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Nothing (2017)
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Genre: Drama
Country: San Marino
Duration: 46 min.
Story:
Vague moving shapes framing the black screen could be anything, but what they depict is nothing.
Style:
experimental, art house, avant garde, meditative, contemplative, surreal, existential, cerebral, slow cinema, indie film ...
Plot:
minimalism, silence, experimental narrative, dream, nihilism, surrealism, perception, no dialogue, debut, video art
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Most similar movies to Nothing
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out art house, experimental, existential and meditative films with plots about minimalism, isolation, intimate, loneliness, character study, memory and alienation mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Mystery genres. Some movies like Nothing: Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002), The Other (2020), The Catcher in the Rye (2008), Deux fois (1968), Container (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, UK, Germany, Finland, China, USA, Japan, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Ten Minutes Older is a 2002 film project consisting of two compilation feature films entitled The Trumpet and The Cello. The project was conceived by the producer Nicolas McClintock as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the Millennium. ...
Style:
anthology, captivating, contemplative, experimental, art house ...
Plot:
multiple storylines, life, life & death, fate, memory, symbolism, mortality, experimental narrative, college, forest, minimalism, ritual ...
Time:
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Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
An intimate portrait of a woman's mental confrontation and drifting between dream and reality after experiencing loss.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, contemplative, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
mental health, grief, character study, intimate, female protagonist, loss, loneliness, memory, isolation, confrontation, identity, minimalism ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
This film consists of 75 minutes and 6 seconds of blue screen.
Style:
avant garde, experimental, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
abstract art, surrealism, minimalism, entrapment, absurdism, weirdo, eccentric, hypnotic, cult
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158
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:
avant garde, experimental, independent film, black and white, art house ...
Plot:
feminist, rehearsal, experimental narrative, college, minimalism, radical, very little dialogue, artistic, urination, breasts
Time:
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Similarity:
95%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Poetic, experimental and different, Container is described by Lukas Moodysson as "a black and white silent movie with sound" and with the following words; "A woman in a man's body. A man in a woman's body. Jesus in ...
Style:
experimental, black and white, avant garde, art film, poetic ...
Plot:
desire for fame, identity crisis, minimalism, intimate, metaphysics, human relationship, darkness
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Ever since I started making films it has bothered me in a certain sense that film images are far too concrete, because technically they try to imitate the sense of space characteristic of everyday life. So the story ignites the imagination only to ...
Style:
experimental, existential, philosophical, slow cinema, avant garde ...
Plot:
death, plague, cemetery, mourning, symbolism, isolation, alienation, minimalism, haunting, adaptation, literary, obsession ...
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Lithuania, France, Netherlands
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The atmosphere of a corridor between yesterday and tomorrow, where many doors open into the unknown ... A series of faces, gestures and images both real and imagined time. (A fragmentary narrative without dialogue and depicts several people in ...
Style:
poetic, avant garde, slow cinema, atmospheric, art film ...
Plot:
post soviet, children, symbolism, national identity, dance, minimalism, haunting, ritual, alienation, underground, poetry, folklore ...
Place:
lithuania
Similarity:
73%
19
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
This avant-garde film is a stained glass window of emotion. 28 different people's feelings are woven into an emotional time capsule that will never exist again. A multi-dimensional bottle of feelings and time and art captured in a film.
Style:
art film, experimental, avant garde, art house, emotional ...
Plot:
empathy, intimate, memory, humanism, visionary, bittersweet, character study, identity, artistic, cult
Similarity:
71%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minutes films inspired by still images, including paintings and photographs. An experimental project made by filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in the last three years of his life.
Style:
experimental, anthology, slow cinema, poetic, philosophical ...
Plot:
painting, minimalism, reflection, photography, meditation, filmmaker, director, photographer, meaning of life, film industry, memory, life & death ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
middle east, iran
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, UK, Brazil
Duration: 64 min.
Story:
Parallel stories connected through an intimacy with death. The living and the dead communicate through visions, memories and reality.
Style:
surreal, emotional, melancholic, existential, contemplative ...
Plot:
grief, loss, memories, intimate, afterlife, a vision, mourning, supernatural, ghost, haunting, existentialism, spirituality ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A student takes a bizarre trip through the Italian Alps after being inspired by a professor's lecture on Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from his Ninth Symphony.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, art house, contemplative ...
Plot:
inspiration, lecture, snow, student, beethoven, classical music, adventure hero, escapades, journey, mountaineer, solitude, transformation ...
Place:
alps
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Little Fish Eat Big Fish is a Kolkata based group of no-budget film makers. The latest venture of the group is the 5 no-budget short films produced in 2009-10. They opted for a direct to DVD release in the last Kolkata Book Fair. Details for the ...
Style:
independent film, experimental, anthology, art house, psychological ...
Plot:
underground, minimalism, adaptation, experimental narrative, paranoia, social commentary, absurdism, urban, ideology, literary, improv, intimate ...
Place:
kolkata
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
An eternal landscape from the Yesilcam.
Style:
atmospheric, contemplative, heavy, meditative, art house ...
Plot:
memory, isolation, loneliness, reflection, symbolism, character study, minimalism, women's issues, absurdism, landscape
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young man who feels he doesn't fit in, decides to embark on an intimate journey. Three weeks for three impediments: deafness, mutism and blindness. Three weeks not to escape, but to find reality.
Style:
existential, meditative, psychological, experimental, contemplative ...
