Movies like The Doll 1962
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The Doll (1962)
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Original name: Vaxdockan
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A lonely night watchman at a department store develops a fixation on one of the store's mannequins. He soon steals her and brings her to his home, where he can be with her all the time. One day, she comes to life...
Style:
psychological, psychological thriller, surreal, black and white, creepy, suspense, mysterious, melancholic, art house, period piece ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
doll, mannequin, night watchman, loneliness, obsession, department store, imaginary friend, isolation, romantic obsession, madness, unrequited love, claustrophobia, psychosis, haunting, puppet, mental breakdown, european, stalking, minimalism, urban, body horror, sexual tension, fetishism, magic realism, intimate ...
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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Most similar movies to The Doll
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out art house, surreal, psychological and melancholic films with plots about isolation, obsession, urban, intimate, minimalism, loneliness and haunting mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Horror genres. Some movies like The Doll: Doctor Glas (1968), The Blind Owl (1987), Indecent Desires (1968), The Parrot (2016), Two/One (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Doktor Glas finds himself attracted to a young woman, married to a corrupt clergyman. She's miserable in her marriage, so he agrees to help in anyway he can. But he is quickly torn between passion and morality. The story is based on the 1905 ...
Style:
melancholic, period piece, grim, noir, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
ethical dilemma, obsession, forbidden love, character study, morality, adultery, guilt, desire, existential crisis, existentialism, sexual repression, romantic obsession ...
Time:
60s, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
stockholm sweden
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
H., 35, an Arabian immigrant, works as projectionist in an old cinema. One day, drawn by the music, he looks through the window of the booth and is fascinated: the dancer he sees on the screen seems to be looking straight into his eyes. He falls in ...
Style:
surreal, art house, experimental, avant garde, melancholic
Plot:
cinema, surrealism, obsession, loneliness, magic realism, existentialism, alienation, absurdism, haunting, memory, identity crisis, unrequited love ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Zeb finds a doll and a ring in a garbage can. Then, he sees Ann going to work with her friend Babs. He thinks she looks like the doll. When he gets home, he caresses the doll... Ann feels it! When Zeb finds out about Ann's fiance Tom, he really ...
Style:
psychological, psychological thriller, disturbing, dramatic, tension ...
Plot:
exploitation, obsession, jealousy, obsessive love, delusion, paranoia, toxic masculinity, mental breakdown, symbolism, guilt, hallucination, love triangle ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A stranger arrives in Sarajevo and barges into Damir's reclusive world. Little by little she takes over his life. She absorbs his dreams, until finally she threaten his very existence.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, tense, dark, surreal ...
Plot:
obsession, isolation, psychological manipulation, character study, privacy invasion, unsettling, slow burn, claustrophobia, symbolism, mental breakdown, possession, nightmare ...
Place:
sarajevo, bosnia herzegovina, bosnia
Similarity:
83%
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707
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, China, Canada, Argentina
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two men living on the exact opposite side of the world. When one sleeps, the other one is awake. But when they finally meet, a simple question arises: Who is the dream and who is the dreamer?
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, suspense, disturbing, enigmatic ...
Plot:
identity crisis, dream, self identity, hidden identity, duplicity, identity, surrealism, metaphysics, character study, intimate, minimalism, loneliness ...
Place:
shanghai
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In another indictment of the flaws of our so-called civilization, this satire from the late director Marco Ferreri features Christopher Lambert as Michel, a miserable man who has failed at love and finds solace in a mechanical key holder.
Style:
dark comedy, melancholic, psychological, existential, absurd ...
Plot:
satire, loneliness, doll, obsession, isolation, alienation, male protagonist, sexual frustration, unrequited love, midlife crisis, fetishism, fetish ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Spain, Lithuania, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A sound designer has to rethink her whole life when her sight and hearing start to get out of sync.
Style:
thrilling, psychological thriller, psychological, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
female protagonist, character study, family problems, problem, mental disorder, life is a bitch, isolation, mental health, intimate, visual impairment, introspection, identity crisis ...
