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An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (2012)
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An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A quixotic artist hypothesizes about why he feels bad when a mystery girl stands him up. The event prompts him to ask: what's the content of a momentary feeling? Is it the sum of your experiences? And perhaps more importantly, are your experiences the sum of you?
Style: psychological, atmospheric, experimental, surreal, stylized, postmodern, independent film, anime, cerebral, serious ...
Plot: introspection, love and romance, fall in love, young lovers, unfulfilled love, city life, cause and meaning, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, afrofuturism, love, art, black, black history, blaxploitation, urban, performer's life, job, afro, postmodernism, romance
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: new york, usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, adult animation, atmospheric and serious films with plots about love and romance, love, friendship, fall in love, youth, surrealism and coming of age mostly in Animation, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like An Oversimplification of Her Beauty: Glitch in the Grid (2011), Around June (2008), Cheatin' (2013), Mind Game (2004), Rocks in My Pockets (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Glitch in the Grid (2011)
Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Three artists struggling against the grid of society find spiritual renewal.
Style: experimental, contemplative, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot: unemployment, friends, self discovery, hopes, introspection, society, friendship, small town, materialism, bad trip, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, northern california
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Around June (2008)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A love story set in the shadow of the shipyards of San Francisco. A young woman living with her much adored uncle Henry and domineering, abusive father, meets a penniless illegal immigrant, whose love gives her the insight and courage to finally ...
Style: uplifting, serious, emotional, touching, fairy tale ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: dysfunctional family, human spirit, self discovery, love affair, immigrant, fall in love, young lovers, love and romance, youth, hopes, family relations, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, san francisco
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Cheatin' (2013)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: In a fateful bumper car collision, Jake and Ella meet and become the most loving couple in the long history of romance. But when a scheming "other" woman drives a wedge of jealousy into their perfect courtship, insecurity and hatred spell ...
Style: surreal, adult animation, stylized, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: couples, infidelity, love, couple relations, imaginary, dishonesty, love and romance, disgraced, jealousy, fraud, existential crisis, cheating ...
Time: 2010s
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27%
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Mind Game (2004)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The film follows Nishi, a loser who has a crush on his childhood girlfriend. After an encounter with the Japanese mafia, the film follows Nishi as he journeys to heaven and back, and ends up trapped in an even more unlikely place.
Style: anime, surreal, atmospheric, stylized, psychedelic ...
Plot: self discovery, trippy, righting the wronged, family relations, supernatural, danger, hopes, dealing with death, family in danger, couples, imaginary, siblings relations ...
Time: 2000s, year 2004, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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Rocks in My Pockets (2014)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Latvia, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A fantastical tale based on true events, about five women of Signe Baumane's family, including herself, and their battles with depression and madness.
Style: surreal, stylized, adult animation, humorous, psychological ...
Plot: depression, mental illness, strong female presence, mental health, family relations, hopes, imaginary, redemption, women, psychiatry, trauma, trippy ...
Time: 2010s
Place: soviet union, latvia
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Hey Good Lookin' (1982)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: An outrageous, affectionate look at coming of age in the Eisenhower era in Brooklyn.
Style: adult animation, dark comedy, independent film, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: street gang, coming of age, erotica, teen angst, hamburger, cheating, prostitute, surrealism, jewish american, nostalgia, satire, flashback ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, 50s, 1950s
Place: usa, new york
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25%
Millennium Actress (2001)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a key she had lost and thought was gone forever, the filmmaker could not ...
Style: anime, surreal, touching, talky, atmospheric ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: actor's life, female protagonist, lost love, popularity, love and romance, retired, haunted by the past, unfulfilled love, love story, mother daughter relationship, interview, movie star ...
Time: 20th century, year 2001, 2000s, 1940s, 1930s ...
Place: japan, tokyo, china, asia
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24%
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Anomalisa (2015)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man crippled by the mundanity of his life experiences something out of the ordinary.
Style: surreal, adult animation, depressing, atmospheric, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, depression, stop motion, one night stand, sex toy, infidelity, adaptation, relationships, philosophy, character study, obsession, love at first sight ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, 2000s
Place: cincinnati ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
Story: Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche, in this new feature film version of Don Hertzfeldt's animated short film trilogy.
