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The Mantle of Love (1978)
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Original name: De mantel der liefde
Genre: Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
De Mantel der Liefde is a bizarre, over the top and at times hilarious settling of scores with the Catholic Church, commercial movie culture and 1970's petit bourgeois Dutch culture in general.
Style:
absurd, controversial, art house, allegory, black comedy, surreal, experimental, anthology, period piece, biblical ...
Plot:
religion, satire, hypocrisy, dark humor, absurd humor, irreverent, violence, taboo, parable, political satire, cruelty, counterculture, burlesque, blasphemy, provincial life, performance art, female nudity, sex scene, church, male nudity, suicide, abortion, pub, bakery, pistol ...
Time:
70s
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Most similar movies to The Mantle of Love
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out absurd, parody, experimental and surreal films with plots about satire, dark humor, female nudity, political satire, irreverent, social commentary and sex mostly in Comedy and Musical genres. Some movies like The Mantle of Love: Snow White and 7 Wise Men (1982), Sacramento (2015), Brand X (1970), Oh! Calcutta! (1972), Jesus, The Total Douchebag (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The king and the queen conceive Snow White during a sexual relationship in the snow.
Style:
parody, black comedy, sexy, absurd, surreal ...
Plot:
snow white, snow, irreverent, satire, dark humor, sexual relations, superhero, royalty, gender roles, palace, sexual awakening, sexual content ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A convoy of stories that feature caricature views on religion. We get to see Pope Francis, a neighborhood priest who thinks he’s Jesus Christ, a cable TV Evangelist hustler, a Hegelian woman looking for truth in spirituality, and other weirdoes ...
Style:
absurd, surreal, dark comedy, controversial, experimental ...
Plot:
delusion, catholicism, satire, madness, social commentary, freakshow, political satire, character study, magic realism, sexual manipulation, religion
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In 1969, Taylor Mead complained to his friend artist Wynn Chamberlain that Andy Warhol had never paid him for any of the work he had done for him and Wynn said he would make a film especially for Taylor. Inspired by the banality of 1960's ...
Style:
mockumentary, experimental, avant garde, underground film, black comedy ...
Plot:
political satire, satire, media satire, social commentary, performance art, counterculture, drug, interracial relations, improv, camp, sketch, art ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
92%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A comedy are comprised of short sexually suggestive skits.
Style:
sketch comedy, adult comedy, raunchy, anthology, retro ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sexual humor, sexual innuendo, irreverent, vulgar, sketch, satire, sexploitation, counterculture, nudity, perversion, sex scene, masturbation ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
91%
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Based on the controversial off-Broadway musical comedy revue, "Oh! Calcutta! is a series of musical numbers about sex and sexual mores. Most of the skits feature one or more performers in either a state of undress, simulating sex, or both.
Style:
erotic, controversial, sensual, sex comedy, experimental ...
Plot:
nudity, sexuality, satire, variety show, entrapment, cabaret, scandal, irreverent, burlesque, performance art, counterculture, live performance ...
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Follow the story of Jesus in this slapstick satire. With a name like "Jesus, the Total Douchebag" the movie should only be seen by people who enjoy blasphemous comedy, and as such, the comedy is focused on targets that are usually exempt. ...
Style:
controversial, dark comedy, transgressive, independent film, slapstick ...
Plot:
satire, religion, irreverent, entrapment, gross out humor, counterculture, social commentary, anti hero, deadpan, small town, character study, urban ...
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A film made for Italian television. A series of eight episodes put together in which Lando Buzzanca plays a variety of weird characters. Episode 1: Il Salvatore (The Saviour) A reporter tries to stop a man from killing himself, only to get the TV ...
Style:
anthology, satirical, black comedy, controversial, period piece ...
Plot:
hypocrisy, dark humor, moral ambiguity, corruption, satire, class conflict, prostitution, family drama, greed, character study, sexploitation, absurdism ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
A jumble of sexual skits such as The Big Salami, The Brady Bang, And Leather And Chains.
