Movies like The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
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The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962)
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Original name: Baron Prášil
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The 20th century's first man lands on the moon and discovers - that Baron Munchausen has already beaten him to it, along with Cyrano and characters from Jules Verne's lunar-landing novel. The Baron spirits the young cosmonaut by horse-drawn ship back to an ancient "Earth", where they insult a sultan, rescue a princess, fall in love with the princess, and then as a trio have further experiences in a world of pastel colors, ornate dreamlike settings, and the inevitable angry disrupters of peacefulness and love.
Style:
experimental, psychedelic, claymation, adult animation, cult classic, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, slapstick, art film, costume drama ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
giant bird, trippy, european, nobleman, psychology, moon, palace, spacesuit, moon landing, giant fish, sailboat, beauty, baron, new love, turkish army, outer space, pirate, ship, sailor, whale, aristocrat, earth, boat, astronaut, rocket ...
Place:
czechoslovakia, czech republic, constantinople
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Most similar movies to The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out adult animation, anime, surreal and cult classic films with plots about surrealism, trippy, creativity, heroes, storytelling, mentor and fantasy world mostly in Animation, Fantasy and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Fabulous Baron Munchausen: Son of the White Mare (1981), Gandahar (1987), The Stolen Airship (1967), The Pied Piper (1986), Time Masters (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The story’s main character is Fehérlófia, who is a man with superhuman power. He is born as the third son of a horse. He listened to old tales, mostly about the Forefather and the end of his reign, caused by evil dragons.
Style:
psychedelic, fairy tale, adult animation, stylized, experimental ...
Plot:
underworld, mythology, folklore, trippy, surrealism, princess, brother brother relationship, sword and sorcery, peplum, psychedelia, acid trip, griffin ...
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
René Laloux, created Gandahar, his final animated feature film. Based on Jean-Pierre Andrevon’s novel Les Hommes-machines contre Gandahar (The Machine-Men versus Gandahar) This fascinating adult animation combines Laloux’s famous imagination ...
Style:
adult animation, atmospheric, stylized, futuristic, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, robot, female nudity, invasion, utopia, distopia, injection, androids and robots, transformation, mutant, sword and sorcery, sorcery ...
Time:
future, distant future
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia, Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The Stolen Airship (Czech: Ukradená vzducholod) is a 1967 live-action/animated film by Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman. The story is based loosely on Jules Verne's novels Two Years' Vacation and The Mysterious Island. The film in Art Nouveau ...
Style:
period piece, surreal, cult classic, psychotronic, whimsical
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
steampunk, stop motion, escapism, friendship, coming of age, zeppelin, desert island, aviation, adventurer, paperboy, children, pirate ...
Time:
year 1967
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
For the past 40 years, Jan Svankmajer (Faust, Conspirators of Pleasure) has been hailed as one of cinema's most consistently surprising, wildly imaginative, and remarkable surrealists of our time. Utilizing a delirious combination of puppets, ...
Style:
experimental, psychological, disturbing, surreal, art film ...
Plot:
surrealism, stop motion, puppet, humanity in peril, human existence, human flesh, multiple storylines, absurdism, dark humor, macabre, puppetry, symbolism ...
Place:
czechoslovakia
Similarity:
80%
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Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed. One of Czechoslovakia's most ambitious animation projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual dark art ...
Style:
fairy tale, adult animation, expressionism, psychedelic, gothic horror ...
Plot:
stop motion, rat, magic realism, folklore, nightmare, money, greed, children, mysterious man, metamorphosis, folk horror, transformation ...
Time:
year 1986, medieval times
Place:
czechoslovakia, central europe
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Switzerland, West Germany, UK, Hungary
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
On planet Perdide, an attack of giant hornets leaves Piel – a young boy – alone in a wrecked car with his dying father. A mayday message reaches their friend Jaffar, an adventurer travelling through space. On board Jaffar’s shuttle are the ...
Style:
surreal, psychedelic, anime, retro, atmospheric ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, adult
Plot:
time travel, trippy, space opera, rescue, child in peril, evil alien, survival, space adventure, desert, mature, monkey, time machine ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Fantastic Planet tells the story of “Oms”, human-like creatures, kept as domesticated pets by an alien race of blue giants called “Draags”. The story takes place on the Draags’ planet Ygam, where we follow our narrator, an Om called Terr, ...
Style:
surreal, psychedelic, adult animation, art house, visually stunning ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
dystopia, trippy, surrealism, distopia, slave, meditation, alien species, baby, alien life-form, giant, planet, existentialism ...
Time:
year 1973, distant future, future
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The Blue Meanies take over Pepperland, draining it of all its color and music, firing anti-music missiles, bonking people with green apples, and turning the inhabitants to stone by way of the pointed finger of a giant blue glove. As the only ...
Style:
psychedelic, colorful, humorous, cult classic, light ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, horror for children ...
