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Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970)
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Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970)
Original name: Případ pro začínajícího kata
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Lemuel Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot. On the road he finds a dead rabbit dressed like a man and takes a watch from its waistcoat breast pocket. The half-ruined house that he enters reminds Lemuel of his childhood and brings up a painful memory of a dearly loved girl Markéta who was drowned years ago. Gulliver finds himself in Balnibarbi, a country where he doesn't understand the laws and habits and so continually offends against public decency. It is a day when people are ordered to keep their mouths shut and they force their visitor to follow suit. He faces harsh interrogation and finds it difficult to explain that he is not the rabbit Oscar whose watch has been found in his possession.
Style: surreal, satirical, existential, atmospheric, offbeat, not serious, biting, suspense, modern day adaptation
Plot: renaissance, surrealism, society, social misfits, imaginary, satire, disorder, fish out of water, social decay, dystopia, hare, existentialism, voice over narration, distopia
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe, czechoslovakia, europe, czech republic, central europe
Keyword: czech

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out surreal, atmospheric, offbeat and serious films with plots about surrealism, satire, society, existentialism, spirituality, nudity and female nudity mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Mystery genres. Some movies like Case for a Rookie Hangman: Down House (2001), The Temptation of St. Tony (2009), The Castle (1997), The Marvelous Visit (1974), City of Women (1980). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Down House (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The plot is set in modern Moscow, in the 1990s, with "New Russians", Hummer H1 SUVs, bribery, violence, truck fulls of tinned stew as a dowry, etc.
Style: surreal, humorous, not serious, suspense, biting ...
Plot: social decay, mentally unstable, fall in love, love triangle, society, bribery, doomed romance, romantic relationship, moving, cannibalism, drugs/alcohol
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: russia
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The Temptation of St. Tony (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Estonia, Finland, Sweden, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A mid-level manager who develops an aversion to being "good" finds himself confronting the mysteries of middle-age and morality as he loses grasp of what was once his quiet life.
Style: surreal, psychological, suspenseful, bleak, black and white ...
Plot: surrealism, cannibalism, moral dilemma, losing-it hero, temptation, fighting the system, rebellion, rebelliousness, midlife crisis, society, depression, mental disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, estonia
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The Castle (1997)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Austria, Germany, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Michael Haneke's adaptation of Franz Kafka's unfinished novel Das Schloss. K arrives in a remote village a stranger. In attempting to establish himself there, he enters the nightmarish world of the castle bureaucracy.
Style: mind twisting, allegory, mind bending, cerebral, serious ...
Plot: bureaucracy, angry, european, existentialism, mysticism, village, life is a bitch, society, uninvited guest, social relations, village life, dystopia ...
Place: europe, germany, austria
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The Marvelous Visit (1974)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: One morning, the rector of a small French village comes across a young man, lying unclothed and unconscious on a deserted beach. Intrigued, the rector has the young man carried back to his home. When he awakes the stranger calmly identifies himself ...
Style: stylized, sentimental, offbeat, touching, serious
Plot: angel, gay interest, gay subtext, bittersweet, homecoming, fish out of water, supernatural romance, down on your luck, village life, miraculous event, social relations, disorder ...
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City of Women (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.
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Plot: surrealism, sex, female nudity, satire, sexual relations, women, feminism, psychology, fetish, voyeurism, solidarity, human relationship ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: italy
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See You in Hell, Friends (1990)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 73 min.
Story: As a car full of an assortment of characters rolls down an embankment and bursts into flames, the old driver says "See You in Hell, Friends." The relations between the characters are shown in flashbacks. The pretty Rita and her fiancee ...
Style: absurd, allegory, dark comedy, avant garde
Plot: children, renaissance, crucifix, male nudity, infidelity, surrealism, female nudity, satire, affair, pregnancy, cow, female full frontal nudity
Place: eastern europe
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End of Man (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Brazil
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Stark naked man comes out from the sea and begins to walk the streets, interfering in daily episodes, always in search of justice. He names himself Finis Hominis (The End of Man, in latin), and soon becomes sort of a modern Messiah, capable of ...
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Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: brazil
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The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave. The Exterminating Angel is a 1962 surrealist film, written and directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Silvia Pinal. Sharply satirical and allegorical, the film contains a view ...
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Time: year 1962, 60s, 20th century
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The Man Who Sleeps (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Tunisia
Duration: 77 min.
Story: In this French tour-de-force a young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around ...
Style: art house, experimental, existential, contemplative, surreal ...
Plot: existentialism, nihilism, depression, introspection, loneliness, alienation, time travel, social outcast, daily life, trauma, lsd, minimalism ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france
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Cremaster 3 (2002)
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Duration: 182 min.
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The Trial (1962)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 119 min.
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Time: 20th century, year 1962, 60s
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L'Immortelle (1963)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Italy, Turkey
Duration: 101 min.
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Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: middle east, istanbul turkey, turkey
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The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
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Style: surreal, exciting, mind bending, humorous, futuristic ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, History, Horror, Mystery
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Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
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The Joke (1969)
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Country: Czechoslovakia
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Duration: 89 min.
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Late August at the Hotel Ozone (1967)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A troupe of young women on post-apocalyptic earth are lead around by a mistress born before the war, eventually stumbling into the company of a lonely old man.
Style: apocalyptic, surreal, psychotronic
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min.
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
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Duration: 76 min.
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Style: psychotronic
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Style: contemplative, surreal, semi serious, humorous, offbeat
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
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Style: surreal, atmospheric, stylized, serious, cult classic ...
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The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Poland
Duration: 124 min.
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Romania, France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
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Style: psychological, stylized, atmospheric, melancholic, spiritual ...
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Photographing Fairies (1997)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
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Style: psychological, grindhouse, mystic, esoteric, spiritual ...
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The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)
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Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
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Style: surreal, road movie, intellectual, spiritual, mind bending ...
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Window to Paris (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 115 min.
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Style: humorous, satirical, offbeat, biting, semi serious
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Place: paris france, russia, europe, st. petersburg russia
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