Style:
sketch comedy, black comedy, parody, transgressive, absurd ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mature, sexual content, satire, adult humor, irreverent, sexploitation, iconoclastic, dark humor, counterculture, bdsm, sleazy, nudity ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
From the twisted mind of Bill Zebub (ASSMONSTER), this film goes beyond BORAT and farther than FREDDY GOT FINGERED. But THE MOST OFFENSIVE COMEDY EVER MADE isn't content to just get laughs and gasps from the audience. Instead, it investigates ...
Style:
transgressive, controversial, independent film, raunchy, dark comedy ...
Plot:
satire, confrontation, sexual content, gross out humor, anti establishment, absurd violence, political satire, violence, camp, farce, masturbation, exploitation ...
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A ridiculous comedy that spoofs many different American made movies in multiple segments and skits.
Style:
parody, spoof, slapstick, anthology, light hearted ...
Plot:
satire, irreverent, camp, film history, absurd humor, sniper, karate, bad taste humour, giant monster, sex, pastiche, breaking the fourth wall ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa, america
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A GROOVE TUBE-styled skit comedy spoofing TV sitcoms of the 1970s in three segments: "Happy Daze," "Don't Come Back Kotler," and "Bernie Milner."
Style:
anthology, parody, spoof, retro, sex comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, irreverent, nostalgia, adult humor, small town, political satire, porn, wife, nudity, sex, absurd humor, janitor ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Producer/director Albert Zugsmith's acid-therapy "comedy," complete with a tinted trip sequence "in hilarious LSD color." A suicidal film star named Honey Bunny is sent by her producer to a rest home run by an unhinged Dr. ...
Style:
offbeat, surreal, experimental, absurd, black comedy ...
Plot:
lsd, acid trip, satire, film industry, psychedelia, drug, dark humor, mental institution, impostor, counterculture, psychotherapy, psychiatrist ...
Time:
60s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Second scandalously famous collections of short Italian comedies of the 90s! All that was "fun" in those years in Italy - all here! The sea of black humor on all issues - sex, politics, mafia, crime, TV...
Style:
anthology, parody, cynical, controversial, sex comedy ...
Plot:
satire, social commentary, mature, irreverent, political satire, adult humor, pop culture, scandal, celebrity culture, dark humor
Time:
90s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, Chile
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Surrealism "a la chilena" sees four drunken, literary bohemians write a short story about a pact with the Devil just as that very story is happening to them.
Style:
experimental, art house, black comedy, avant garde, allegory ...
Plot:
writers, deal with the devil, pact with the devil, surrealism, experimental narrative, symbolism, absurdism, magic realism, dark humor, counterculture, existentialism, satire ...
Time:
70s
Place:
chile, santiago chile
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Die letzten Überlebenden der alten Fassbinder-Zunft tun sich zusammen, um auf dem Potsdamerplatz den wirklich allerletzten Neuen Deutschen Film, ein Remake von Pasolinis "120 Tage von Bottrop" zu drehen. Schlingensief soll Regie führen, ...
Style:
art house, independent film, stylized, experimental, ironic ...
Plot:
respect, filmmaking, satire, sexuality, character study, urban, underground, camp, nudity, diva, male nudity, female nudity ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Commedia all'italiana consisting of a series of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of Italian society.
Style:
anthology, black comedy, parody, period piece, absurd ...
Plot:
satire, obsession, social commentary, marital infidelity, lust, jealousy, farce, dark humor, political satire, gender roles, office politics, road trip ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
A TV Special consisting of various sketches with the titular comedian and fellow comics in guest appearances.
Style:
sketch comedy, witty, lighthearted, ironic, parody ...
Plot:
satire, variety show, pun, deadpan, collaboration, irreverent, improv, dark humor, political satire, comedian, joke, british humour ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
erotic, anthology, period piece, sensual, erotic drama ...
Plot:
storytelling, literary, adaptation, medieval, betrayal, infidelity, banquet, moral ambiguity, renaissance, satire, social commentary, irreverent ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Four comedic episodes framed within the story of a tyrannical Zen master and his two hapless disciples.
Style:
anthology, parody, entertaining, humorous, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
satire, absurd humor, silly humor, humour, escapades, farce, zen, irreverent, dark humor, family relations, pregnancy, dialogue driven ...
Similarity:
51%
658
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A young actor suddenly wakes up in the middle of the shooting of a movie he doesn't understand.
