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Population: 1 (1986)
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Population: 1 (1986)
Genre: Fantasy, Music, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: A defense contractor who somehow becomes the sole survivor of a nuclear holocaust. In his solitude, he traces the history of U.S. civilization in the 20th century through musical numbers.
Style: mysterious
Plot: punk, nuclear holocaust, alienation, vampire, dancing, nuclear war, art, female nudity, jazz, underground, singing, anti war, photograph, destruction, surrealism, puppetry, voice over narration, social commentary, handgun, last man on earth, bunker, holocaust, nuclear, pistol, world ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, semi serious, humorous and offbeat films with plots about surrealism, dancing, female nudity, singing, song, music and rock and roll mostly in Fantasy, Sci-Fi and Music genres. Some movies like Population: 1: Space Is the Place (1974), Dead Meadow Three Kings (2010), Vinyl (1965), Scars of Youth (2008), Joe's Apartment (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Space Is the Place (1974)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Sun Ra and his Solar Myth Arkestra return to Earth after several years in space. Ra proclaims himself "the alter-destiny", meets with inner-city youths and battles with the devil himself to save the black race.
Style: surreal, psychedelic, avant garde, cult classic, independent film ...
Plot: jazz, blaxploitation, afrofuturism, rock, utopia, black, space travel, surrealism, afterlife, trippy, ghetto, ufo ...
Time: 1940s, 70s
Place: indiana, chicago, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Dead Meadow Three Kings (2010)
Genre: Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The film consists of footage from Dead Meadow's last L.A. hometown show after a five-month tour, intermingled with vignettes that abstractly depict themes of corruption, destruction, and rebirth. The band portrays the Three Kings who are the ...
Style: avant garde, psychedelic
Plot: rock and roll, concert, surrealism, stoner, hard rock, drug, band, concert footage
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 4.2
 1K
Vinyl (1965)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Warhol's strange interpretation of "A Clockwork Orange."
Style: avant garde, art house, independent film
Plot: underground, exploitation, art, dystopia, dancing, dominatrix, torture
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Barbra Streisand: The Television Specials: Barbra Streisand... and Other Musical Instruments (1973)
Genre: Music, Musical
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 52 min.
Story: A mulitcultural musical potpourri, Barbra's fifth television spectacular is her most adventurous. Performing a startling array of new songs and classic hits, with genre-bending arrangements, Barbra Streisand... and Other Musical Instruments is ...
Style: entertaining
Plot: makeover, showbiz, musician, dancing, singer, organist, singing, little boy, performer, pianist, belly dancing, camel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Scars of Youth (2008)
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: independent film, experimental
Plot: zombie, nudity, female nudity, surrealism, post apocalypse, coming of age, incest overtones, incest, knife
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Joe's Apartment (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A nice guy has just moved to New York and discovers that he must share his run-down apartment with a couple thousand singing, dancing cockroaches.
Style: funny, humorous, dark comedy, not serious, feel good ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: cockroach, dark humor, insect, pets, love, slacker, teenager, child, humour, wrestling, toilet humor, mobster ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
War Is Menstrual Envy (1992)
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.
Style: controversial, disturbing, political, mind bending, independent film ...
Plot: transgression, underground, male nudity, masturbation, erotica, female nudity, death, perversion, space, outer space, bar
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77%
 4.3
 3K
The Apple (1980)
Genre: Music, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Musical set in the 'future', e.g. 1994. A young couple enters the world of the music industry, but also the world of drugs.
Style: horror musical, psychotronic, surreal, grindhouse, cult classic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: disco, rock and roll, drug, dancing, art, food, distopia, hallucination, eurovision, orgy, brainwashing, god ...
Time: future, year 1980, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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The Noah (1975)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Noah, the sole remaining survivor on our planet after a nuclear holocaust, finds himself unable to to accept his unique predicament. To cope with his loneliness, he creates an imaginary companion, then a companion for his companion and finally an ...
Style: apocalyptic, existential, mystic, independent film, allegory ...
Plot: dystopia, nuclear war, post apocalypse, distopia, imaginary friend, nuclear holocaust, isolation, apocalypse, alien, doomsday, post apocalyptic, wasteland ...
