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Nightfur (2011)
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Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Frank, an introspective astrophysics major, visits a remote lab to work with his mentor; doctor Roberts. After his arrival, he finds that Helen; a young woman seemingly from another world, a metaphysical realm, has been taken in by the doctor. The unexplainable phenomena that follow force Frank and doctor Roberts to look at life from a different angle.
Style:
spiritual, avant garde, underground film, psychotronic, mysterious, enigmatic, surreal, psychological, philosophical, experimental ...
Plot:
supernatural, surrealism, science, spirituality, supernatural power, outer space, isolation, mysticism, forest, jealousy, haunting, existentialism, zen, cosmos, love triangle, astronomy, male protagonist, coming of age, intimate, slow burn, space
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out existential, surreal, psychological and art house films with plots about isolation, haunting, identity, surrealism, dystopia, supernatural and intimate mostly in Fantasy, Sci-Fi and Drama genres. Some movies like Nightfur: Scars of Youth (2008), War Is Menstrual Envy (1992), Dreamwood (1972), Out Of The Fog (2009), Into The Alternate (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In a post-apocalyptic world 200 years in the future, society has broken down into fragmented groups who now dwell within a tangled wood, completely unaware of any civilization that exists beyond and governed by the white-suited agents of some ...
Style:
melancholic, surreal, atmospheric, philosophical, existential ...
Plot:
dystopia, post apocalyptic, survival, isolation, coming of age, mother son relationship, guilt, hallucination, suffering, addiction, claustrophobia, haunting ...
Time:
future
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95%
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Set in a post-apocalyptic future, the story finds a handful of ragged survivors attempting to communicate with dolphins, while another cadre of survivors have made it their crusade to destroy all the world's religions.
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experimental, bleak, existential, grim, allegory ...
Plot:
transgression, dystopia, post apocalyptic, survival, isolation, moral ambiguity, resistance movement, underground, male nudity, death, erotica, masturbation ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
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174
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
Dreamwood narrates the oniric quest of a modern argonaut in a mysterious island located somewhere on the borders of the unconscious.
Style:
experimental, avant garde, surreal, independent film, psychological ...
Plot:
children, symbolism, quest, isolation, island, journey, haunting, minimalism, minimal dialogue, ritual, male nudity, moon ...
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73%
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A geologist, Sarah Portico, travels to a remote island to investigate an environmental mystery. Upon her arrival, she experiences strange visions, dreams that seem to predict her future, and eventually force her to confront her painful past. As ...
Style:
reflective, independent film, contemplative, mysterious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
self discovery, remote island, identity, environmental, solitude, intimate, ocean, isolation, memory, female protagonist, slow burn, haunting ...
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Taking place in the fifth reality to be discovered by humanity, Into The Alternate follows an inhabitant and foreign visitor as they struggle to survive within a collapsing ecosystem.
Style:
avant garde, nature documentary, experimental, art house, surreal ...
Plot:
alternate reality, survival, unsettling, experimental narrative, adaptation, haunting, macabre, alienation, minimalism, intimate, parallel universe
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
65%
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:
surreal, psychological, captivating, disturbing, art house ...
Plot:
magic, family problems, magical creature, magical, relationship problems, supernatural, absurdism, supernatural power, surrealism, mythology, shaman, mother daughter conflict ...
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223
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, History, Sci-Fi, War
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Impolex tells the story of Tyrone S., a United States soldier in Operation Paperclip, the mission to locate and retrieve German rockets and rocket science after the end of World War II. Tyrone is tasked with finding what he believes are the last ...
Style:
surreal, experimental, existential, non-linear, absurd ...
Plot:
world war two, post war, isolation, alienation, lost in the woods, male protagonist, haunting, mysterious stranger, minimalism, journey, soldier, surrealism ...
Similarity:
62%
45
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min.
Story:
A computer science student becomes obsessed with finding an algorithm for ensuring certainty in life after his father dies in the 9/11/2001 attacks.
Style:
psychological, philosophical, existential, intense, intellectual ...
