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Plot Summary:
This three-part ballad, which often uses music to stand in for dialogue, remains the most perfect embodiment of Nemec’s vision of a film world independent of reality. Mounting a defense of timid, inhibited, clumsy, and unsuccessful individuals, the three protagonists are a complete antithesis of the industrious heroes of socialist aesthetics. Martyrs of Love cemented Nemec’s reputation as the kind of unrestrained nonconformist the Communist establishment considered the most dangerous to their ideology.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: anthology, campy
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Birds, Orphans and Fools (1969)
Plot Summary:
In the aftermath of war, two men and a woman begin acting more like children than adults, leading to tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 968
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: Czechoslovakia, France
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: experimental, psychedelic, slapstick comedy, cult film
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Me Two (2008)
Plot Summary:
80's pop icon Gilles Gabriel is about to make a comeback in the French music scene, until he accidentally hits Ranu, a slightly nutty accountant, when out driving one day. Both are horrified to realise that Gilles died in the crash, and that his spirit now lives in Ranu's head! The kooky accountant's life soon becomes chaos!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, absurd, surprise ending, independent film
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Celebration in the Botanical Garden (1969)
Plot Summary:
One of the lead characters is Maria, an inn keeper; always a bride but never a wife. She meets the newcomer Pierre, who disturbs the peace of the small village and teaches the locals how to enjoy life. The film is full of fireworks of lovely colours, and a warm feeling. It is like a carousel of humour and human situations that carry us away, from the very first frame to the unexpected ending, making the viewer laugh gaily. Using a mosaic approach to the traditional narrative line, the film director creates a picture of fairly anarchic glee. “Celebration in the Botanical Garden” is a world of fantasy, full of summer fun, good humour and delight. E. Havetta´s debut was inspired by naïve art, French impressionism, and silent slap-stick as well as Western Slovakian folk traditions.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, experimental, expressionism, slapstick comedy
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Move (1970)
Plot Summary:
A young playwright who writes porno novels to overcome a writer's block, lives the fantasies of one of his books, while trying to move with his wife from one apartment into a larger one.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Flames of Royal Love (1991)
Plot Summary:
In 1992, Prague is the capital of a small kingdom. The prince is supposed to choose his bride to be at a royal ball. But to everybody's surprise, he chooses an ugly cleaning-woman. She is shy and silent, but after the marriage she turns into a wild and rumbustious woman with an obstinate and stubborn mind. They both try to kill each other, but the queen is thrown into the dungeons.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: non-linear, dark comedy, modern day adaptation, campy
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The Limping Devil (1968)
Plot Summary:
A baleful limping man walks through Prague. He is Asmodeus (Juraj Herz), the fiend of lustfulness, entertaining himself by putting together by magic couples of lovers. He only fails at the swimming pool. Zuzana (Jana Sulcová), the good-looking blonde, ignores the men whom the devil foists off onto her. She loves Honza (Václav Neckár) and the boy shares her feelings. The fiend is annoyed by the couple and tries to provoke a row. He sends heavy rain to force them into a hotel and then warns Zuzana's father by phone, but the young lovers manage to get out in time. Then the obstinate Asmodeus takes Honza in his sleep to the Institute for Emotional Disorders, where he shows him the ugly sides of love - hysteria, voyeurism, fetishism, suicide attempts.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, modern day adaptation, urban fantasy, campy
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When the Cat Comes (1963)
Plot Summary:
Some people with a strange cat arrive in a small village. The cat wears glasses, and when someone takes them off, she can color people, according to their nature and mood. The grown-ups of the village consider the cat to be dangerous, but the kids just love her….
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: cult classic, psychedelic, experimental, psychotronic, allegory, weird, cult film
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Daisies for the Lady of the Manor (1981)
Plot Summary:
Fifteen-year-old Kateřina will once again spend the holidays at the Castle Krabonoš, where her parents are both wardens. She finds it dull because she's got to sit at the castle's ticket office and sell tickets. That is, until the arrival of the new tour guide, Petr, a young history student. She falls in love at first sight. But for Petr she's just a young crazy girl. Katka tries to get Petr's attention in various ways, but all in vain. She makes a last ditch effort by pretending to steal some rare castle steins from the castle's collection. It's only after some detectives arrive that Katka realizes that she may have overdone it, but she finally manages to get Petr to notice her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: crying, teen comedy
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Attraction (1969)
Plot Summary:
One of the great taboo-smashers of the late '60s, directed by Tinto Brass, featuring interracial affairs, anti-Vietnam statements, violence versus sex. ATTRACTION (NEROSUBIANCO) will stun anyone expecting a standard softcore European sex flick as released originally in the US thru Radley Metzger's Audubon Films under the title THE ARTFUL PENETRATION OF BARBARA, then brace yourself for a whirlwind trip with a married woman (Anita Sanders) whose journey through the psychedelic English youth scene awakens her to the carnal offerings of an African-American man (Terry Carter), all set to by a searing soundtrack by FREEDOM, a tripped-out group formed from the remnants of PROCAL HARUM. Nearly plotless and often improvised, this undiscovered cult film distinctive tone and editing scheme anticipated everything in the following year releases of Nicolas Roeg PERFORMANCE, Kubrick's A CLOCKWORK ORANGE to our current post-MTV mindsets.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Country: Italy
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, psychedelic, surreal
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Rose Tinted Dreams (1977)
Plot Summary:
An amiable picture about entering adulthood, great dreams, and the first - forbidden - love of a white postman, Jakub, and a pretty Gypsy girl, Jolanka. This is a poetic story, a mosaic of the playful world springing from the wild imagination of the village postman and its clash with the pragmatic mundane reality that finally beats the rosy dreams of the young protagonists. Director Dušan Hanák and screenwriter Dušan Dušek's most popular film has been cherished by critics as will as wide audiences at home and abroad.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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Straw Hat (1972)
Plot Summary:
Slacker Maurice Fadinar wasted his whole inheritance and the only way out of this situation, as it seems, to marry Helen Nonankur - daughter of a wealthy farmer. At the last meeting with his mistress in a nearby forest Fadinar's horse eats straw hat which belongs to a married lady, spending time in the company of young and hot Lieutenant Emil. Emil literally puts a knife to Maurice throat - or the lady will get back the exact same hat immediately, or he will arrange such a scandal that no wedding will not happen.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy
