Movies like Zigeunerweisen
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Zigeunerweisen (1980)
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Original name: ツィゴイネルワイゼン
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
A surreal period film following an university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.
Style:
surreal, erotic, psychedelic, enigmatic, psychological, atmospheric, offbeat, serious, realistic, experimental ...
Plot:
geisha, nightmare, arthouse horror, musician, adultery, lookalikes, professor, aging, wanderer, marriage, wandering, murder suspect, male friendship, wanderlust, dying and death, love triangle, love and romance, sexual relations, couples, sexual content, human nature, destructive relationship, cheating wife, death, insanity ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1910s, 20s
Place:
japan, asia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, surreal, atmospheric and psychological films with plots about surrealism, danger, murder, supernatural, nightmare, macabre and blood mostly in Horror, Mystery and Drama genres. Some movies like Zigeunerweisen: A Snake of June (2002), L'Immortelle (1963), Haze (2005), Gemini (1999), The Oregonian (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Set in an anonymous Japanese metropolis, the film tells the tale of shy career woman, Rinko and Shigehiko, her hygiene-obsessed, workaholic husband. The couple explore their sexuality in a number of ways, causing their lives to be disrupted.
Style:
sexy, surreal, psychological, suspenseful, erotic ...
Plot:
couple relations, dysfunctional marriage, power relations, stalking, sexual relations, female masturbation, sex, surrealism, erotica, photograph, sexual blackmail, pink film ...
Place:
japan, europe, asia, italy, tokyo ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A sad man meets a beautiful, secretive woman who may or may not be involved in some conspiracy ring dealing in kidnapped women used as prostitutes. After several days of their sadly passionate relationship she disappears. The sad man is unable to ...
Style:
surreal, mind bending, avant garde, psychedelic, experimental ...
Plot:
obsession, mystery woman, alternate reality, surrealism, parallel universe, fetish, femme fatale, love and romance, dealing with death, mysterious character, power relations, love affair ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 49 min.
Story:
A man awakes to find himself trapped in a dirty, confined crawlspace. He barely has enough room to move. He also has no memory of why he’s there, or why he’s bleeding from a stomach wound. Apparently drugged, he occasionally ‘zones out’ of ...
Style:
serious, scary, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
isolation, imprisonment, survival, danger, surrealism, trapped, confined space, asian prostitute, gory, twists and turns, struggle for survival, asian school ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A successful doctor, Yukio's picture perfect life is gradually wrecked, and taken over by his avenging twin brother, who bumps off his family members one by one and reclaims his lover who is now Yukio's wife.
Style:
controversial, disturbing, mind blowing, psychedelic, tense ...
Plot:
twins, revenge, amnesia, sex, asian prostitute, trippy, lookalikes, impostor, twin brother, patricide, love and romance, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
66%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A girl gets in a car accident and wanders through the woods, encountering all kinds of nightmarish things.
Style:
experimental, atmospheric, surreal, scary, serious ...
Plot:
woods, danger, strong female presence, memory loss, haunted by the past, fear, graphic violence, nightmare, mental disorder, human relationship, lost, surrealism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oregon, usa
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Poland, France, Switzerland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The story of an anthropology professor Michal's who as the movie progresses develops two overwhelming obsessions. The first one is a mummified, 3,000 year-old, perfectly preserved body of a Shaman he and his colleagues have recently dragged out ...
Style:
sexy, mysterious, controversial, sexual, emotional ...
Plot:
nudity, obsession, female nudity, college student, danger, couples, surrealism, professor, nymphomaniac, sex, archeological dig, young girl ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, prehistoric times
Place:
poland, europe
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
15 international directors reunite to re-tell Edgar Allan Poe's most popular terror tales.
Style:
atmospheric, scary, stylized, suspenseful, surreal ...
Plot:
murder, danger, terror, blood, death, chess, hara kiri, stop motion, masquerade, castle, sea, night ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min.
Story:
A dying professor leaves his great-nephew a collection of documents pertaining to the Cthulhu Cult. The nephew begins to learn why the study of the cult so fascinated his grandfather. Bit-by-bit he begins piecing together the dread implications of ...
