Movies like Angel's Egg

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Angel's Egg (1985)
 7.5
 12K
Angel's Egg (1985)
Original name: 天使のたまご
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min.
Story: A mysterious young girl wanders a desolate, otherworldly landscape, carrying a large egg.
Style: anime, gothic, avant garde, dark fantasy, surreal, adult animation, psychedelic, experimental, disturbing, fairy tale ...
Plot: surrealism, girl, egg, angel, religion, flood, little girl, minimal dialogue, distopia, cyberpunk, steampunk, mental disorder, bible, minimalism, stoner, parallel universe, moving, life & death, nightmare, acid, perfection, dying, worship, slow burn, post apocalyptic ...
Place: japan, europe
Keyword: reboot, avant-garde

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, surreal, adult animation and psychedelic films with plots about surrealism, trippy, mature, imaginary, danger, death and distopia mostly in Animation, Drama and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Angel's Egg: Ghost in the Shell (1995), Alice (1988), The Girl From the Other Side (2022), Serial Experiments Lain (1998), The Wolf House (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The second of two theatrically released follow-ups to the Neon Genesis Evangelion series. Comprising of two alternate episodes which were first intended to take the place of episodes 25 and 26, this finale answers many of the questions surrounding ...
Style: anime, psychological, mecha, ambiguous ending, surreal ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: depression, loneliness, violence, insanity, philosophy, infiltration, existentialism, death, end of the world, post apocalypse, angel, high school ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins ...
Style: anime, futuristic, mind bending, philosophical, surreal ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, androids and robots, hacker, cyborgs, distopia, female protagonist, policewoman, chase, dystopian future, female spy, dystopia ...
Time: future, 90s, year 1995, near future, 2020s ...
Place: japan, tokyo, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 7.4
 14K
Alice (1988)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, UK, West Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit. She becomes surrounded by living inanimate objects and stuffed dead animals, and must find a way out of this nightmare- no ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, art house, atmospheric, mindfuck ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: surrealism, alice in wonderland, stop motion, little girl, mushroom, trippy, absurdism, female protagonist, child protagonist, wonderland, anthropomorphic animal, fantasy world ...
Time: 1800s, year 1988, 80s, 20th century, 19th century ...
Place: czech republic, czechoslovakia, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: After a global war, the seaside kingdom known as the Valley Of The Wind remains one of the last strongholds on Earth untouched by a poisonous jungle and the powerful insects that guard it. Led by the courageous Princess Nausicaä, the people of the ...
Style: anime, manga, captivating, exciting, apocalyptic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, adult
Plot: ecology, environmental, post apocalypse, nature, steampunk, insect, female protagonist, apocalypse, teenage girl, giant insect, environment, post apocalyptic ...
Time: future, year 1984, middle ages, medieval times
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Girl From the Other Side (2022)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Once upon a time, in a far, faraway place, there were two lands. The world was divided into an inner land and an outer land. People feared the outer land, inhabited by eerie beings, the carriers of curse. One day, on the border to the inner land ...
Style: anime, dark fantasy, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: curse, magic, relationships, unlikely friendships, supernatural being, magical creature, fantasy world, supernatural, creature, meditation
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Serial Experiments Lain (1998)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 316 min.
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Story: Strange events begin to occur as a withdrawn girl named Lain becomes obsessed with interconnected virtual realm of "The Wired".
Style: psychological, anime, surreal, mind bending, serious ...
Plot: suicide, computer, cyberspace, society, fictional reality, parallel world, cyberpunk, computers and web, mature, hacker, distopia, internet ...
Time: future
Place: asia, tokyo, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
The Wolf House (2018)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror
Country: Chile, Germany
Duration: 75 min.
Story: María, a girl from Colonia Dignidad, in Chile —a kind of sectarian community, tyrannically mastered by the ruthless Paul Schäfer, a German madman, religious fanatic and child predator, who would end up turning the place into a torture center at ...
Style: disturbing, surreal, adult animation, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: stop motion, military dictatorship, wolf, fleeing, colony, political persecution, running for your life, political prisoner, runaway, political unrest, toys, xmas ...
