If you loved Alice, try Faust

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Faust has roughly 4.6× fewer votes than Alice — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Jan Švankmajer, and they both carry the atmospheric, cult, foreign gem, surreal, weird mood tags, and they sit in Animation / Fantasy territory. If that's the register that drew you to Alice, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Faust is

Eraserhead without subtlety. A man finds a map that leads him to a bizarre theater, where he's conscripted into playing Faust. Švankmajer's signature grotesqueries overwhelm any deeper reading of the ur-text.

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