The Magic Christian
Why this pick
Shares The Telephone Book’s gleefully artificial, anything-can-happen comic universe, with pop-art visuals, anarchic gags, and a satirical appetite for making ordinary social rituals feel wonderfully deranged.
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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
Shares The Telephone Book’s gleefully artificial, anything-can-happen comic universe, with pop-art visuals, anarchic gags, and a satirical appetite for making ordinary social rituals feel wonderfully deranged.
Why this pick
A similarly scrappy, freewheeling late-’60s satire: bold visual jokes, abrupt comic detours, and an irreverent attack on commercial culture delivered with handmade underground energy.
Why this pick
Its lone protagonist is swept through a cartoonishly hostile modern world, combining deadpan paranoia, offbeat encounters, and playful social satire in a spirit close to The Telephone Book’s comic restlessness.
Why this pick
Matches the film’s heightened, absurdist treatment of loneliness and American institutions, using an episodic string of strange encounters and a knowingly artificial comic tone.
Why this pick
This bright, mod London comedy has a comparably whimsical, episodic rhythm and playful visual sensibility, following a young woman through a parade of eccentric characters and pop-cultural absurdities.
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01 / THE STORY
The story of a day in the life of a lonely, sensitive, exhuberent, attractive, young woman. Her exploits, encounters, and frustrations as she attempts to find a "special" someone, a caller who has "class", as she puts it.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Alice
Mr. Smith
Obscene-Caller

Eyemask
Narrator

Har Poon
Whip Woman
Dancer