Place: chile, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Belladonna of Sadness (1973)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A peasant woman is banished from her village and makes a deal with the devil to gain magical powers.
Style: anime, psychedelic, hentai, adult animation, experimental ...
Plot: deal with the devil, wedding, surrealism, snake, rape, witch, trippy, female nudity, occult, woman, pagan, women ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times
Place: japan, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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 6.7
 561
Chronopolis (1982)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Poland
Duration: 52 min.
Story: Chronopolis tells the story of a gargantuan city lurking in the sky colonized by powerful immortals who have become jaded with eternal life. Most of their time is spent monotonously constructing bizarre and unusual objects while waiting for the ...
Style: experimental, adult animation, psychedelic, claymation, retro ...
Plot: surrealism, trippy, stop motion, immortality, creature, immortal, boredom, construction worker, abstract art
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (2015)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain, Japan
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Birdboy and his animal friends plan their escape from an ecologically devastated island in this surreal, animated fantasy.
Style: suspense, gloomy, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: nightmare, murder, pursuit, stranded, hallucination, escape, death, violence, monster, island, friends, anthropomorphic animal ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
When Black Birds Fly (2015)
Genre: Animation, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Heaven is a beautiful, clean suburban paradise as long as they follow one simple rule: DO NOT communicate with "The Evil One" that dwells on the other side of a giant wall that circles the town. One day after chasing one he discovers a ...
Style: disturbing, psychedelic, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: surrealism, underground, bird, worship, school, distopia, body horror, city, society, social misfits, faith, supernatural horror ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.0
 93K
Perfect Blue (1997)
Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A retired pop singer turned actress' sense of reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan and seemingly a ghost of her past.
Style: surreal, suspense, adult animation, anime, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: murder, serial killer, mentally unstable, stalking, obsession, actor's life, actress, twists and turns, psychopath, rape, losing-it hero, woman in danger ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place: japan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.3
 7K
Greedy Guts (2000)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story: When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However the woman takes the ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, mindfuck ...
Audience: kids
Plot: surrealism, killer child, folk horror, absurdism, tree, baby, monster, dark humor, obsession, couple relations, parents and children, macabre ...
Time: 90s
Place: czechoslovakia, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 67K
Waking Life (2001)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our ...
Style: philosophical, spiritual, psychedelic, surreal, stylized ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: philosophy, existentialism, dream, trippy, surrealism, alternate reality, consciousness, bohemian life, meaning of life, life philosophy, psychology, imagination ...
Time: year 2001, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 21K
Memories (1995)
Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In this anime trilogy, a salvage ship crew happens upon a haunted vessel in Magnetic Rose; a cold tablet turns a lab worker into a biological weapon in Stink Bomb; and an urban populace carries on an endless war with an unseen foe in Cannon Fodder. ...
Style: surreal, anime, anthology, futuristic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Style: futuristic, surreal, stylized, adult animation, exciting ...
Plot: distopia, conspiracy, dystopian future, post apocalyptic, brutality, society, chaos, corporate crime, danger, life is a bitch, bomb, cyberpunk ...
Time: future, distant future
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul (2020)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A continuation of the epic adventure of plucky Riko and Reg who are joined by their new friend Nanachi. Together they descend into the Abyss' treacherous fifth layer, the Sea of Corpses, and encounter the mysterious Bondrewd, a legendary White ...
Style: anime, dark fantasy, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Fantastic Planet (1973)
Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Fantastic Planet tells the story of “Oms”, human-like creatures, kept as domesticated pets by an alien race of blue giants called “Draags”. The story takes place on the Draags’ planet Ygam, where we follow our narrator, an Om called Terr, ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, adult animation, art house, stylized ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: trippy, surrealism, giant, dystopia, alien, slave, distopia, alien life-form, alien species, meditation, baby, utopia ...
Time: distant future, year 1973, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.2
 23K
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Duke Red has overseen the construction of a massive Ziggurat to extend his power across the whole planet. Tima, a robot-girl built in the image of his deceased daughter, is at the core of these plans. However, after escaping the Duke's clutches ...
