Movies like The Virgin's Bed

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The Virgin's Bed (1969)
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The Virgin's Bed (1969)
Original name: Le Lit de la Vierge
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: 30 year old child enters the new city, riding on a donkey. He says he is the Savior. He has spent no time among men. He is trembling with cold. His clothes are soaked. His mother was overprotective ; his father conspicuously absent. He knows that he must face the mockery, refusal, ignorance and blindness of the men around him. They travel in gangs, in large numbers : soldiers, mercenaries or the like, on majestic, imposing horses. Everything is out of proportion to his thin, bewildered, innocent body ; he is the madman of the new city...
Style: avant garde, experimental
Plot: counterculture, underground, mercenary, fire, director, pregnant woman, parable, civil unrest, jesus, jesus christ, stone, bleeding, cross
Keyword: avant-garde

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out avant garde, surreal, experimental and weird films with plots about surrealism, nudity, female nudity, underground, male nudity, satire and fire mostly in Drama, Comedy and Fantasy genres. Some movies like The Virgin's Bed: Il ritorno di Cagliostro (2003), Work is a 4-Letter Word (1968), WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971), The Inner Scar (1972), Wild Innocence (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Il ritorno di Cagliostro (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the Sicily of the late 1940s, two brother sculptors, tired of selling madonnas to the local churches, finally realize their dream, and set up a Sicilian production company, thanks to the help of a local bishop. They start producing one box-office ...
Style: avant garde, grotesque, fake documentary
Plot: underground, flashback, surrealism, mafia, breaking the fourth wall, unhappy ending, cardinal the priest, director, film within a film
Place: sicily
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Work is a 4-Letter Word (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Dreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate in his dreary industrial town, but changes his mind when he discovers the plant's boiler room has the perfect climate to assist him with his pet ...
Style: psychedelic, dark comedy
Plot: counterculture, machine, swing, hippie, eccentricity, fiance fiancee relationship, surrealism, underground, technology, mushroom, employment, factory ...
Time: future
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Yugoslavia, West Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A dense film that cuts up footage of a primary plot of two young Yugoslavian girls, one a politico and the other a sexpot, and an affair with a visiting Russian skater. Mixing metaphors of Russia's relationship with Yugoslavia, intercut with ...
Style: avant garde, surreal, experimental, controversial, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: erection, sex, surrealism, communist, psychology, satire, trippy, communism, mature, badass, sexology, porn ...
Time: year 1971, 60s, 20th century
Place: former yugoslavia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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The Inner Scar (1972)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: France
Duration: 60 min.
Story: A collage of dreams. Garrel made a name for himself with this film as a new Jean Vigo. With Nico (Velvet Underground). A poetic and painterly film that has been described as 'a collage of dreams'. The film was shot without a script, but ...
Style: experimental, avant garde, surreal, weird
Plot: poetry, female psychopath, surrealism, desert, horse riding, horse, sea, goat, waterfall, bow and arrow, male pubic hair, male nudity ...
Time: year 1972
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Wild Innocence (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Netherlands
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A movie director does a new film against heroine consumption, and the producers are heroine dealers.
Plot: filmmaking, heroin addiction, drug, death of wife, money laundering, finance, actress, smuggling, drug addict, cynicism, director, film industry ...
Time: year 2001
Place: amsterdam
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57%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 5.9
 1K
Lions Love (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.
Style: art house, independent film, tragicomedy, cinema verite
Plot: hollywood, woman, art, counterculture, nudity, gay interest, suicide attempt, actor, director, erotica, filmmaker, money ...
Time: year 1968, 60s
Place: los angeles, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.9
 29
Twin Flames (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Redheaded twins Armando and Beatriz always dreamed of being firefighters but during a rainy, uneventful winter they find themselves spending less time putting out infernos than they do helping neighbors who’ve locked themselves out of their ...
