Movies like Taxidermia
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Taxidermia (2006)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Hungary, Austria, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Three generations of men, including a pervert that constantly seeks for new kinds of satisfaction, an obese speed eater and a passionate embalmer.
Style:
disturbing, surreal, controversial, art house, humorous, semi serious, erotic, depressing, absurd, visually appealing ...
Plot:
perversion, surrealism, misfit, parents and children, taxidermy, rejection, family relations, social misfits, goofy hero, body horror, macabre, violent, suspense, trippy, exploitation, gluttony, sex, male nudity, masturbation, pig, satire, nude, catastrophe, gangsters, relationships ...
Place:
europe
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Most similar movies to Taxidermia
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, stylized, enigmatic and harsh films with plots about nude, brutality, storytelling, pornography, loneliness, obsession and female nudity mostly in Drama, Comedy and Horror genres. Some movies like Taxidermia: Happiness (1998), The Big Feast (1973), Visitor Q (2001), The Idiots (1998), Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
The lives of many individuals connected by the desire for happiness, often from sources usually considered dark or evil.
Style:
controversial, depressing, bleak, art house, cynical ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, pedophilia, rape, dark humor, depression, obsession, relationships, loneliness, multiple storylines, sexual abuse, suburbs, phone sex ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A group of men hire some prostitutes and go to a villa in the countryside. There, they engage in group sex and resolve to eat themselves to death.
Style:
erotic, art house, disturbing, surreal, humorous ...
Plot:
suicide, decadence, sex, food, lust, sexual promiscuity, society, sexuality, cooking, dark humor, weekend, satire ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, paris france, turkey
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A father who is a failed former television reporter tries to mount a documentary about violence and sex among youths. He proceeds to have sex with his daughter who is now a prostitute, and films his son being humiliated and hit by classmates. ...
Style:
disturbing, surreal, psychological, rough, controversial ...
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rape, incest, dysfunctional family, sexual abuse, father daughter incest, heroin, breast feeding, macabre, sex, obsession, violent, necrophilia ...
Place:
japan, asia
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, France, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
With his first Dogma-95 film director Lars von Trier opens up a completely new film platform. With a mix of home-video and documentary styles the film tells the story of a group of young people who have decided to get to know their ...
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art house, sexy, disturbing, surreal, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
male nudity, sex orgy, commune, mental illness, mentally challenged, orgy, community, sex scene, sex, stupidity, explicit sex, cult ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The inhabitants of an institution in a remote country rebel against their keepers. Their acts of rebellion are by turns humorous, boring and alarming. An allegory on the problematic nature of fully liberating the human spirit, as both commendable ...
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art house, disturbing, surreal, atmospheric, sexy ...
Plot:
surrealism, rebellion, art, fighting the system, misfit, revolution, car, pig, dark humor, utopia, existentialism, wine ...
Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos. Follows Solondz's film Happiness (1998).
Style:
disturbing, psychological, melancholic, talky, stylized ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, father son relationship, loneliness, family relations, character study, family problems, couple relations, pedophile, parents and children, family life, haunted by the past, relationships ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
florida, new jersey, israel, california, usa ...
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35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A white Bull Terrier named Baxter is given to an elderly woman by her daughter. As time passes, the dog develops aggressive and murderous behavior in order to be adopted by another family.
Style:
disturbing, sexy, allegory, psychological, surreal ...
Plot:
dog, baby, human animal relationship, animal death, suspense, killer dog, nude, betrayal, manipulation, mental illness, natural disaster, psychiatry ...
Time:
80s
Place:
france, europe
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35%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and ...
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, psychological, disturbing, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, monster, obsession, insanity, macabre, occult, hysteria, demon, supernatural, serial killer, existentialism, infidelity ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
berlin germany, germany, west berlin west germany, poland, east germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A rich woman, Mrs. Li, is losing her attractiveness and longs for passion with her husband, who is having an affair with his younger and more attractive masseuse. In order to boost her image, she seeks out the help of Aunt Mei, a local chef. Mei ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, dark, surreal, controversial ...
