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Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away (2012)
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Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away (2012)
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An original story featuring performances by Cirque du Soleil. A young woman is entranced by an Aerialist. When they fall into the dreamlike world of Cirque du Soleil and are separated, they travel through the different tent worlds trying to find each other.
Style: exciting, serious, surreal, stylized, poignant, visually stunning, weird
Audience: kids
Plot: circus, dancer, fall in love, young lovers, imaginary, disorder, fish out of water, artists and showbiz, dancing, dance, cirque du soleil, art, acrobatics, synchronized swimming, youth, lovers apart, shadow, surrealism, drums, acrobat, woman in a bikini, quicksand, cello, mime, juggling ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa
Keyword: oldies

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, stylized, exciting and surreal films with plots about imaginary, danger, good versus evil, supernatural, surrealism, heroes and escapades mostly in Fantasy, Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away: Drawing Restraint 9 (2005), Cremaster 3 (2002), Mirrormask (2005), Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (2013), Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Drawing Restraint 9 (2005)
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story: The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto
Style: surreal, stylized, atmospheric, experimental, serious ...
Plot: surrealism, couples, religions or cults, couple relations, society, human nature, art, theory, disintegration, ship, nudity, ocean ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, japan
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95%
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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
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82%
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Mirrormask (2005)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home
Style: stylized, surreal, offbeat, visually stunning, mindfuck ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens, date night, teen fantasy, kids ...
Plot: fantasy world, circus, magic, imaginary kingdom, trippy, coming of age, alternate reality, alternate dimension, parallel universe, good versus evil, imaginary, save the kingdom ...
Time: year 2005
Place: brighton, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 161 min.
Story: The Dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf have successfully escaped the Misty Mountains, and Bilbo has gained the One Ring. They all continue their journey to get their gold back from the Dragon, Smaug.
Style: epic, breathtaking, heroic, entertaining, dark fantasy ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, chick flick, adult
Plot: dragon, fantasy world, magical, sword fight, sword and sorcery, magic, good versus evil, imaginary kingdom, creature, elf, warrior, wizard ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013
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100%
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Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: In Victorian England, the young and beautiful Alice tells a tale of a strange new land that exists on the other side of a rabbit hole. Thinking Alice insane, her doctors aim to make her forget everything. While Alice is ready to put it all behind ...
Style: stylized, serious, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: power of love, imaginary kingdom, fantasy world, imaginary, adventurer, alice in wonderland, prince, magic, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fish out of water, alternate dimension, real world ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: europe, england, london
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100%
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In their quest to confront the ultimate evil, Percy and his friends battle swarms of mythical creatures to find the mythical Golden Fleece and to stop an ancient evil from rising.
Style: fairy tale, exciting, epic, stylized, teen ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, chick flick, pre-teens ...
Plot: mythology, monster, youth, fantasy world, heroic mission, young heroes, greek mythology, legends and myths, demi god, superhuman powers, friendship, greek ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, ancient greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Wolfblood (2012)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Being a teenager is hard enough. Being a Wolfblood teenager is ten times more complicated. 14 year old Maddy loves her abilities - heightened senses, being faster, stronger and more graceful - but hates the secrets that come with them.
Style: exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful, bleak
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: supernatural, werewolf, high school, supernatural ability, teenage love, friendship, teenage life, danger, youth, wolf, young heroes, classmate ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 169 min.
Story: Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mountain home from Smaug, the dragon.
Style: epic, breathtaking, captivating, epic fantasy, scenic ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot: wizard, fantasy world, sword and sorcery, sword fight, dragon, magical, creature, wizards and magicians, imaginary kingdom, mythology, ancient, imaginary ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, future, prehistoric times, prehistory
Place: new zealand, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 127 min.
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Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing, girls' night
Plot: time travel, magic, fantasy world, time loop, children, monster, imaginary, youth, orphan, beautiful scenery, supernatural power, witch ...
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Alegria (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Frac, a mime who is suffering from a severe bout of depression, happens to meet a troupe of circus entertainers and immediately falls in love with one of the stars, Giulietta. But while his affection for Giulietta and admiration for the performers ...
