosophical, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: surrealism, afterlife, trippy, stripper, hallucination, drug trip, life after death, lsd, male nudity, youth, incest, abortion ...
Time: year 2010, year 2009, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Wings of Desire (1987)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Wings of Desire is Wim Wender’s artistically beautiful film about the lonely and immortal life of angels during a post-war Berlin. It’s a poetic journey from the perspective of the angels of which one falls in love with a living woman and wants ...
Style: atmospheric, surreal, meditative, lyrical, cerebral ...
Audience: date night
Plot: angel, immortality, dream, circus, love, existentialism, philosophy, mortality, library, loneliness, love story, visceral ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1987
Place: germany, berlin germany, west germany, east germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
A Thousand Peace Clouds Encircle the Sky (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A teenager discovers that mending a broken heart is no simple thing in this independent romantic drama from Mexico. Gerardo (Juan Carlos Ortuno), a 17-year-old who has recently embraced his homosexuality, has just parted ways with his first serious ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, erotic ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, breakup, lost love, teenage life, unfulfilled love, losing-it hero, life is a bitch, obsession, love and romance, sex scene, gay interest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Come Undone (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Story of two gorgeous, young French boys who begin a passionate relationship that boils over and threatens to destroy both their lives. Shy Mathieu is 18-years-old and on summer vacation in the south of France. He spends his days lazily sunning ...
Style: emotional, touching, meditative, lyrical, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: gay, depression, suicide attempt, male nudity, teenage life, gay teenager, first gay sexual experience, youth, gay romance, dysfunctional family, love affair, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: south of france, europe, frankfurt germany, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Science of Sleep (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.
Style: surreal, psychedelic, psychological, philosophical, meditative ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: dream, surrealism, magic, daydreamer, artist, escape from reality, existentialism, insanity, magic realism, imagination, love story, friendship ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
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Full Speed (1996)
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Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France. Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author than to his friends, beautiful Julie, his girl-friend, much more mature than she looks, falling ...
Style: erotic, contemplative, serious, realistic, sexual ...
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What Time Is It There? (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: When a young street vendor with a grim home life meets a woman on her way to Paris, they forge an instant connection. He changes all the clocks in Taipei to French time.
Style: atmospheric, disturbing, art house, stylized, non-linear ...
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Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
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His Brother (2003)
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Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Thomas has been estranged from his brother Luc for several years, due in part to his difficulties in dealing with Luc's homosexuality. But when Thomas is diagnosed with a rare blood disease, which is difficult to treat and impossible to cure, ...
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: gay, homosexual, life is a bitch, family problems, lgbt, male pubic hair, male nudity, reconciliation, parents and children, human nature, brother brother relationship, suffering ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.2
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The River (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In Taiwan a young man with a mysterious paralysis massages his neck with his mother's dildo, meanwhile the rain is flooding the island.
Style: contemplative, bleak, aesthetic, slow cinema, thought provoking ...
Plot: gay, gay hustler, gay incest, alienation, dysfunctional family, lgbt teen, love, gay interest, lgbt, lgbtq, love letter, minimalism ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: taiwan, china, asia, taipei
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Head On (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Nineteen-year-old Ari confronts both his sexuality and his Greek family. Ari despises his once-beloved parents, former radical activists, for having entombed themselves in insular tradition. Ari is obsessed with gay sex, although he does make an ...
Style: independent film, lgbt cinema, terrifying, serious, realistic ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, transgender, lgbtq, glbt, drug abuse, violence, homosexuality, lgbtqi, greek, drug addiction, brutality ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia, melbourne, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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And Then We Danced (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Georgia, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Merab has been training since a young age at the National Georgian Ensemble with his dance partner Mary. His world is suddenly turned upside down when the charismatic and carefree Irakli arrives and becomes both his strongest rival and desire. In ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, romantic, romantic drama ...
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Syndromes and a Century (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand, France, Austria
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Story about director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's parents who were both doctors, and director's memories about growing up in the hospital environment.
Style: atmospheric, touching, emotional, art house, contemplative ...