Plot:
intimate, blindness, deafness, self discovery, personal growth, existential crisis, identity crisis, loneliness, minimal dialogue, alienation, isolation, identity ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Margarethe in Bestie!:
her psyche and body imposed on by her lover;
then: her mutation
and lives in a multitude of creations.
The reality of the cosmos reveals itself to her.
Boundless in shining beauty. a film by Carsten Frank
Bestie!
...
Style:
art house, experimental, psychological, surreal, existential ...
Plot:
cosmos, transformation, female protagonist, identity, metamorphosis, transcendence, visionary, obsession, hallucination, portrait, beauty, body horror ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 47 min.
Story:
A variety of characters reflect on the same moments in time from very different perspectives. Some are tenuous, some are whimsical, some are deadly.
Style:
thought provoking, existential, psychological, art house, experimental ...
Plot:
memory, multiple perspectives, character study, moral ambiguity, everyday life, intimate, slice of life, urban, minimalism, murder, wine, perception
Place:
cannes, iceland
Similarity:
51%
986
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A man chop down trees, organizes the trunks, cleans them, stops to defecate, lunch, nap and continues to sell their timber.
Style:
contemplative, art house, existential, meditative, road movie ...
Plot:
minimalism, survival, routine, slice of life, forest, rehearsal, tree, countryside, labor, solitude, nature, humble ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In August 1961, speleologists from Italy’s booming North arrive on a Calabrian plateau where time stands still. The intruders discover one of the world’s deepest caves, the Bifurto Abyss, under the gaze of an old shepherd, the only witness of ...
Style:
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Plot:
cave, underground, search party, escapades, explorer, research, silence, minimalism, isolation, outsider, nostalgia, european ...
Time:
60s, year 1961
Place:
southern italy
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Ireland, Netherlands
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
In Passing is a collaboration between seven different filmmakers from around the world in response to Jesse Richards' 2008 Remodernist Film Manifesto.
Style:
anthology, avant garde, experimental, art film, poetic ...
Plot:
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164
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Praxis peels away the layers of narrative even as Brian, the film's axis, struggles to create his true self. Brian, a writer on the verge of a breakdown, is aided by Joe and an Elusive Woman as he sifts through the fragments of his persona to ...
Style:
psychological, existential, philosophical, art film, surreal ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Sweden
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
This enigmatic, mysterious minimalist feature, a collaboration between CalArts graduate C.W. Winter and photographer Anders Edström, combines elements of narrative fiction, documentary, and even installation art in depicting the daily routine of ...
Style:
art film, contemplative, experimental, slow cinema, art house ...
Plot:
isolation, island, solitude, minimalism, forest, silence, character study, female protagonist, portrait, wind, ritual, weather ...
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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:
existential, reflective, melancholic, emotional, dramatic ...
Plot:
loneliness, character study, loss, hopelessness, memory, frustration, identity crisis, alienation, intimate, lgbt, gay, redemption ...
Similarity:
42%
121
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Experimental film.
Style:
experimental, avant garde, art house, non-linear, surreal ...
Plot:
counterculture, underground, college, found footage, travelogue, social commentary, performance art, autobiography, hallucination, ritual, intimate, male nudity ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the ...
Style:
surreal, art house, disturbing, experimental, atmospheric ...
Plot:
surrealism, great ending, magic realism, death, hypnotist, folk horror, warning, village life, factory, murder, curses spells and rituals, mountain ...
Time:
year 1976, 18th century, 19th century
Place:
germany, tokyo
Similarity:
40%
336
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Depardieu plays an unnamed hunter and we join him and his dog as they depart for a nearby forest to snare some rabbits - or perhaps he's hunting for something far more elusive? His excursion soon progresses from carefree meandering to a ...
Style:
contemplative, psychological, existential, art house, meditative ...
Plot:
dog, forest, hunting, hunter, lost, wilderness, nature, loneliness, isolation, disorientation, character study, wanderer ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Follows the journey of one man on the path of his self-discovery that would traverse landscapes outside and layers deep within.
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, road movie, independent film ...
Plot:
self discovery, introspection, life, personal growth, coming of age, travelogue, wanderlust, intimate, minimalism, escape, road trip, journey ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Sebastian, a man in his thirties, works a series of temporary jobs and embraces love at every opportunity. He transforms, through a series of short encounters, as the world flirts with possible apocalypse.
Style:
existential, captivating, disturbing, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
meteorite, dog, owner dog relationship, society, life is a bitch, psychology, social problems, alienation, existential crisis, social commentary, male protagonist, absurd humor ...
Place:
poetic realism, chile, argentina
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Chile
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Love is everything with a young man journey's from the north to south of Chile to fulfill a promise.
Style:
road movie, meditative, poetic, contemplative, melancholic ...
Plot:
gay, loss, mourning, grief, love, journey, solitude, self discovery, memory, landscape, pilgrimage, character study ...
Place:
chile, patagonia
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city.
Style:
contemplative, bleak, existential, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
isolation, wasteland, loneliness, alienation, minimalism, metaphysics, character study, anonymity, identity, minimal dialogue, moral ambiguity, pilgrimage ...
Time:
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Place:
europe
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Film adaptation by Straub and Huillot of Hölderlin's 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedoclus, the legislator in Ancient Greece.
Style:
philosophical, art house, meditative, intellectual, experimental ...
Plot:
literary, symbolism, minimalism, mythology, sacrifice, voice over narration, isolation, ritual, time machine, prophecy, utopia, communism ...
Place:
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Similarity:
36%
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