Movies like The Man Who Sleeps

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The Man Who Sleeps (1974)
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The Man Who Sleeps (1974)
Original name: Un homme qui dort
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Tunisia
Duration: 77 min.
Story: In this French tour-de-force a young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him. His inner musings as he wanders the luminous streets of Paris are narrated in the form of an unwritten diary by Ludmila Mikael.
Style: art house, experimental, existential, surreal, contemplative, depressing, poetic, philosophical, artsy, anthology ...
Plot: existentialism, nihilism, depression, introspection, loneliness, time travel, psychology, mental disorder, death, lsd, minimalism, dialogue, loser, alienation, melancholy, intimacy, social outcast, trauma, daily life, boredom, existential loneliness, misfit, sleeping, society, social misfits ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france
Keyword: french

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Most similar movies to The Man Who Sleeps

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, contemplative, realistic and psychological films with plots about existentialism, unfulfillment, alienation, couples, philosophy, society and mental disorder mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Man Who Sleeps: The Fire Within (1963), Inside (2012), Steppenwolf (1974), Dealer (2004), Labour of Love (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Fire Within (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Alain Leroy is a recovering alcoholic who decides to end his life, but first decides to visit his friends in Paris one last time, in an attempt at finding a reason to continue living.
Style: philosophical, art house, depressing, independent film, existential ...
Plot: suicide, depression, addiction, existentialism, melancholy, alcoholism, drinking, solitude, character study, european, loneliness, mental illness ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: paris france, france, europe, versailles
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Inside (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A man's life, thoughts, feelings and his very own darkness... Adapted from Dostoevsky's novel "Notes from Undergroud", Demirkubuz follows Muharrem as he gets himself invited to a party where he is not welcome, just to find ...
Style: psychological, realistic, contemplative, serious, art house ...
Plot: cause and meaning, introspection, hopes, writer's life, artists and showbiz, humiliation, loneliness, existentialism, party, advice, alienation, dull life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: balkan, middle east, turkey
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Steppenwolf (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, UK, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Haller, a solitary intellectual, has all his life feared his dual nature of being human and being a beast. He's decided to die on his 50th birthday, ...
Style: surreal, existential, philosophical, cult classic, manga ...
Plot: existentialism, misanthropic man, mental disorder, buddhism, spirituality, jazz, mental illness, midlife crisis, unfulfillment, couple relations, redemption, split personality ...
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Dealer (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 130 min.
Story: In an impressive follow up to his debut film Forest, Benedek Fliegauf tells the uncompromising story of a day in the life of a drug dealer. His clients include the leader of a religious sect, a friend who needs a final fix, a former lover who has ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, stylized, serious, contemplative ...
Plot: drug abuse, addiction, life is a bitch, misfit, estrangement, social misfits, drug dealing, society, overdose, nihilism, underground, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, hungary
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100%
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Labour of Love (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Set in the crumbling environs of Calcutta, Labour of Love is a lyrical unfolding of two ordinary lives suspended in the duress of a spiralling recession.
Style: realistic, sincere, atmospheric, contemplative, touching ...
Plot: love and romance, couple relations, introspection, working class, society, couples, solitude, unfulfillment, unfulfilled love, bittersweet, love, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, kolkata
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71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 71 scenes revolving around multiple Viennese residents who are by chance involved with a senseless gun slaughter on Christmas Eve.
Style: disturbing, bleak, thought provoking, serious, sincere ...
Plot: murder, social misfits, misfit, news report, refugee, immigrant, breaking point, down on your luck, minimalism, revolution, teenager, existentialism ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1994
Place: austria, germany, lebanon, bosnia, europe ...
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Red Desert (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Amid the modern wastelands and toxic factories of Italy, wife and mother Giuliana (Monica Vitti) desperately tries to conceal her tenuous grip on reality from those around her, especially her successful yet neglectful husband, Ugo (Carlo Chionetti). ...
Style: psychological, thought provoking, realistic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: loneliness, factory, depression, fog, existentialism, society, ship, hypochondriac, extramarital affair, car accident, anxiety, minimal dialogue ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: europe, italy
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Taste of Cherry (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take ...
Style: art house, contemplative, independent film, road movie, spiritual ...