Time: future, post world war two
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Regime Without Bread (1985)
Genre: Fantasy, Music, Musical
Country: France
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Régime sans pain, influenced by (Ruiz's) friend Jean Baudrillard (and calling) to mind grade-Z SF, grew out of a commission to direct a music video (featuring French cult rock duo of Angèle/Maimone). Ruiz offered a counterproposal that he ...
Plot: sword fight, woman in a wheelchair, surrealism, absurdism, noose
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 4.4
 2K
Vicious Lips (1986)
Genre: Horror, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A band finally gets the opportunity for that breakthrough gig if they can make it to an "in" club on another planet in time...
Style: independent film, space horror, psychotronic, cult classic, futuristic ...
Plot: punk, alien, rock, nightclub, outer space, evil alien, rock and roll, erotica, woman with a gun, space, exploitation, fantasy world ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Forbidden Zone (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A mysterious door in the basement of the Hercules house leads to the Sixth Dimension by way of a gigantic set of intestine. When Frenchy slips through the door, King Fausto falls in love with her. The jealous Queen Doris takes Frenchy prisoner, and ...
Style: psychedelic, cult classic, grindhouse, black and white, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: surrealism, female nudity, bare breasts, dysfunctional family, transgender, camp, dancing, satire, martial arts, sex, mental disorder, time travel ...
Time: year 1980, 20th century, 70s
Place: california, usa, venice california
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
The Return of Captain Invincible (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In WWII, Captain Invincible used his superpowers against the Nazis, and he was a hero. But when they accused him of supporting the communists, he retired to Australia. Now, after a US super secret super weapon is stolen, he's asked to come ...
Style: parody, witty, humorous, semi serious, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: exodus, villain, satire, good versus evil, superhero, secret agent, anti hero, escapades, superhuman powers, undercover, fighting crime, heroes ...
Time: year 1983
Place: new york, usa, australia, sydney australia, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park (1978)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Music, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The tale of rock band KISS and their efforts to thwart a diabolical plan by mad scientist Abner Devereaux. Devereaux has found a way to clone humans into robots in his laboratory at an amusement park. It just so happens that he plans to uses the ...
Style: psychotronic, exciting, semi serious, humorous, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: amusement park, superhero, rock, rock and roll, robot, heavy metal, killer clown, hard rock, punk, exploitation, disco, satan ...
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Disco Beaver from Outer Space (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min.
Story: National Lampoons mockery of everything that is wrong with cable TV.
Style: spoof, parody, hispanic, sketch comedy
Plot: vampire, beaver, ethnic stereotype, pun, racial stereotype, vampirism, music band, boxer, infection, magazine editor, country music, pope ...
Place: manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 5.4
 36
Nightfur (2011)
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 ...
Style: spiritual, underground film, psychotronic, avant garde, independent film ...
Plot: surrealism, supernatural, supernatural power, spirituality, science, outer space, cosmos, zen, existentialism
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 7.4
 4K
The Hole (1998)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: Taiwan, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the final days of the year 1999, most everyone in Taiwan has died. A strange plague has ravished the island. Supposedly spread by cockroaches, the disease sends its victims into a psychosis where they act like the insects. Eventually, they die. ...
Style: surreal, contemplative, inspirational, brutal, aesthetic ...
Plot: disaster, erotica, virus, zombie, human relationship, hardcore, infection, minimalism, minimal dialogue, underground, illness, architecture ...
Time: year 1998
Place: taiwan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Slapstick (Of Another Kind) (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A rich, beautiful couple give birth to deformed alien twins who, when their heads are together, are the smartest kids on the planet.
Style: mysterious, fairy tale, independent film, slapstick, slapstick comedy
Plot: twins, dwarf, voice over narration, couples, brother sister relationship, colonel, sadist, intelligence, midget, missile, alien contact, deformity ...
Time: year 1982
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Desierto en tu mente (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Mystery
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 63 min.
Story: Through his frustrations, an obsessed novelist connects with a dimension where a walking girl encounters weird characters in a mysterious urban world, slowly driving to the peaceful nature of the desert. In this trip between light and shadow, hope ...
Style: underground film, black and white, experimental, psychedelic
Plot: love, surrealism, art, desert, underground, life
Place: mallorca, california, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (1975)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Three attendees at a puppet theater don various roles in order to sing a variety of songs by Jacques Brel, all while hippies and other eccentrics cavort about them.