Plot:
suspense, macabre, obsession, healing power, cannibalism, violent, abortion, food, starlet, aging, career change, torture ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, india, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.
Style:
surreal, satirical, art house, cerebral, atmospheric ...
Plot:
surrealism, sex, female nudity, satire, fascism, sexual relations, nude, feminism, sexuality, catastrophe, sexual abuse, brutality ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 1930s
Place:
italy, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A cemetery man has the unusual problem of the dead rising from the grave. Himself and his assistant must end these creatures' lives again after they are reborn. Everything is going well until "She" comes along and stirs things up a ...
Style:
gothic, surreal, disturbing, campy, sexy ...
Plot:
zombie, insanity, erotica, death, cemetery, undead, macabre, cult, apocalypse, living dead, decapitation, eroticism ...
Time:
90s
Place:
italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Oliver Deuce, a successful doctor, is shattered when his wife is killed in a freak car accident involving a car being driven by Alba Bewick colliding with a very large rare bird. His twin brother Oswald is researching how carcasses decay at the ...
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surreal, art house, disturbing, mind bending, erotic ...
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death, obsession, surrealism, siamese twins, bestiality, car accident, absurdism, brother brother relationship, menage a trois, amputation, tragic event, grief ...
Time:
80s
Place:
tokyo, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, Germany, Norway, France, Denmark
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.
Style:
surreal, realistic, talky, lyrical, humorous ...
Plot:
power relations, odd couple, society, human nature, teaching the ways of the world, absurdism, misfit, partners, on the road, existentialism, surrealism, dark humor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sweden, tokyo, japan, eastern europe
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33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A philosophical burlesque, Human Nature follows the ups and downs of an obsessive scientist, a female naturalist, and the man they discover, born and raised in the wild. As scientist Nathan trains the wild man, Puff, in the ways of the world - ...
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surreal, humorous, philosophical, semi serious, witty ...
Plot:
philosophy, farce, manners, fish out of water, human nature, surrealism, culture clash, fall in love, hypocrisy, disorder, misfit, odd couple ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The story of a housewife who must work the streets to earn an extra living - and who becomes the starting point for a larger socio-political essay.
Style:
surreal, political, absurd, talky, cynical ...
Plot:
prostitute, satire, sex, prostitution, obsession, society, vietnam war, female nudity, nude, anarchist, first contact, humanity ...
Time:
60s
Place:
paris france, france, vietnam, asia, europe ...
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33%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia, Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Bad Boy Bubby is just that: a bad boy. So bad, in fact, that his mother has kept him locked in their house for his entire thirty years, convincing him that the air outside is poisonous. After a visit from his estranged father, circumstances force ...
Style:
disturbing, surreal, psychological, art house, dark ...
Plot:
incest, cult, mother son incest, self discovery, sex with mother, dark humor, torture, captivity, mistaken identity, life is a bitch, family problems, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
australia, adelaide south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Solomon and Tummler are two teenagers killing time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.
Style:
disturbing, controversial, surreal, art house, experimental ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sexual abuse, white trash, youth, suburbs, coming of age, sister sister relationship, abuse, violence, teenager, dysfunctional family, relationships, childhood ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
ohio, usa, america
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32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Set in a dilapidated indoor swimming pool (the Central Baths in Sofia), the film details the efforts of Anton, a clueless dreamer who yearns to sail the world, and Martha, the button obsessed cashier, to maintain the illusion for Anton's blind ...
Style:
surreal, stylized, atmospheric, mind bending, psychedelic ...
Plot:
surrealism, love, german, existentialism, fantasy world, eccentricity, art, childhood, crime gone awry, dreams, hospital, hotel ...
Place:
germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
After the death of his wife, wealthy businessman Philip Emmenthal and his son Storey open their own private harem in their family residence in Geneva (they get the idea while watching Federico Fellini's 8½ and after Storey is "given" ...
Style:
surreal, erotic, sexy, talky, clever ...