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Anxious dreams, hallucinations, and paranoid reality torment a young math professor in the aftermath of his wife's death in a car accident. As madness, addiction and affairs send the story spiraling towards its conclusion, the truth about what ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
obsession, haunted by the past, couple relations, life is a bitch, couples, dealing with death, mental illness, hallucination, grief, mathematics, addiction, paranoia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle, usa
Similarity:
66%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Iraq
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
The story starts when a girl See's an extraordinary boy and she's the only one who can see him.
Style:
emotional, psychological, suspense, art house, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
supernatural, imaginary friend, a vision, coming of age, secret, friendship, magic realism, hidden truth, loneliness, isolation, haunting, identity ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
62%
555
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
“Driver’s first feature – a luminous, oddball comic fantasy about ancient Chinese curses and Xerox machines, set in Manhattan’s Chinatown and its immediate environs – may well be the most visually ravishing American independent film of its ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychological thriller, suspenseful, surreal, indie film ...
Plot:
female protagonist, supernatural, macabre, haunting, loss of control, paranormal, identity crisis, symbolism, claustrophobia, nightmare, slow burn, occult ...
Time:
year 1986, 80s
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Thomas, a photographer from France, goes to Japan to take pictures of abandoned places. Lonely, he meets Natsuki, a young and beautiful woman, who will become his model. But Thomas has violent panic attacks and nightmares...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, art house, existential, melancholic ...
Plot:
loneliness, character study, nightmare, photography, trauma, mental illness, haunting, isolation, ruins, obsession, memory, intimate ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, France, Belgium
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Somewhere in Europe, mid-20th century. Albert is employed to look after Mia, a girl with teeth of ice. Mia never leaves their apartment, where the shutters are always closed. The telephone rings regularly and the Master enquires after Mia's ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
family problems, supernatural, child custody, creature feature, children, claustrophobia, loneliness, isolation, confined, magic realism, haunting, intimate ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
One summer night, Cha-kyung dies in a car accident, leaving her boyfriend Hyuk-geun behind in the greatest sorrow. One year since she died, Hyuk-geun is still waiting for Cha-kyung to come back. Denying the reality, Hyuk-geun builds a fantasy in his ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, melancholic, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
mental disorder, longing, tragic romance, grief, loss, love story, male female relationship, relationships, problem, imaginary character, relationship problems, imaginary friend ...
Place:
korea
Similarity:
50%
773
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
An eleven-year-old boy observes his neighborhood as its surface orderliness rots away.
Style:
atmospheric, contemplative, melancholic, art house, psychological ...
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, neighborhood, loss of innocence, isolation, minimal dialogue, childhood memory, social commentary, alienation, minimalism, intimate, slice of life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm. He makes the acquaintance of the mysterious Jacob Hummel, who helps him to find his way into the ...
Style:
existential, bleak, art house, psychological, spiritual ...
Plot:
suffering, morality, haunting, apartment building, betrayal, isolation, student, obsession, social commentary, manipulation, visionary, salvation ...
Place:
stockholm sweden
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
An artist named Kurahashi and a female artist named Cheiko wait in a dentist's waiting room. The man feels attracted to the woman but says nothing to her. Later in the examining room, both patients are going under anesthesia, but the man looks ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, tense, psychological thriller, surreal ...
Plot:
vampirism, vampire bite, erotica, sex scene, female artist, painter, love interest, seduction, vampire, male female relationship, couples, couple relations ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
An intimate portrait of a woman's mental confrontation and drifting between dream and reality after experiencing loss.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, contemplative, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
mental health, grief, character study, intimate, female protagonist, loss, loneliness, memory, isolation, confrontation, identity, minimalism ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Poetic, experimental and different, Container is described by Lukas Moodysson as "a black and white silent movie with sound" and with the following words; "A woman in a man's body. A man in a woman's body. Jesus in ...
Style:
experimental, black and white, avant garde, art film, poetic ...
Plot:
desire for fame, identity crisis, minimalism, intimate, metaphysics, human relationship, darkness
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44%
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536
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The story of a young woman who takes an epic journey to claim her own darkness and sexuality so she can stop putting it into the hands of her abusive lover. When Inanna, a young actress, working as a stripper, becomes obsessed with a mask maker, ...