Style: surreal, independent film, stylized, atmospheric, serious
Audience: teens, date night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Journey to Promethea (2010)
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A tyrannical king reigns over his kingdom with an iron fist, but there is hope. A prophecy foretold long ago states that a boy will rise up against the oppressive regime and lead his people to the promised land of Promethea. This is the ...
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, intense, tense
Audience: teens
Plot: revolution, danger, corrupted ruler, escapades, heroes, legends and myths, hopes, supernatural, rivalry, master warrior, sword and sorcery, sorcery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Ruby Red (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Gwendolyn Shepherd is a normal 16-year-old, but her family holds a secret: A time-travel gene is expressed in the clan inherited, but not every member of the family is blessed with. Everyone is certain that Gwen's cousin Charlotte has the gene. ...
Style: exciting, captivating, stylized, sentimental, action adventure ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: time travel, supernatural, supernatural ability, youth, love and romance, teenage love, teen romance, prophecy, strong female character, imaginary, young heroes, supernatural romance ...
Time: 19th century, 21st century
Place: london, england, europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
The Wonders of Aladdin (1961)
Genre: Fantasy
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Young Aladdin (Donald O'Connor) has a series of wild adventures after he discovers a magic lamp containing a genie (Vittorio De Sica).
Style: exciting, semi serious, humorous, slapstick, psychotronic
Audience: kids, family outing
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Time: year 1961
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Finisterrae (2010)
Genre: Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Two ghosts walk along the Camino of Santiago.
Style: surreal, contemplative, atmospheric, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: ghost, pilgrimage, introspection, on the road, supernatural, journey, surrealism, wandering, society, friendship, human relationship, magic realism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted (1992)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Alzur's Legacy (2019)
Genre: Fantasy
Country: Poland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Quarter the century after the Rivian Pogrom (the very last events from the Witcher Saga) Kaer Morhen, an old keep of the witchers from the school of the Wolf, is being attacked. Leader of the assault is a mighty warrior - Agaius. A few years later ...
Style: suspenseful, stylized, exciting, serious
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Bibi & Tina (2014)
Genre: Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The Girl Witch Bibi Blocksberg and her best friend Tina have adventures on a horse ranch...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, stylized
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: friendship, mischievous children, teenage life, wizards and magicians, imaginary, supernatural ability, youth, best friend, disorder, contests and competitions, sorcerer, girl horse relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 4.5
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Passion Play (2010)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An angel under the thumb of a ruthless gangster is saved by a trumpet player down on his luck.
Style: stylized, serious, atmospheric, sincere, touching ...
Plot: angel, musician, redemption, fall in love, danger, love affair, unlikely couple, down on your luck, desert, making love, sex scene, afterlife ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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The White Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom (2014)
Genre: Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In the twilight of the Ming Dynasty, the Imperial court is plagued by corruption as tyrants rule over the land. With the Manchurians preying on a weakened empire, war is imminent. To save the victims from their suffering, sorceress Jade Raksha ...
Style: exciting, captivating, serious, stylized, tense ...
Plot: martial arts, female warrior, wizards and magicians, tragic love, betrayal, supernatural ability, wuxia, witch, heroes, good versus evil, rivalry, escapades ...
Place: china, ancient china
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46%
Bunuel and King Solomon's Table (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Spain, Mexico, Germany, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Toledo in the 30s: The godfather of cinematic surrealism, Luis Buñuel, the poet Federico Garcia Loca and the painter Salvador Dalí are on a search for the mythical table of King Salomon, which is known to have the power to see in the past, the ...
Style: contemplative, surreal, stylized, clever, manga ...
Plot: filmmaking, surrealism, ancient mystery, political unrest, art, famous, art history, artist, painter, architecture, riddles and clues, performer's life ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Galaxy Games (2022)
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A group of young adults are sent to a faraway planet to compete in the prestigious Sol Invictus games. When disaster strikes and the teams are stranded without equipment or communication, they must work together to survive long enough to be rescued.
