Movies like Avejão/Abantesma (2020)
The best movies like Avejão/Abantesma (2020) are Flammes (1998), The Sacred Laptop (2020) and OIO (2019). If Avejão/Abantesma hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- NewestThe Devonsville Train: Establishing Shots 1 (2021)Released 2021
The Sacred Laptop (2020)
A man named Cukik trapped in a paradoxical dream about the man he is watching on his laptop. This madness was contagious even to the mysterious man in his dreams.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
OIO (2019)
The movie focuses on creating an experimental visual storytelling and questions: 'What makes us who we are."
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Solar Beats (2008)
Walking towards the fire. In a ceaseless stream of light, people, landscapes and objects lead us to mysterious regions. French filmmaker Patrick Bokanowski’s work is hard to classify - and all the richer for it. Together with his wife Michèle, whose musique concrète compositions form the basis of the sound design, Bokanowski offers a prolonged, dense and visually visceral experience of the kind that is rare in cinema today. Difficult to define and locate, its strangeness is quite unique.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
The Devonsville Train: Establishing Shots 1 (2021)
A series of shots from six 1970s and 1980s horror films are slowed down to near-still moving images. First feature-length piece in the video art series "The Devonsville Train."
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story (1989)
A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music and sound, and diverse readings; a critical, beautiful and melancholic vision of cinematographic art.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Everybody Dies (2021)
Utilizing super 8mm and an economical shooting method of quick, short shots building idiosyncratic rhythms via rapid editing techniques, time, nature, and even the body folds in on itself. Everybody Dies (2020) is a poetic journey into the desert. It’s a reflection on the nature of death as something not to be feared, but embraced as a part of a personal and universal human experience. Super 8mm.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Some Things Hidden (2021)
Some Things Hidden (2020) is an experiment in rhythmic succession of still images to create illusions of movement through space in an altered time. The film documents a day with the artist and his parents on a hike through active bear country, beneath the Grand Tetons in Wyoming using a hand cranked 35mm movie camera.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Janapada (2019)
Rudra has come back one morning, has return to his friend Saruar's home. He had disappeared from home leaving no cue, a year ago. Saruar first came to know about Rudra's disappearance in Rudra's mother's call. Then he had gone to Rudra's home and saw how his agitated parents and elder brother were tracing out reasons of his desertion. Rudra do not answer any of these questions of Saruar now. He become immutable and eloquent. He only replies that he is tired and cinema experience Rudra's exhaustion from this world's journey in a non-narrative way. Rudra's consciousness become aware of a bigger crisis. Rudra just express interest to go to sleep for a while.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Self-defense (2021)
Hate as a right is added to recycled images. Poetry is narrated on top of pictures that were not meant to be but, as stubborn as the poet's feeling, they exist.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Vers Syracuse (2020)
Dreamlike sea bathing and horse rides. Colors take the plunge, the horizon blazes, breaking waves pound endlessly. A strange journey through depths of sound and vision.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
The Angel (1982)
The climbing of an immense staircase made up of the most varied stairs. Symbolic scenes occur on different levels where characters seem to be prisoners of their deeds and of their own folly. The steep staircase leads little by little towards the zones of great light where human beings and nonhuman beings meet.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Moments choisis des Histoire(s) du cinéma (2006)
A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music and sound, and diverse readings; a critical, beautiful and melancholic vision of cinematographic art. (Abridged version of the original collection of eight short films).
Why it matches: Similar story and style
A Solar Dream (2016)
Behold the struggle between light and dark, the two principles that are at the very heart of the cinematic deed. A Solar Dream takes the seventh art’s ability to generate imaginary and phantasmagorical worlds to the limit, multiplied here by Michèle Bokanowski’s enveloping music. A precious plastic and sonic gem.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Le Canard à l'orange (2002)
A housewife is preparing a duck à l'orange in her kitchen. But the reluctant bird tries to escape from her but the woman manages to recaptures it and plucks it savagely. Once the duck is put in the oven, an alligator unexpectedly appears in the kitchen, threatening the cook.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1a: All the (Hi)stories (1989)
A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music and sound, and diverse readings; a critical, beautiful and melancholic vision of cinematographic art.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Avejão/Abantesma?
The closest matches to Avejão/Abantesma are Flammes (1998), The Sacred Laptop (2020) and OIO (2019). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Avejão/Abantesma?
Start with Flammes (1998), the closest match to Avejão/Abantesma.
What is the newest movie like Avejão/Abantesma?
The Devonsville Train: Establishing Shots 1 (2021) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Avejão/Abantesma chosen?
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