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Key Features:
Absurdity, Social commentary, Dance, Surreal, Minimalist, Nonlinear narrative, Existential, Social alienation, Avant-garde
Tone:
restrained, deadpan
Target Audience:
Art house enthusiasts, Experimental film lovers, Cerebral
Emotional Arc:
Intrigue → Confusion

Tango

1985-12-04
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A static camera observes a room as it slowly fills with thirty-six characters from different stages of life, looping further through an absurd dance of social disconnection as each character moves in.

Genres
Animation
Crew
Zbigniew Rybczyński, Zbigniew Rybczyński
Rating
7.4(99 votes)
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7.8

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Doodlebug
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Climax(2018)
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When a dance troupe is lured to an empty school, a bowl of drug-laced sangria causes their jubilant rehearsal to descend into a dark and explosive nightmare as they try to survive the night—and find who's responsible—before it's too late.



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6.5

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Bunny
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6.6

Bunny, an elderly rabbit who uses a walker, is in her kitchen one night baking a cake. A photograph from her wedding day is on her wall. A pesky and persistent moth bangs about the kitchen. She shoos it outside, turns off the porch light, and returns to her baking. The moth finds its way back into the kitchen, she bats it with a wooden spoon, and it falls into the mix. She stirs it up, pours the batter into a pan, and pops it into the oven. But the moth isn't done: it has a different mission, turning the oven into a portal, and inviting Bunny on a voyage of reunion.



This House Has People in It

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Film Socialisme
5.993

A symphony in three movements. Things such as a Mediterranean cruise, numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the passengers, almost all of whom are on holiday... Our Europe. At night, a sister and her younger brother have summoned their parents to appear before the court of their childhood. The children demand serious explanations of the themes of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Our humanities. Visits to six sites of true or false myths: Egypt, Palestine, Odessa, Hellas, Naples and Barcelona.



The Idiots
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Vive L'Amour
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Taxidermia
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Sidewalls(2011)
7.5

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4.846

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6.458

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Lost in Paris
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Werckmeister Harmonies

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What?
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Millennium Mambo
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Bear Story
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Permanent Vacation
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7.7

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Cosmos
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Matrix
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7.1

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7.284

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Kolobos
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4.879

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Inner Workings
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Sans Soleil
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A woman narrates the thoughts of a world traveler, meditations on time and memory expressed in words and images from places as far-flung as Japan, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco.



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8.5

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Stuck Apart
6

Entrenched in a midlife crisis, Aziz seeks solace from his mundane job, lonesome friends and rowdy family while pretending to have his act together.



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6.848

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Platform
Platform(2001)
6.978

China’s rapid changes from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.



Olla
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6.517

After answering an ad on a dating website for Eastern European women, Olla leaves Ukraine and heads to French suburbia to move in with Pierre, who lives with his elderly mother. However, the suburbia cannot temper her desires, and nothing goes as expected.



Whisky
Whisky(2004)
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When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo, desperate to prove his life has added up to something, looks to scrounge up a wife. He turns to Marta, an employee at his sock factory, with whom he has a prickly relationship.



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World of Glory
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Yannick(2023)
7.073

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The Bare Necessity
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Koko-di Koko-da
5.8

As a couple goes on a trip to find their way back to each other, a sideshow artist and his shady entourage emerge from the woods, terrorizing them, luring them deeper into a maelstrom of psychological terror and humiliating slapstick.



The Dance of Reality

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Attenberg
Attenberg(2010)
6.098

Marina, 23, is growing up with her architect father in a prototype factory town by the sea. Finding the human species strange and repellent, she keeps her distance...that is until a stranger comes to town and challenges her to a foosball duel, on her own table. Her father, meanwhile, ritualistically prepares for his exit from the 20th century, which he considers to be "overrated."



Murder-Rock: Dancing Death

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Daisies
Daisies(1966)
7.271

Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them.



Destino
Destino(2003)
7.208

Short film to a song of love lost and rediscovered, a woman sees and undergoes surreal transformations. Her lover's face melts off, she dons a dress from the shadow of a bell and becomes a dandelion, ants crawl out of a hand and become Frenchmen riding bicycles. Not to mention the turtles with faces on their backs that collide to form a ballerina, or the bizarre baseball game.



32nd of December
7.107

Three episodes about the relativity of time.



Amer
Amer(2009)
6.207

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Roma
Roma(1972)
7.2

A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.



24 Frames
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6.632

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Jumping
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6.6

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The People Upstairs
6.305

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Little Deaths
4.4

Composed of three disturbingly sensual and terrifying short narratives, unified by the twin themes of sex and death.



Eye Myth
Eye Myth(1967)
5.4

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The Square
6.75

A prestigious Stockholm museum's chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.



The Incident
6.889

Two parallel stories about people trapped in illogical endless spaces: two brothers and a detective locked on an infinite staircase, and a family locked on an infinite road... for over 35 years.



The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

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Persona
Persona(1966)
8.1

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Skin. Like. Sun.
6.1

Real-life young couple Wim and Floor spend an afternoon in the sunwashed rooms of a crumbling home in Belgium. In a unique twist, this artistic erotic documentary is edited in nearly real-time. In the slowness, we get the build, the sweetness, and the sexiness. Forget about fingersnapping fast editing. Slow is where it’s at.



Polina
Polina(2016)
6.6

Polina is a young dancer from a modest family. After years of ballet academy, she is accepted by the Bolshoi; still, she decides to try and audition of a modern dance company in France. She makes it, but her journey will not end there...



Schizopolis
6.1

A man works for the unpleasant guru of a Scientology-like movement.

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