Movies like Once 1973
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Once (1973)
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Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Filmed on a California beach, this arty outing features loin-cloth wearing actors silently telling the allegorical love story between Creation and Humanity on a lonely California beach.
Style:
allegory, art film, experimental, art house, poetic, minimal cast, surreal, meditative, avant garde, existential ...
Plot:
beach, humanity, minimalism, conflict, companionship, vanity, ritual, female nudity, destruction, gift, good versus evil, symbolism, nudity, nude, origin story, loincloth, no dialogue, making of, nudity (full frontal - brief)
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Most similar movies to Once
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out experimental, surreal, art house and existential films with plots about surrealism, female nudity, male nudity, ritual, minimalism, nudity and nude mostly in Fantasy, Drama and Music genres. Some movies like Once: Dreamwood (1972), Body & Earth (2002), Mammame (1986), Strawberries Need Rain (1971), The Inner Scar (1972). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
174
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
Dreamwood narrates the oniric quest of a modern argonaut in a mysterious island located somewhere on the borders of the unconscious.
Style:
experimental, avant garde, surreal, independent film, psychological ...
Plot:
children, symbolism, quest, isolation, island, journey, haunting, minimalism, minimal dialogue, ritual, male nudity, moon ...
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
The story of the first woman on earth, as she journeys through mythical landscapes in search of her soul-mate.
Style:
mythical, spiritual, mystical, allegory, meditative ...
Plot:
nature, female protagonist, earth, mythology, quest, journey, symbolism, ancient, solitude, soul mate, ritual, isolation ...
Similarity:
75%
136
Genre: Fantasy, Music
Country: France
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
A Ruizian adaptation of Jean-Claude Gallotta's iconic wordless ballet choreography.
Style:
experimental, avant garde, art house, poetic, surreal ...
Plot:
dance, choreography, ballet, performance art, minimal dialogue, ritual, dance performance, modern dance, beach, dancing, hypnotic, cult ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Death comes to take a beautiful young girl, and she persuades him to let her live out her fantasies before he finally takes her away.
Style:
surreal, allegory, poetic, existential, art house ...
Plot:
sex, death, teenage girl, loss of virginity, young woman, mortality, life & death, acceptance, fate, grief, nudity, female nudity ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
63%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: France
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
A collage of dreams. Garrel made a name for himself with this film as a new Jean Vigo. With Nico (Velvet Underground). A poetic and painterly film that has been described as 'a collage of dreams'. The film was shot without a script, but ...
Style:
experimental, surreal, avant garde, art house, mystical ...
Plot:
poetry, haunting, introspection, minimal dialogue, minimalism, loneliness, performance art, visionary, new mexico desert, obsession, ritual, surrealism ...
Time:
70s, year 1972
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Fantasy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A computer teacher, his black-magician grandfather and a female cyber-creature -- a series of pre-destined rendezvous, both on line and offline, over the shreds of mnemonic time and space, at the cleavages of various parlors of subculture -- finally ...
Style:
surreal, experimental, psychological, art house, avant garde ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
virtual reality, cyberspace, technology, memory, identity, cyberpunk, magic realism, supernatural, black magic, haunting, female android, subculture ...
Similarity:
56%
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:
experimental narrative, minimalism, intimate, bittersweet, omnibus, filmmaking, vignette, world, essay, suitcase
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56%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
A bizarre don't-even-try-to-make-sense-of-it bombardment of sexual imagery that plays like stream of consciousness from a degenerate: threesomes, foursomes, lesbians, bondage, hair-whipping (!) and, believe it or not, even kung-fu. Avant-garde ...
Style:
experimental, controversial, transgressive, avant garde, erotic ...
Plot:
explicit sex, sexual exploration, taboo, sexploitation, bondage, threesome, stream of consciousness, underground, fetishism, group sex, orgy, counterculture ...
Similarity:
54%
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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:
atmospheric, experimental, avant garde, art film, melancholic ...