Plot:
surrealism, erotica, brothel, lust, bdsm, nude, sex, death, obsession, prostitution, male nudity, adaptation ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
tokyo, europe, switzerland, geneva switzerland, japan
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31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
For the first time in 15 years, all four siblings in a family show up to care for their dying mother, who is only given a couple of weeks to live. One comes from America with her two children. A divorced sister also comes with her child and sneaks ...
Style:
humorous, allegory, gloomy, affectionate, visually appealing ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, working class, nude, male nudity, australian, satire, suspense, car, cathartic, twists and turns, parenthood, assassination ...
Time:
90s
Place:
tokyo, australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
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A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the ...
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surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, atmospheric, psychological ...
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surrealism, circus, serial killer, revenge, cult, psychology, art, magic realism, insanity, macabre, funeral, clown ...
Time:
80s
Place:
mexico city, latin america
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31%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A mourning son makes a deal to reanimate his one year dead mother, however things turn into an unexpected direction.
Style:
scary, disturbing, atmospheric, realistic, humorous ...
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zombie, uncle nephew relationship, twists and turns, revenge, justice, dangerous animal, family relations, parents and children, courtroom drama, love and romance, disorder, mother son relationship ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 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 ...
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surreal, atmospheric, bleak, disturbing, gothic ...
Plot:
surrealism, insanity, artist, isolation, suspense, existentialism, obsession, mental illness, island, diary, nightmare, macabre ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
scandinavia, sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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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, social climbing, sexual dysfunction, social differences ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Johnny flees Manchester for London, to avoid a beating from the family of a girl he has raped. There he finds an old girlfriend, and spends some time homeless, spending much of his time ranting at strangers, and meeting characters in plights very ...
Style:
disturbing, talky, compassionate, realistic, philosophical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
existentialism, sexual abuse, rapist, loneliness, drifter, humiliation, voyeurism, nihilism, rape, stranger, sexual humiliation, alienation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
london, england, europe, united kingdom, manchester
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
An ironic black comedy of love and death that takes place an a lyrically beautiful landscape. Three related women, all named Cissie Colpitts share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings. The local coroner is in love ...
Style:
surreal, cynical, art house, humorous, disturbing ...
Plot:
drowning, murder, investigation, surrealism, murder mystery, coroner, unlikely criminals, family problems, friendship, vengeance, life & death, nude ...
Time:
80s
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30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Peter and Katherine Witner are Southern California super-yuppies with great jobs but no center to their lives. When they both lose their jobs and begin marital infidelities, their solution is to start their own business together. In order to find ...
Style:
satirical, disturbing, meditative, melancholic, cynical ...
Plot:
dark humor, suicide, satire, adaptation, crumbling marriage, self discovery, society, filmmaking, love and romance, rise and fall, couple relations, lifestyle ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
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30%
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Sweden, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Marilyn Jordan, an American, lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and family. Her behavior is bizarre, perhaps mad: she poisons the dog's milk and advises the dog not to drink it; she sets the sheets afire as her husband sleeps; she ...
Style:
sexy, surreal, humorous, sexual, erotic ...
Plot:
mad woman, immigrants, nude, male nudity, sexuality, erotica, dark humor, death, insanity, adultery, surrealism, obsession ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s
Place:
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30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Bright young student Raymond Aibelli is forced to sidetrack an important medical internship because his mother, Susan, is recovering from a broken leg. When he isn't tasked with the most mundane aspects of Susan's recuperation, Raymond ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
This ultra-hip, post-modern vampire tale is set in contemporary New York City. Members of a dysfunctional family of vampires are trying to come to terms with each other, in the wake of their father's death. Meanwhile, they are being hunted by ...
Style:
art house, stylized, atmospheric, sexy, erotic ...
Plot:
vampire, lesbian vampire, supernatural, lesbian, redemption, dracula, goth, fantasy world, sexualized violence, runaway, obsession, catastrophe ...
Time:
90s
Place:
tokyo, new york, usa
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