Style:
surreal, dark, captivating, psychological, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
female protagonist, sexuality, female pubic hair, abuse, borderline personality disorder, sexual relations, surrealism, relationship problems, relationships, male female relationship, sexual abuse, manipulation ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In an alternate world where hearts are made of objects and suppressing emotions is self-care, a lonely woman rips out her own heart for the man she loves, only to discover that he has run away with it.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, melancholic, surreal ...
Plot:
alternate reality, female protagonist, unrequited love, relationships, self sacrifice, sacrifice, loneliness, love story, male female relationship, problem, relationship problems, heartbreak ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Thailand
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Trapped in a time loop, a museum curator relives the day everything goes wrong and must navigate beyond her perfect life to break free.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, atmospheric, psychological horror, existential ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
time loop, locked in, female protagonist, museum, haunting, survival, isolation, nightmare, self discovery, introspection, claustrophobia, puzzle ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Anna, an artist, is obsessed with the invasion of alien doubles bent on total destruction. Her schizophrenia is reflected in the juxtapositions of long movie camera takes with violently edited montages: private with public spaces; black & white ...
Style:
art house, experimental, avant garde, psychological, black and white ...
Plot:
paranoia, schizophrenia, identity, obsession, performance art, isolation, alien invasion, urban, feminist, sexuality, mental disorder, body horror ...
Time:
70s
Place:
west germany, vienna
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Death comes to take a beautiful young girl, and she persuades him to let her live out her fantasies before he finally takes her away.
Style:
surreal, allegory, poetic, existential, art house ...
Plot:
sex, death, teenage girl, loss of virginity, young woman, mortality, life & death, acceptance, fate, grief, nudity, female nudity ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Several story threads about consciousness and perception intertwine in this film by video installation artist Daniel Cockburn.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, semi serious, art house ...
Plot:
archive, female protagonist, loneliness, secret, estrangement, job, consciousness, identity, memory, choice, haunting, obsession ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The magical surrealist journey of Asa, daughter of a shaman, who confronts her own mother, fighting for her own life and freedom.
Style:
surreal, psychological, captivating, disturbing, art house ...
Plot:
magic, family problems, magical creature, magical, relationship problems, supernatural, absurdism, supernatural power, surrealism, mythology, shaman, mother daughter conflict ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In this Australian drama, a department store collapses, trapping an old man (Barry Jenkins) and a young boy (Rowan Whitt) underneath. In hopes of keeping the child calm, the man tells him a series of folk tales which teach a moral lesson while they ...
Style:
emotional, tension, suspense, melancholic, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
department store, storytelling, trapped, old man, morality, young boy, claustrophobia, imagination, survival, life & death, intimate, urban ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The names of the characters are pronouns. She is a teacher, with his father dead just three days ago. Faced with this situation, He intends to take care of her while He is alive. This is the beginning of an odd relationship.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, melancholic, surreal ...
Plot:
muse, minimalism, loneliness, grief, mourning, intimate, couple relations, family problems, relationships, male female relationship, care, lifestyle ...
Place:
rio de janeiro
Similarity:
39%
79
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Patrick feels absolutely lonely when he decides to search for his supposable genitor after the suicide of his mother. He doesn’t have a plan, a goal or hopes. He just wants to meet the phantom that he thinks is the reason for his mother’s death.
Style:
existential, emotional, melancholic, independent film, art house ...
Plot:
grief, loneliness, isolation, identity crisis, character study, search for father, alienation, minimalism, intimate, regret, male protagonist, urban ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The only journey is the one within. Mandorla explores a man's search for a meaningful life despite conflicts between his inner and outer worlds. Ernesto is a visual artist and seeker stuck in a corporate job, who is drawn by dark magical ...
Style:
philosophical, psychological, art house, surreal, existential ...
Plot:
dream, self discovery, magic realism, symbolism, obsession, sanity, identity crisis, visionary, metaphysics, alienation, memory, quest ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Eun-young is a woman cursed with great beauty. Wherever she goes, she gets unwanted admiration from men and jealousy from women. One day, one of her stalking admirer invades her place.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, creepy, tension ...
Plot:
beauty, home invasion, rape, disfigured face, female protagonist, sexual abuse, relationship problems, violence, life is a bitch, violent, obsession, curse ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
38%
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