Plot:
live performance, trippy, corruption, destruction, experimental music, rebirth, ritual, haunting, counterculture, rock and roll, surrealism, stoner ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
51%
131
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
Explores the complex relationship between the spirit, body, and mind. The film is a nightmare with closed eyes because it counts among the most terrible moments of my life, my second exile, which lasted a very long time. Inspired by an ancient Hindu ...
Style:
avant garde, experimental, psychedelic, surreal, spiritual ...
Plot:
surrealism, spirit, nightmare, metaphysics, exile, haunting, visionary, isolation, identity crisis, ritual, suffering, transcendence ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In a surreal puzzler, this story of a fantasy lived by a disparate group of four men captures the visual imagination with its images and leaves a large question mark in the meantime. The men first get together when called up for military maneuvers ...
Style:
allegory, surreal, mysterious, thought provoking, existential ...
Plot:
uncertainty, symbolism, male bonding, working class, skinny dipping, surrealism, small town, military training, male nudity, female nudity, peace, journey ...
Time:
80s
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
48%
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:
melancholic, surreal, atmospheric, philosophical, existential ...
Plot:
dystopia, post apocalyptic, survival, isolation, coming of age, mother son relationship, guilt, hallucination, suffering, addiction, claustrophobia, haunting ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A baroque mix of revolutionary politics, pop culture and semiotics loosely based on the play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. A young prince learns that life is just a dream from which we wake when we die. And that dreams may be as real as life.
Style:
philosophical, surreal, existential, allegory, reflective ...
Plot:
surrealism, metaphysics, identity crisis, literary, fatalism, adaptation, palace intrigue, moral dilemma, spirituality, ritual, dream, shootout ...
Place:
chile
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Lives intertwine and connect when Francesca navigates through the living world by encountering strangers at the exact moment she needs to. All while she secretly searches for a loved one that she never had the chance to say goodbye to.
Style:
poignant, captivating, psychological, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot:
female protagonist, unfulfilled love, social problems, problem, love story, relationship problems, relationships, lifestyle, social issues, philosophical conversation, tragic love, intimate ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Bound to a suffocating existence, a young man embarks on a marvelous journey of the imagination, transforming ordinary details of his room into fantastic images of natural beauty, where the cycles of life mysteriously play themselves out.
Style:
poetic, art house, surreal, lyrical, experimental ...
Plot:
opera, symbolism, dreaming, escape, intimate, coming of age, claustrophobia, parent child relationship, family drama, bittersweet, dance, minimalism ...
Place:
poetic realism
Similarity:
41%
584
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Experimental allegorical story about a group of hippie students in Austin, Texas, who move into an old big house in the woods. However, something else is there and it's influencing them.
Style:
surreal, mind bending, art film, experimental, independent film ...
Plot:
hippie, male nudity, counterculture, nudity, bare chested male, male pubic hair, public nudity, group, house, car theft, stop motion, surrealism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
texas, austin texas
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In a place where there is no time, a traveler comes to an unnamed village where we do not know where on the map. The weary traveler is a messenger. They have stories to tell, words to say.
Style:
folk tale, poetic, meditative, contemplative, art house ...
Plot:
traveler, symbolism, minimalism, intimate, empathy, community, children, isolation, turk, village, bittersweet, minimal dialogue ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, stylized, experimental, serious ...
Plot:
surrealism, couples, religions or cults, society, couple relations, human nature, theory, art, ship, disintegration, nudity, ocean ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, japan
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
The film deals loosely with the adventures of the grizzled Gustav who captains a ship – a giant floating ‘snailboat’ – with a crew of talking animals and lumbering sailors in blackface. It unspools like a perverse children’s story book, ...
Style:
surreal, absurd, experimental, dark comedy, satirical ...
