Movies like Pound
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Pound (1970)
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Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In a pound, 18 dogs wait to be adopted.
Style:
controversial, grindhouse, offbeat, experimental, surreal, semi serious, biting, underground film, suspense
Plot:
dog, animal shelter, absurdism, satire, captivity, animal life, confined, serial killer, airplane, prison escape, boxer, map, puppy, old man, chauffeur, euthanasia, dachshund, serial murder, surrealism, socialist, solitary, fondling, argument, news report, threat to kill ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to Pound
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out surreal, offbeat, weird and independent film films with plots about surrealism, satire, art, absurdism, nude, female nudity and supernatural mostly in Fantasy, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Pound: Drawing Restraint 9 (2005), Asylum Seekers (2009), A Journey into Bliss (2004), Fluctuations (1970), Hansel and Gretel (1983). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, stylized, experimental, serious ...
Plot:
surrealism, couples, religions or cults, society, couple relations, human nature, theory, art, ship, disintegration, nudity, ocean ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, japan
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Six people on the verge of a breakdown decide to check themselves into an insane asylum, only to discover there is just room for one.
Style:
surreal, semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat ...
Plot:
mental institution, dark humor, contests and competitions, surrealism, art, eccentricity, contest, mental breakdown, alternate reality, escapism, satire, anxiety ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
The film deals loosely with the adventures of the grizzled Gustav who captains a ship – a giant floating ‘snailboat’ – with a crew of talking animals and lumbering sailors in blackface. It unspools like a perverse children’s story book, ...
Style:
surreal, absurd, experimental, dark comedy, satirical ...
Plot:
surrealism, talking animal, ship captain, sea voyage, magic realism, king, rabbit, bear, owl, absurdism, gold, frog ...
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
A bizarre don't-even-try-to-make-sense-of-it bombardment of sexual imagery that plays like stream of consciousness from a degenerate: threesomes, foursomes, lesbians, bondage, hair-whipping (!) and, believe it or not, even kung-fu. Avant-garde ...
Style:
experimental, controversial, transgressive, avant garde, erotic ...
Plot:
explicit sex, sexual exploration, taboo, sexploitation, bondage, threesome, stream of consciousness, underground, fetishism, group sex, orgy, counterculture ...
Similarity:
75%
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Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
This is Tim Burton's Disney Channel Halloween film short that only aired once. It combines live action and stop-motion, making for a creepy adventure into the woods.
Style:
surreal, creepy, dark fantasy, gothic, experimental ...
Plot:
halloween, hansel and gretel, stop motion, adaptation, macabre, stepmother, evil stepmother, witch, woods, surrealism, robot, puppetry ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
71%
174
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
Dreamwood narrates the oniric quest of a modern argonaut in a mysterious island located somewhere on the borders of the unconscious.
Style:
experimental, avant garde, surreal, independent film, psychological ...
Plot:
children, symbolism, quest, isolation, island, journey, haunting, minimalism, minimal dialogue, ritual, male nudity, moon ...
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young boy can transfer his body energy into ESP and heal sick people. While the subject of scientists' studies, he runs away to try to find out about his past and why he is the way he is.
Style:
road movie
Plot:
boy genius, super powers, ufo, youth, flying saucer, superhuman powers, healing power, gift, car chase, doctor, flashback, scientist ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 60s
Place:
arizona
Similarity:
58%
32
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Filmed on a California beach, this arty outing features loin-cloth wearing actors silently telling the allegorical love story between Creation and Humanity on a lonely California beach.
Style:
allegory, art film, art house, experimental, poetic ...
Plot:
beach, humanity, conflict, companionship, minimalism, vanity, ritual, nudity, gift, good versus evil, symbolism, female nudity ...
Similarity:
58%
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Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada, New Zealand
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An original story featuring performances by Cirque du Soleil. A young woman is entranced by an Aerialist. When they fall into the dreamlike world of Cirque du Soleil and are separated, they travel through the different tent worlds trying to find ...