Style: tense, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, serious
Plot: group, teenage boy, teenage girl, alien life-form, space and aliens, alien encounter, alien creature, teenage protagonist, alien planet, alien contact, planet, alien ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Ashura (2005)
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Adapted from the successful play, the film takes place in 19th-century Japan, where a war between demons and their slayers is fought. Izumo, a kabuki actor with a demon-slaying past, meets and falls in love with Tsubaki. However, something is not ...
Style: serious, exciting, stylized, suspenseful
Plot: fall in love, rivalry, good versus evil, love and romance, imaginary, haunted by the past, danger, save the world, supernatural, forced into action, martial arts, fight ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An old Chinese man rides into the town of Abalone, Arizona and changes it forever, as the citizens see themselves reflected in the mirror of Lao's mysterious circus of mythical beasts.
Style: spiritual, horror comedy, mythical, uplifting, mystical ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: circus, magic, myth, creature, librarian, snake, monster, pagan, kaiju, fantasy world, medusa, animal ...
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Taxandria (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Belgium, Germany, France, Hungary, Netherlands, UK, USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: young prince is taken for tuition at a seaside hotel but there quickly bores and wanders off to visit a nearby lighthouse. Befriended by the keeper, he learns of a secret world he can see inside the light of the lamp - the world of Taxandria ruled ...
Style: surreal, anime, independent film, stylized, offbeat ...
Audience: preschool
Plot: lighthouse, superhero, architecture, steampunk, hotel, prince, dystopia, youth, young heroes, imaginary kingdom, heroes, love and romance ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Pound (1970)
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In a pound, 18 dogs wait to be adopted.
Style: controversial, grindhouse, experimental, semi serious, surreal ...
Plot: satire, dog, absurdism, animal shelter, captivity, confined, animal life, sex in a chair, chauffeur, airplane, map, surrealism ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.2
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Green Snake (1993)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A mischievous snake who assumes human form interferes with the romance between her reptilian sister and a hapless man.
Style: surreal, atmospheric, stylized, serious, cult classic ...
Plot: martial arts, monk, good versus evil, hidden identity, dangerous attraction, snake, fall in love, supernatural, rivalry, danger, curses spells and rituals, clergy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Luminous Procuress (1971)
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A series of erotic vignettes and sexual imagery (mostly of the gay variety) are presented courtesy of The Cockettes (a gay/drag performance art ensemble of late 60s/early 70s San Francisco).
Style: avant garde, dark, transgressive, aesthetic, explicit ...
Audience: adult
Plot: unsimulated sex, erotica, sex, ritual, occult, male nudity, gay subtext, lgbt, sex scene, surrealism, art, androgyny ...
Time: 60s
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.5
 767
Shanks (1974)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Malcolm Shanks is a sad and lonely man, deaf, mute and living with his cruel sister and her husband, who delight in making him miserable. His only pleasure, it seems, is in making and controlling puppets. Thanks to his skill, he is offered a job as ...
Style: surreal, psychotronic, weird, bizarre, mad
Plot: zombie, surrealism, macabre, doll, underground, mime, puppet master, good versus evil, drowning, corpse, strangulation, murder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It (2007)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Cassie, a 13 year old Gothic girl, is trying to fit in at her new school. To entertain herself, she plays a series of pranks on the popular kids and her younger brother, Max. When she goes to a Halloween store looking for new tricks, she finds a ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, teen, spooky ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, girls' night, teens, horror for children
Plot: high school, kidnapping, youth, prank, imaginary, supernatural, rescue, teenage life, friendship, escapades, disorder, halloween ...
Place: usa, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Dorothy And The Witches Of Oz (2011)
Genre: Action, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Children's author Dorothy Gale makes a decent living continuing her grandfather's series of Oz books. When a new agent enters the scene, Dorothy moves to New York city. In the midst of a major business deal for her books, Dorothy discovers ...
Style: captivating, exciting, tense, light, serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: witch, wizard of oz, wizards and magicians, parallel world, escapades, danger, friendship, writers, magician, witchcraft, fantasy world, wizard ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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