Top 20 movies like Tango Schmango
Top 20 Movies like Tango Schmango
- 1. This one time…
- 2. Scripta volant
- 3. Promises
- 4. creator
- 5. Ygg's Bird
- 6. tick tack
- 7. Better back then
- 8. Rootless Heart
- 9. Specimens of Obsessions
- 10. Intolerance III: The Final Solution
- 11. Making-off
- 12. Decorosa
- 13. Bon Appetit
- 14. Present
- 15. L'Apparition
- 16. The Ridge Grave Girls
- 17. Cantinflas jengibre contra dinamita
- 18. Siempre listo en las tinieblas
- 19. Cats and Bruises
- 20. Ko-Ko's Haunted House
2. Scripta volant (Scripta volant)
I try to set this work – a film using texts, or a film-book – between watching and reading. This film is dedicated to J.L. Borges, a great artist, who had translated The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde at his early childhood, became one of the greatest writers of the 20th century and continued to publish the works by dictation even after losing his eyesight.
3. Promises (約束)
It was a season when the tree leaves turn red. There was a woman crying in front of the child’s . She takes the shadow off. . . her dead son. Just to stay with him she runs with the shadow in her arms through the town at night. Then she makes a promise. . .
4. creator (creator)
A man is left alone in empty white space. He starts to create his own world with materials popped up out of nowhere and build a house and made animals. But there is a hole in this world and he wonders about it. In the meanwhile he learns there is the border where they can survive around the hole.
5. Ygg's Bird (ユッグの鳥)
We are all living in a food chain. All of the living beings support each other as predator-prey relationship in the balance of nature. Yet there is a huge and ferocious bird. It is so brutal that all the creatures are afraid of it. . . Everything repeats itself, slightly changing form.
6. tick tack (tick tack)
A little Chinku thinks his father does not love him. And when he thinks his grandfather, his only supporter, rejects his hand for help, Chinku feels betrayed. . . Chinku draws circles with a huge and heavy pencil, which the time to fly fast. . .
7. Better back then (少女のいと 魔法のいと)
A girl is kept on the by a witch and continues to peel potatoes. She is fed up and tries to escape in vain. She gets desperate and decides to beat the witch. . . what will she find? What is her intention? Can we undo what has been done?
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
8. Rootless Heart (さまよう心臓)
Two high school students are playing in the ruins. They hear something from the darkness and one of them goes deep into a dark room where something suspicious is hiding and both of them have their hearts taken out. Later a boy and his sister drop by the ruins. . .
9. Specimens of Obsessions (標本の塔)
A man jumped out of the window. Why did he have to leap out of his room? As time reverses, his struggles gradually get revealed. He has confined himself to his room and tried to escape from the horrible illusions and the memory of a. . . man. His room was full of specimens and each specimen had a significant name.
10. Intolerance III: The Final Solution
Two thousand years into the future, the battlefleet from Earth is still searching for the Planet Zog. Those on board are irreconcilably divided between those that believe the Planet Zog exists, and those that don't. Caught between these warring factions Ade and Eva Hokum are determined to find happiness with each other. Will the Planet Zog be a paradise for them?
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
11. Making-off (Making-off)
Students' team shoot a short film. Tensions, nearness, funny situations created by the plateau. A game of hide-and-seek takes place between the life, the reality, the artistic intentions, the fatigue, the stress and the paranoias which are connected to him.
12. Decorosa (Decorosa)
Decorosa keeps a skeleton costume in her bedroom closet, between her nightgowns. It is what love has.
13. Bon Appetit
A rude man goes to restaurant 'Bon Appetit' and orders practically everything on the menu.
15. L'Apparition (L'Apparition)
A man's bathroom routine triggers a miraculous vision in a nearby church.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
16. The Ridge Grave Girls
A prom queen-to-be must break free from her small town’s ominous legacy of prom queens who die after their crowning.
17. Cantinflas jengibre contra dinamita (Cantinflas jengibre contra dinamita)
He shows us a poor Cantinflas like a rat that walks with a sad hatter and ends up in a bar where he will have a clash with the dangerous bandit "Ojo Tapado" .
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
18. Siempre listo en las tinieblas (Siempre listo en las tinieblas)
Cantinflas will face a thief who enters his house while he sleeps.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
19. Cats and Bruises
Sylvester Cat intrudes on Speedy Gonzales' Cinco De Mayo celebration, starting a chase that ends in disaster.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
20. Ko-Ko's Haunted House
A friend of KoKo's animator draws a haunted house, and KoKo and his dog Fitz go inside. There, they encounter frightening hallways where every door leads to a new spook.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.