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Dogra Magra (1988)
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Dogra Magra (1988)
Original name: ドグラ・マグラ
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A man is confined to a mental institution after trying to murder his fiancee. Two doctors relate his problem to an Asian philosophy that states that mental defects are transmitted from generation to generation. He learns that one of his distant ancestors murdered his wife as a way of demonstrating a point to his lord about the importance of love over the emptiness of lust and to drive home the point further, created a series of illustrations of the dead woman decaying which in turn trigger the memories of his distant descendant. But is the whole thing merely a game concocted by the two doctors, who may even have driven themselves mad?
Style: avant garde, esoteric, detective, weird, cult film
Plot: mental disorder, illness, parallel universe, mental illness, nightmare, mental institution, insane asylum, murder, human experiment, suicide, dream, brain, literature, surrealism, mad scientist, embryo, doppelganger, nudity, psychological experiment, hiding place, nude, young, nudity (full frontal - brief)
Time: 1920s
Place: japan

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out weird, suspenseful, psychological and scary films with plots about murder, surrealism, insanity, danger, mental disorder, nightmare and macabre mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Mystery genres. Some movies like Dogra Magra: Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010), Death Powder (1986), Zigeunerweisen (1980), Rubber's Lover (1996), Brain Dead (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
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Death Powder (1986)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 63 min.
Story: Three conspirators steal a secret android. In their warehouse hideout, the android secretes a reality-altering substance, which casts them into a frightening nether-world of interconnected subjectivity.
Style: cyber, controversial, experimental, psychotronic, avant garde
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Zigeunerweisen (1980)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 144 min.
Story: A surreal period film following an university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.
Style: surreal, psychedelic, erotic, enigmatic, erotic drama ...
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Time: 20th century, 1920s, 1910s
Place: japan, asia
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Rubber's Lover (1996)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A powerful and secretive corporation is conducting underground psychic experiments utilizing Digital Direct Drive, otherwise known as DDD. While under the influence of the drug ether, the human subjects are outfitted in rubber suits and bombarded ...
Style: controversial, clever, black and white, cyber, disturbing ...
Plot: fetish, surrealism, cyberpunk, extreme, madness, brutality, metamorphosis, human guinea pig, body horror, violent, sexploitation, mental disorder ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A psychological thriller from the writer of the original "Twilight Zone!" In a showdown of man vs. machine, Martin plunges into a chaotic nightmare trying to save his mind from the megalomaniacal corporation!
Style: surreal, black comedy, psychological, atmospheric, serious ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story: A rich but unscrupulous old woman plots with a scientist to have her brain implanted in the skull of a sexy young woman.
Style: psychotronic, suspense, grindhouse, independent film, semi serious ...
Plot: mad scientist, brain transplant, eternal youth, mad doctor, grave robbing, experiment, cat, murder, mutant, transplant, laboratory, deadly creature ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
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Style: anthology, scary, disturbing, suspense, psychotronic ...
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Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest.
Style: weird
Plot: surrealism, mail order bride, kidnapped, mental disorder, darkness, time travel, decapitation, insanity, literature, mountain, bandit, japanese woman ...
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Weasels Rip My Flesh (1979)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story: Returning from the planet Venus, an errant NASA spacecraft crashes into the ocean, spilling its radioactive cargo. Enveloped by a radioactive mass, a rabid weasel is transformed into a gigantic killer mutant. Prowling the countryside, the huge ...
Style: psychotronic, natural horror, independent film, detective, weird
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⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Tetsuo, the Iron Man (1989)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
Story: Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a 1989 Japanese cyberpunk film by cult-film director Shinya Tsukamoto produced by Japan Home Video. This, his third film, is an extremely graphic but also strikingly-filmed fantasy shot in the same low-budget, ...
Style: psychedelic, psychotronic, surreal, experimental, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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 6.2
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Mrs. Van Houten has shown signs of losing touch with reality, and her husband discusses possible treatment with Dr. Caligari, who says Mrs. Van Houten has a disease of the libido.
Style: independent film, mind bending, psychedelic, experimental, surreal ...
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Duration: 84 min.
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Time: 21st century
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59%
 4.8
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After being released from prison, a man known as The Rambler stumbles upon a strange mystery as he attempts a dangerous journey through treacherous back roads and small towns en route to reconnecting with his long lost brother.
Style: mumblecore, suspense, art house, bleak, dark ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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