Style:
psychological, experimental, ironic, captivating, satirical ...
Plot:
satire, filmmaking, film industry, tragedy, problem, tragic event, murder, irony, escapades, actor, improv, dark humor ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min.
TV show
Story:
Million Dollar Extreme Presents: World Peace, a satiric vision largely set in a post-apocalyptic world. The popular sketch group is comprised of Sam Hyde, Charls Carroll, and Nick Rochefort.
Style:
sketch comedy, absurd, surreal, avant garde, entertaining ...
Plot:
satire, surrealism, post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, dystopia, irreverent, dark humor, sketch, anti establishment, political satire, absurdism, social commentary ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A series of short comedy sketches featuring the topic of sex. They include: a French governess who paints her breasts; a couple having sex on the Candid Camera TV show; Little Lord Fauntleroy exploring a female body; a 'great white hunter' ...
Style:
anthology, sensual, parody, retro, sketch comedy ...
Plot:
nudity, mature, erotica, burlesque, striptease, exploitation, voyeurism, camp, satire, go go dancer, female nudity, sex scene ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 46 min.
Story:
Jesus, who's hitting the big 3-0, brings a surprise guest to meet the family. A Christmas special so wrong it must be from comedians Porta dos Fundos.
Style:
controversial, parody, sketch comedy, absurd, independent film ...
Plot:
gay, dark humor, irreverent, satire, adult humor, social commentary, political satire, family gatherings, family secret, religious, bible, identity crisis ...
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young bride escapes her wedding ceremony with a stranger and together they set off on an epic journey though increasingly bizarre lands. They encounter talking animals and mournful exhibitionists, converse with a discoursing rock, journey through ...
Style:
surreal, art house, psychedelic, sex comedy, disturbing ...
Plot:
lust, satire, exhibitionism, rape victim, orgy, surrealism, masturbation, female nudity, religion, absurdism, hippie, politics ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
europe
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
A bizarre portrait of the New York singles scene.
Style:
experimental, non-linear, underground film, satirical, independent film ...
Plot:
social commentary, absurd humor, counterculture, sexually liberated, street life, performance art, bohemian, political satire, underground, american civil war, vietnam war, chimpanzee ...
Place:
manhattan new york city
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Attenti a quei P2 (Beware of those P2s) is a satirical parody of the judicial affair concerning the P2 Masonic lodge.
Style:
satirical, parody, black comedy, controversial, cynical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
political corruption, satire, conspiracy, corruption, secret society, political satire, scandal, cover up, social satire, social commentary, dark humor, political intrigue ...
Time:
80s
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Questioning the world we live in. An outrageous Los Angeles producer sets out to make the most extreme and controversial Reality Television show ever, but gets more than he bargained for.
Style:
thought provoking, black comedy, absurd, independent film, mockumentary ...
Plot:
satire, manipulation, social commentary, political satire, terrorism, controversy, dark humor, entrapment, corporate greed, anti establishment, propaganda, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Made without proper language, just gibberish and grunts, "Themroc" is an absurdist comedy about a man who rejects every facet of normal bourgeois life and turns his apartment into a virtual cave.
Style:
dark comedy, disturbing, surreal, cult classic, intellectual ...
Plot:
surrealism, absurdism, sex, cannibalism, mental illness, anarchist, erotica, minimal dialogue, conflict, nude girl, mental disorder, naked breasts ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
europe, paris france
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
What would happen if a 9.7 magnitude earthquake were to strike the L.A. area? This is what "Cracking Up" looks at from the lighter side. The movie is composed of individual skits of original material by the actors spun around this ...
Style:
independent film, mockumentary, experimental, absurd, surreal ...
Plot:
satire, earthquake, chaos, dark humor, social commentary, interview, improv, sketch, community, political satire, disaster, disorder ...
Place:
california, los angeles
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Banker, acting as an international front, lives dangerously among a blonde, a brunette and a dark woman, his lover.
Style:
satirical, dark comedy, absurd, cynical, ironic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
social satire, bourgeoisie, hypocrisy, political satire, infidelity, corruption, male protagonist, character study, love triangle, urban, favela, female nudity ...
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
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