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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer. Alma eventually ...
Style:
mind twisting, cerebral, surreal, black and white, sexual ...
Plot:
surrealism, mute character, actress, silence, patient, existentialism, medical, nordic, art, dream, alienation, insanity ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
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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
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Based on the journals of Nail, a male hustler who reentered the prostitution ring after 10 years in a relationship, Todd Verow's experimental documentary (shot entirely on a cell phone camera) examines the changing landscape of male ...
Style:
experimental, avant garde, disturbing, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
male prostitution, gay, sex work, eroticism, sex worker, prostitute, identity crisis, found footage, isolation, urban decay, lgbtq, lgbt ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
The biggest names in writing, acting and directing come together in a series of shorts on Sky1 HD this festive period. Experience a novel Noel with these original, uplifting and highly creative slices of silent cinema that prove actions do speak ...
Style:
touching, experimental, anthology, silent, realistic ...
Plot:
hopes, love and romance, redemption, family relations, loss, slice of life, british, love, bittersweet, holiday, intimate, grief ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Animation, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
The first part depicts the heroine's toothache consequent to the loss of a very valuable watermelon, her dentistry and transportation to heaven. Next follows an elaborate exposition of the heavenly land, in terms of Israel and Montreal. The ...
Style:
avant garde, experimental, surreal, art house, spiritual ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
surrealism, stop motion, college, earth, beat generation, heaven, counterculture, spirituality, abstract art, alchemy, columbia university, cat ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: France
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
A collage of dreams. Garrel made a name for himself with this film as a new Jean Vigo. With Nico (Velvet Underground). A poetic and painterly film that has been described as 'a collage of dreams'. The film was shot without a script, but ...
Style:
experimental, surreal, avant garde, art house, mystical ...
Plot:
poetry, haunting, introspection, minimal dialogue, minimalism, loneliness, performance art, visionary, new mexico desert, obsession, ritual, surrealism ...
Time:
70s, year 1972
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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, existential, philosophical, mystical ...
Plot:
self discovery, desert, life philosophy, revelation, symbolism, transcendence, introspection, self awareness, serendipity, relationships, human existence, meaning of life ...
Place:
chile, brazil
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A lonely musician's descent into the shadowy world of a living drug leads to a mysterious island where a battle of body and soul is waged.
Style:
experimental, surreal, psychological, psychedelic, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
drug addict, drug addiction, musician, creature, surrealism, drug, island, drug abuse, musician's life, drug use, life is a bitch, hallucination ...
Place:
nova scotia
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Experimental film.
Style:
experimental, avant garde, art house, non-linear, surreal ...
Plot:
counterculture, underground, college, found footage, travelogue, social commentary, performance art, autobiography, hallucination, ritual, intimate, male nudity ...
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, Italy, Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.
Style:
experimental, psychedelic, surreal, epic, art house ...
Plot:
shakespeare, book, surrealism, magic, magic realism, nudity, children, boy, shipwreck, library, daughter, skinny dipping ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 17th century
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 195 min.
Story:
The exploration of the effects of an unexpected catastrophe, known as VUE (violent unknown event) through the bios of 92 survivors.
Style:
experimental, mockumentary, art house, not serious, humorous ...
Plot:
disaster, surrealism, immortality, bird, cinema, dialogue, underground, alternate history, found footage, worldwide chaos, chaos, disorder ...
Time:
year 1980
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
In the year 2012, the 3rd great war comes to an end. The war claims no victors, but both sides succeed in executing their chemical warfare campaigns. The result is over 3 billion deaths. Over ninety-eight percent of the male survivors are rendered ...
Style:
experimental, avant garde, surreal, suspense, bleak ...
Plot:
zombie, violence, paranoia, mass destruction, blood, camping, death, cloning, world war three, car, forest, mass death ...
Time:
future, 2030s, 2010s
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A girl gets in a car accident and wanders through the woods, encountering all kinds of nightmarish things.
Style:
experimental, atmospheric, surreal, scary, serious ...
Plot:
woods, danger, strong female presence, memory loss, haunted by the past, fear, graphic violence, nightmare, mental disorder, human relationship, lost, surrealism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oregon, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
There will be no other end to the world: fierce battles full of hatred and love for incest and wealth.
Style:
experimental, visually stunning, art house, avant garde, intense ...
Plot:
island, jealousy, end of the world, isolation, solar eclipse, doom, murder, obsession, experimental narrative, fatalism, taboo, claustrophobia ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously enough with several men and women, mostly of indeterminate gender, vamping it up in front of the camera and ...
Style:
underground film, experimental, erotic, independent film, absurd ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
lgbt, transsexual, drag queen, sadomasochism, transvestite, homosexual, surrealism, underground, absurdism, hardcore, lgbtq, sexuality ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A costume designer is sent to the Catskills for an interactive theatre piece set in the 1920s. When she arrives things seem dark, strange and off. She soon realizes she is part of a student film.
Style:
experimental, avant garde, entertaining, independent film, captivating ...
