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The Year of the Cannibals (1969)
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The Year of the Cannibals (1969)
Original name: I cannibali
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story: On the streets of a damp metropolis lie the corpses of hundreds and hundreds of boys and girls. No one can give them a resting place because of a law enacted by a repressive State. But the young Antigone, with the help of a foreigner, Tiresias, violates this rule in the name of pietas, undermining the established order.
Style: weird
Plot: cannibal, death, cannibalism, fascism, brother, symbolism, male full rear nudity, teenager, cave, female nudity, mental institution, society, oppression, cadaver, insane asylum, corpse, shot to death
Place: milan italy
Keyword: body

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out weird, experimental, erotic and psychological films with plots about female nudity, death, female full frontal nudity, male nudity, nudity, surrealism and sex mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Year of the Cannibals: Porcile (1969), Partner (1968), The Pacifist (1970), Steppenwolf (1974), Action (1980). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Porcile (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is condemned to be torn to pieces by some wild beasts. In the second story, Julian, the young son of a post-war German industrialist, is on the way to lie ...
Style: controversial, disturbing, experimental, erotic, art film ...
Plot: cannibalism, cannibal, zoophilia, female nudity, surrealism, death, bestiality, male nudity, social decay, murder, nudity, communism ...
Time: post world war two, 60s, 20th century, middle ages
Place: germany, europe
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Partner (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In PARTNER, Bernardo Bertolucci conflated his interests in psychoanalysis, nonlinear narrative, and Godard to create a uniquely avant-garde work unlike anything in his ouevre. The film is loosely based on Dostoyevsky's novel THE DOUBLE and ...
Style: independent film, avant garde, weird
Plot: bare chested male, communism, marxism, car, murder, surrealism, theater, guillotine, book, professor, death, blood ...
Time: year 1968
Place: italy, rome italy
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The Pacifist (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Barbara (Monica Vitti) is a journalist investigating the local counterculture who becomes involved, after an unpleasant start of battery and stalking, with Pierre Clémenti's louche all-around dropout.
Style: political
Plot: communist, fascist, journalist, student protest, communism, russian roulette, religion, fashion model, repression, murder, love, shot to death ...
Place: milan italy
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53%
The Other Side of the Underneath (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A surreal look at the schizophrenia of a group of girls in a therapy session.
Style: surreal, experimental, weird
Plot: female psychopath, alienation, mental disorder, mental institution, mental patient, female protagonist, surrealism, female nudity, feminist, social commentary, mask
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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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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Action (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Bruno is an idealistic hero who questions the meaning of life in this confusing and sometimes hallucinatory erotic drama. After a night in jail, he is gang-raped by punk rockers in a garbage dump. He later saves an old man who believes he is ...
Style: erotic, sexy, surreal
Plot: surrealism, exploitation, erotica, absurd humor, female nudity, rape, psychiatric hospital, nude dance, male objectification, mental institution, prison, death ...
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42%
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Nest of Vipers (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: During the Fascist era in Venice, a young music student has affairs with two beautiful women.
Style: erotic
Plot: age difference, fascism, mother son incest, lesbian sex, male full rear nudity, love, incest, older woman younger woman sex, male pubic hair, bare chested male, teacher student sex, piano teacher ...
Time: 1930s
Place: venice, italy
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41%
The Night Porter (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, a concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic ...
Style: psychological, serious, controversial, disturbing, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: world war two, hotel, sadomasochism, nazi, eroticism, guilt, dangerous attraction, bdsm, haunted by the past, sexual perversion, holocaust, sexual abuse ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 1940s, post world war two, 20th century ...
Place: hungary, germany, vienna, italy, frankfurt germany ...
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38%
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Down the Ancient Stairs (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A mental hospital somewhere in Tuscany during the thirties. Far away from fascism, this closed world is rules over by Dr. Bonaccorsi, a passionate benevolent psychiatrist whose dream is to isolate the germ of madness. He is also a very active ...
Plot: mental illness, mental disorder, female nudity, psychiatric hospital, cheating wife, womanizer, bare breasts, mental institution, adultery, sex, male full rear nudity, female pubic hair ...
Time: 1930s
Place: italy, tuscany
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37%
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Salome (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A psychedelic re-telling of the biblical story. Salome is the daughter of the second wife of King Herod. The King is infatuated with her and after she fails to seduce the prophet John (The Baptist) she dances for the King in order to ask for his ...
Style: psychedelic, experimental, avant garde, weird
Plot: surrealism, underground, hardcore, nudity, orgy, female nudity, last supper, executioner, male pubic hair, crucifix, diamond, fire ...
Time: 1st century
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35%
Dark in the White Light (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sri Lanka
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A Buddhist monk on a spiritual quest. A Student trying to test his limits. An organ dealer growing his business. A surgeon who heals by day and rapes women at night.
Style: sinhala, weird
Plot: dead body, doctor, death, suicide, drunken man, driver, monk, buddhism, self sacrifice, female nudity, male nudity, defecation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Goodbye Solidarity (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 141 min.
Story: A story about the generation of 1968.
Style: avant garde
Plot: vulgar, parents, marxism, rebel, solidarity, nudity, death, sex, party, divorce, female nudity, city ...
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34%
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The Visit (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting ...
Style: retro, psychological, realistic, serious, biting ...
Plot: revenge, bourgeoisie, wealth, rural setting, social relations, couples, teenage life, small town, small town life, vengeance, greed, murder ...
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34%
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A Fit of Rage (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 70 min.
