Movies like The Pied Piper

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The Pied Piper (1986)
 7.8
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The Pied Piper (1986)
Original name: Krysař
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 55 min.
Story: A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed. One of Czechoslovakia's most ambitious animation projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual dark art direction, innovative animation techniques and use of a fictitious language
Style: fairy tale, psychedelic, gothic, dark, experimental, surreal, gothic horror, claymation, adult animation, avant garde ...
Plot: stop motion, rat, nightmare, folklore, magic realism, children, money, greed, arthouse horror, medieval, no dialogue, puppet animation, part animation
Time: year 1986, medieval times
Place: czechoslovakia
Keyword: avant-garde, pipe

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Most similar movies to The Pied Piper

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out adult animation, surreal, weird and anime films with plots about surrealism, stop motion, trippy, puppet, nightmare, supernatural and puppet animation mostly in Animation, Fantasy and Drama genres. Some movies like The Pied Piper: One Night in City (2007), The House (2022), Blood Tea and Red String (2006), Lesson Faust (1994), Alice (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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One Night in City (2007)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Horror
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Jan Balej's animated film Night In A City / Jedné Noci V Jednom Meste (2007) from the Czech Republic. Very little dialogue throughout, but instead a rich world of sounds and music which more than match the detailed animation and curious ...
Style: adult animation, enigmatic, suspenseful, satirical, captivating ...
Plot: absurdism, absurd humor, surrealism, eccentricity, loneliness, alone, loner, city life, satire, stop motion, arthouse horror, mature ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 22K
The House (2022)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy.
Style: surreal, adult animation, anthology, dark comedy, experimental ...
Plot: stop motion, country house, surrealism, house, generation, anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic mouse, family home, old dark house, isolated house, cartoon mouse, virus ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Blood Tea and Red String (2006)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: A handmade stop-motion fairy tale for adults that tells the tale of the struggle between the aristocratic White Mice and the rustic Creatures Who Dwell Under the Oak over the doll of their heart's desire.
Style: surreal, semi serious, atmospheric, stylized, cult classic ...
Plot: stop motion, imaginary kingdom, obsession, escapades, fall in love, society, rescue, rich and poor, doll, surrealism, puppet, human relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.4
 4K
Lesson Faust (1994)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czech Republic, France, UK, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A very free adaptation of Marlowe's 'Doctor Faustus', Goethe's 'Faust' and various other treatments of the old legend of the man who sold his soul to the devil. Svankmajer's Faust is a nondescript man who, after ...
Style: surreal, art house, experimental, claymation, philosophical ...
Plot: surrealism, faust, stop motion, mythology, fantasy world, deal with the devil, occult, folk horror, devil, supernatural ability, dark humor, superhero ...
Time: 90s
Place: prague, czechoslovakia, europe, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 7.4
 14K
Alice (1988)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, UK, West Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit. She becomes surrounded by living inanimate objects and stuffed dead animals, and must find a way out of this nightmare- no ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, art house, atmospheric, mindfuck ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: surrealism, alice in wonderland, stop motion, little girl, mushroom, trippy, absurdism, female protagonist, child protagonist, wonderland, anthropomorphic animal, fantasy world ...
Time: 1800s, year 1988, 80s, 20th century, 19th century ...
Place: czech republic, czechoslovakia, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.3
 7K
Greedy Guts (2000)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story: When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However the woman takes the ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, mindfuck ...
Audience: kids
Plot: surrealism, killer child, folk horror, absurdism, tree, baby, monster, dark humor, obsession, couple relations, parents and children, macabre ...
Time: 90s
Place: czechoslovakia, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer (2003)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: For the past 40 years, Jan Svankmajer (Faust, Conspirators of Pleasure) has been hailed as one of cinema's most consistently surprising, wildly imaginative, and remarkable surrealists of our time. Utilizing a delirious combination of puppets, ...
Style: avant garde, experimental, psychological, disturbing, surreal ...
Plot: surrealism, stop motion, puppet, human flesh, multiple storylines, humanity in peril, human existence, edgar allan poe, death, pig, guinea pig, coffin
Place: czechoslovakia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 7.5
 12K
Angel's Egg (1985)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min.
Story: A mysterious young girl wanders a desolate, otherworldly landscape, carrying a large egg.
Style: anime, gothic, avant garde, dark fantasy, surreal ...
Plot: surrealism, egg, girl, little girl, flood, angel, religion, minimal dialogue, moving, bible, steampunk, arthouse horror ...
Place: europe, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 6.7
 561
Chronopolis (1982)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Poland
Duration: 52 min.
Story: Chronopolis tells the story of a gargantuan city lurking in the sky colonized by powerful immortals who have become jaded with eternal life. Most of their time is spent monotonously constructing bizarre and unusual objects while waiting for the ...
Style: experimental, adult animation, psychedelic, claymation, retro ...
