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Plot Summary:
A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: art house, atmospheric, stylized, non-linear, visual, colorful, neorealism, visually appealing, cerebral, surreal
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And the Ship Sails On (1983)
Plot Summary:
In 1914, a cruise ship sets sail from Naples to spread the ashes of beloved opera singer Edmea Tetua near Erimo, the isle of her birth. During the voyage, the eclectic array of passengers discovers a group of Serbian refugees aboard the vessel. Peace and camaraderie abound until the ship is descended upon by an Austrian flagship. The Serbians are forced to board it, but naturally they resist, igniting a skirmish that ends in destruction.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, History, Music
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, melancholic, lyrical, sentimental, meditative, non-linear, realistic, art house, cerebral
Similar in 77%
Fellini's Casanova (1976)
Plot Summary:
Casanova is a libertine, collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone, and is he really an interesting person? Is he really alive?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: surreal, erotic, art house, visual, fairy tale, philosophical, costume drama, deep, cerebral, picaresque
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Interview (1987)
Plot Summary:
Federico Fellini welcomes us into his world of film making with a mockumentary about his life in film, as a Japanese film crew follows him around.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: art house, neorealism, mockumentary, sentimental, humorous, realistic, surreal, stylized, semi serious, meta
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Ginger and Fred (1986)
Plot Summary:
Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act, imitating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, on a TV variety show.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: sexy, emotional, black comedy, cult classic, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious
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The Voice of the Moon (1990)
Plot Summary:
Returning to themes he first explored in La strada (1954), Fellini crafts a parable on the whisperings of the soul that only madmen and vagabonds are capable of hearing. The odd couple, Ivo Salvini (Benigni), a fake inspector of wells, and Gonnella (Villaggio), a former prefect, wander through the Emilia-Romagna countryside of Fellini's childhood and discover a dystopia of television commercials, fascism, beauty pageants, rock music, Catholicism, and pagan ritual.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: postmodern, offbeat, humorous, surreal, stylized, semi serious
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Godard's Passion (1982)
Plot Summary:
While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did not like her union activities.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, contemplative
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Let's Have a Brainwash (1963)
Plot Summary:
This consists of four short films by different directors. Rosselini's 'Chastity' ('Illibatezza') deals with an attractive air hostess who receives the unwelcome attentions of a middle aged American. Godard's 'New World' ('Il Nuovo Mondo') illustrates a post-apocalypse world the same as the pre-apocalyptic one but for an enigmatic change in attitude in most people, including the central character's girlfriend. In Pasolini's 'Curd Cheese' ('La Ricotta'), a lavish film about the life of Jesus Christ is being made in a poor area. The impoverished people subject themselves to various indignities in the name of moviemaking in order to win a little food. The central character is hoisted up on a cross for filming, and dies there. Finally comes Gregoretti's 'Free Range Chicken' ('Il Pollo Ruspante') in which a family of the materialist culture inadvertantly illustrate the cynical, metallic voiced doctrine of a top sales theorist.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: anthology, offbeat, realistic, surreal, contemplative, semi serious, black comedy, avant garde
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To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
Plot Summary:
A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anthology, thought provoking, humorous, realistic, contemplative, stylized, semi serious, art house, cult classic, experimental
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The Terrace (1980)
Plot Summary:
Drama about the difficulties of a group of people trying to change their lives. A group of people gathers in a terrace in Rome . Some are friends, some know each other and others just meet for the first time. All are intellectual and belong to the middle class.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, contemplative, talky, cynical, non-linear
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Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
Plot Summary:
Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and her painful past. Slightly skeptical, but intrigued, she visits a mystic who gives her more information -- and nudges her toward the realization that her husband is indeed a philanderer.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychedelic, cerebral, art house, psychological, atmospheric, stylized, psychological thriller, philosophical, mind bending
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City of Women (1980)
Plot Summary:
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
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: surreal, satirical, art house, cerebral, atmospheric, mind bending, psychedelic, cult classic, clever, offbeat
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
Plot Summary:
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: surreal, disturbing, atmospheric, talky, humorous, art house, philosophical, satirical, absurd, meditative
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The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
Plot Summary:
Bourgeois convention is demolished in Luis Buñuel’s surrealist gem. Featuring an elegant soiree with guests seated at toilet bowls, poker-playing monks using religious medals as chips, and police officers looking for a missing girl who is right under their noses, this perverse, playfully absurd comedy of non sequiturs deftly compiles many of the themes that preoccupied Buñuel throughout his career—from the hypocrisy of conventional morality to the arbitrariness of social arrangements.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: surreal, humorous, art house, atmospheric, disturbing, meditative, talky, dark comedy, thought provoking, witty
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Dark Habits (1983)
Plot Summary:
A nightclub singer seeks refuge with gay nuns on dope in a Madrid convent.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, erotic, social, surreal, manga, hispanic, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic
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Reality (2012)
Plot Summary:
A dark comedy centering on the lives of a Neapolitan based family whose father, a fish merchant, is so infatuated with the reality TV show "Grande Fratello" (the Italian version of "Big Brother") he starts living his life as if he were on it.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, humorous, cynical, semi serious, social, surreal, cult classic, clever, bleak, realistic
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The Passion (2010)
Plot Summary:
To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 686
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, realistic
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Ugly, Dirty and Bad (1976)
Plot Summary:
Giacinto lives with his wife, their ten children and various other family members in a shack on the hills of Rome. Some time ago he has lost his left eye while at work, and got a consistent sum of money from the insurance company, which he keeps hidden from the rest of the family. His whole life is now based on defending the money he sees as his own, while the rest of the family tries to kill him.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, dark, disturbing, humorous, realistic, political, social, controversial, art house
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The Conformist (1970)
Plot Summary:
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: political, art house, breathtaking, visual, neo noir, philosophical, cerebral, psychological, atmospheric, bleak
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Fellini Satyricon (1969)
Plot Summary:
A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first century Rome.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychedelic, art house, sexual, cult classic, erotic, philosophical, absurd, disturbing, controversial
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Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
Plot Summary:
A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. A story about our need for love, our confusion, greatness and smallness and, most of all, our vulnerability. It is a story with many characters, among them a father and his mistress, his youngest son and his girlfriend. It is a film about big lies, abandonment and the eternal longing for companionship and confirmation.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France, Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, black comedy, philosophical, art house, disturbing, talky, depressing, melancholic, meditative
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The Milky Way (1969)
Plot Summary:
Two drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Along the way, they hitchhike, beg for food, and face the Christian dogmas and heresies from different Ages.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: surreal, spiritual, road movie, psychedelic, satirical, dark comedy, cult classic, mystical, parody, philosophical
Similar in 78%
Irma Vep (1996)
Plot Summary:
A Chinese movie actress, in France to star in a remake of "Les Vampires", finds petty intrigues and clashing egos on the set.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: stylized, art house, clever, witty, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, cult classic, thought provoking, offbeat
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Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (1966)
Plot Summary:
In this excoriating satire of the fashion industry, Polly Maggoo is a 20-year-old Brooklyn-born fashion model in Paris, on the runway at the big shows where magazine editor Ms. Maxwell is the reigning opinion maker. The ridiculous passes for sublime. Polly becomes the subject of an episode of a vapid TV news documentary series called "Qui êtes-vous?" and is pursued by the filmmaker and by the prince of Borodine, a small country in the Soviet bloc.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, offbeat, humorous, realistic, contemplative, semi serious, biting, avant garde
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I Remember (1973)
Plot Summary:
In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the actions of a wide range of characters, from his extended family to Fascist loyalists to sensual women, with certain moments shifting into fantastical scenarios.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: art house, surreal, sentimental, atmospheric, visual, stylized, meditative, colorful, realistic, philosophical
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The Big Feast (1973)
Plot Summary:
A group of men hire some prostitutes and go to a villa in the countryside. There, they engage in group sex and resolve to eat themselves to death.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, art house, surreal, humorous, controversial, atmospheric, black comedy, dark comedy, sexual
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Living in Oblivion (1995)
Plot Summary:
Nick is the director of a low-budget indie film. He tries to keep everything together as his production is plagued with an insecure actress, a megalomaniac star, a pretentious, beret-wearing director of photography and lousy catering. Divided in three acts, each representing a different scene to shoot, this film is an essential for amateur filmmakers.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surreal, independent film, humorous, funny, atmospheric, talky, light, art house, semi serious, cult classic
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Eight and a Half (1963)
Plot Summary:
With 8 ½ Frederico Fellini leaves a self-portrait where dreams and reality are a mix. With help from a most excellent cast and unique scenery this self reflecting film is one of his master works.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 124000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: art house, psychological, surreal, philosophical, cerebral, stylized, black and white, atmospheric, postmodern, visual
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The Great Beauty (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: philosophical, art house, visually stunning, stylized, breathtaking, visually appealing, visual, absurd, cerebral, talky
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That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
Plot Summary:
After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a fiery 19-year-old flamenco dancer named Conchita. What follows is a tale of cruelty, depravity and lies -- the very building blocks of love.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, art house, sexy, clever, witty, cynical, stylized, psychedelic, sexual
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Baaria (2009)
Plot Summary:
Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, sincere, touching, realistic, semi serious, sad, epic, sentimental, clever, humorous