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Lines (2016)
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Lines (2016)
Original name: Grammes
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Greece nowadays. Seven different stories about seven persons who have already reached their limits and finally fall apart. Despite their seemingly obvious connection they are simultaneously connected through a common desperate action: the last phone call to the psychological support center called "life line". It's their last hope. As no one can really help them, even then, they all remain another part of the contemporary Greek tragedy. Written by Horme Pictures
Style: avant garde
Plot: politics, death, psychiatry, poverty, financial crisis, darkness, surrealism, trauma, self harm, injury

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out avant garde, experimental, disturbing and surreal films with plots about death, surrealism, politics, female nudity, poverty, murder and trauma mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Lines: Body of Love (1973), 13 Summers Underwater (2017), Happy Day (1976), Hands Up! (1981), Miss Violence (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Body of Love (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An estranged father and son on holiday bond over the beautiful foreign girl they find unconscious on the beach.
Plot: politics, father, woman, young woman, death, father son relationship, cigarette smoking, surrealism, sea, youth, butterfly, young ...
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13 Summers Underwater (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, UK, Brazil
Duration: 64 min.
Story: Parallel stories connected through an intimacy with death. The living and the dead communicate through visions, memories and reality.
Style: surreal
Plot: surrealism, death, healing, grief
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84%
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Happy Day (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A concentration camp on a barren island is hell for the exiled prisoners. The everyday life of the people who live there consists of interrogations, psychological and physical violence, arbitrary punishments and other torments. One of the prisoners ...
Style: absurd, allegory
Plot: torture, prison, politics, island, greek civil war, satire, insanity, death, military, violence, surrealism, brainwashing ...
Place: greece
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78%
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Hands Up! (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Beginning with a sci-fi prologue before finding itself with several doctors attending a medical school reunion in a sealed-up railway carriage. Between drinks, the disenchanted medicos ruminate over the effect that communism (particularly the ...
Style: philosophical, dark comedy, experimental, avant garde
Plot: memory, trauma, renaissance, surrealism, post-apocalyptic future, politics, communism, medical profession, police station, van, minimalism, revolt ...
Place: poland, eastern europe
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76%
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Miss Violence (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 98 min.
Story: On the day of her birthday, eleven-year-old Angeliki jumps off the balcony and falls to her death with a smile on her face. While the police and Social Services try to discover the reason for this apparent suicide, Angeliki's family keep ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, serious, cerebral ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, child prostitution, perversion, incest rape, suicide, child abuse, incest, family problems, parents and children, domineering husband, teen suicide, childhood sexual abuse ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: greece, europe, athens greece
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74%
The Catcher in the Rye (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: This film consists of 75 minutes and 6 seconds of blue screen.
Style: avant garde, disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: abstract art, surrealism, absurdism
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Endorphine (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Twelve-year-old Simone feels painfully disconnected from the world after witnessing the brutal death of her mother. Simone, a solitary multimedia artist in her twenties, is struggling to control her crushing panic attacks and keep her day job in an ...
Style: mindfuck, psychological thriller
Plot: parallel universe, time travel, nightmare, dream, trauma, war veteran, grief, death, surrealism, death of mother, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
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67%
Lighter Fluid (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min.
Story: An experimental look into the lives of teens and young adults in a dysfunctional town.
Style: experimental
Plot: suicide, abandoned house, murder, skateboard, surrealism, pregnancy, death
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65%
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Eden and After (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Czechoslovakia, Tunisia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman. Once they sample his "fear powder" the students experience a series of hallucinations.
Style: allegory, disturbing, avant garde, enigmatic, surreal ...
Plot: surrealism, torture, unsettling, fetish, modernism, parallel universe, painting, desert, death, nihilism, eroticism, female nudity ...
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63%
Whispering Pages (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany
Duration: 77 min.
Story: The pages that whisper through this brooding, beautiful tone poem are from nineteenth-century Russian literature, primarily Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. An anonymous man wanders through decomposing, fog-enshrouded catacombs and encounters a ...
Style: spiritual, contemplative, poetic, existential, avant garde
Plot: crime and punishment, existentialism, alienation, solitude, spirituality, underground, atheist, poverty, religion, lion, humiliation, faith ...
Place: soviet union, russia
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49%
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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46%
The Illiac Passion (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to the "forest." There, under an apple tree, he communes with his selves, represented by ...
Style: avant garde, underground film, experimental, independent film
Plot: surrealism, antiquity, homoeroticism, greek mythology, lgbt, voice over narration, love, bisexual, mythology, greek, gay, homosexual ...
Place: ancient greece
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46%
Occasional Work of a Female Slave (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Roswitha runs an illegal abortion clinic in Frankfurt to support her student husband and children. When she is forced to close her practice she delves into political and social activism.
Style: disturbing
Plot: politics, social work, student, police, female nudity, child, arrest, fired from the job, social injustice, political activism, factory, abortion ...
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46%
Heart of Glass (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the ...
Style: surreal, art house, disturbing, experimental, allegory ...
Plot: surrealism, great ending, magic realism, death, folk horror, village, dream, warning, murder, village life, factory, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: year 1976
Place: germany
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Boxes (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Anna, 50 years old, moves into her new house. Rooms are full of boxes which contain a lot of things and plenty of memories. Anna has lived many lives and her past comes out of these boxes. Her parents surely, but also her children and their fathers, ...