Plot:
the beatles, submarine, surrealism, music, rock and roll, fighting the system, rock, trippy, musician, anti war, mature, hippie ...
Time:
60s, year 1968, 20th century, 70s
Place:
england, europe, liverpool, seattle, london
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Poland
Duration: 52 min.
Story:
Chronopolis tells the story of a gargantuan city lurking in the sky colonized by powerful immortals who have become jaded with eternal life. Most of their time is spent monotonously constructing bizarre and unusual objects while waiting for the ...
Style:
experimental, avant garde, existential, philosophical, surreal ...
Plot:
surrealism, immortality, eternal life, boredom, waiting, melancholy, architecture, loneliness, metaphysics, haunting, construction, creativity ...
Time:
80s, future
Similarity:
62%
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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:
surreal, anime, cerebral, adult animation, psychological ...
Plot:
self discovery, surrealism, trippy, hopes, righting the wronged, family relations, danger, supernatural, dealing with death, family in danger, couples, imaginary ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
Pandy and Retro awaken naked on Earth with no recollection of their past. They embark on a crime spree in search of food and clothing, but are captured by authorities and sent to the infamous lunar penitentiary named Dead Leaves.
Style:
anime, cult classic, adult animation, psychedelic, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, rescue, character study, good versus evil, heroic mission, dystopian future, escapades, survival, superhero, imaginary, robot, moon ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Phoenix 2772 starts with twelve minutes without dialogue, much like a silent film, recalling the birth and education of Godo. In this brave new world, children are born in test tubes and are raised by computers and robots. Godo learns the skills ...
Style:
anime, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, adult animation
Audience:
kids
Plot:
giant bird, dystopian future, imaginary, space and aliens, escapades, danger, fall in love, androids and robots, heroes, save the world, gift, spaceship ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A space princess is thrust out of her sheltered life and into a galactic quest to save her bounty hunter ex-girlfriend from evil incel aliens.
Style:
action packed, adult animation, absurd, raunchy comedy, psychedelic
Plot:
lesbian, female protagonist, bounty hunter, space opera, coming of age, class conflict, space, space adventure, irreverent, lgbt, spaceship, princess ...
Place:
australia
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The sailor of legend is framed by the goddess Eris for the theft of the Book of Peace, and must travel to her realm at the end of the world to retrieve it and save the life of his childhood friend Prince Proteus.
Style:
fairy tale, entertaining, exciting, colorful, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, preschool
Plot:
pirate, mythology, treasure hunt, sinbad, arabian nights, chase, treasure, swashbuckler, danger, giant bird, sea monster, friendship ...
Time:
ancient times, middle ages, medieval times, year 2003, 8th century
Place:
mediterranean sea, sicily
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with a collection of stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.
Style:
adult animation, erotic, stylized, atmospheric, sexual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
intergalactic, space station, heavy metal, good versus evil, rock, androids and robots, danger, blood, graphic violence, alien, nudity, flying car ...
Time:
future, year 1981, 80s
Place:
usa, pentagon, new york, new jersey, canada
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, UK, West Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit. She becomes surrounded by living inanimate objects and stuffed dead animals, and must find a way out of this nightmare- no ...
Style:
surreal, disturbing, art house, adult animation, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
surrealism, alice in wonderland, little girl, arthouse horror, absurdism, mushroom, stop motion, rabbit, female protagonist, child protagonist, anthropomorphic animal, skeleton ...
Time:
1800s, year 1988, 20th century, 80s, 19th century ...
Place:
czech republic, central europe, czechoslovakia, australia
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
A mysterious young girl wanders a desolate, otherworldly landscape, carrying a large egg.
Style:
anime, gothic, avant garde, adult animation, surreal ...
Plot:
surrealism, girl, little girl, angel, flood, warrior, religion, very little dialogue, minimal dialogue, egg, mental disorder, post-apocalyptic future ...
Place:
europe, japan
Similarity:
46%
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, cerebral ...
Plot:
surrealism, faust, stop motion, mythology, fantasy world, deal with the devil, occult, folk horror, devil, pact with the devil, temptation, supernatural ability ...
Time:
90s
Place:
prague, europe, central europe, czechoslovakia, tokyo
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Canada, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
France asleep in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon VI, where scientists vanish mysteriously, a girl, Avril, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.
Style:
anime, adult animation, exciting, intellectual, funny ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
steampunk, electricity, alternate reality, female protagonist, alternate history, human animal relationship, lizard, cat, serum, inventions and discoveries, pursuit, parents and children ...
Time:
year 1941, 2010s, 1870s, 1940s, 20th century ...
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Music, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The seven short films making up GENIUS PARTY couldn’t be more diverse, linked only by a high standard of quality and inspiration. Atsuko Fukushima’s intro piece is a fantastic abstraction to soak up with the eyes. Masaaki Yuasa, of MIND GAME and ...
Style:
anime, surreal, psychological, captivating, art house ...