Style: philosophical, surreal, adult animation, thought provoking, atmospheric ...
Plot: surrealism, illness, mental health, mental illness, narration, dark humor, nightmare, hospital, divorced parents, loneliness, life & death, existentialism ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
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Love Me, Love Me Not (2020)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Yuna and Akari are two high school girls with very different views on love: Yuna dreams about romance through rose-coloured glasses, while Akari is down-to-earth and practical. Meanwhile, high school boys Kazuomi and Rio also have different views on ...
Style: anime, captivating, light, shoujo, romantic ...
Plot: in love, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fall in love, love story, schoolgirl, relationships, friendship, friends, teenage life, couple relations, schoolboy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The story is set in 1963 in Yokohama. Kokuriko Manor sits on a hill overlooking the harbour. A 16 year-old girl, Umi, lives in that house. Every morning she raises a signal flag facing the sea. The flag means “I pray for safe voyages”. A 17 ...
Style: anime, touching, sentimental, atmospheric, sweet ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, teen drama
Plot: high school, friendship, destiny, teenage life, fighting the system, love and romance, self discovery, teenage love, longing, high school life, twists and turns, happy ending ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 2010s, year 1963
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The PianoTuner of EarthQuakes (2004)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: Germany, UK, France, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Dark fairytale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.
Style: surreal, disturbing, stylized, mind bending, atmospheric ...
Plot: kidnapping, murder, fall in love, rescue, danger, love and romance, imaginary, mad scientist, piano, surrealism, life changing, moving ...
Time: 19th century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Surviving Life (2010)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Eugene, an aging man, leads a double life – one real, the other in his dreams. He goes to see a psychoanalyst, who tries to interpret the meaning of his dreams. Eugene finds a way of entering his dream-world at will and finds out about his ...
Style: humorous, witty, semi serious, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot: hopes, elderly, moral dilemma, escape from reality, impossible love, crumbling marriage, couples, love and romance, couple relations, introspection, aging, subconscious ...
Time: 21st century
Place: czech republic, czechoslovakia
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: A girl called Sho Ruurei is offered 500 gold coins to become the Kings consort. She carelessly accepts the offer and has to tutor the King. The King falls in love with her however his brother is in love with her too.
Style: anime, serious, touching, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot: royal family, teaching the ways of the world, fall in love, heroes, introspection, dishonesty, love and romance, state affairs, imaginary kingdom, imaginary, head of state, down on your luck ...
Time: middle ages
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Ef: A Tale Of Memories & Melodies (2007)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
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Style: anime, stylized, sincere, realistic, touching ...
Audience: teens
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Lesson Faust (1994)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czech Republic, France, UK, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A very free adaptation of Marlowe's 'Doctor Faustus', Goethe's 'Faust' and various other treatments of the old legend of the man who sold his soul to the devil. Svankmajer's Faust is a nondescript man who, after ...
Style: surreal, art house, experimental, claymation, philosophical ...
Plot: surrealism, faust, stop motion, mythology, fantasy world, deal with the devil, occult, folk horror, devil, supernatural ability, dark humor, superhero ...
Time: 90s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Haikara-san: Here Comes Miss Modern Part 2 (2018)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
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Style: anime, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Ah! My Goddess!: The Movie (2000)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
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Style: anime, stylized, semi serious, exciting, sentimental ...
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21%
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 52 min.
Story: Hakubo tells the story of two young people who live in rural Fukushima: Sachi Koyama, a girl who excels at playing the violin, and Yuusuke Kijinami, a boy who loves to paint. After an awkward, chance encounter, the two meet and begin to fall in ...
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: China, Japan
Duration: 74 min.
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20%
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
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Style: touching, anime, melancholic, atmospheric, sentimental ...
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20%
Clannad: The Motion Picture (2007)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
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Style: anime, touching, emotional, sincere, semi serious ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Country: Japan
Duration: 53 min.
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Style: yaoi, melancholic, sincere, sentimental, anime ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Prophet (2014)
Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: Qatar, France, Lebanon, Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
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Style: stylized, thought provoking, anime, inspirational, mind bending ...
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