Movies like Deserto Azul
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Deserto Azul (2013)
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Genre: Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil, Chile
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A man who is tormented by his intuitions and by dreams goes away to find answers to his discomfort. Revelations are made to him along his path, until he meets his soul mate and is prepared to the Blue Desert.
Style:
experimental, psychological, mystical, philosophical, spiritual, existential, mind bending, captivating, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Plot:
self discovery, desert, revelation, life philosophy, symbolism, transcendence, relationships, meaning of life, research, serendipity, introspection, human existence, self awareness, existential crisis, soul mate, visionary, metaphysics, philosophy, isolation, identity, minimalism, memory, alienation, haunting, ritual ...
Place:
brazil, chile
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Most similar movies to Deserto Azul
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, art house, existential and surreal films with plots about identity, minimalism, memory, relationships, love, obsession and isolation mostly in Sci-Fi, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Deserto Azul: Dust (2005), Imaginur (2022), Into The Alternate (2018), Madly (2025), Anti-Clock (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
surreal, psychological, contemplative, serious, clever ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
russia
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445
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Taking place in the fifth reality to be discovered by humanity, Into The Alternate follows an inhabitant and foreign visitor as they struggle to survive within a collapsing ecosystem.
Style:
avant garde, nature documentary, experimental, art house, surreal ...
Plot:
alternate reality, survival, unsettling, experimental narrative, adaptation, haunting, macabre, alienation, minimalism, intimate, parallel universe
Time:
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Similarity:
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5K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
How much do we really know about ourselves when we make a decision? What if there are multiple versions of our I within us, each with something to say?
Style:
psychological, mind bending, existential, experimental, emotional ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
identity, self discovery, consciousness, self awareness, split personality, identity crisis, existential crisis, moral ambiguity, intimate, relationships, metaphysics, memory ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
86%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A complex and fascinating experimental exploration of time and identity. ‘Anti-Clock is a film of authentic, startling originality. Brilliantly mixing cinema and video techniques, Arden and Bond have created a movie that captures the anxiety and ...
Style:
experimental, psychological, avant garde, non-linear, existential ...
Plot:
suicide, identity, psychological experiment, memory, surrealism, alienation, doppelganger, paranoid, rehearsal, mental illness, obsession, haunting ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Two souls lost in a world of modernisation find each other in a moment's need for clarity and appreciation.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, contemplative, reflective ...
Plot:
relationships, bonding, love affair, love story, love interest, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples, romantic relationship, male female relationship, relationship problems, couple relations, love and romance ...
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68%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Several story threads about consciousness and perception intertwine in this film by video installation artist Daniel Cockburn.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, semi serious, art house ...
Plot:
archive, female protagonist, loneliness, secret, estrangement, job, consciousness, identity, memory, choice, haunting, obsession ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama
Country: Russia, Netherlands, Switzerland
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
An anthropologist investigates the origins of human evolution. She had suffered a mental trauma during her childhood when her father, a submarine captain, died during the war. This trauma periodically destabilizes her condition. The ghosts of a ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Shot while the director was still in college, the film is a remake of the Russian film of the same name. The man's dead ex who had committed suicide appears in front of him. The ghost has a cross-like scar on her wrist.
Style:
psychological, contemplative, emotional, melancholic, existential ...
Plot:
ghost, suicide, grief, death, loss, memory, guilt, haunting, supernatural, identity, isolation, obsession ...
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60%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In the near future, due to a breakthrough scientific discovery by Dr. Thomas Harbor, there is now definitive proof of an afterlife. While countless people have chosen suicide to reset their existence, others try to decide what it all means. Among ...
Style:
psychological, intellectual, dark, philosophical, enigmatic ...
Plot:
suicide, afterlife, macabre, plot twist, alternate reality, life after death, science, self discovery, life philosophy, religion, dream, philosophy ...