Plot:
surrealism, trippy, fantasy world, multiple storylines, child, imagination, childhood, virtual reality, visceral, toys, minimalism, urban ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
japan, shanghai
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA, Canada, Hungary, Ireland, Taiwan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
It is written among the limitless constellations of the celestial heavens, and in the depths of the emerald seas, and upon every grain of sand in the vast deserts, that the world which we see is an outward and visible dream, of an inward and ...
Style:
experimental, fairy tale, psychedelic, adult animation, surreal ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschool
Plot:
trippy, chivalry, magician, witchcraft, barbarian, desert, sorcery, love letter, peplum, mature, wizard, magical ...
Time:
year 1993, middle ages
Place:
arabia
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
A newlywed develops a strange lump on his neck that gives him the ability to transform people or objects at will. His wife is very upset. Meanwhile, the CEO of Smilecorp learns of this man and his ability and sees a way to achieve world domination ...
Style:
adult animation, black comedy, anime, cult classic, humorous ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
couples, insanity, surrealism, brutality, supernatural ability, imaginary, wish come true, creativity, dark hero, moral ambiguity, sex, absurd humor ...
Time:
year 1997
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, War
Country: Hungary, Canada, West Germany
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Szaffi is a full-length animated feature based on Jokai Mor's books Gypsy Baron (Cyganibaro) and Szaffi. It has adventure, and treasure, and love, and a little black cat, and a war, and picturesque villains - a governor with a pressure release ...
Style:
period piece, fairy tale, costume drama, anime
Plot:
treasure hunt, inheritance, friendship, female protagonist, bravery, escapism, loyalty, national identity, class conflict, black cat, betrayal, wooing ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
hungary, ottoman empire
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An action epic that explores the origins of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force (better known as Master Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad,) who somehow become pitted in a battle over an immortal piece of exercise equipment.
Style:
adult animation, humorous, cult classic, stylized, talky ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
mad scientist, farce, mature, partner, goofy hero, heroes, disorder, heroic mission, stoner, obsession, trippy, surrealism ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, africa
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
A boy born the size of a small doll is kidnapped by a genetic lab and must find a way back to his father in this inventive adventure filmed using stop motion animation techniques.
Style:
cult classic, disturbing, dark, surreal, claymation ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, stop motion, distopia, mad scientist, minimal dialogue, dystopia, folklore, manipulation, sword and sorcery, adventurer, laboratory, dystopian future ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
Features the beautiful young lady, Rose Salterne, who together with Lucy Oxman is captured by Spanish pirates, launching the nationwide cry for a high-seas chase to win the girls' return. When the British hero Leigh hears the cry, he takes an ...
Style:
slapstick, slapstick comedy
Plot:
ancient, swordplay, cannon, pirate captain, combat, heroes, pirate ship, villain, mild violence, swordsman, pirate, sword fight ...
Time:
16th century
Similarity:
39%
14K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
An ambiguous battle between good and evil wages in a post-apocalyptic earth populated by netherworld creatures who have re-emerged after the nuclear winter. Two wizard twin brothers - the evil Blackwolf and the good Avatar - battle for supremacy. ...
Style:
adult animation, psychedelic, anime, surreal, stylized ...
Audience:
horror for children, adult
Plot:
sword and sorcery, magic, post apocalypse, dark future, nymph, wizard, world war two, surrealism, trippy, good versus evil, apocalypse, medieval ...
Time:
20th century, future, near future, distant future
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Animation, Drama, History, Sci-Fi
Country: Hungary
Duration: 166 min.
Story:
Jankovic’s adaptation of the eponymous play, is divided into multiple parts and depicts the creation and fall of Man throughout history.
Style:
adult animation, epic, existential, experimental, anime ...
Plot:
adam and eve, religion, society, christianity, scientist, devil, philosophy, existentialism, trippy, crusader, hedonism, mature ...
Time:
prehistoric times
Place:
ancient greece, rome italy
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Six-year-old Ataru steps on Elle's shadow during an impromptu game of shadow-tag; in Elle's culture, this is viewed as a marriage proposal. Eleven years later, Elle returns to Earth in order to marry Ataru — by which time not only had he ...
Style:
anime, manga, shounen, adult animation, mecha ...
Plot:
queen, superhero, superpower, japanese high school, cryogenics, teenager, harem, alien abduction, wedding, postman, warp speed, royalty ...
Time:
80s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
There's trouble brewing in Bikini Bottom. Someone has stolen King Neptune's crown, and it looks like Mr. Krab, SpongeBob's boss, is the culprit. Though he's just been passed over for the promotion of his dreams, SpongeBob stands ...
Style:
funny, humorous, stylized, not serious, surreal ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, pre-teens, preschool
Plot:
friendship, stupidity, underwater, sea, fish, underwater city, beach, castle, princess, restaurant, king, slavery ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004
Place:
pacific ocean
Similarity:
36%
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