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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare.
Style:
psychological horror, atmospheric, psychological, experimental, surreal ...
Plot:
folk horror, island, metaphysics, solitude, nightmare, isolation, remote island, escape from reality, wildlife, nature, slow burn, macabre ...
Time:
70s
Place:
cornwall
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
LSD explores the human emotions of love, sex & betrayal through very candid points of view. Told through the chaos of the camera that has invaded all our lives - through handy cams filming home movies, security cameras shooting every inch of ...
Style:
anthology, semi serious, humorous, experimental, sexual ...
Plot:
found footage, self destructing, voyeurism, coincidence, filmmaking, obsession, society, journalism, couples, privacy invasion, sex scene, adult filmmaking ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
asia, india
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the ...
Style:
surreal, art house, disturbing, experimental, atmospheric ...
Plot:
surrealism, great ending, magic realism, death, hypnotist, folk horror, warning, village life, factory, murder, curses spells and rituals, mountain ...
Time:
year 1976, 18th century, 19th century
Place:
germany, tokyo
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The protagonist is Carmen X, a female member of a terrorist gang. She asks her uncle Jean, a washed-up film director if she can borrow his beachside house to make a film with some friends, but they are in fact planning to rob a bank. During the ...
Style:
experimental, erotic, art house, psychedelic, contemplative ...
Plot:
erotica, sex, male nudity, male pubic hair, female pubic hair, kidnapping, terrorism, bank, eroticism, gang, nudity, coitus ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
europe, france, paris france
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, UK, France, Finland, Norway, Italy
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
A barren soundstage is stylishly utilized to create a minimalist small-town setting in which a mysterious woman named Grace hides from the criminals who pursue her. The town is two-faced and offers to harbor Grace as long as she can make it worth ...
Style:
art house, psychological, bleak, philosophical, cerebral ...
Plot:
rape, society, morality, twists and turns, victim, female protagonist, vengeance, gangster, rocky mountains, sex scene, making love, haunted by the past ...
Time:
1930s, year 2003, future, near future, year 2004 ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, UK, Germany, Finland, China, USA, Japan, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Ten Minutes Older is a 2002 film project consisting of two compilation feature films entitled The Trumpet and The Cello. The project was conceived by the producer Nicolas McClintock as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the Millennium. ...
Style:
anthology, captivating, contemplative, experimental, art house ...
Plot:
multiple storylines, life, life & death, fate, memory, symbolism, mortality, experimental narrative, college, forest, minimalism, ritual ...
Time:
21st century
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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:
adult animation, surreal, philosophical, experimental, black comedy ...
Plot:
illness, dark humor, surrealism, divorced parents, life & death, existentialism, depression, mental health, introspection, self discovery, art, obsession ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa, tokyo
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.
Style:
spiritual, surreal, philosophical, experimental, erotic ...
Plot:
saint, surrealism, bible, temptation, religion, desert, dark humor, devil, spirituality, religious, christian, spirit ...
Time:
year 1965
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a ...
Style:
fairy tale, allegory, surreal, sexual, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
innocence, teenage girl, folk horror, wedding night, surrealism, menstruation, folklore, magic realism, older man younger woman relationship, supernatural, female protagonist, vampire ...
Time:
19th century, year 1970, near future
Place:
central europe, eastern europe, europe, czech republic
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A peasant woman is banished from her village and makes a deal with the devil to gain magical powers.
Style:
psychedelic, anime, adult animation, experimental, retro ...
Plot:
wedding, witch, deal with the devil, surrealism, female nudity, snake, rape, rape and revenge, burned at the stake, orgy, trippy, occult ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times
Place:
japan, france
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent ...
Style:
surreal, cult classic, mind bending, psychological, futuristic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dystopia, dream, satire, distopia, cyberpunk, surrealism, surveillance, absurdism, fighting the system, bureaucracy, christmas, hallucination ...
Time:
future, year 1985, year 1984
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, brazil ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
Style:
philosophical, cult classic, confusing, art house, surreal ...
Plot:
existentialism, depression, death, writers, theater, twists and turns, schizophrenic, loneliness, philosophy, writer's life, mental illness, actor ...
Time:
year 2008, 90s, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, berlin germany
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany, Italy
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
Style:
atmospheric, bleak, psychological, surreal, philosophical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
depression, wedding, end of the world, apocalypse, sister sister relationship, nihilism, collision, mental health, disaster, female nudity, mental disorder, human nature ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, future, 21st century
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After four college girls rob a restaurant to fund their spring break in Florida, they get entangled with a weird dude with his own criminal agenda.
Style:
sexy, sexual, cult classic, surreal, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
debauchery, spring break, juvenile delinquency, rapper, party, hedonism, murder, masked robber, beach party, danger, female killer, bad girl ...
Time:
year 2012, year 2013, 2010s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
usa, florida, california
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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
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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
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. Her boyfriend and ex-lover take matters into their own hands by hiring ...