Time:
future, distant future, year 2017
Similarity:
59%
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Country: UK, Austria
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A candy colored lesbian, cyberpunk extravaganza. It takes the viewer to another dimension. The character Dandy Dust has to go to various planets to boost his/her sex drive and defeat a depraved villain. There are twins who throw flowers, a groin ...
Style:
psychedelic, experimental, surreal, existential, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
lgbt, cyborgs, identity, self discovery, split personality, travel, symbolism, surrealism, dystopia, haunting, space opera, post apocalyptic ...
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58%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Adrift in their broken-down space shuttle with little hope of rescue, two astronauts argue over whether they're better off spending their remaining days as friends or something more.
Style:
melancholic, dramatic, captivating, disturbing, romantic drama ...
Plot:
astronaut, space shuttle, isolation, love, space, spacecraft, couple relations, male female relationship, human in outer space, relationships, couples, outer space ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic, futuristic, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A celebration of life, a glance into death, and a celebration of what happens in between.
Style:
romantic, contemplative, existential, captivating, reflective ...
Plot:
life, love interest, mortality, life & death, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love and romance, love affair, relationships, romantic relationship, couple relations, male female relationship, intimate ...
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54%
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 ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, melancholic, romantic, philosophical ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
memory, amnesia, relationships, surrealism, loneliness, existentialism, melancholy, love, love story, dream, memory loss, couples ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, tense, cyber ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
I Origins follows a molecular biologist studying the evolution of the human eye. He finds his work permeating his life after a brief encounter with an exotic young woman who slips away from him. As his research continues years later with his lab ...
Style:
thought provoking, mind bending, spiritual, philosophical, enigmatic ...
Plot:
reincarnation, eye, metaphysics, genetics, buddhism, religion, atheism, death, spirituality, love story, sex scene, elevator ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 90s, year 1998, year 2005 ...
Place:
india, usa, new york, asia, delhi ...
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A humanoid robot deliverywoman muses on the mystery of human nature as she drops off parcels around the galaxy.
Style:
futuristic, psychological, disturbing, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
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Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, surreal, atmospheric, philosophical, existential ...
Plot:
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104K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
On the night of the discovery of a duplicate Earth in the Solar system, an ambitious young student and an accomplished composer cross paths in a tragic accident.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, boston, mojave desert, new haven connecticut, connecticut ...
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
belgium
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
There is a strange event in the sky. Only a young woman, and some of her more alienated friends...notice. But they are voiceless, as it just gets stranger - even as below - on the ground, it gets more, what is ominously called, 'normal'.
Style:
captivating, mysterious, atmospheric, existential, surreal ...
Plot:
survival, alternate history, distopia, dystopian society, struggle for survival, dystopian future, problem, dystopia, mysterious event, outsider, walled city, social commentary ...
Time:
near future, 2020s
Similarity:
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245
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Cambodia, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In this Buddhist sci-fi mystery, a teenage orphan in the slums of Phnom Penh, Cambodia investigates her friend’s past-life visions, uncovering a conspiracy of scientific reincarnation.
Style:
thought provoking, philosophical, detective, non-linear, futuristic ...
Plot:
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Time:
future, near future
Place:
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Country: India
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic drama, captivating, thrilling, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Turkey, Canada, France
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A murder investigation is flipped inside out in Burak Çevik's second feature, a spellbinding and surprising work that questions whether we can ever truly understand criminal motives. We begin in the present as an unseen narrator recounts the ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
turkey
Similarity:
40%
65K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong, China, France, Italy, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life, over the course of a few years, after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.
Style:
sexy, emotional, atmospheric, visually stunning, philosophical ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
philosophical, cerebral, futuristic, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
philosophy, destiny, love story, parallel universe, fighting the system, culture clash, manipulation, science, imagination, life philosophy, existentialism, life & death ...
Time:
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Similarity:
36%
707
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, China, Canada, Argentina
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two men living on the exact opposite side of the world. When one sleeps, the other one is awake. But when they finally meet, a simple question arises: Who is the dream and who is the dreamer?
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, suspense, disturbing, enigmatic ...
Plot:
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Place:
shanghai
Similarity:
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