Plot:
surrealism, talking animal, ship captain, sea voyage, magic realism, king, rabbit, bear, owl, absurdism, gold, frog ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A surreal and disturbing distillation of Western Civilization, Necropolis is the unhinged vision of Italian director Franco Brocani. Pierre Clémenti is Attila the Hun, naked and on horseback, while Warhol superstar Viva is a drunken and abusive ...
Style:
surreal, avant garde, experimental, art film, allegory ...
Plot:
surrealism, minotaur, macabre, frankenstein, devil, mortality, mythology, decadence, king kong, female vampire, vampire, monster ...
Similarity:
36%
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:
36%
2K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: India
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Based on Lord Shiva, the current society, and the concept of oneness. Five people who are in stark contrast with one another, their natures symbolized by the five elements of nature – fire, water, wind, earth, and sky.
Style:
spiritual, philosophical, thought provoking, allegory, existential ...
Plot:
symbolism, mythology, experimental narrative, slow burn, minimalism, telugu
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36%
Genre: Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Stark...sublime...intense. The phenomenon of Gothic Bellydance or "Raks Gothique" is a multitude of poetic visions born out of the Goth, or Gothic, subculture, music, imagery and fashion, and expressed in the language of Bellydance.
Style:
gothic, atmospheric, mysterious, sensual, melancholic ...
Plot:
subculture, dance performance, performance art, haunting, cabaret, counterculture, belly dancing, intimate, ritual, dance, goth, dancing
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A remote village has its own norms, rites and traditions. Sue and Sutechiki are a couple and cousins. Their sex life had been better: Sutechiki is impotent and Sue have a magical chastity belt. Themes such as time, memory, modernization and social ...
Style:
surreal, art house, poetic, experimental, existential ...
Plot:
magic realism, village life, folklore, family drama, isolation, alienation, superstition, surrealism, absurdism, moral ambiguity, nostalgia, forbidden love ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
This is Tim Burton's Disney Channel Halloween film short that only aired once. It combines live action and stop-motion, making for a creepy adventure into the woods.
Style:
surreal, creepy, dark fantasy, gothic, experimental ...
Plot:
halloween, hansel and gretel, stop motion, adaptation, macabre, stepmother, evil stepmother, witch, woods, surrealism, robot, puppetry ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
35%
373
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Via the New York Times: "...a severely obscure meditation on pre-revolutionary Russia in the form of an encounter between a ghost from the past and the ghost's present-day guardian. In fact, the two characters seem to be the shade of Anton ...
Style:
psychological, melancholic, art film, philosophical, atmospheric ...
Plot:
minimalism, character study, lonely, memory, literary, meditation, identity, nostalgia, haunting, encounter, ghost story, museum ...
Place:
soviet union, crimea, ussr
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A series of erotic vignettes and sexual imagery (mostly of the gay variety) are presented courtesy of The Cockettes (a gay/drag performance art ensemble of late 60s/early 70s San Francisco).
Style:
avant garde, homoerotic, aesthetic, transgressive, explicit ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
erotica, sex, unsimulated sex, gay, gay interest, male nudity, occult, ritual, gay subtext, lgbt, sex scene, art ...
Time:
60s
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
34%
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:
experimental, bleak, existential, grim, allegory ...
Plot:
transgression, dystopia, post apocalyptic, survival, isolation, moral ambiguity, resistance movement, underground, male nudity, death, erotica, masturbation ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
34%
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:
experimental, surreal, independent film, contemplative, psychological ...
Plot:
desert, transformation, solitude, isolation, character study, haunting, minimalism, surrealism, love, life, art, underground
Place:
spain, california, mallorca
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The producers of this French film took approximately 100 people, put them on a soundstage and had them improvise this film based on the premise that they are on a spaceship escaping from the dictators of earth and only have a few days to live. ...
Style:
experimental, avant garde, allegory, surreal, absurd ...
Plot:
orgy, improv, escape, performance art, dystopia, absurdism, social commentary, counterculture, underground, mortality, party, satire ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
33%
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