Style: semi autobiographical
Plot: woman, past, mother daughter relationship, half sister, old age, father daughter relationship, surrealism, death, nostalgia, moving, family relations, box
Place: brittany
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43%
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Calla Lily (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, France, Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story: An experimental drama, Melanie, who was drugged and raped in college. Now ten years later, she is in an abusive relationship and has a child. A chance encounter with someone from her past leads her to re-evaluate her past.
Style: underground film, independent film, experimental, avant garde
Plot: surrealism, rape, flowers, school, single mother, sex scene, hidden identity, puzzle, dogme 95, handheld camera
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
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42%
A Mother's Prayer (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Rosemary Holmstrom is struggling to bring up her son following the death of her husband. When she is diagnosed with AIDS, at first she refuses to believe it, but soon turns her attentions to the problem of what will happen to her son when she dies.
Plot: aids, hiv, homeless, poverty, hiv positive, orphan, youth, medical, psychiatry, nurse, adoption, needle ...
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Our Lady of the Turks (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A man (Carmelo Bene) can not bear to be part of society. He considers himself a "jerk" and so invents its own philosophy, which involves the destruction of his land of Puglia where all citizens are devoted to the Catholic religion. ...
Style: experimental, aesthetic, avant garde
Plot: underground, lgbt, voice over narration, death, surrealism, horse, corpse, flashback, gay, mirror, palace, tourist ...
Place: southern italy, italy
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Caravan Serai (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Set during the Greek civil war. A villager is forced to leave his house and property and go to Thessaloniki with his daughter and son. They find refuge in an old building with hundreds of other people. They live a miserable life as the daughter ...
Plot: greek civil war, imperialism, communism, handicapped, family relations, greek, brother sister relationship, carriage, refugee, homecoming, communist, arrest ...
Place: greece
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The Long Island Four (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Based on the true story of four Nazi saboteurs who infiltrated the US in 1942 and were quickly caught and executed, this 80-minute ode to America's irresistibly corruptive allure was the only underground feature by writer-director Anders ...
Style: avant garde
Plot: mission, underground, nazi, decadence, raft, saboteur, capture, death, world war two, radio, nightlife, champagne
Time: 1940s
Place: new york
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40%
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Archipelago (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 80 min.
Story: An architect witness the brutal massacre by the police of an anti-government meeting and escapes to a remote archipelago.
Style: surprise ending
Plot: massacre, architect, conquistador, escape, pursuit, police, surrealism, paranoia, police raid, student, dying, money ...
Place: santiago chile
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39%
The Street Where We Live (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: "I'm just two paychecks away from being on the street." In the aftermath of the nation's financial crisis, Mary, a single mom with two kids, finds herself faced with that exact situation when the factory where she works closes ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: poverty, working class, social problems, financial crisis, life is a bitch, mother son relationship, fired from the job, crisis, family in crisis, financial problem, family relations, money problems ...
Place: midwest, ohio
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38%
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The Reject (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A man whose life is on the verge of collapse looks for new inspiration in this drama from Serbian filmmaker Milos Radivojevic. On was once a reporter, but now makes his living working as a public relations man for a banking firm. On is in his ...
Plot: beach, mobster, lesbian, surrealism, dog, friendship, blood, father daughter relationship, male nudity, female nudity, death, sea ...
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38%
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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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Mythopathy (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 99 min.
Story: It is a movie following the coming-of-age for a boy; the story begins in the mid-60s, continues all through the 70s, and finishes in 1981. He is a creative young man facing the troubles of the first pangs of love and we observe the way he tries to ...
Plot: nostalgia, politics, coming of age, peeping, coup, photographer, posing nude
Time: 70s
Place: ancient greece
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The Ditch (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, France, Belgium, South Korea, Netherlands
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The film focuses on the suffering of Chinese who were imprisoned in a forced labor camp called Jiabiangou in the Gobi Desert in winter 1960 under Mao Zedong on the grounds that they were "rightist elements". The film tells of the harsh ...
Style: serious, disturbing, rough, bleak, contemplative ...
Plot: cannibalism, captivity, prison life, life is a bitch, re-education, starvation, against humanity, politics, confined, society, state affairs, worker ...
Time: 50s, 60s, 20th century, year 1960
Place: china, asia
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36%
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Our Music (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Jean-Luc Godard's poetic meditation on war, violence and defeat. The film is structured in three parts. The three segments are "Hell", "Purgatory", and "Heaven". The first segment is a montage of war images from ...
Style: philosophical, meditative, atmospheric, serious, political ...
Plot: politics, life philosophy, existentialism, self discovery, greed, society, anti war, memory, journalist, poetry, religion, minimalism ...
Time: year 2004, 90s, 21st century
Place: middle east, sarajevo, bosnia, europe, former yugoslavia
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36%
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The March (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A group of several thousand Africans migrate westward across northern Africa and sail across the Strait of Gibraltar to Europe. Their message is: "We are poor because you are rich."
Style: independent film
Plot: migration, poverty, immigration, group, politics, european union, assassination attempt, refugee, global warming, desert, hunger, wandering ...
Place: africa
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36%
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Phantom (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 76 min.
Story: In Tokyo, a girl and her boyfriend spend a night talking about their life, their precarious condition and their difficulties to earn a living, their place in the world, if ever they have one...
Style: existential, avant garde, experimental, minimal cast, postmodern ...
Plot: submarine, homeless, working conditions, voice over narration, homelessness, mannequin, literature, philosophy, spoken inner thoughts, dreaming, unhappiness, identity ...
Place: tokyo, japan
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36%
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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35%
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