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Plot Summary:
Lemuel Gulliver (Lubomír Kostelka) has had a car accident and continues his journey across the unknown countryside on foot. On the road he finds a dead rabbit dressed like a man and takes a watch from its waistcoat breast pocket. The half-ruined house that he enters reminds Lemuel of his childhood and brings up a painful memory of a dearly loved girl Markéta who was drowned years ago. Gulliver finds himself in Balnibarbi, a country where he doesn't understand the laws and habits and so continually offends against public decency. It is a day when people are ordered to keep their mouths shut and they force their visitor to follow suit. He faces harsh interrogation and finds it difficult to explain that he is not the rabbit Oscar whose watch has been found in his possession.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 677
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: surreal, satirical, existential, atmospheric, offbeat, not serious, biting, suspense, modern day adaptation
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What unfolds against the backdrop of the story of Klára Knabelová (Viktorie Cermáková) and her relationships with three Austro-Hungarian Army officers is a parable of the collapse of the old world of traditional values and the start of the proliferation of new (dis)orders. World War I becomes a trigger for this process of disintegration and an incubator for mysterious, irrational forces. The only person who can emerge from this melting-pot with a clean slate is a strong and charismatic woman who becomes a symbol of composure, as well as the promise of "new tomorrows.".
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, ambiguous ending, psychotronic
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 73 min
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In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years later, he tries to get his revenge by seducing Helena, the wife of one of his accusers.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: disturbing, experimental, controversial, avant garde, sincere, rough, emotional, realistic, semi serious, non-linear
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Plot Summary:
Czech television production of Dracula that is very faithful to Bram Stoker's novel.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 127
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Country: France, Italy
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 98
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Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: humorous, surreal, contemplative, semi serious, offbeat
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 386
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Duration: 79 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 658
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Spain, Portugal, Netherlands
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: surreal, sincere, semi serious, contemplative, road movie, offbeat
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
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Faust (2011)
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 140 min
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A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in Europe before WWII, professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the Nazis. While on the run, the professor meets a young woman who has her own experience with a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
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Duration: 124 min
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Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema (1990)
Plot Summary:
The film is set just before Poland's communist regime came to an end, and the central character is a provincial censor (Janusz Gajos), a tired, sloppy, lonely man, whose wife has long since left him. For him, censorship is both an art and a game, but he does not enjoy it. During a screening of a sentimental Polish melodrama called "Daybreak" at the Liberty cinema across the road from the censor's office, the actors start to rebel and refuse to speak their lines. There is anarchy and when the censor is unable to control the situation, senior party officials are called in. Eventually a film critic notes that the situation reminds of "The Purple Rose of Cairo" by Woody Allen and brings a reel of the film to demonstrate. The officials watch the film with amusement until another mix-up occurs: the second projector is turned on accidentally and superimposes "Daybreak" over "Purple Rose".
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, intellectual
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surreal, humorous, not serious, parody, suspense, realistic, biting, grotesque
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
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Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, serious, stylized, cult classic, allegory, cult film
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IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: surreal, road movie, mind bending, psychedelic, intellectual, spiritual, neorealism, mystic, thought provoking, clever
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In the aftermath of World War II, a former Czech soldier takes charge of a manor formerly owned by a German family. He falls in love with the daughter, who is now a maid, and is forced to confront the stress between his love and his conscience when he discovers her sheltering her German-soldier brother.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 912
Genere: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 99 min
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The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)
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In the Napoleonic wars, an officer finds an old book that relates his grandfather's story, Alfons van Worden, captain in the Walloon guard. A man of honor and courage, he seeks the shortest route through the Sierra Morena. At an inn, the Venta Quemada, he sups with two Islamic princesses. They call him their cousin and seduce him; he wakes beside corpses under a gallows. He meets a hermit priest and a goatherd; each tells his story; he wakes again by the gallows. He's rescued from the Inquisition, meets a cabalist and hears more stories within stories, usually of love. He returns to Venta Quemada, the women await with astonishing news.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
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Country: Poland
Duration: 182 min
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Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photographer. Following the war and still in grief Charles is given some photographs purporting to be of fairies. His search for the truth leads him to Burkinwell, a seemingly peaceful village seething with secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
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Country: UK
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The last day of creation. A stranger arrives in London. No one knows who he is or where he has come from. By the time he leaves, the entire universe will have been erased.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
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A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
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Plot tags: surreal, satirical, art house, cerebral, atmospheric, mind bending, psychedelic, cult classic, clever, offbeat
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IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 35000
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
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An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 23000
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Country: France, Italy, West Germany
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Set in pre- World War II era. A young man is on a strange train to see his dying father in a sanatorium. But the place is going to ruin and recalls a lot of memories from the past. He is beset by soldiers from the past, colonial black mercenaries, girls from his early life, and his parents. It is an interior adventure, with unusual atmospheric flair and extraordinary sets.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Poland
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, psychological, psychedelic, dark, mindfuck, disturbing, existential, philosophical, slasher