Plot:
female protagonist, murder, whodunit, student, good versus evil, woman, female artist, spectacle, filmmaking, manipulation, paranoia, haunting ...
Time:
1920s
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
A ultra-realistic depiction of life in a Marine Corps brig (or jail) at a camp in Japan in 1957. Marine prisoners are awakened and put through work details for the course of a single day, submitting in the course of it to extremely harsh and ...
Style:
experimental, harsh, political, existential, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
discipline, prison, military, marines, violence, dehumanization, military prison, degradation, abuse, realism, power, psychological torment ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Miguel, a debutant director, and his young team live a series of tribulations during the shootings of their first film, which unrolls between Lisbon, Venice, Paris and Madrid.
Style:
experimental, independent film, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
filmmaking, ambition, movie business, creative process, filmmaker, film producer, financial problem, money problems, film industry, perseverance, struggle, behind the scenes ...
Place:
lisbon portugal, paris france, venice, madrid, portugal
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, featuring real people, sometimes moving, in an effort to ...
Style:
experimental, realistic, serious, captivating, stylized ...
Plot:
art, painter, painting, riddles and clues, art collector, surrealism, conspiracy theory, artist, lgbt, art theft, underdog, logic ...
Time:
year 1979, 19th century
Place:
europe, france
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
About a man who’s angry at his wife because she’s met another man on a park bench and they no longer even speak the same language.
Style:
surreal, experimental, atmospheric, serious, stylized ...
Plot:
couple relations, introspection, battle of the sexes, love, crumbling marriage, fight, communication problem, dog, book, death, unsettling, bookstore ...
Time:
2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
europe, france, switzerland
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A man works for the unpleasant guru of a Scientology-like movement.
Style:
surreal, black comedy, experimental, psychedelic, parody ...
Plot:
doppelganger, satire, surrealism, absurdism, insomnia, dentist, existentialism, exterminator, infidelity, workplace, lookalikes, philosophy ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new mexico, rhode island, costa rica
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the ...
Style:
psychedelic, surreal, dark, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
surrealism, circus, serial killer, revenge, clown, psychology, killer clown, extreme, blood, art, magic realism, funeral ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
mexico city, mexico, latin america
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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 ...
Style:
surreal, dark comedy, black comedy, black and white, philosophical ...
Plot:
surrealism, religion, social satire, room, mansion, dinner party, absurdism, satire, class differences, piano, isolation, symbolism ...
Time:
year 1962, 20th century, 60s
Place:
spain, paris france
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.
Style:
cerebral, atmospheric, surreal, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
childhood, surrealism, world war two, poetry, stream of consciousness, dream, winter, memory, coming of age, mirror, levitation, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1935, 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1975 ...
Place:
soviet union, russia, moscow russia, ussr, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Together with his teenage sister and a horde of orphans, young Guy Maddin lazes away his under-stimulated youth on the mysterious island he will someday inherit. In the lighthouse orphanage in which they all live, their every move is watched over by ...
Style:
disturbing, surreal, cerebral, experimental, psychological ...
Plot:
human experiment, surrealism, lighthouse, childhood memory, lesbian, island, orphanage, investigation, family relations, parallel world, dying, abandoned ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
canada, romania
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young man travels to Holland for an assisted suicide. The young man was convinced that this was his only way of ending an existence that he considered to lack any dignity.
Style:
experimental, contemplative, atmospheric, surreal, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, human nature, dull life, unfulfillment, death wish, siblings relations, urban, dealing with death, sexual content, human rights, disability, urban setting ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, italy, holland, amsterdam
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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, surreal, mind bending ...
Plot:
unemployment, friends, friendship, hopes, self discovery, introspection, society, bad trip, materialism, small town, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles, northern california
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Arriving on a deserted beach in the Mediterranean sea, in a time and a place unspecified, Kaspar Hauser is forced to confront the evil of a Grand Duchess who feels threatened by the power she exercises over the community.
Style:
surreal, experimental, atmospheric, stylized, serious ...
Plot:
beach, island, techno music, good versus evil, rivalry, dishonesty, defiant, sea, motorcycle, surrealism, sheriff, electronic music ...
Place:
europe, italy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Mary is a senior in high school. With graduation a few months away, she is faced with sudden changes in life, love, and friendship. Meanwhile, strange events begin to happen to her that seem completely random and without reason. She struggles to ...
Style:
experimental, surreal, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
high school, best friend, teenage life, youth, high school life, social relations, friends, first love, self discovery, fall in love, grownups, introspection ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
asia, thailand, france
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
Lenz leaves England and returns to Paris in search of Madeleine who disappeared in uncertain circumstances. He meets Helena, a nurse still struggling with the loss of her infant son. Thus begins a fevered love story set against a backdrop of sorrow, ...
Style:
sexy, experimental, captivating, bleak, gothic ...
Plot:
relationships, cheating wife, exploitation, underground, big city, loss of child, grief, infidelity, nurse, death, menage a trois, depression ...
Place:
paris france
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