Movies Similar to Codex

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The surreal tale of an unassuming man who is accused of a never-specified crime and shambles through bizarre encounters to escape this nightmare.

Ossessione(2024)

Two Italian brothers, Franco and Giovanni, are marked by envy and resentment. While Giovanni, a talented painter, gains recognition in Brazil, Franco stays in Italy, enjoying the attention of their parents —attention that was always denied to the younger brother. When Franco asks Giovanni for a painting during a brief trip to Brazil, the bitterness between them reaches a breaking point, revealing a truth as painful as the artwork created.

Friend of the World(2020)

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Lip Balm(2023)

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Abysse(2024)

Voidland

This is an amateur student mood piece comprised of footage I've filmed with my Camcorder at uni over the course of the first half of 2023. The prompt given for this was 'belonging' and so I've gravitated it around the premise of navigating a place that you feel as though you don't belong in, to the point where you become detached and alienated from your own identity. - Toby.

CANVAS(2023)

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Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip to the countryside to visit her aunt at their ancestral house. She invites her six friends, Prof, Melody, Mac, Fantasy, Kung Fu, and Sweet, to join her. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.

Double Exposure(2024)

A photographer girl enters a street to take street photographs as usual and takes a few photos that she thinks are normal. When she washes the photos and hangs them, she sees that she is actually in one of the photos and goes in search of that person.

NOISE!(2023)

Oriana Mejer's niche poem-film style has created "NOISE!". The film dissects late stage capitalism and the effects social media has on the mind. This is a spoken word poem, performed by Mejer, combined with projections. It is a completely new approach to editing. Originally score by Sofia Camarena.

Fire Shall Come(2022)

Video art piece by Michigan artist Gio Orlando.

Dam$els of Luxury(2024)

Amanda's stoner slumber party is put to a halt when one of her guests is nowhere to be found.

Diana Wilted Forever(2024)

Succeeding in entering the past, a young man meets his favorite actress whom he adulates with passion. His identifying urges emerge, and the desire of replacement prevails : he makes his idol live forever.

Bunnyhood(2024)

What could possibly be more important than feeding your daughter?

Possibly in Michigan(1983)

A musical horror story about two young women who are stalked through a shopping mall by a cannibal. He follows them home, and here the victims become the aggressors.

Before Noon(2022)

An unfinished short student film about dreaming

Bradlee(2025)

The surreal, experimental story of an unseen serial killer.

HELP(2025)

A man in need of help eventually receives it, whether he asks for it or not.

Chelicera(2023)

A neurodivergent man is stuck in the web of an abusive relationship, unable to free himself from his lovers grasp.

White Rabbit

A girl struggles with a dissociative episode in her bedroom.