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The Discarnates (1988)
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The Discarnates (1988)
Original name: 異人たちとの夏
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Harada is a successful scenario writer, and his best buddy has just announced an intention to propose to Harada's ex-wife. Recovering from the shock, Harada indulges in melancholy, mainly on his failure as a husband and father, and goes to a 'Rakugo' (sit-down comedy) show, where a friendly man in the audience invites him home. Harada is puzzled at the strong resemblance of this man and his wife to his own parents, who were killed nearly 30 years ago when he was twelve.
Style: mind bending, psychedelic, surreal
Plot: sex, ice cream, suicide, ghost story, car accident, legal, card playing, bicycle, prayer, fireworks, doggystyle, death of parents, card game, loss of parents, death of parent, loss of parent

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out surreal, psychedelic, mind bending and serious films with plots about surrealism, nudity, female nudity, couples, sex, male nudity and death mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Discarnates: Sada (1998), Pastoral Hide and Seek (1974), Eggshells (1969), Cremaster 3 (2002), Himiko (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Sada (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Nobuhiko Obayashi, director of the cult horror/comedy "House," gives his unique spin on the true story of Sada Abe, who strangled her lover and cut off his genitals as a keepsake.
Style: psychedelic, surreal, mind bending, sexy, realistic ...
Plot: murder, sex, rape, biopic, vengeance, love and romance, prostitute, life is a bitch, society, couples, teenage life, sexual abuse ...
Time: year 1936, 90s, year 1919
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Pastoral Hide and Seek (1974)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.
Style: psychedelic, surreal, experimental, disturbing, mind bending ...
Plot: surrealism, trippy, clown, filmmaking, adolescence, folk horror, melancholy, sexploitation, time travel, runaway, desert, death of child ...
Time: year 1974
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Eggshells (1969)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Experimental allegorical story about a group of hippie students in Austin, Texas, who move into an old big house in the woods. However, something else is there and it's influencing them.
Style: psychedelic, surreal, mind bending, independent film, experimental ...
Plot: hippie, counterculture, male nudity, nudity, roommate, sexual revolution, stealing a car, commune, haunted house, symbolism, sex scene, wedding ceremony ...
Time: 60s
Place: austin texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Cremaster 3 (2002)
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, stylized, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: surrealism, supernatural, good versus evil, danger, imaginary, punk, rivalry, artists and showbiz, curses spells and rituals, apprentice, zombie, graphic violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Himiko (1974)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view of history.
Style: surreal, esoteric, mind bending, psychedelic, weird
Plot: religion, trippy, female protagonist, waterfall, death, outdoor sex, sex scene, shaman, incest, kingdom, japanese history, burial ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Committee (1968)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min.
Story: The Committee, starring Paul Jones of Manfred Mann fame, is a unique document of Britain in the 1960s. After a very successful run in London’s West End in 1968, viewings of this controversial movie have been few and far between. Stunning black ...
Style: psychedelic, surreal, mind bending, allegory, experimental ...
Plot: counterculture, pink floyd, hippie, investigation, businessman, hitchhiker, musician, murder, party, corruption, committee, band
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The film is set just before Poland's communist regime came to an end, and the central character is a provincial censor (Janusz Gajos), a tired, sloppy, lonely man, whose wife has long since left him. For him, censorship is both an art and a ...
Style: surreal, intellectual, mind bending, psychedelic
Plot: renaissance, free will, communism, satire, projectionist, father daughter relationship, surrealism, communist, husband wife relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship, actor, censorship ...
Place: poland, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
About Endlessness (2019)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, Germany, Norway, France
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality, guided by a Scheherazade-esque narrator. Inconsequential moments have the same significance as historical events. Simultaneously an ode and a lament, presents a ...
Style: surreal, thought provoking, psychological, contemplative, anthology ...
Plot: surrealism, reflection, meaning of life, love and romance, family history, ambiguity, life, destiny, sin, cautionary tale, art, nordic ...
Time: 2010s, future
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Pitfall (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.
Style: surreal, experimental, psychedelic, mind bending, depressing ...
Plot: surrealism, ghost, union, supernatural, magic realism, murder, labor, trippy, asian, samurai, strike, mistaken identity ...
Time: year 1962
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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After Life (1998)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: After death, people have just one week to choose only a memory to keep for eternity.
Style: philosophical, surreal, emotional, spiritual, existential ...
Plot: afterlife, eternity, death, memory, heaven and hell, life after death, life & death, heaven, videotaping, destiny, hospital, childhood ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century
Place: the philippines, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Face to Face (1976)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A sensitive exploration of the tragic irony of the psychiatrist suffering with mental illness.
Style: art house, action adventure, surreal, psychedelic, mind bending ...
Plot: mental illness, nordic, art, european, existentialism, dialogue, psychopath, misfit, destruction, cowboy, psychotherapy, suicide attempt ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Another Trip to the Moon (2015)
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: captivating, psychological, surreal, disturbing, psychedelic
Plot: magic, surrealism, supernatural power, family problems, supernatural, magical creature, relationship problems, absurdism, magical, woods, rabbit, no dialogue
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Double Suicide (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu, he becomes a man obsessed. Koharu returns his love, ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, mind bending, romantic, spiritual ...
Plot: suicide, female nudity, sex, prostitution, existentialism, love letter, spirituality, prostitute, samurai, couples, power relations, rebellion ...
Time: year 1969, 18th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
Style: surreal, atmospheric, anthology, philosophical, cerebral ...