Style:
serious, exciting, surreal, stylized, poignant ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
circus, young lovers, synchronized swimming, dancer, disorder, imaginary, fall in love, artists and showbiz, fish out of water, dancing, dance, lovers apart ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Two ghosts walk along the Camino of Santiago.
Style:
surreal, contemplative, atmospheric, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
ghost, pilgrimage, introspection, on the road, supernatural, journey, wandering, surrealism, society, friendship, minimalism, human relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Horror/Comedy that takes place in a movie theater as patrons watch the trailers of B Movie trailers.
Style:
suspense, tension, tense, captivating, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
revenge, serial killer, killer, fear, murder, murderer, killing, killing spree, claustrophobia, violence, single, survival ...
Similarity:
51%
142K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
Style:
surreal, psychological, avant garde, art house, experimental ...
Plot:
surrealism, baby, existentialism, nightmare, insanity, psychology, dream, loneliness, psychosis, factory, dark humor, eccentricity ...
Time:
70s, year 1977, 20th century
Place:
america, philadelphia
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A series of erotic vignettes and sexual imagery (mostly of the gay variety) are presented courtesy of The Cockettes (a gay/drag performance art ensemble of late 60s/early 70s San Francisco).
Style:
avant garde, homoerotic, aesthetic, transgressive, explicit ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
erotica, sex, unsimulated sex, gay, gay interest, male nudity, occult, ritual, gay subtext, lgbt, sex scene, art ...
Time:
60s
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother.
Style:
atmospheric, humorous, stylized, semi serious, sketch comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
surrealism, absurd humor, absurdism, stupidity, imaginary, contact, daydreamer, goofy hero, creature, human relationship, unsettling, trippy ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Lemuel Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot. On the road he finds a dead rabbit dressed like a man and takes a watch from its waistcoat breast pocket. The half-ruined ...
Style:
surreal, satirical, existential, not serious, biting ...
Plot:
renaissance, surrealism, satire, disorder, social decay, fish out of water, imaginary, society, social misfits, dystopia, existentialism, hare ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
czechoslovakia, eastern europe, europe, czech republic, central europe
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Originally an absurdist play by Eugene Ionesco, Rhinoceros tells the story of a French town plagued by rhinoceroses. These are not ordinary rhinoceroses, but people who have been victims of "rhinoceritis." Or is it something else entirely? ...
Style:
surreal, independent film, contemplative, semi serious, biting ...
Plot:
absurdism, disorder, couples, dark humor, couple relations, misfit, idealism, hopes, society, human nature, urban, individualism ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave. The Exterminating Angel is a 1962 surrealist film, written and directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Silvia Pinal. Sharply satirical and allegorical, the film contains a view ...
Style:
surreal, dark comedy, black comedy, black and white, philosophical ...
Plot:
surrealism, religion, social satire, room, mansion, dinner party, absurdism, satire, class differences, piano, isolation, symbolism ...
Time:
year 1962, 20th century, 60s
Place:
spain, paris france
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 182 min.
Story:
CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner, antagonistic forces at play for access to the process of (spiritual) transcendence. These factions ...
Style:
surreal, mind bending, atmospheric, stylized, serious ...
Plot:
surrealism, good versus evil, supernatural, imaginary, danger, punk, rivalry, artists and showbiz, apprentice, curses spells and rituals, zombie, graphic violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Returning to the same medical school where they were test subjects years before, two twisted serial killers use brutal sex acts to kill off a group of med students.
Style:
slasher, sexy, scary, semi serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, doctors and patients, psychopath, murder, danger, school, male nudity, murder investigation, extreme, female nudity, sexual murder, female serial killer ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A macho man in a family on the eve of deer-hunting season must deal with the eldest son's curse of never having bagged a buck.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, entertaining, light, cult classic ...
Plot:
family relations, obsessive quest, goofy hero, dysfunctional family, parents and children, disorder, family problems, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, camping, camp, satire ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s, 21st century
Place:
michigan, usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A young girl named Alice falls down a rabbit-hole and finds herself in Wonderland, a fantasy land of strange characters and ideas.