Plot: age-gap relationship, jealousy, fire, male female relationship, twenty something, twins, fraternal twins, rumor, stranger, parable, older woman younger man relationship, promiscuity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Le Pont du Nord (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Marie, is just out from prison when she runs into Baptiste a young paranoid needing companionship. In their pursuit of a mysterious briefcase carried by Marie's former lover, they roam the street of Paris, transformed into a giant board game, a ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, mind bending, art house, absurd ...
Plot: underground, love letter, dancing, maze, female friendship, murder, female murderer, homeless woman, urban decay, bad guy wins, homelessness, female protagonist ...
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Novak (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Lucia arrives to Buenos Aires with a mission, take care of a Hungarian filmmaker invited to present his film at the Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival. Lucia meets Pablo, who introduces himself as the angel of prestigious film director Béla ...
Plot: list, choir, fog, bus, festival, angel, heaven, confusion, director, key
Place: buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Tobi (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A story about a little boy who grows a pair of wings on his back, giving him the appearance of an angel. The boy draws the attention of his community including doctors, scientists and schoolmates. The wings are surgically removed but eventually ...
Plot: youth, parable, working class, flying, mutation, surrealism, classmate, angel, doctor, father son relationship, boy, male nudity ...
Place: madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight (1975)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A film without a beginning or an end, Moment to Moment is a rush of curious sketches, scenes, and shots that takes on a rhythmic life of its own.
Style: absurd, avant garde
Plot: underground, jazz, photograph, surrealism, absurdism
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Toto Who Lived Twice (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The film has three stories. First is about local village idiot Paletta, who can not afford the services of a whore and so steals a locket from a holy shrine belonging to local mafia don. Second shows the story of betrayal of Pitrinu (who's dead ...
Style: aesthetic, controversial, experimental, anthology, disturbing ...
Plot: extreme, underground, gays and lesbians, angel, male rape, sodomy, mafia, flashback, all male cast, crucifix, surrealism, controversy ...
Place: palermo italy, sicily
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 134
Necropolis (1970)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A surreal and disturbing distillation of Western Civilization, Necropolis is the unhinged vision of Italian director Franco Brocani. Pierre Clémenti is Attila the Hun, naked and on horseback, while Warhol superstar Viva is a drunken and abusive ...
Style: surreal, avant garde, experimental, weird
Plot: devil, minotaur, surrealism, female vampire, vampire, dracula, frankenstein's monster, female nudity, male nudity
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In this excoriating satire of the fashion industry, Polly Maggoo is a 20-year-old Brooklyn-born fashion model in Paris, on the runway at the big shows where magazine editor Ms. Maxwell is the reigning opinion maker. The ridiculous passes for ...
Style: surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: fashion, counterculture, fashion industry, satire, model, fashion model, hippie, designer, swing, lust, modernism, art ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Black Biscuit (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Featuring today's modern outlaws - These are the outsiders of society. And their all stars. Director Fabrizio Federico has created a fact feature film about money, sex, dignity, and dreams. A group of misfit outsiders all face the difficult ...
Style: experimental, underground film, avant garde, independent film
Plot: underground, movie business, dogme 95, maverick
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Giulia (1999)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Giulia is an independent young woman who is prepared to offer her body and her spirit against all the religious taboos.
Style: erotic, art house
Plot: voyeurism, bisexuality, masturbation, sex scene, making love, woman peeing, male full rear nudity, erotica, jealousy, sex, sex show, vatican ...
Place: rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Summer of All My Parents (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After attempting to set a mailbox on fire, Pimpette, 14, and her elder sister, Joséphine, 18, spend their summer holidays shuttling between their secretly pregnant mom and bachelor father. But when Joséphine gets involved with the wrong crowd, ...
Plot: boat, children, coming of age, female nudity, teenage girl, swimming pool, father daughter relationship, fire, bare breasts, sister sister relationship, summer, ice cream ...
Place: south of france, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A man and his son take an allegorical stroll through life with a talking bird that spouts social and political philosophy.
Style: surreal, road movie, intellectual, spiritual, mind bending ...
