Best movies like Once
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Plot Summary:
Filmed on a California beach, this arty outing features loin-cloth wearing actors silently telling the allegorical love story between Creation and Humanity on a lonely California beach.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: minimal cast, allegory, independent film, art film, silent, silent film
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Mammame (1986)
Plot Summary:
A Ruizian adaptation of Jean-Claude Gallotta's iconic wordless ballet choreography.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Fantasy, Music
Country: France
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: silent, silent film
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Body & Earth (2002)
Plot Summary:
The story of the first woman on earth, as she journeys through mythical landscapes in search of her soul-mate.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: minimal cast, silent, silent film
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Aphrodisiac (1973)
Plot Summary:
Eccentric Professor Leviticus Wirtsus is obsessed with crossbreeding animals of different species. His research leads Wirtsus to discover a LSD-type substance called Fongaluli.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, weird
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Mr. Peters' Pets (1962)
Plot Summary:
A man orders some "animal ambrosia" so he can turn into animals and be able to watch naked women.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Sotto il ristorante cinese (1987)
Plot Summary:
A young man captures the fancy of an inventor's daughter when he passes through a basement door into another dimension.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away (2012)
Plot Summary:
An original story featuring performances by Cirque du Soleil. A young woman is entranced by an Aerialist. When they fall into the dreamlike world of Cirque du Soleil and are separated, they travel through the different tent worlds trying to find each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, surreal, stylized, poignant, visually stunning, weird
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My Tale Is Hot (1964)
Plot Summary:
The devil emerges from the ground in a suburbanite's garden and tries to tempt him with a variety of naked women.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Black Magic (1975)
Plot Summary:
A magician makes money by charging people to cast love spells on the objects of their affection. Complications arise when he decides that he wants a customer's bride for himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 848
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, weird
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The Switch or How to Alter Your Ego (1974)
Plot Summary:
A shy, withdrawn female scientist invents a formula that turns her into a horny, oversexed nymphomaniac.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Luminous Procuress (1971)
Plot Summary:
A series of erotic vignettes and sexual imagery (mostly of the gay variety) are presented courtesy of The Cockettes (a gay/drag performance art ensemble of late 60s/early 70s San Francisco).
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: avant garde, dark, explicit, aesthetic, transgressive, homoerotic, underground film, independent film, queer cinema
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Hidden Beauties (1999)
Plot Summary:
Three gorgeous beauties awaken from an ancient nap and immediately begin making up for lost time, engaging in as many passionate encounters as time will allow.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: independent film, sexy, stylized, semi serious, sexual
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One Million AC/DC (1969)
Plot Summary:
A group of sex-crazed cave people are being harassed by a Tyrannosaurus Rex. While they try to figure out a way to deal with this threat, they have sex and eat a lot.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: prehistoric, independent film, cult film
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Dreamwood (1972)
Plot Summary:
Dreamwood narrates the oniric quest of a modern argonaut in a mysterious island located somewhere on the borders of the unconscious.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: anthology, experimental, avant garde, independent film
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Angel Mine (1978)
Plot Summary:
A young and affluent couple become fatally entangled in their own wish-fulfillment world.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Fantasy
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: weird
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Lesbian Harem (1987)
Plot Summary:
Two lesbian lovers escape the city to commit a lovers-suicide deep in the forest. There they are captured by the queen of a lesbian colony who uses the two lovers for her own sex games. The couple organize a revolt against the queen.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: erotic, fairy tale
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Lucinda's Spell (1998)
Plot Summary:
Something Magical Is In The Air...... Jason the last descendant of Merlin, must father a child on the eve of Beltane. A coven of the world's most powerful witches have gathered in New Orleans for a spell contest to determine who will bear his magical child. But a bizarre battle between good and evil ensues when a young prostitute, Lucinda challenges the coven with her own special brand of magic. To complicate matters, Madison, a desperate New Orleans voodoo priest, hungry to use Jason's alchemical blood to turn lead into gold, stikes a treacherous alliance with the seductive witch Beatrice whose only desire is to use Merlin's offspring to control the most powerful magic on earth... Revel in magic and mayhem as Lucinda struggles to overcome diabolical odds in the most outlandish spell contest you've ever seen!.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: bizarre
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Parade of the Planets (1984)
Plot Summary:
In a surreal puzzler, this story of a fantasy lived by a disparate group of four men captures the visual imagination with its images and leaves a large question mark in the meantime. The men first get together when called up for military maneuvers in the equivalent of a civilian reserve corps. Since their training is only periodical, two years go by before they are called up again. During this season's maneuvers, they end up being "killed," and so get some time off before they have to go home, and that is when the strange occurrences start. First the men visit a town of beautiful women and go swimming in the buff, then they land on a deserted island, and later, they find themselves with a group of elderly people, one of whom may - or may not - have a connection to one of the men.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neorealism, allegory
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Indecent Desires (1968)
Plot Summary:
Zeb finds a doll and a ring in a garbage can. Then, he sees Ann going to work with her friend Babs. He thinks she looks like the doll. When he gets home, he caresses the doll... Ann feels it! When Zeb finds out about Ann's fiance Tom, he really gets mad, burns the doll, and beats it up, which makes Ann think she's losing her mind.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, weird
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Little Red Riding Hood (2016)
Plot Summary:
A Brother Grimm's Horror Version of the Classic Fairytale.