Style: anime, futuristic, atmospheric, bleak, cyber ...
Audience: kids
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Time: future, year 2001
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 14K
Mad God (2021)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A figure known as "The Assassin" descends from the heavens into a nightmarish pit full of monsters, titans, and cruelty.
Style: adult animation, disturbing, surreal, dark fantasy, spooky ...
Audience: adult, horror for children
Plot: stop motion, surrealism, post apocalypse, monster, violence, creature, motorcycle, body horror, fantasy world, demolished city, exploitation, assassin ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Wings of Honneamise (1987)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story: On a future Earth, war between the Kingdom of Honneamise and its rival, The Republic, is inevitable. As evolving technology creates new ways to wage war, a small group seeks to propel mankind into space in their world’s first spaceflight program. ...
Style: anime, stylized, manga, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space, fighting the system, assassination, steampunk, parallel universe, technology, religion, space program, kickass, fighter plane, aviation, astronaut ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight (2019)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Second compilation movie of the TV series which covers episodes 9-13. Riko and Reg descend to the third and fourth layer where Riko has her first experience of the Curse.
Style: anime, seinen, captivating, disturbing, compilation film ...
Plot: adventurer, survival, underground, tragedy, exploration, friendship, research, technology, brutality, curse, journey, immortality ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 38K
The Red Turtle (2016)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The dialogue-less film follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds.
Style: atmospheric, anime, bleak, stylized, colorful ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, adult
Plot: isolation, nature, island, raft, sea turtle, loneliness, beach, desert island, swimming, sea, transformation, solitude ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Night on the Galactic Railroad (1985)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Giovanni currently lives a dreary life of near non-stop work. At school, his peers ridicule him incessantly, and his employer at work is distant and cold. As his isolation from society becomes unbearable, he suddenly finds himself on a train heading ...
Style: anime, surreal, psychedelic, comfort
Plot: train, anthropomorphism, furry, space, philosophy, literature, another dimension, buddhism, friendship, surrealism, innocence, journey ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 147K
9 (2009)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Luxembourg
Duration: 79 min.
Story: When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their ...
Style: adult animation, surreal, suspenseful, serious, futuristic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: steampunk, apocalypse, post apocalypse, dystopia, survival, danger, technology gone awry, life is a bitch, vestiges of humanity, distopia, fate of humanity, robot ...
Time: future, 1940s, year 2009
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her - but ultimately she must confront her fate, the ...
Style: touching, anime, atmospheric, stylized, melancholic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, princess, friendship, children, parents and children, dream, self discovery, female protagonist, japanese woman, family relations, surrealism, melancholy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, year 2013
Place: japan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
Story: Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche, in this new feature film version of Don Hertzfeldt's animated short film trilogy.
Style: philosophical, surreal, adult animation, thought provoking, atmospheric ...
Plot: surrealism, illness, mental health, mental illness, narration, dark humor, nightmare, hospital, divorced parents, loneliness, life & death, existentialism ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.8
 22K
The House (2022)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy.
Style: surreal, adult animation, anthology, dark comedy, experimental ...
Plot: stop motion, country house, surrealism, house, generation, anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic mouse, family home, old dark house, isolated house, cartoon mouse, virus ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Robot Carnival (1987)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An anthology of various tales told in various styles with robots being the one common element among them.
Style: anime, anthology, stylized, atmospheric, surreal ...
Audience: teens
Plot: giant robot, androids and robots, character study, crime gone awry, multiple storylines, robot, escapades, man versus machine, robot as menace, cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, imaginary ...
Time: future, year 1987
Place: japan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 96K
Paprika (2006)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it: Paprika.
Style: surreal, psychological, psychedelic, anime, philosophical ...
Audience: teens, kids, adult
Plot: dream, surveillance, virtual reality, lucid dream, surrealism, villain, trippy, scientist, mental illness, hallucination, psychiatrist, introspection ...
Time: future, year 2006, 2000s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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