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ZAPPER! (2023)
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In a surreal universe where bananas fire laser beams and soup cans are used as grenades, a wacky cast of gangsters are thrown into a deadly game to battle it out over a mystical longboard in this trippy take on the Tarantino crime genre.
Style:
psychedelic, underground film, avant garde, slapstick comedy, dark comedy, experimental, action adventure, surreal, meta, mind bending ...
Plot:
heist, surrealism, alternate dimension, techno music, laser gun, gangster, puzzle, underground, fantasy world, deer, trippy, heist gone wrong, shootout, skateboard, magic realism, briefcase, skateboarding
Time:
90s, 1990s
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Most similar movies to ZAPPER!
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out surreal, weird, avant garde and psychedelic films with plots about surrealism, satire, magic realism, dark humor, trippy, absurdism and storytelling mostly in Comedy, Fantasy and Adventure genres. Some movies like ZAPPER!: Sotto il ristorante cinese (1987), Last Action Hero (1993), Red Lipstick (2000), Being John Malkovich (1999), Karnabal (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young man captures the fancy of an inventor's daughter when he passes through a basement door into another dimension.
Style:
surreal, art house, romantic, absurd, experimental ...
Plot:
chinese restaurant, parallel world, alternate dimension, portal, beach, magic realism, inventor, father daughter relationship, underground, exotic island, escapism, mad scientist ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A film without a beginning or an end, Moment to Moment is a rush of curious sketches, scenes, and shots that takes on a rhythmic life of its own.
Style:
absurd, experimental, surreal, non-linear, offbeat ...
Plot:
underground, jazz, photograph, surrealism, absurdism, vignette, pastiche
Time:
70s
Similarity:
92%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Danny is obsessed with a fictional movie character action hero Jack Slater. When a magical ticket transports him into Jack's latest adventure, Danny finds himself in a world where movie magic and reality collide. Now it's up to Danny to ...
Style:
entertaining, parody, exciting, spoof, black comedy ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
magic, heroes, parallel universe, satire, chase, dark humor, gunfight, boy, fish out of water, child in peril, villain, buddy ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, los angeles, california, usa, new york state ...
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61%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother.
Style:
atmospheric, humorous, stylized, semi serious, sketch comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
surrealism, absurd humor, absurdism, stupidity, imaginary, contact, daydreamer, goofy hero, creature, human relationship, unsettling, trippy ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Incorporating the manic approach of The Monkees and the camp aesthetic of the 60s Batman TV series, this heist movie in drag is a laugh-riot from wigs to stilettos. Starring, Hedda Lettuce and Miss Understood as a pair of none-too-glam dragqueens, ...
Style:
cult classic, dark comedy, parody, spoof, independent film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
drag, camp, heist, drag queen, satire, rock, underworld, vaudeville, sexual humor, revenge, irreverent, crossdresser ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Spike Jonze’s debut feature film is a love story mix of comedy and fantasy. The story is about an unsuccessful puppeteer named Craig, who one day at work finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, cerebral, cult classic, mind bending ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
surrealism, puppeteer, subconscious, psychology, satire, lesbianism, body swapping, body swap, philosophy, actor, existentialism, manipulation ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Story:
Jaumet is about lo live his most unforgettable adventure. Traveling by car, he arrives in a village whose inhabitants are quite outlandishly, as if they were plunged in a rare carnival behavior.
Style:
surreal, art house, absurd, dark comedy, experimental ...
Plot:
carnival, village, road trip, unsettling, satire, social commentary, isolation, anti hero, coming of age, theater, balloon, brainwashing ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Eddie Hawkins, called Hudson Hawk has just been released from ten years of prison and is planning to spend the rest of his life honestly. But then the crazy Mayflower couple blackmail him to steal some of the works of Leonardo da Vinci. If he ...
Style:
funny, light, cult classic, breathtaking, humorous ...
Plot:
heist, master thief, art theft, sarcasm, twists and turns, gangster, cia agent, megalomaniac, husband wife relationship, gold, villain, coercion ...
Time:
15th century, 90s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy, new york, new jersey
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their ...