Plot: suicide, existentialism, soldier, muslim, death, desert, dialogue, iranian, depression, spirituality, hard life, art ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: iran, middle east, persia, tehran iran
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Winter Light (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.
Style: philosophical, psychological, depressing, art house, black and white ...
Plot: religion, existentialism, suicide, priest, winter, faith, midlife crisis, spirituality, great ending, philosophy, art, small town ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
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The Turin Horse (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 155 min.
Story: A monumental windstorm and an abused horse's refusal to work or eat signals the beginning of the end for a poor farmer and his daughter.
Style: bleak, atmospheric, slow cinema, contemplative, thought provoking ...
Plot: horse, poverty, survival, minimalism, nihilism, desperation, destiny, everyday life, family relations, human nature, philosopher, isolation ...
Time: 19th century, 2010s, 90s, year 2011, distant future
Place: turin italy, europe
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29%
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The Sacrifice (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, France, UK
Duration: 149 min.
Story: Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.
Style: atmospheric, philosophical, art house, spiritual, slow cinema ...
Plot: insanity, existentialism, end of the world, spirituality, distopia, god, philosophy, dialogue, art, post apocalypse, religion, female nudity ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
Place: soviet union, ussr, europe
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28%
In Praise of Love (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Someone we hear talking - but whom we do not see - speaks of a project which describes the four key moments of love: meeting, physical passion, arguments/separation and making up. This project is to be told through three couples: young, adult and ...
Style: enigmatic, stylized, psychological, philosophical, atmospheric ...
Plot: art, humanity, loneliness, life & death, politics, artist, philosophy, painter, existentialism, memory, women, conversation ...
Time: year 2001
Place: france, paris france, europe
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Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her family's cottage on a tiny island. Her husband, Martin, cares for her but is frustrated by her physical withdrawal. Her younger bother, Minus, is ...
Style: psychological, philosophical, art house, black and white, serious ...
Plot: schizophrenia, mental illness, religion, insanity, psychology, existentialism, dysfunctional family, nordic, mental disorder, illness, spirituality, island ...
Time: year 1961, 60s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe, scandinavia
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My Life to Live (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
Style: art house, philosophical, intellectual, black and white, visual ...
Plot: prostitute, prostitution, gunfight, pimp, street prostitution, shootout, lack of money, women, european, great ending, solitude, existentialism ...
Time: year 1962, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france
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The Hedgehog (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Paloma is a serious and highly articulate but deeply bored 11-year-old who has decided to kill herself on her 12th birthday. Fascinated by art and philosophy, she questions and documents her life and immediate circle, drawing trenchant and often ...
Style: contemplative, psychological, realistic, sentimental, aesthetic ...
Plot: friendship, youth, child, little girl, introspection, coming of age, hopes, social differences, restaurant, family relations, philosophy, alienation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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26%
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
Style: psychological, depressing, surreal, independent film, confusing ...
Plot: depression, existentialism, death, theater, magic realism, schizophrenic, obsession, writers, twists and turns, philosophy, writer's life, loneliness ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 90s, future, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, berlin germany, manhattan new york city
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The Devil, Probably (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In order to be technically free of the mortal sin of suicide, a young man who has given up on the world pays a drug-addict to shoot him. Charles (Antoine Monnier), who is a student, has tried political action and investigated the claims of religion ...
Style: spiritual, slow cinema, bleak, aesthetic, anthology ...
Audience: teens
Plot: suicide, loser, religion, female nudity, minimalism, existentialism, post war, spirituality, spirit, entertainment, betrayal, angry ...
Time: year 1977, 70s
Place: france, paris france, ussr, soviet union, mediterranean sea
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26%
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 202 min.
Story: A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.
Style: slow cinema, experimental, sentimental, realistic, serious ...
Plot: loneliness, housewife, minimalism, widow, feminism, prostitute, prostitution, female protagonist, feminist, sex worker, chores, mother son relationship ...
Time: 70s, year 1975
Place: europe, belgium, france, brussels belgium
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26%
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Nostalgia (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th-century Russian composer. In an ancient spa town, he meets the lunatic Domenico, who years earlier had ...
Style: atmospheric, philosophical, art house, cerebral, contemplative ...
Plot: art, existentialism, philosophy, dream, poetry, storytelling, obsession, great ending, memory, redemption, writer's life, culture clash ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: soviet union, russia, ussr, rome italy, europe ...