Plot:
trauma, obsession, computer science, grief, father son relationship, alienation, isolation, mourning, 9/11, control, free will, identity crisis ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
55%
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Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
A man decides to escape into the future by the way of hibernation. When he wakes up, feeling lucky that the experiment worked out well, the staff of the hibernation company politely walks him to the outside were he finds a post atomic war desert… ...
Style:
philosophical, sinister, surreal, bleak, existential ...
Plot:
post apocalyptic, hibernation, escape, dystopia, waking up, satire, social commentary, travel, illusion, isolation, experiment, macabre ...
Time:
future
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
51%
131
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
Explores the complex relationship between the spirit, body, and mind. The film is a nightmare with closed eyes because it counts among the most terrible moments of my life, my second exile, which lasted a very long time. Inspired by an ancient Hindu ...
Style:
avant garde, experimental, psychedelic, surreal, spiritual ...
Plot:
surrealism, spirit, nightmare, metaphysics, exile, haunting, visionary, isolation, identity crisis, ritual, suffering, transcendence ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Shot while the director was still in college, the film is a remake of the Russian film of the same name. The man's dead ex who had committed suicide appears in front of him. The ghost has a cross-like scar on her wrist.
Style:
psychological, contemplative, emotional, melancholic, existential ...
Plot:
ghost, suicide, grief, death, loss, memory, guilt, haunting, supernatural, identity, isolation, obsession ...
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50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Three strangers - two women and one man - find themselves trapped inside an unfamiliar house with no recollection of how they got there. They soon discover that the house has been borrowed to serve as a temporary way station between life and death.
Style:
minimal cast, philosophical, existential, independent film, art house ...
Plot:
limbo, life & death, metaphysics, supernatural, amnesia, character study, memory, isolation, claustrophobia, ghost, moral dilemma, haunting ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Austria
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A candy colored lesbian, cyberpunk extravaganza. It takes the viewer to another dimension. The character Dandy Dust has to go to various planets to boost his/her sex drive and defeat a depraved villain. There are twins who throw flowers, a groin ...
Style:
psychedelic, experimental, surreal, existential, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
lgbt, cyborgs, identity, self discovery, split personality, travel, symbolism, surrealism, dystopia, haunting, space opera, post apocalyptic ...
Similarity:
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707
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, China, Canada, Argentina
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two men living on the exact opposite side of the world. When one sleeps, the other one is awake. But when they finally meet, a simple question arises: Who is the dream and who is the dreamer?
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, suspense, disturbing, enigmatic ...
Plot:
identity crisis, dream, self identity, hidden identity, duplicity, identity, surrealism, metaphysics, character study, intimate, minimalism, loneliness ...
Place:
shanghai
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Several story threads about consciousness and perception intertwine in this film by video installation artist Daniel Cockburn.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, semi serious, art house ...
Plot:
archive, female protagonist, loneliness, secret, estrangement, job, consciousness, identity, memory, choice, haunting, obsession ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A baroque mix of revolutionary politics, pop culture and semiotics loosely based on the play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. A young prince learns that life is just a dream from which we wake when we die. And that dreams may be as real as life.
Style:
philosophical, surreal, existential, allegory, reflective ...
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surrealism, metaphysics, identity crisis, literary, fatalism, adaptation, palace intrigue, moral dilemma, spirituality, ritual, dream, shootout ...
Place:
chile
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Three young programmers come across an abandoned technology meant to detect supernatural presence. They reverse engineer the tech and create an app for their phones which allows them to see ghosts, thus endangering their own lives.
Style:
psychological, tense, thrilling, mystic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, technology, vengeful ghost, paranormal activity, apparition, paranormal investigator, paranormal phenomena, evil spirit, spirit, supernatural horror, paranormal investigation ...
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425
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
experimental, psychological, avant garde, non-linear, existential ...
Plot:
suicide, identity, psychological experiment, memory, surrealism, alienation, doppelganger, paranoid, rehearsal, mental illness, obsession, haunting ...
Time:
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306K
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, philosophical, enigmatic, twist ending ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
virtual reality, dream, alternate reality, surrealism, lost love, disfigurement, redemption, obsession, tragic love, love, hopes, death ...
