If you loved El Topo, try Fando and Lis

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Fando and Lis has roughly 4.6× fewer votes than El Topo — 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 Alejandro Jodorowsky, and they both carry the surreal mood tag, and they sit in Adventure territory. If that's the register that drew you to El Topo, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Fando and Lis is

Jodorowsky does Beckett. A little. A young man named Fando pushes his paralyzed sweetheart Lis in a cart, seeking the magic city of Tar. It goes about as well as you might expect.

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