Story: The torrid love affair between a 40-year-old man who lives isolated from the world, in his small farm nearby São Paulo and a politically engaged 30-year-old journalist. One morning, after a night of wild lovemaking, he notices a hole made by sauba ...
Style: sexual, erotic, weird
Plot: erotica, sexual deviant, male full rear nudity, female pubic hair, woman on top, passionate sex, female journalist, nudity, male pubic hair, male objectification, ejaculation, sex scene ...
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34%
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Little Lips (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A writer returns home to his estate after service in World War I. He has developed a very bad case of depression due to a war wound concerning his genitalia. He contemplates suicide, but recovers after becoming interested in his caretaker's 12 ...
Style: disturbing, atmospheric, serious, melancholic, romantic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
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Trap (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 97 min.
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Style: suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, weird
Plot: typhoon, survivor, life is a bitch, social problems, society, social issues, hospital, crucifix, fire, loss of child, death, catastrophe ...
Place: the philippines
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Antigone (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 93 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy
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Time: ancient times, year 1961, 60s, 1920s
Place: ancient greece, greece, rome italy
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Electra, My Love (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Reminiscent of the latter works of Bela Tarr, Miklos Jancso's "Beloved Electra" is comprised of a series of extremely slow and extremely long takes (there are just eight principal shots, each lasting an entire reel of film). More ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, stylized, atmospheric
Plot: ancient history, female nudity, revenge, strength, surrealism, murder, rivalry, vengeance, danger, state affairs, obsession, legends and myths ...
Place: greece, ancient greece
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32%
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Wheel of Ashes (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After being heralded by Jean-Luc Godard as the great hope of the New American Cinema, Peter Emanuel Goldman relocated to Paris just in time for 1968. Social dissolution permeates WHEEL OF ASHES, a stripped-down account of a young man's ...
Style: existential
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Place: paris france
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Cornelius, the Howling Miller (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story: An isolated village welcomes a new miller with open arms. Problem is, the man howls at the moon every night. His integration is starting well… French comedy at its best.
Plot: female nudity, male pubic hair, loneliness, escape, mental institution, wedding, manhunt, brawl, celebration, fight, insane asylum, bare butt ...
Place: france
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30%
Invisible Adversaries (1977)
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: controversial, art house, cult classic, experimental, weird
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Place: vienna
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29%
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Good Luck (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After several behavior problems, teenager John is admitted to a psychiatric clinic by his family. There he meets Judith, for who he soon falls in love. The problem is that she does not have long to live is and they know it. This shall not prevent ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, romantic drama, weird
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29%
A Thousand Months (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Morocco, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: 1981, Morocco. A village in the Atlas mountains. A city in the distance. A child. A family facing its destiny.
Audience: teens
Plot: little boy, authoritarianism, teenager, teacher, young boy, rural setting, school teacher, oppression, boy, wedding, suicide, death ...
Place: morocco
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29%
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CQ2 (Seek You Too) (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: CQ2 (seek you too) is the story of an teenager, with an uncertain future, who canalises her lust for life in the study of contemporary dance.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological
Plot: androgyny, teenager, dancer, troubled teen, social problems, social misfits, teenage life, dancing, dancehall girl, society, rape, ex convict ...
Place: montreal
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28%
I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Running away from the police, Aden goes to the desert where he meets an uncivilized man who has a special link with Mother-Earth. He ends up by convincing the hermit to come along with him into another desert... the big town!
Style: surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, deep, art house ...
Plot: surrealism, desert, oedipus complex, unsettling, peeping, human relationship, magic realism, incest, epilepsy, police, murder, coming of age ...
Time: 70s
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28%
The Divine Nymph (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other.
Style: avant garde
Plot: erotica, incest, female nudity, sex, fascism, puffy nipples, woman, animal cruelty, nudity, female pubic hair, devil, female full frontal nudity ...
Time: year 1975, 1920s
Place: italy
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28%
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Central Bazaar (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 156 min.
Story: For this remarkable experimental film, the provocative avant-garde legend Stephen Dwoskin gathered together a group of strangers and filmed them as they explored their fantasies over a period of five days: a project that now sounds a little like ...
Style: avant garde, erotic, independent film, experimental, weird
Plot: erotica, female nudity, orgy, underground, makeover, male nudity, gay interest, dildo
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28%
Hounded on a Carnival Monday (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In the small town of San Jorge, a 12- year-old girl watches in horror as her father, a local telegraph operator is thrown in prison by the local military dictatorship. Meanwhile, her mother, Florencia, must make tough moral decisions in order for ...
Style: captivating, psychological, suspense
Plot: revenge, dictatorship, social relations, male female relationship, sexual relations, mother daughter relationship, family problems, social problems, life is a bitch, sexploitation, family relations, attempted seduction ...
Place: colombia
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28%
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Brotherly Love (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In this British tragi-comedy taking place among emotionally bankrupt upper-class Scottish countrymen, Peter O'Toole plays Sir Charles Henry Arbuthnot Pinkerton Ferguson, a mentally disturbed Scotsman, living on his uncared-for farm, who also ...
Plot: madness, love, psychiatric hospital, female nudity, mental illness, mental institution, farm, incest, brother sister relationship, sibling relationship, dance, shooting ...
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27%
That Splendid November (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In the most traditional Sicilian, a 18 year old is in full arousal. His relationship with breathtaking mature woman will create a great controversy in the retrograde Sicilian society.
Style: sexy
Plot: incest, incestuous desire, dysfunctional family, cousins incest, older woman younger man relationship, erotica, aunt, jealousy, flashback, teenager, female nudity, double barreled shotgun ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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