Style: semi serious, surreal, offbeat, humorous, touching ...
Plot: broadway, dancing, theater, love and romance, human nature, bittersweet, mannequin, puppet, gluttony, hippie, anti war, pilot ...
Time: year 1975, 20th century, 70s
Place: paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Wicked (2024)
Genre: Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Story: This is the story of how Elphaba becomes the Wicked Witch of the West, and it involves love, loss, hatred, envy and an unwillingness to accept anything that is different.
Style: fairy tale
Audience: date night
Plot: wizard of oz, magic, wizard, theater, singing, singer, dancing, witch, gravity, female friendship, daughter, professor ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 4.7
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Habitat (1997)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Netherlands
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In order to combat the damage caused by the depletion of the ozone layer, maverick biologist Hank Symes unleashes his most ambitious experiment to date: accelerated evolution. Unfortunately, this not only causes the authorities to take notice, but ...
Style: psychotronic, suspense, apocalyptic, serious, futuristic
Plot: creature feature, monster, post apocalypse, disaster, environmentalism, experiment gone awry, teenage life, apocalypse, plague, superhero, youth, deadly creature ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Timesweep (1987)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of people enter an old movie studio and are suddenly confronted with a variety of strange phenoma. Among other things they are transported through time and the building is surrounded by a deadly acid fog . The filmmakers also throw Roman ...
Plot: zombie, spaceship, dead body, broken mirror, television studio, death, violence, fear, surrealism, blood, corpse, student ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted (1992)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
Story: After her boyfriend ends their relationship, the dreamself of a heartbroken woman floats through the air over an industrial wasteland singing ballads of love.
Style: surreal, cult classic, experimental, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: music, musician, dancing, crazy love, breakup, nudity, love and romance, imaginary, couples, tragic love, unfulfilled love, lovers apart ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980)
Genre: Music
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A rather incoherent post-breakup Sex Pistols "documentary", told from the point of view of Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, whose (arguable) position is that the Sex Pistols in particular and punk rock in general were an elaborate scam ...
Style: grindhouse, mockumentary, erotic, independent film, contemplative ...
Plot: punk, music, rock and roll, punk rock, rock, dancing, showbiz, subculture, musician, nudity, music business, sociology ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Sleeping Beauty (1987)
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Feature-length, live-action musical version of the classic fairy tale by Charles Perrault.
Style: fairy tale, mysterious, independent film, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, date night, preschool
Plot: sleeping beauty, sleeping, magical, beauty, cinderella, princess, king, queen, curse, magic, elf, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 16th century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Across the Universe (2007)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, History, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 133 min.
Story: When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in America, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy, a rich but sheltered American girl who joins the growing ...
Style: psychedelic, surreal, stylized, intense, light ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, family outing, adult
Plot: freedom, anti war, music, hippie, vietnam war, artist, political unrest, dancing, dance, the beatles, trippy, love story ...
Time: 60s, y2k, year 2007, 20th century, year 1968
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california, greenwich village manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.8
 35K
All That Jazz (1979)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his ...
Style: surreal, captivating, touching, humorous, cerebral ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: music, showbiz, jazz, dancing, workaholic, death, divorce, life is a bitch, artists and showbiz, dancer's life, love and romance, downfall ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 70s, year 1979
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.6
 77K
Dreamgirls (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Three young women – Deena Jones, Effie White and Lorrell Robinson – dream of becoming pop stars and they get their wish when they're chosen to be backup singers for the legendary James 'Thunder' Early.
Style: stylized, emotional, lyrical, melancholic, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: african american, performer's life, showbiz, music, fame, dancing, broadway, jazz, manager, black, unlikely friendships, dance ...
Time: 60s, 70s, year 2006, 2000s, 20th century
Place: michigan, los angeles, detroit, usa, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Time Barbarians (1990)
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A warrior king has swordfights with ugly savages that crouch around the forest and snarl a lot. An evil bad guy, bent on doing evil things, kills his wife and flees to modern day Los Angeles. The warrior chases after him to avenge his wife's ...
Style: independent film, exciting, semi serious, suspenseful
Plot: barbarian, time travel, sword and sorcery, sorcery, exploitation, wizard, ancient, female nudity, woods, wizards and magicians, rivalry, danger ...
Time: middle ages
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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