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The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun (1983)
Plot Summary:
A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable approach of death, enters a race against time's passage. Faun's sexual love is imbued with the narcissistic vanity of a self-satisfied bacchant who even towards old age can't manage to forgo his lifelong pose as an irresistable seducer of women. He desperatly searches in superficial, fleeting sex.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: black comedy
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Barrier (1966)
Plot Summary:
A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags:
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It's Better to Be Healthy and Wealthy than Poor and Sick (1992)
Plot Summary:
A satiric tragi-comedy about two women and their lover Robert who is an emigrant that keeps coming back. This film shows chaotic post-communist Europe after the fall of totalitarianism. Two opposite characters, women, meet during the Velvet Revolution in November 1989. Intellectual dissident Nona and a Communist secret police boss’ mistress Ester. They meet at an anti-regime demonstration and become friends. They don’t want anything to do with politics, both want to get married and have kids, but also get rich. Crazy plans and risky attempts to realize their shared dreams land them in many sticky situations in the post-revolution chaos. Too much money gets in the way of the power of friendship.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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Disco Polo (2015)
Plot Summary:
Young wannabe musicians from the province decide to write hit song and gain the top of the charts in order to become legends of disco polo.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, emotional, entertaining, semi serious
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The Feather Fairy (1985)
Plot Summary:
A fairy-tale about an old lady who takes care of snow and Jakub who does not fear death. It reflects the idea of people's longing for happiness, love and understanding, their effort to overcome troubles and win over death. It criticizes greed and evil desires.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany, Italy, Austria
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, beautiful
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It's Not Me (1986)
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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For Better and Worse (2015)
Plot Summary:
A couple on the brink of divorce attempts to hide their crisis at a grand wedding, but it turns out they are not the only ones with false appearances.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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The Murder of Mr. Devil (1970)
Plot Summary:
Comedy with fairy-tale touches, about Kate, who wants to marry, and Mr. Devil, who is not interested in the heart or soul of this passionate and aging lady, but is interested in her good cooking – for Mr. Devil is a glutton.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, allegory, minimal cast, dark comedy, urban fantasy, campy
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Citizen Dog (2004)
Plot Summary:
Follow the life of Pod as he moves to Bangkok from the country. Pod's new life starts with getting a job, loosing a finger and dreaming about a girl. A movie were nothing is impossible, and just because you get killed by raining red helmets doesnt mean you have to stop driving motorcycle taxi.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: surreal, feel good, humorous, semi serious, sad, art film, offbeat, weird
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Funky Forest: The First Contact (2005)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, humorous, stylized, semi serious, sketch comedy, cult classic, mind blowing, psychological, mind bending
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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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Pearls of the Deep (1965)
Plot Summary:
A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s directors. Based on stories by the legendary writer Bohumil Hrabal, the shorts range from the surreally chilling to the caustically observant to the casually romantic, but all have a cutting, wily view of the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 776
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: anthology, avant garde, tragicomedy, fairy tale
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200 Motels (1971)
Plot Summary:
"Touring makes you crazy," Frank Zappa says, explaining that the idea for this film came to him while the Mothers of Invention were touring. The story, interspersed with performances by the Mothers and the Royal Symphony Orchestra, is a tale of life on the road. The band members' main concerns are the search for groupies and the desire to get paid.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, surreal, mind bending, mondo, cult classic, independent film, atmospheric, offbeat, humorous, non-linear
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A Report on the Party and the Guests (1966)
Plot Summary:
In Jan Němec’s surreal fable, a picnic is rudely transformed into a lesson in political hierarchy when a handful of mysterious authority figures show up. This allegory about oppression and conformity was banned in its home country but became an international success after it premiered at the New York Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, cult classic, mind bending, psychedelic, spiritual, surreal, crying, allegory, weird
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The Apple War (1971)
Plot Summary:
A German businessman wants to buy land in southern Sweden for a gigantic amusement park, his new project called "Deutschneyland" (a wordplay of Deutschland and Disneyland). Some of the locals dislike the idea, including the magically talented Lindberg family, and work to frustrate the development plans.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: satirical, sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, biting, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, slapstick, low brow humor
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Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Chrimbus Special (2010)
Plot Summary:
Join Messers Heidecker and Wareheim for an exciting winter holiday that's taking the world by storm with the Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Chrimbus Special.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 919
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, surreal, stylized, parody, offbeat, spoof, sketch comedy, live comedy, post modern
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How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
Plot Summary:
Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: satirical, dark comedy, light, enigmatic, ironic, talky, cynical, humorous, surreal, black comedy
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Daisies (1966)
Plot Summary:
Two teenage girls, both named Marie, decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world about them. This freewheeling, madcap feminist farce was immediately banned by the government.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, avant garde, surreal, experimental, art house, dark comedy, mind bending, social, disturbing, cult classic
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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
Plot Summary:
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 different light, Valerie must endure her sexual awakening while attempting to discern reality from fantasy as she encounters lecherous priest Gracian, a vampire-like stranger and otherworldly carnival folk.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, surreal, suspenseful, gothic, disturbing, dark, experimental, gothic horror, allegory, erotic