Plot: surrealism, trippy, stop motion, immortality, creature, immortal, boredom, construction worker, abstract art
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Son of the White Mare (1981)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Hungary
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The story’s main character is Fehérlófia, who is a man with superhuman power. He is born as the third son of a horse. He listened to old tales, mostly about the Forefather and the end of his reign, caused by evil dragons.
Style: psychedelic, adult animation, fairy tale, surreal, experimental ...
Plot: folklore, mythology, trippy, surrealism, princess, superhuman powers, castle, dragon, peplum, sword and sorcery, acid trip, psychedelia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb (1993)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story: A boy born the size of a small doll is kidnapped by a genetic lab and must find a way back to his father in this inventive adventure filmed using stop motion animation techniques.
Style: cult classic, dark, disturbing, surreal, claymation ...
Audience: adult
Plot: stop motion, surrealism, distopia, mad scientist, minimal dialogue, dystopia, sword and sorcery, adventurer, folklore, manipulation, laboratory, artificial intelligence ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Wolf House (2018)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror
Country: Chile, Germany
Duration: 75 min.
Story: María, a girl from Colonia Dignidad, in Chile —a kind of sectarian community, tyrannically mastered by the ruthless Paul Schäfer, a German madman, religious fanatic and child predator, who would end up turning the place into a torture center at ...
Style: disturbing, surreal, adult animation, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: stop motion, military dictatorship, wolf, fleeing, colony, political persecution, running for your life, political prisoner, runaway, political unrest, toys, xmas ...
Place: chile, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Little from the Fish Shop (2015)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, France, Slovakia
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Deep underneath the sea surface, accompanied by a fish orchestra, the voice of the ocean is telling a story of Little -- the Sea King's daughter. They left the plundered waters of their home to live among humans. They now lead a strenuous life ...
Style: fairy tale, sincere, captivating, anime, psychotronic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: teenage girl, stop motion, first love, supernatural power, prophecy, magic, little mermaid, love, merman, train conductor, family relations, parallel world ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.8
 14K
Mad God (2021)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A figure known as "The Assassin" descends from the heavens into a nightmarish pit full of monsters, titans, and cruelty.
Style: adult animation, disturbing, surreal, dark fantasy, spooky ...
Audience: adult, horror for children
Plot: stop motion, surrealism, post apocalypse, monster, violence, creature, motorcycle, body horror, fantasy world, demolished city, exploitation, assassin ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
No. 12: Heaven and Earth Magic (1962)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min.
Story: The first part depicts the heroine's toothache consequent to the loss of a very valuable watermelon, her dentistry and transportation to heaven. Next follows an elaborate exposition of the heavenly land, in terms of Israel and Montreal. The ...
Style: avant garde, experimental, anime, independent film, silent
Audience: kids
Plot: surrealism, stop motion, spirituality, alchemy, abstract art, skeleton, cat, elevator, boxing, dream, disembodied head, watermelon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Salad Fingers (2004)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 10 min.
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Story: The adventures of Salad Fingers, an unspecified mutated creature driven to madness by his loneliness.
Style: surreal, psychological, semi serious, adult animation, apocalyptic ...
Plot: insanity, dark humor, surrealism, magical creature, recluse, weirdo, creature, nightmare, mature, vulgar, strange behavior, mutant ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The 20th century's first man lands on the moon and discovers - that Baron Munchausen has already beaten him to it, along with Cyrano and characters from Jules Verne's lunar-landing novel. The Baron spirits the young cosmonaut by ...
Style: experimental, claymation, cult classic, psychedelic, adult animation ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: giant bird, trippy, european, psychology, spacesuit, moon, palace, steampunk, baron, beauty, princess, turkish army ...
Place: czechoslovakia, czech republic, constantinople
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Where The Dead Go to Die (2012)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A troubled group of children living on the same block are haunted by a talking dog named Labby who brings them on surreal hell-rides between different dimensions and time periods.
Style: disturbing, satanic, adult animation, brutal, bleak ...
Audience: adult
Plot: demon, surrealism, evil spirit, nightmare, extreme, violence, murder, manipulation, unsettling, trippy, violent, arthouse horror ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 7.2
 4K
Lunacy (2005)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Loosely based on two short stories by Edgar Allan Poe and inspired by the works of the Marquis de Sade. In 19th century France a young man is plagued by nightmares in which he is dragged off to a madhouse. On the journey back from his mother’s ...
Style: surreal, atmospheric, psychological, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: mental institution, psychopath, mental illness, blasphemy, doctors and patients, danger, society, social misfits, haunted by the past, curses spells and rituals, gory, sexual abuse ...
Place: czechoslovakia, europe, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1978)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Krabat, a beggar boy, is lured to become an apprentice to an evil, one-eyed sorcerer. With a number of other boys, he works at the sorcerer's mill while learning black magic. Every Christmas one of the boys has to face the master in a magical ...