Plot: surrealism, dream, artist, tunnel, art, magic realism, nuclear disaster, environmentalism, beautiful scenery, philosophy, fantasy world, painting ...
Time: year 1990, 80s, 20th century
Place: japan, mount fuji, asia, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Master and Margarita (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Russia
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Master is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about the biblical Jesus and Pontius Pilate. Authorities in Moscow are harassing Master by surveillance and intimidation. Victimized by their harassment, Master throws his manuscript into ...
Style: surreal, captivating, suspenseful, mind bending, suspense
Plot: surveillance, manuscript, mysticism, mental institution, life & death, destiny, surrealism, buddies, life philosophy, storytelling, justice, twists and turns ...
Time: 1930s
Place: soviet union, russia, moscow russia, jerusalem
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49%
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Enter the Void (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan
Duration: 161 min.
Story: This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta). When Oscar is killed by ...
Style: psychedelic, art house, philosophical, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: surrealism, afterlife, trippy, stripper, hallucination, drug trip, life after death, lsd, male nudity, youth, incest, abortion ...
Time: year 2010, year 2009, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Holy Motors (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story: We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, ...
Style: surreal, art house, psychedelic, cerebral, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: surrealism, existentialism, life & death, creativity, obsession, multiple storylines, trippy, hidden identity, double life, power relations, unfulfillment, lifestyle change ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Goodbye to Language (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 70 min.
Story: About a man who’s angry at his wife because she’s met another man on a park bench and they no longer even speak the same language.
Style: surreal, experimental, atmospheric, serious, stylized ...
Plot: introspection, battle of the sexes, couple relations, love, crumbling marriage, fight, communication problem, dog, book, unsettling, bookstore, moving ...
Time: 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place: europe, france, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Gemini (1999)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A successful doctor, Yukio's picture perfect life is gradually wrecked, and taken over by his avenging twin brother, who bumps off his family members one by one and reclaims his lover who is now Yukio's wife.
Style: psychedelic, controversial, disturbing, mind blowing, mind bending ...
Plot: twins, revenge, lookalikes, sex, trippy, asian prostitute, amnesia, patricide, twin brother, impostor, couples, disorder ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Animals (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Pol is a teenager with a seemingly calm life: he lives with his brother and is still in high school. However, Pol has a secret: Deerhoof, a cuddly teddy bear who thinks, moves around and with whom he shares his best moments. Life goes on as normal ...
Style: surreal, atmospheric, serious, psychological, offbeat ...
Plot: gay teenager, high school, gay best friend, self mutilation, gay brother, teddy bear, imaginary character, blood, teenage girl, surrealism, toy comes to life, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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 2K
Aloys (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A lonely private investigator is contacted by a mysterious woman who pulls him into a mind game known as “telephone walking”. Fascinated by her voice, Aloys discovers an imaginary universe that allows him to break out of his isolation.
Style: surreal, funny, realistic, mind bending, psychedelic ...
Plot: private detective, mental disorder, marriage, lonely, relationships, suicidal, imaginary friend, zookeeper, blackmail, rain, death of father, drunkenness ...
Time: distant future
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
They Came Back (2004)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead inexplicably come back to life and try to integrate themselves into society that has changed for them.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, surreal, psychedelic ...
Plot: back from the dead, undead, small town, supernatural, friendship, haunted by the past, social relations, living dead, dead, infection, mutant, epidemic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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43%
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Takeshis' (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, ...
Style: surreal, semi serious, stylized, psychedelic, postmodern ...
Plot: surrealism, obsession, yakuza, dark humor, actor's life, lifestyle, showbiz, identity crisis, wannabe, lookalikes, audition, filmmaking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Pink Narcissus (1971)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story: An erotic poem set in the fantasies of a young male prostitute.
Style: independent film, surreal, cult classic, aesthetic, psychedelic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay interest, male pubic hair, homosexuality, male nudity, narcissism, gay, matador, lgbt, sex, erotica, sex slave, biker ...
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40%
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
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39%
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Field of Dogs (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Poland, Italy, Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A visionary romance based on a contemporary reading of Dante.
Style: allegory, bleak, disturbing, suspenseful, serious ...
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39%
Strawberries Need Rain (1971)
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: grindhouse, independent film
Plot: sex, nudity, loss of virginity, teenage girl, death, female nudity, young woman, teenager, virginity, flashback, tribute, metaphor ...
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38%
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Big Bang Love tells the story of two young prisoners from different backgrounds whose bond transcends their pasts. This stunning, imaginative film has been adapted from Masaki Ato's homoerotic graphic novel. Two beautiful young men become ...
Style: serious, rough, disturbing, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: prison, murder, gays and lesbians, gay, friendship, prison life, investigation, lgbt, murder investigation, gay asian, gay interest, surrealism ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Endless Poetry (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Chile, UK, France, Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A portrait of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s and 50s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic circle of the time.
Style: surreal, sexy, psychedelic, mind bending, captivating ...
Plot: surrealism, poetry, history of chile, gay, poet, father son relationship, male nudity, family relations, youth, piano, art, mother son relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 2010s, future
Place: chile, santiago chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Fellini Satyricon (1969)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first century Rome.
Style: surreal, psychedelic, art house, sexual, cult classic ...
Plot: ancient rome, surrealism, gay, roman, ancient history, lgbt, decadence, hermaphrodite, ancient, animal sacrifice, banquet, slave auction ...
Time: 1st century, ancient times, year 1969
Place: rome italy, italy, ancient greece, europe, sicily ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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