Style:
art house, sexy, bleak, disturbing, harsh ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
rape, sexual abuse, revenge, violence, violent, sadism, rape and revenge, sexualized violence, brutality, anal rape, sexual perversion, rape victim ...
Time:
year 2002, turn of the century, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A seductive alien prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.
Style:
surreal, creepy, dark, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
alien, extraterrestrial, human prey, disguise, femme fatale, nudity, seduction, nightclub, creature, deformity, arthouse horror, female nudity ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2013, year 2014, 21st century
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
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Genre: Drama, History, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by an alchemist, who forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he ...
Style:
surreal, stylized, tense, atmospheric, psychedelic ...
Audience:
date night, family friendly
Plot:
folk horror, psychedelia, wilderness, group of strangers, surrealism, hallucination, captivity, danger, chaos, trippy, on the run, poisoning ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 17th century
Place:
england
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 202 min.
Story:
A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.
Style:
slow cinema, sexy, experimental, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
loneliness, minimalism, feminism, female protagonist, housewife, prostitution, prostitute, single mother, feminist, widow, chores, mother son relationship ...
Time:
70s, year 1975
Place:
europe, brussels, belgium, france, brussels belgium
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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
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A lift begins displaying some erratic behavior, like trapping some party goers and nearly suffocating them, and decapitating a security guard. Felix, the technician from the lift company, can't find anything wrong with the circuitry. When he ...
Style:
cult classic, slasher, scary, suspense, experimental ...
Plot:
elevator, artificial intelligence, skyscraper, journalism, monster, suffocation, reporter, macabre, teenager, evil computer, gory, captivity ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
netherlands, europe, holland, amsterdam
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A movie by Jon Jost, who is the maestro of the American experimental movie world. The film tells us the strange incidents that happen in the ruined old village. Comparing to Jon Jost’s previous movies, this film has a clearer narrative and is more ...
Style:
experimental, independent film, art house, slow cinema, meditative ...
Plot:
ambiguity, memory, small town, village life, social commentary, isolation, alienation, intimate, minimalism, folklore, voice over narration, decay ...
Place:
missouri, southern usa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Netherlands, UK, Japan, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.
Style:
surreal, psychedelic, cult classic, philosophical, cerebral ...
Plot:
hallucination, surrealism, exterminator, nightmare, addiction, trippy, repressed homosexual, secret agent, drug addiction, paranoia, reality vs fantasy, homosexuality ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, year 1953, year 1991, 90s ...
Place:
north africa, usa, new york, canada
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Mystery
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 63 min.
Story:
Through his frustrations, an obsessed novelist connects with a dimension where a walking girl encounters weird characters in a mysterious urban world, slowly driving to the peaceful nature of the desert. In this trip between light and shadow, hope ...
Style:
experimental, surreal, independent film, contemplative, psychological ...
Plot:
desert, transformation, solitude, isolation, character study, haunting, minimalism, surrealism, love, life, art, underground
Place:
spain, california, mallorca
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Country: USA
Duration: 64 min.
Story:
Todd Verow, his latest film is an experimental narrative feature heralding the end time. Split up into 20 short films, the film explores the fear and longing of several characters as they wait for some unspecified apocalyptic event. Some try to ...
Style:
erotic, experimental, avant garde, existential, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, transsexual, end of the world, identity, experimental narrative, sexual exploration, loss, doomsday, longing, transgender, obsession ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Bert Deling's surreal, button-pushing and hallucinogenic paean to the emerging possibilities of avant-garde and homemade filmmaking. Telling the tale of a violent ex-cop searching for the man who killed his partner, the film takes an unexpected ...
Style:
surreal, avant garde, experimental, independent film, art house ...
Plot:
lsd, surrealism, trippy, counterculture, revenge, acid trip, ex cop, ambiguity, drug lord, obsession, metaphysics, urban ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to the "forest." There, under an apple tree, he communes with his selves, represented by ...
Style:
avant garde, independent film, experimental, surreal, poetic ...
Plot:
bisexuality, underground, muse, surrealism, sexuality, odyssey, counterculture, brooklyn bridge, journey, mature, ritual, adaptation ...
Time:
60s
Place:
ancient greece
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A huge, run-down apartment in Berlin Mitte. Two women and a man, rehearsals for a movie about love and sex, that will never be shot. Acting and reality mingle into a dangerous melange. Berlin is the shelter, love is impossible, flesh is the law.
Style:
disturbing, experimental, touching, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot:
adult filmmaking, eroticism, coitus, sexual intercourse, fondling, unsimulated sex, dance performance, masturbation, female nudity, sex scene, sexual desire, movie business ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
An experimental film from the painter and sculptor Martial Raysse.
Style:
avant garde, experimental, allegory, art film, absurd ...
Plot:
surrealism, symbolism, improv, journey, counterculture, raft, female nudity, artist, rescue, sexual abuse, sea voyage, innocence ...
Time:
70s
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