Style: christmas horror, anime, fairy tale, cult classic, psychotronic ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: christmas, evil sorcerer, black magic, raven, apprentice, sorcerer, literary, wizard, sword and sorcery, german history, time travel, time machine ...
Place: czechoslovakia, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as ...
Style: gothic, dark fantasy, dark, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, toddlers, family outing, horror for children ...
Plot: holiday, christmas, halloween, stop motion, imaginary, goth, music, imagination, good versus evil, objects come to life, imaginary kingdom, fantasy world ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Surviving Life (2010)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Eugene, an aging man, leads a double life – one real, the other in his dreams. He goes to see a psychoanalyst, who tries to interpret the meaning of his dreams. Eugene finds a way of entering his dream-world at will and finds out about his ...
Style: humorous, witty, semi serious, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot: hopes, elderly, moral dilemma, escape from reality, impossible love, crumbling marriage, couples, love and romance, couple relations, introspection, aging, subconscious ...
Time: 21st century
Place: czech republic, czechoslovakia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.4
 297K
Corpse Bride (2005)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Set in a 19th-century european village, this stop-motion animation feature follows the story of Victor, a young man whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride Victoria waits bereft in the land of the ...
Style: gothic, dark fantasy, gothic horror, melancholic, captivating ...
Audience: kids, date night, family friendly, family outing, horror for children ...
Plot: afterlife, stop motion, corpse, supernatural, goth, wedding, marriage, death, disagreement, fear, love, loneliness ...
Time: 19th century, year 2005, edwardian era, 1800s, victorian era
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Idiots and Angels (2008)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Angel, a selfish rotter is hanging around in a local bar, groping the wife of the barman and dealing with weapons. One morning he wakes up finding a pair of wings growing at his back. These wings do good deeds against his nature. But suddenly he ...
Style: surreal, adult animation, humorous, semi serious, psychedelic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: good versus evil, moral dilemma, disorder, dark humor, supernatural, human nature, supernatural ability, trippy, angel, idiot, recovery, existential crisis ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.7
 261K
Coraline (2009)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When Coraline moves to an old house, she feels bored and neglected by her parents. She finds a hidden door with a bricked up passage. During the night, she crosses the passage and finds a parallel world where everybody has buttons instead of eyes, ...
Style: gothic, surreal, dark fantasy, dark, scary ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, girls' night, teens, family outing ...
Plot: stop motion, children, monster, parallel world, alternate reality, weirdo, doll, secret place, heroine, fantasy world, loneliness, imagination ...
Time: year 2009, future, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place: oregon, michigan, usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.7
 3K
$9.99 (2008)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Israel, Australia
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Have you ever wondered "What is the meaning of life? Why do we exist?" The answer to this vexing question is now within your reach! You'll find it in a small yet amazing booklet, which will explain, in easy to follow, simple terms ...
Style: surreal, humorous, ironic, adult animation, touching ...
Audience: adult
Plot: stop motion, loneliness, life philosophy, self discovery, society, human nature, introspection, hopes, social misfits, meaning of life, apartment building, suicide ...
Time: year 2008
Place: australia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship (1991)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Based on a Russian folk tale. A proclamation went out through all the land that whosoever could build a flying ship would win the hand of the Tsar's daughter. The youngest son of a simple peasant shows up to claim her, and the dumbfounded Tsar ...
Style: claymation, experimental
Audience: kids
Plot: stop motion, folklore, aviation, surrealism, marriage, friendship, czar, puppet, superhuman, family relations, puppet animation
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories (2007)
Genre: Animation, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 46 min.
Story: In the bleak, disturbing and suspenseful universe of H.P. Lovecraft, endless horrors await. From ravaging cannibals to ancient rituals come to life, there's no escape for these hapless souls, whether they come across the Danwich outskirts or ...
Style: lovecraft, suspense, gothic horror, captivating, mystical ...
Plot: old man, supernatural horror, mysticism, cosmic horror, university professor, stop motion, puppet animation, old house, flame
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 4.9
 2K
Kuso (2017)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Broadcasting through a makeshift network of discarded televisions, this story is tangled up in the aftermath of Los Angeles's worst earthquake nightmare. Travel between screens and aftershocks into the twisted lives of the survived.
Style: disturbing, anthology, semi serious, enigmatic, satirical ...
Plot: body horror, extreme, earthquake, satire, distopia, mental disorder, arthouse horror, blaxploitation, hypnosis, supernatural power, surrealism, excrement ...
Time: 2010s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Book of the Dead (2005)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min.
Story: The plot concerns a sheltered aristocratic woman in feudal Japan. Bored and unfamiliar with the world outside her estate, she passes the time copying a special Buddhist sutra sent by her father who has been absent on official business for years. ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, emotional, suspenseful, claymation ...
Plot: buddhism, supernatural, supernatural romance, mistaken identity, religions or cults, ghost, master and servant, assassination, stop motion, healing power, battles, society ...
Time: middle ages
Place: japan, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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