Plot: medical, buddhism, fall in love, doctors and patients, looking for love, symbolism, hospital, life philosophy, minimalism, lifestyle, society, human relationship ...
Time: 2000s, year 2006, 60s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: asia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Mekong Hotel (2012)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Thailand, UK
Duration: 61 min.
Story: Shifting between fact and fiction in a hotel situated along the Mekong River, a filmmaker rehearses a movie expressing the bonds between a vampire-like mother and daughter...
Style: serious, surreal, experimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot: hotel, family relations, supernatural, reincarnation, parents and children, mother daughter relationship, underground, river, folklore, mother, world
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 6.5
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Mood Indigo (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A woman suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.
Style: surreal, art house, touching, sentimental, psychedelic ...
Audience: date night
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Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 7.4
 5K
Vive L'Amour (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Three lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment: Mei, a real estate agent who uses it for her sexual affairs; Ah-jung, her current lover; and Hsiao-ang, who's stolen the key and uses the apartment as a retreat.
Style: erotic, disturbing, meditative, atmospheric, slow cinema ...
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Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: taiwan, taipei, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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L'Eclisse (1962)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed by the man's materialistic nature.
Style: art house, black and white, philosophical, neorealism, visual ...
Plot: loneliness, alienation, art, love, stock broker, great ending, love story, existentialism, minimalism, unrequited love, minimal dialogue, passion ...
Time: year 1962, 60s, 20th century
Place: rome italy, usa, europe, los angeles, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
I Killed My Mother (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Hubert, a brash 17-year-old, is confused and torn by a love-hate relationship with his mother that consumes him more and more each day. After distressing ordeals and tragic episodes, Hubert will find his mother on the banks of Saint Lawrence river, ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, touching, sincere ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: youth, gay, lgbt, homosexuality, gay son, gay relationship, gay teenager, gay sex, coming of age, family relations, single mother, lgbt teen ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Give Me Your Hand (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Quentin and Antoine are 18-year-old twins. Without their father knowing it, they set out on a voyage to Spain, where their mother's funeral is to ake place. The two brothers barely knew their mother. Their hitchhiking journey is full of ...
Style: psychological, sincere, touching, emotional, road movie ...
Plot: gay, gay brother, estranged mother, twins, road trip, lgbt, on the road, funeral, hitchhiker, brother brother relationship, gay teenager, self discovery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, spain, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 5.6
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Amphetamine (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Openly gay banker Daniel debates whether to return to Australia or stay in Hong Kong when he meets Kafka, a straight swimming instructor. The young men fall in love, believing that their love can bridge anything, despite their difference in ...
Style: realistic, homoerotic, captivating, emotional, psychological ...
Plot: gay, gay asian, lgbt, gender, love affair, haunted by the past, tragic love, addiction, self discovery, male pubic hair, couples, destiny ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, indiana, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
North Sea Texas (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Pim lives in a run-down house in a dead-end street somewhere on the Flanders coast, together with his mother Yvette Bulteel. Life here smells of cold French fries, cheap cigarettes, vermouth and stale beer. Mother Yvette uses her friend Etienne, ...
Style: touching, serious, sincere, lgbt cinema, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: gay, lgbt, coming of age, gay teenager, lgbt teen, gay love, first gay sexual experience, gay lead character, lgbt child, boys love, gays and lesbians, love and romance ...
Time: 2000s, 60s, 20th century
Place: belgium, france, idaho, europe, flanders
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Big Bang Love tells the story of two young prisoners from different backgrounds whose bond transcends their pasts. This stunning, imaginative film has been adapted from Masaki Ato's homoerotic graphic novel. Two beautiful young men become ...
Style: serious, rough, disturbing, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: prison, murder, gays and lesbians, gay, friendship, prison life, investigation, lgbt, murder investigation, gay asian, gay interest, surrealism ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 7.0
 49K
Holy Motors (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
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, ...
Style: surreal, art house, psychedelic, cerebral, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: surrealism, existentialism, life & death, creativity, obsession, multiple storylines, trippy, hidden identity, double life, power relations, unfulfillment, lifestyle change ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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