Style:
lovecraft, creepy, black and white, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot:
nightmare, cthulhu, ancient mystery, cosmic horror, supernatural, monster, swamp, shipwreck, sailor, kaiju, desert island, giant monster ...
Time:
1920s, year 2005, 19th century, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
louisiana, rhode island
Similarity:
56%
889
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A widow retreats to a remote cottage to recover from a suicide attempt, only to discover the place is haunted.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, captivating, enigmatic, scary ...
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, isolation, mentally unstable, death in the family, countryside, death, danger, bad boy, paranormal, travel, dysfunctional relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A student hippie and his friends share deadly premonitions.
Style:
suspense, creepy, psychological, atmospheric, independent film ...
Plot:
premonition, death, supernatural, unsettling, college, paranoia, student, paranormal, foreshadowing, fatalism, a vision, doom ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
54%
955
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After a chain of deaths at a junior high school, new transfer student Koichi Sakakibara turns to a mysterious girl who holds the key to the dark mystery.
Style:
psychological, dark, suspense, atmospheric, creepy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cursed, death, supernatural, school, mysterious girl, student, curse, murder, macabre, paranoia, ghost, teenager ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
54%
85K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, gothic, sexy, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
ghost, investigation, telephone call, fear, macabre, cursed object, supernatural, violent, urban legend, female protagonist, woman in danger, danger ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century, 1950s, 50s
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A Japanese actress begins having strange visions and experiences after landing a role in a horror film about a real-life murder spree that took place over forty years ago.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, suspense, spooky, psychological ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
serial killer, ghost, mental institution, nightmare, reincarnation, small town, haunted by the past, danger, vengeance, gory, grudge, twists and turns ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Short, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
Story:
A story of a group of humanoid rabbits and their depressive, daily life. The plot includes Suzie ironing, Jane sitting on a couch, Jack walking in and out of the apartment, and the occasional solo singing number by Suzie or Jane. At one point the ...
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, psychological, experimental, offbeat ...
Plot:
rabbit, dark humor, danger, confined, confinement indoors, isolation, surrealism, exploitation, arthouse horror, extreme, trippy, stoned ...
Time:
year 2002
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A woman vanishes. Her husband inquires into the strange circumstances of her disappearance. Did she leave him? Is she dead? As he goes along searching, he plunges into a world of nightmare and violence...
Style:
surreal, experimental, serious, postmodern, realistic ...
Plot:
male nudity, disappearance, whodunit, violence, danger, uncover truth, obsession, spouse in danger, violent content, nudity, crazy love, arthouse horror ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brussels, belgium
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Deep within the mysterious Arboria Institute, a disturbed and beautiful girl is held captive by a doctor in search of inner peace. Her mind controlled by a sinister technology. Silently, she waits for her next session with deranged therapist Dr. ...
Style:
surreal, stylized, retro, suspense, futuristic ...
Plot:
exploitation, cosmic horror, escape, behavior control, trippy, mad scientist, captivity, power relations, confined, hospital, maniac, surrealism ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, year 1966, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
vancouver, seattle
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A man fights against a tyrannical institution for his right to smoke, hence, for individual freedom.
Style:
psychological, dark comedy, surreal, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
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Place:
asia, siberia, india
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
One day, on a whim, Marc decides to shave off the moustache he's worn all of his adult life. He waits patiently for his wife's reaction, but neither she nor his friends seem to notice. Stranger still, when he finally tells them, they all ...
Style:
surreal, cerebral, psychological, meditative, erotic ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, dark humor, imagination, riddles and clues, life, human nature, insanity, destruction, trippy, mission, cognitive science, photograph ...
Time:
year 2005, 70s
Place:
hong kong, france, paris france
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In Japan, the daycare teacher Kyoko Okudera is convinced by her colleague and friend Madoka to visit her boyfriend Naoto Sakurai in the restaurant where he works instead of studying as planned. When the owner Mr. Wang answers his daughter's ...
Style:
psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cell phone, ghost, afterlife, investigation, vengeance, journalism, supernatural, danger, teenage life, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, telephone call ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, taiwan, asia
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Three people in Tokyo take a surreal voyage of self-discovery through memory and nightmares. "O" intends suicide while talking on a cell-phone with a stranger he meets on line who plans a simultaneous suicide. Events take a horrifying ...