Plot: satire, crow, philosophy, surrealism, mythology, hawk, travel, road trip, spirituality, mysticism, politics, on the road ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Let's Have a Brainwash (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: This consists of four short films by different directors. Rosselini's 'Chastity' ('Illibatezza') deals with an attractive air hostess who receives the unwelcome attentions of a middle aged American. Godard's 'New ...
Style: anthology, contemplative, surreal, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: human relationship, religion, italian neorealism, love letter, thief, stewardess, satire, post-apocalyptic future, society, human nature, religions or cults, nuclear holocaust ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: italy, paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 193 min.
Story: A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives pre-empted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.
Style: surreal, experimental, mind bending, psychedelic, disturbing ...
Plot: surrealism, friendship, female nudity, feminist, female friendship, summer, mind game, underground, time travel, magic realism, christmas, modernism ...
Time: year 1974
Place: france, paris france, africa, hong kong, borneo
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Toto the Hero (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Belgium, France, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Thomas and Alfred were born around the same time; a fire in the nursery had nurses scrambling to save the newborns. Because he felt that he deserved Alfred's good fortune at being born into a wealthy family, Thomas conceives the idea that he ...
Style: touching, epic, sad, cult classic, inspirational ...
Plot: coming of age, hide and seek, neighbor neighbor relationship, death of sister, child, youth, children, jazz, train, time travel, adolescence, inspiration ...
Time: year 1991, future, 90s
Place: france, germany, europe, dover england, spain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
City of Women (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.
Style: surreal, cerebral, satirical, art house, atmospheric ...
Plot: surrealism, sex, female nudity, satire, sexual relations, women, feminism, psychology, fetish, voyeurism, solidarity, human relationship ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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What a Flash! (1972)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The producers of this French film took approximately 100 people, put them on a soundstage and had them improvise this film based on the premise that they are on a spaceship escaping from the dictators of earth and only have a few days to live. ...
Style: experimental, avant garde, weird
Plot: orgy, spaceship, nudity, improv, discussion, dictator, escape, kitsch, sound stage, body painting
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Dreamlife of David L (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: “The Dreamlife of David L.“ is a fictional feature film that takes inspiration from a key point in the life of director David Lynch: the time he spent as a student in a fine arts college. Initially attracted to painting, David Lynch ends up ...
Style: captivating, avant garde
Plot: art school, painting, art, school, nude model, student, art student, historical figure, historical character, rising to stardom, lifestyle, life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.0
 6K
Sweet Movie (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Canada, West Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The winner (Carole Laure) of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.
Style: experimental, disturbing, controversial, surreal, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: decadence, erotica, orgy, extreme, male nudity, surrealism, dead children, virginity, virgin, male pubic hair, woman in a bikini, breast feeding ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: amsterdam, balkan, paris france, france, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Pompa (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Philippines
Story: Based on a popular komiks serial by Elena Patron.
Plot: comic book, loot, heart attack, billiards, gold bar, gold, mirror, cemetery, treasure, disco, mishap, curse ...
Time: 80s
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Freak Orlando (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 126 min.
Story: FREAK ORLANDO is divided into five more-or-less distinct sections, all featuring "Freak" Orlando, a woman, played by the late Magdalena Montezuma, who appears in various guises, and deformities, throughout.
Style: surreal, avant garde, dark, absurd, experimental
Plot: surrealism, handicapped, freakshow, nudity, crucifix, abstract art, male nudity, cripple, feminism, midget, siamese twins, tree ...
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (1969)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: An experimental feature made by rephotographing the 1905 Biograph short Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son.
Style: underground film, avant garde, experimental, art film, independent film ...
Plot: underground, villager, pig, cottage, chase, fair
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 5.1
 1K
Baby Bump(s) (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An attention-craving mother nearing 50, unemployed and living with her pregnant daughter and son-in-law, suddenly finds herself with child, too...
Style: humorous, thought provoking, entertaining, captivating, light ...
Plot: pregnant woman, pregnancy, mother daughter relationship, hospital, family dinner, awkwardness, in laws, childbirth, relationships, family relations, pregnant daughter, mother and daughter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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