IMDB Rating: 1.7
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: fantasy adventure
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Platinum Blonde (2001)
Plot Summary:
Angela is a mysterious blonde with a special mission: to bring together separated lovers. Join her as she helps a shy woman open up to her attractive boss, a man express his love to his brother's fiancee, and a movie editor in love with a young starlet.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, hot, sexploitation film
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Fluctuations (1970)
Plot Summary:
A bizarre don't-even-try-to-make-sense-of-it bombardment of sexual imagery that plays like stream of consciousness from a degenerate: threesomes, foursomes, lesbians, bondage, hair-whipping (!) and, believe it or not, even kung-fu. Avant-garde masterpiece or pure gutter trash? Perhaps both.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: bizarre
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Strawberries Need Rain (1971)
Plot Summary:
Death comes to take a beautiful young girl, and she persuades him to let her live out her fantasies before he finally takes her away.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Scars of Youth (2008)
Plot Summary:
In a post-apocalyptic world 200 years in the future, society has broken down into fragmented groups who now dwell within a tangled wood, completely unaware of any civilization that exists beyond and governed by the white-suited agents of some ominous force, which could perhaps be nothing more than a high-tech manifestation of their own guilt and suffering. In this world, a young man living in a decaying wreck of a dwelling struggles to come to terms with his bleak existence while trying to save his mother from the grip of a strange black fluid which seems to prolong life but at the same time leaves it's users in a drug-like haze and causes scar-like tissue to cover their bodies. Scars of Youth follows in the tradition of classic European science fiction such as Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker and Solaris, while at the same time forging new ground in surrealistic fantasy film.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: experimental, independent film
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The Brave Little Tailor (1991)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany, Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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Eggshells (1969)
Plot Summary:
Experimental allegorical story about a group of hippie students in Austin, Texas, who move into an old big house in the woods. However, something else is there and it's influencing them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, mind bending, surreal, experimental, allegory, independent film, art film, weird
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Drawing Restraint 9 (2005)
Plot Summary:
The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, stylized, serious, experimental, disturbing, controversial, artsy, slow cinema, aesthetic
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The Wonders of Aladdin (1961)
Plot Summary:
Young Aladdin (Donald O'Connor) has a series of wild adventures after he discovers a magic lamp containing a genie (Vittorio De Sica).
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Fantasy
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, slapstick, psychotronic
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Dragon Knight (2022)
Plot Summary:
Many years after the war has been lost, and all the dragons slain, a lone knight travels the lands of Agonos seeking to raise an army against the demon lord Abaddon. When a healer's vision reveals that one dragon still lives, and together with an eager young squire, the knight sets off in search of the fabled creature. As the armies of Abaddon descend on the human kingdoms, the dragon is their last hope of fending off the horde, before it lays waste to the lands of men. But does the creature even exist? And if it does, will it fight for them once more?.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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Journey to Promethea (2010)
Plot Summary:
A tyrannical king reigns over his kingdom with an iron fist, but there is hope. A prophecy foretold long ago states that a boy will rise up against the oppressive regime and lead his people to the promised land of Promethea. This is the action-packed journey of one boy that sparks a rebellion that ignites a vicious clash of that sparks a rebellion that ignites a vicious clash of can emerge alive and victorious.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 634
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, tense, intense
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Alzur's Legacy (2019)
Plot Summary:
Quarter the century after the Rivian Pogrom (the very last events from the Witcher Saga) Kaer Morhen, an old keep of the witchers from the school of the Wolf, is being attacked. Leader of the assault is a mighty warrior - Agaius. A few years later from Aretuza, newly rebuilt school of the sorceress, runs Ornella, who has been suspected of finding the legendary Alzur's Almanac. In pursuit comes Triss Merigold, with help of an old bard, Dandelion, his bastard son Julian and Lambert, the last monster slayer, seeking for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 552
Genere: Fantasy
Country: Poland
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, serious, stylized