Style:
surreal, psychedelic, road movie, black comedy, cerebral ...
Audience:
teen drama, adult
Plot:
drug abuse, road trip, lsd, journalism, psychedelia, trippy, addiction, surrealism, american dream, casino, marijuana, hallucination ...
Time:
70s, 90s, year 1998, 20th century, year 1965 ...
Place:
las vegas, usa
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.
Style:
psychedelic, surreal, experimental, mind bending, disturbing ...
Plot:
surrealism, trippy, folk horror, adolescence, filmmaking, clown, sexploitation, time travel, nude girl, melancholy, runaway, magic realism ...
Time:
year 1974
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a prominent abortion clinic owner goes missing along with a string of other black community leaders, her singing daughter and her fellow female biker gang members investigate.
Style:
psychedelic, independent film, surreal, slapstick, slapstick comedy
Plot:
blaxploitation, biker, surrealism, racism, exploitation, absurdism, satire, motorcycle, underground, bike, mother, gang ...
Time:
year 1975
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.
Style:
surreal, dark fantasy, fairy tale, cerebral, stylized ...
Audience:
kids, teens, date night
Plot:
surrealism, imaginary kingdom, deal with the devil, mysterious character, imagination, steampunk, bet, transformation, devil, imaginary world, sex with teenager, circus ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, year 2010
Place:
britain, london
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, Germany, Norway, France, Denmark
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.
Style:
surreal, dark comedy, philosophical, cerebral, black comedy ...
Plot:
absurdism, dark humor, power relations, society, odd couple, teaching the ways of the world, partner, misfit, on the road, existentialism, surrealism, humanity ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
eastern europe, japan, tokyo
Similarity:
43%
71
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Believing he's destined for greatness, an unlikely hero named Throg (Dana Lee) embarks on a wild adventure filled with Greek gods, Arthurian knights, certified loonies, nasty harpies, talking pigs, garbage collectors and one twisted forest ...
Style:
dark comedy, slapstick, parody, black comedy, surreal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
time travel, satire, unlikely hero, irreverent, greek god, mythology, immortality, gonzo, talking animal, gross out humor, surrealism, sword and sorcery ...
Time:
medieval times
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When trucker, Jack Burton agreed to take his friend, Wang Chi to pick up his fiancee at the airport, he never expected to get involved in a supernatural battle between good and evil. Wang's fiancee has emerald green eyes, which make her a ...
Style:
humorous, cult classic, exciting, stylized, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night, date night, manly
Plot:
martial arts, monster, truck driver, black magic, kung fu, good versus evil, magic, truck, prophecy, mythology, kidnapping, friendship ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa, north america, hong kong ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Fando and his partially paralyzed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar. Based on Jodorowsky's memories of a play by surrealist Fernando Arrabal.
Style:
surreal, experimental, disturbing, avant garde, depressing ...
Plot:
surrealism, post apocalypse, post-apocalyptic future, nihilism, distopia, female nudity, journey, paraplegic, mental disorder, dystopia, landscape, fetish ...
Time:
distant future, 60s
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
Style:
cerebral, surreal, psychedelic, philosophical, mind bending ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, adult
Plot:
female protagonist, multiverse, fight, alternate universe, surrealism, chinese immigrant, lgbt, immigrant, parallel world, midlife crisis, kung fu, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
2020s, future
Place:
brighton
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.
Style:
surreal, avant garde, experimental, mind bending, psychedelic ...
Plot:
surrealism, ghost, union, supernatural, theft, mistaken identity, murder, magic realism, labor, trippy, samurai, strike ...
Time:
year 1962
Place:
japan
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
This bizarre surrealistic black comedy takes place in a small fictitious post-apocalyptic town where food is scarce and butcher Clapet has the macabre business of using human flesh to feed his customers. Yet when his daughter falls in love with his ...
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, art house, visual, offbeat ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
dark humor, dystopia, surrealism, cannibal, cannibalism, food, underground, post-apocalyptic future, apocalypse, dystopian future, imagination, european ...
Time:
90s, year 1991, distant future, future
Place:
france
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A pro-America superhero destroys France to prevent Communists from taking over.
