Movies like Dalmas

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Dalmas (1973)
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Dalmas (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Bert Deling's surreal, button-pushing and hallucinogenic paean to the emerging possibilities of avant-garde and homemade filmmaking. Telling the tale of a violent ex-cop searching for the man who killed his partner, the film takes an unexpected turn when he encounters drug lord Plastic Man and a tribe of LSD enthusiasts. What follows is both literal and metaphorical mayhem as the boundaries of the film start collapsing and our idea of what's real is pushed to its very limits.
Style: surreal, avant garde, experimental, independent film
Plot: police officer, lsd, drug, drugs, search
Keyword: avant-garde

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out experimental, avant garde, independent film and surreal films with plots about surrealism, female nudity, male nudity, drug, lgbt, gay interest and gay mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Dalmas: The People Next Door (1970), New old (1979), Deux fois (1968), New Wave (1990), Black Biscuit (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The People Next Door (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Seventies attempt at exposing the drug problems of suburban youth. Typical middle-class parents Wallach and Harris are horrified to discover that daughter Winters is strung out on LSD. They fight to expose the neighborhood pusher while struggling to ...
Style: surreal, independent film
Plot: psychiatric hospital, counterculture, lsd, female nudity, daughter, drug, parent child relationship, drug dealer, extramarital affair, female full frontal nudity
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New old (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 67 min.
Story: Experimental film.
Style: experimental, avant garde
Plot: drum set, male nudity, female nudity
Place: france
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Deux fois (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Deux fois is a 1968 experimental film by Jackie Raynal. Raynal stars in the film, her first as a director; she had previously worked for several years as a film editor, most notably for films in Éric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales" series ...
Style: experimental, avant garde
Plot: feminist, very little dialogue, breasts, urination
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New Wave (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A hitchiker (Alain Delon) is taken in by a wealthy industrialist (Domiziana Giordano).
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Black Biscuit (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Featuring today's modern outlaws - These are the outsiders of society. And their all stars. Director Fabrizio Federico has created a fact feature film about money, sex, dignity, and dreams. A group of misfit outsiders all face the difficult ...
Style: experimental, underground film, avant garde, independent film
Plot: underground, movie business, dogme 95, maverick
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The Big Departure (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 71 min.
Story: An experimental film from the painter and sculptor Martial Raysse.
Style: avant garde, experimental, allegory, weird
Plot: female nudity, artist, rescue, innocence, cat, raft, rape, mask, female full frontal nudity
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Youth on the March (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A teenage boy stoner lives with his single mother.
Style: avant garde, psychological, touching, sincere, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: youth, teenager, surrealism, drug, mother, lifestyle, counterculture, suburbs, family relations, friendship, parents and children, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, adelaide south australia, south australia
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Ixe (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 48 min.
Story: “Ixe (written X and pronounced EEKS – as it is pronounced in French –, like a scream, a wound) is an imploded, crucified film. Made to be projected on four screens at once, X is drawn and quartered. At the four points of the compass, at the ...
Style: avant garde, experimental, gay cinema
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The Catcher in the Rye (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
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Eden and After (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Czechoslovakia, Tunisia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman. Once they sample his "fear powder" the students experience a series of hallucinations.
Style: allegory, disturbing, avant garde, enigmatic, surreal ...
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William, the New Judo Master (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Portrays the universe of an eternal being that exists within a lifecycle filled with disappointments and hopelessness. It's the chronicle about the search for love and the fight against oblivion.
Style: experimental, avant garde
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay interest, male nudity, nightmare, singer, nudity, mask, underwear
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The Removalists (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An adaptation of David Williamson's play; John Hargreaves and Peter Cummins star as a good and bad cop who assist a battered wife as she tries to escape her belligerent husband.
Style: independent film
Plot: police, police corruption, brutality, marital abuse, husband wife relationship, wife, escape, married couple, cafe, domestic violence, police station, van ...
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Heart of Glass (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 94 min.
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Style: surreal, art house, disturbing, experimental, allegory ...
Plot: surrealism, great ending, magic realism, death, folk horror, village, dream, warning, murder, village life, factory, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: year 1976
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The Other Side of the Underneath (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A surreal look at the schizophrenia of a group of girls in a therapy session.
Style: surreal, experimental, weird
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What Is It? (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: What Is It? is the name of a 2005 experimental film written, starring, funded and directed by Crispin Glover. As of 2008, the film has only been shown at independent theaters, typically accompanied by a question and answer session, slideshow and ...
Style: surreal, atmospheric, serious, avant garde, controversial ...
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Central Bazaar (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 156 min.
Story: For this remarkable experimental film, the provocative avant-garde legend Stephen Dwoskin gathered together a group of strangers and filmed them as they explored their fantasies over a period of five days: a project that now sounds a little like ...
Style: avant garde, erotic, independent film, experimental, weird
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 70 min.
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The Trip (1967)
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Country: USA
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