Style:
surreal, absurd, educational, whimsical
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
alice in wonderland, imagination, children, adaptation, white rabbit, escape, talking animal, coming of age, puppetry, confusion, moral ambiguity, female protagonist ...
Time:
victorian era
Similarity:
38%
13K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, avant garde, experimental, independent film ...
Plot:
necrophilia, surrealism, self mutilation, macabre, gory, spirituality, cruelty, chaos, nihilism, extreme, obsession, supernatural ...
Place:
america
Similarity:
37%
415K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Thanks to an untimely demise via drowning, a young couple end up as poltergeists in their New England farmhouse, where they fail to meet the challenge of scaring away the insufferable new owners, who want to make drastic changes. In desperation, the ...
Style:
gothic, black comedy, surreal, witty, dark comedy ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
haunted house, afterlife, ghost, supernatural, surrealism, dark humor, goth, dysfunctional family, teenage girl, seance, able to see the dead, haunted ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1988
Place:
america, usa, new england, connecticut
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: Latvia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A CrossFit trainer becomes the father of a baby girl, Snow White. Snow White’s mother dies, and her father marries a young woman obsessed with CrossFit and herself. She works out all the time in order to be the best. ...
Style:
fairy tale, absurd, surreal, dark comedy, black humor
Plot:
jealousy, endurance, stepmother, irony, child protagonist, obsession, coming of age, fatherhood, satire, social satire, transformation, identity ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Three gorgeous beauties awaken from an ancient nap and immediately begin making up for lost time, engaging in as many passionate encounters as time will allow.
Style:
independent film, semi serious, sexy, sexual, stylized
Plot:
mansion, sex, redhead, female nudity, supernatural power, orgasm, nude girl, dungeon, siblings relations, haunted by the past, time travel, sexual relations ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Oh no! It appears as if Satan isn't going to fill his soul quota this month! So of course, he turns himself into a tour guide and takes a bus-load of unsuspecting tourists on a ride down the highway to hell.
Style:
dark comedy, surreal, horror comedy, road movie, cult horror ...
Plot:
bus trip, deal with the devil, afterlife, supernatural, mysterious stranger, irreverent, curse, highway, satire, confined space, macabre, absurdism ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Wafer factory-owner P. Tinto and his wife Olivia want a child of their own more than anything else in the world. Years of trying, however, have left them with nothing but a pair of extraterrestrial midgets living in the spare bedroom. When they ...
Style:
surreal, offbeat, absurd, dark comedy, satirical ...
Plot:
surrealism, time travel, extraterrestrial, absurd humor, mistaken identity, alien, childless couple, optimism, family drama, escapee, magic realism, satire ...
Time:
90s
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A mother/daughter pair of witches descend on a yuppie family's home and cause havoc, one at a time since they share one body & the other must live in a cat the rest of the time. Now it's up to the family's mother, a private ...
Style:
semi serious, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, surprise ending
Plot:
witch, spell, fictional game show, dysfunctional family, occult, showdown, hypnosis, old woman, husband wife relationship, femme fatale, female protagonist, supernatural power ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
After twenty years as a struggling variety turn and then a prolific scriptwriter and television star, comic genius Marty Feldman found screen stardom with his very first Hollywood role in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein. With his wife Lauretta ...
Style:
melancholic, humorous, satirical
Plot:
showbiz, comedian, fame, biopic, hollywood, celebrity, entertainment industry, behind the scenes, screenwriter, rise and fall, glory, marriage ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
los angeles, london
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
After her boyfriend ends their relationship, the dreamself of a heartbroken woman floats through the air over an industrial wasteland singing ballads of love.
Style:
surreal, cult classic, avant garde, experimental, serious ...
Plot:
crazy love, music, lovers apart, musician, dancing, hallucination, breakup, nudity, couples, unfulfilled love, daydreamer, tragic love ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
34%
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