Style:
black comedy, political, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal ...
Plot:
surrealism, superhero, politics, woman strangled to death, political satire, fascism, manipulation, satire, social satire, intrigue, anarchist, propaganda ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal ...
Style:
humorous, surreal, light, visually stunning, absurd ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, date night, family outing, horror for children
Plot:
time travel, childhood, treasure, children, time portal, map, good versus evil, ogre, parallel universe, time, dwarf, burglary ...
Time:
regency period, 80s, year 1981
Place:
london, arizona, europe, england, ancient greece
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.
Style:
cult classic, fairy tale, visually stunning, visual, visually appealing ...
Audience:
family friendly, family outing, kids
Plot:
surrealism, steampunk, rejuvenation, satire, fantasy world, childhood, magic, renaissance, mental disorder, eccentricity, sword and sorcery, siege ...
Time:
18th century, year 1988
Place:
ancient greece, europe, egypt, austria, constantinople ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A fisherman crosses paths with a diamond-smuggling gangster who is his double and inadvertently takes his place at a resort hotel where he meets a special girl.
Style:
sitcom, situational comedy, slapstick, lighthearted, period piece ...
Plot:
mistaken identity, gangster, beach, fish out of water, mobster, heist, treasure map, secret identity, hidden identity, hotel, resort, conspiracy ...
Time:
60s, year 1967
Place:
san diego california, persia
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Turkey
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
With the death of a billionaire engaged in illegal practices, his billion-dollar fortune is up for the grabs. As his art collection is being prepared to be sold at an auction, two Turkish thieves from Germany are hired to steal valuable paintings ...
Style:
satirical, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, twist ending ...
Plot:
art theft, mafia, satire, heist, escapades, money, mobster, theft, heist gone wrong, hotel, auction, fashion show ...
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Short, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
Story:
A story of a group of humanoid rabbits and their depressive, daily life. The plot includes Suzie ironing, Jane sitting on a couch, Jack walking in and out of the apartment, and the occasional solo singing number by Suzie or Jane. At one point the ...
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, psychological, experimental, offbeat ...
Plot:
rabbit, dark humor, danger, confined, confinement indoors, isolation, surrealism, exploitation, arthouse horror, extreme, trippy, stoned ...
Time:
year 2002
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Denmark
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An intent fast paced Danish dark comedy film about two separately motivated brothers who with their slightly psychopathic tendencies end up in a touchy situation. One brother gets in serious trouble after a bank robbery and begs the other brother ...
Style:
dark comedy, ironic, humorous, black comedy, melancholic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
closeted homosexual, bank robbery, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, eccentricity, brutality, violence, sarcasm, unlikely criminals, family relations, fish out of water, gangster ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
denmark, asia, china, copenhagen
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A frustrated artist gets lost inside the cardboard fort he builds in his living room.
Style:
surreal, horror comedy, exciting, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
maze, surrealism, artist, trap, art, absurdism, friendship, rescue, paranormal phenomena, name calling, promise, photographer ...
Time:
year 2017
Similarity:
34%
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 ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He has a dream: to take flight within the confines of the stadium. Brewster tells those he trusts of his dream, but displays a unique way of treating ...
Style:
dark comedy, cult classic, funny, offbeat, humorous ...
Plot:
guardian angel, car chase, serial killer, surrealism, bird, tour guide, car, social satire, zoo, racial slur, police officer, security guard ...
Place:
texas, houston texas, vietnam, usa, asia ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When diabolical genius, Dr. Evil travels back in time to steal superspy Austin Powers's ‘mojo’, Austin must return to the swingin' '60s himself – with the help of American agent, Felicity Shagwell – to stop the dastardly plan. ...
Style:
parody, spoof, funny, teen sex comedy, satirical ...
Audience:
kids, teens, date night, adult
Plot:
spy, time travel, reluctant partners, cloning, james bond spoof, time machine, spy spoof, female spy, secret agent, sexual joke, satire, save the world ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 60s, 20th century, year 1969 ...
Place:
seattle, big ben london, washington d.c., london
Similarity:
33%
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