Style:
psychological, rough, atmospheric, suspenseful, perverse ...
Plot:
nightmare, serial killer, surrealism, suicide, supernatural, police investigation, supernatural ability, rivalry, danger, murder, psychopath, gory ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A man is confined to a mental institution after trying to murder his fiancee. Two doctors relate his problem to an Asian philosophy that states that mental defects are transmitted from generation to generation. He learns that one of his distant ...
Style:
esoteric, avant garde, detective, weird
Plot:
mental disorder, illness, psychiatric ward, mental patient, nightmare, mental illness, parallel universe, mental institution, insane asylum, body horror, nudity, psychological experiment ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Horror
Country: Romania, France, Chile
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Surreal gothic comedy about a gambler who wins a strange Chilean mansion and takes his frail wife there.
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, gothic, suspense, scary ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, couples, uninvited guest, supernatural, doctor, legend, danger, dark humor, couple relations, surrealism, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s
Place:
chile, latin america, france, patagonia
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A psychiatric doctor is driven insane plagued by nightmarish visions of Zé do Caixão's (Coffin Joe) subterranean world of bizarre horror. Under analysis it is discovered that he has a pathological fear that Zé has sexual designs on his ...
Style:
surreal, psychological horror, experimental, anthology, controversial ...
Plot:
nightmare, hallucination, insanity, macabre, madness, obsession, exploitation, exorcism, occult, psychotherapy, body horror, losing-it hero ...
Time:
70s, year 1978, 20th century
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
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, erotic, disturbing, avant garde, experimental ...
Plot:
surrealism, torture, unsettling, parallel universe, modernism, fetish, death, desert, nihilism, painting, eroticism, female nudity ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Horror
Country: Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
“Three” is an anthology of three horror shorts from three different Asian countries.In "Dumplings" an aging actress wishing to reclaim her youth goes to a woman who makes dumplings that supposedly have regenerative properties; however, ...
Style:
creepy, anthology, psychological, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
cannibalism, gory, murder, healing power, violent, extreme, body horror, danger, spouse in danger, betrayal, jealousy, vengeance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, hong kong, china, asia, korea ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Schizophrenic housewife, engulfed by terrorizing apparitions, kills off each, unknowing if these demons are merely figments of her hallucinatory imagination or part of reality.
Style:
surreal, mind bending, psychological thriller, gothic, psychological ...
Plot:
schizophrenia, mental breakdown, country house, husband wife relationship, adultery, hallucination, countryside, surrealism, loneliness, delusion, housewife, unicorn ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1972
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
43%
157K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
American nurse, Karen Davis moves to Tokyo and encounters a vengeful supernatural spirit known as The Grudge that often possesses its victims. When a series of horrifying and mysterious deaths occur – with the spirit passing its curse onto each ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, psychological, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience:
teens, horror for children
Plot:
supernatural, haunted house, ghost, murder, gory, curse, imaginary, macabre, scared, vengeance, death, medical ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, east asia
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
A teacher visits the house of one of his students after the boy goes missing, only to have a horrifying excuse for his absence from school.
Style:
disturbing, dark, scary, suspenseful, cult horror ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
curse, haunted house, supernatural, murder, grudge, investigation, danger, missing child, curses spells and rituals, cursed, extreme, gory ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An artist in crisis is haunted by nightmares from the past in Ingmar Bergman's only horror film, which takes place on a windy island. During "the hour of the wolf" - between midnight and dawn - he tells his wife about his most painful ...
Style:
gothic, creepy, atmospheric, surreal, black and white ...
Plot:
surrealism, macabre, insanity, nightmare, artist, island, isolation, insomnia, existentialism, obsession, mental illness, homosexual subtext ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe, europe, germany
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths, along with the exact date and time of their future death, listed on the message log. The plot ...
Style:
atmospheric, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
telephone call, macabre, death, urban legend, supernatural, child abuse, hospital, spirit, good versus evil, vengeance, haunted by the past, supernatural ability ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, future, 80s, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
43%
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