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The Silence (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen ...
Style: art house, black and white, sexual, erotic, cerebral ...
Plot: existentialism, female orgasm, religion, dysfunctional family, female masturbation, illness, translator, war zone, room, sibling rivalry, lesbianism, hotel room ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place: europe
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Distant (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Uzak/Distant chronicles the numbing loneliness, longing, and isolation in the lives of two men who are consumed by their own problems. Istanbul photographer Mahmut reluctantly receives his relative Yusuf, but the mingling of their lives does little ...
Style: sincere, bleak, art house, lyrical, stylized ...
Plot: loneliness, unemployment, midlife crisis, isolation, art, complex characters, family relations, culture clash, photography, love and romance, introspection, existentialism ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: middle east, turkey, maghreb, balkan, istanbul turkey
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25%
Oslo, August 31st (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Anders is a recovering drug addict in an Oslo rehab clinic. On the 30th August, he is given a day’s leave to attend a job interview in the city centre.
Style: depressing, touching, gloomy, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Plot: suicide attempt, drug addict, suicide, addiction, loneliness, depression, drug addiction, complex characters, old friend, job interview, unlikely friendships, life is a bitch ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: oslo norway, scandinavia
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25%
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
Style: road movie, realistic, serious, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: road trip, character study, dysfunctional family, on the road, drifter, alienation, hitchhiker, working class, piano, self discovery, pianist, bowling ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1970
Place: california, usa, oregon, washington state, northern california ...
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25%
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Amour (2012)
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Country: Austria, France, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Style: philosophical, sad, sincere, art house, reflective ...
Plot: elderly, aging, death, old couple, life & death, elderly lovers, husband wife relationship, life philosophy, illness, love, family relations, daughter ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: paris france, germany, nebraska, france
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Paris, Texas (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France, UK, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
Style: road movie, surreal, touching, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot: desert, father son relationship, on the road, road trip, amnesia, relationships, storytelling, parenthood, loneliness, drifter, sibling relationship, reconciliation ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 20th century
Place: texas, los angeles, america, nebraska, midwest ...
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24%
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Magnolia (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min.
Story: An epic mosaic of many interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
Style: philosophical, cerebral, sincere, depressing, mind bending ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: social problems, multiple storylines, depression, human nature, child prodigy, dysfunctional family, introspection, cancer, terminal illness, loneliness, alienation, coincidence ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999, 60s, 1950s ...
Place: los angeles, california, reno nevada
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24%
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The Night (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A married couple attend a bourgeois party and wade through the stifling strain that long-term marriage has imposed upon them.
Style: cerebral, art house, erotic, black and white, neorealism ...
Plot: writers, infidelity, hospital, midlife crisis, love, relationships, marriage, family relations, crumbling marriage, alienation, dysfunctional family, night ...
Time: year 1961, 60s, 20th century
Place: italy, mediterranean sea, milan italy, usa, europe ...
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Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream That One Calls Human Life (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Japan, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a ...
Style: black and white, art house, surreal, cult classic, psychological ...
Plot: surrealism, poetry, servant, dream, manipulation, incest, love letter, spirituality, boarding school, power relations, family relations, mind game ...
Time: 90s
Place: england, europe
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24%
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The Swimmer (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Neddy Merrill has been away for most of the summer. He reappears at a friend's pool. As they talk, someone notices that there are pools spanning the entire valley. He decided to jog from pool to pool to swim the whole valley. As he stops in ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, serious, surreal, depressing ...
Plot: midlife crisis, swimming pool, swimming, swimmer, surrealism, nudist, neighbor, existentialism, life philosophy, character study, social relations, neighborhood ...
Time: 60s, year 1968, 20th century
Place: connecticut, usa
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24%
The Seventh Continent (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Chronicles three years of a middle class family seemingly caught up in their daily routines, only troubled by minor incidents. Behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence however, they are actually planning something sinister.
Style: disturbing, depressing, bleak, serious, controversial ...
Plot: alienation, midlife crisis, nihilism, society, dysfunctional family, macabre, philosophy, suicide, depression, death, mind control, religion ...
Time: year 1989, 80s, year 1988
Place: germany, europe, australia, austria
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