Time:
year 2001, future, 22nd century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Fantasy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A computer teacher, his black-magician grandfather and a female cyber-creature -- a series of pre-destined rendezvous, both on line and offline, over the shreds of mnemonic time and space, at the cleavages of various parlors of subculture -- finally ...
Style:
surreal, experimental, psychological, art house, avant garde ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
virtual reality, cyberspace, technology, memory, identity, cyberpunk, magic realism, supernatural, black magic, haunting, female android, subculture ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
There is a strange event in the sky. Only a young woman, and some of her more alienated friends...notice. But they are voiceless, as it just gets stranger - even as below - on the ground, it gets more, what is ominously called, 'normal'.
Style:
captivating, mysterious, atmospheric, existential, surreal ...
Plot:
survival, alternate history, distopia, dystopian society, struggle for survival, dystopian future, problem, dystopia, mysterious event, outsider, walled city, social commentary ...
Time:
near future, 2020s
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Nanna lives a lonely and regimented life in Berlin. When her life crashes she receives a phone call from her long lost love, Martin, who reminds her of their carefree childhood. Martin wants her to join him for a hike in the wilderness together with ...
Style:
suspense, mystical, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Jam Films is a 2002 suite of 7 shorts produced by Sega/Amuse.
Style:
anthology, psychological, captivating, semi serious, surreal ...
Plot:
omnibus, problem, symbolism, fate, relationships, supernatural, obsession, dark humor, identity, isolation, visceral, underground ...
Similarity:
32%
3K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The one-hundred-year-old Fujiya inn stands in the quiet region of Kyoto. Mikoto is standing in front of the Kibune river at the back of the building when she is called back to work. But two minutes later, she finds herself back at the river again. ...
Style:
atmospheric, contemplative, melancholic, slow cinema, mysterious ...
Plot:
time loop, inn, time machine, winter, time travel, time traveler, mountain, time warp, time jump, female protagonist, introspection, isolation ...
Place:
japan, kyoto japan
Similarity:
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Genre: Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil, Chile
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A man who is tormented by his intuitions and by dreams goes away to find answers to his discomfort. Revelations are made to him along his path, until he meets his soul mate and is prepared to the Blue Desert.
Style:
experimental, psychological, existential, philosophical, mystical ...
Plot:
self discovery, desert, life philosophy, revelation, symbolism, transcendence, introspection, self awareness, serendipity, relationships, human existence, meaning of life ...
Place:
chile, brazil
Similarity:
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23K
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Invisible forces exert power over us in our sleep. A mercenary named Ink, on a literal nightmare mission, captures the spirit of 8-year-old Emma in the dream world. To save her, the dream-givers marshal all their resources, focusing on saving the ...
Style:
surreal, dark fantasy, atmospheric, cerebral, visually stunning ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
another dimension, parallel universe, nightmare, good versus evil, time paradox, businessman, imagination, supernatural, father daughter relationship, parent child relationship, surrealism, dystopia ...
Similarity:
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142K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
Style:
surreal, psychological, avant garde, art house, experimental ...
Plot:
surrealism, baby, existentialism, nightmare, insanity, psychology, dream, loneliness, psychosis, factory, dark humor, eccentricity ...
Time:
70s, year 1977, 20th century
Place:
america, philadelphia
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After a failed suicide attempt, a young man coping with loss and depression, submits to a series of trials that fine-tune human emotions, but his unique reaction to the tests send him on a journey that transcends both physical and perceived reality.
Style:
surreal, psychological, existential, experimental, mind bending ...
Plot:
loss, grief, mental health, depression, consciousness, human experiment, identity, alienation, isolation, neuroscience, alternate reality, intimate ...
Time:
future, near future
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Eve quits the rat race and heads to a cabin to rediscover herself. She promptly falls for her dynamic new next-door neighbor, Danni. As they grow close, Danni confesses she is a witch but reveals another ghostly secret threatening to destroy their ...
Style:
romantic drama, atmospheric, suspense, tension, emotional ...
Plot:
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