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Plot Summary:
Imaginaerum tells the story of an elderly composer, Tom, who suffers from severe dementia. As he has had the disease for years and has regressed into childhood, he remembers practically nothing from his adult life. His music, friends, all his past including the memory of his daughter are a blur in his fragile mind. All he has left is the imagination of a ten year old boy. As he drifts away into coma, it seems impossible to get back what he has lost. Or is it?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Finland, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, serious, stylized, fairy tale, dark fantasy, mythical, spooky, art film
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The Pied Piper (1972)
Plot Summary:
Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her dowry to pay his army while his father taxes the people to build a cathedral he thinks will save his soul. A local apothecary who's a Jew seeks a treatment for the plague; the priests charge him with witchcraft. One of the minstrels, who has soothed the Mayor's daughter with his music, promises to rid the town of rats for the fee. The Mayor agrees, then renigs. In the morning, the plague, the Jew's trial, and the Piper's revenge come at once.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 878
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, stylized, art house, independent film, atmospheric, serious, captivating, crying, psychotronic
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Kosmos (2009)
Plot Summary:
Too much happens too many times in this potentially brilliant parable.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Turkey, Bulgaria
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, captivating, art house, psychological, entertaining, surreal, aesthetic, mind bending, offbeat, semi serious
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The Creatures (1966)
Plot Summary:
After a road accident, a writer, Edgar, and his wife, Mylène, take up residence on an island off the coast of France to recuperate. Edgar soon recovers from his injuries and begins writing his next novel, seeking inspiration from the local people. His wife, however, has lost her voice and can only communicate through written notes. The islanders grow suspicious of the reclusive couple, their unease soon turning to aggression. Edgar is equally anxious about his neighbors, particularly a solitary widower, Ducasse, who has taken charge of a large consignment of crates. What secret project is Ducasse engaged in – and can it explain the strange behavior of the islanders?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surreal, art house, metafiction, psychological, serious, contemplative, stylized
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Don't Die Without Telling Me Where You're Going (1995)
Plot Summary:
It is the fantastic story of Leopoldo, a lonely film projectionist who has invented a machine to record his dreams. Through a series of odd events, Leopoldo discovers that he is the reincarnation of one of the inventors of cinema, and that a woman he sees in his dreams is his eternal companion on a trip through centuries.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: spiritual, manga, atmospheric, offbeat, serious, crying, mystical
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Cremaster 5 (1997)
Plot Summary:
Cremaster 5 (55 min, 1997) is a five-act opera (sung in Hungarian) set in late-ninteenth century Budapest. The last film in the series, Cremaster 5 represents the moment when the testicles are finally released and sexual differentiation is fully attained. The lamenting tone of the opera suggests that Barney invisions this as a moment of tragedy and loss. The primary character is the Queen of Chain (played by Ursula Andress). Barney, himself, plays three characters who appear in the mind of the Queen: her Diva, Magician, and Giant. The Magician is a stand-in for Harry Houdini, who was born in Budapest in 1874 and appears as a recurring character in the Cremaster cycle.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Musical, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: experimental, independent film, atmospheric, mind bending, offbeat, epic, serious, surreal, stylized, sexual
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One Day (2017)
Plot Summary:
A man, who witnessed his wife's suicide, gradually cures his emotional scars through a fateful encounter with the spirit of a woman in coma.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Looking for Alexander (2004)
Plot Summary:
Disturbing and violent memories haunt a man after he emerges from a lengthy coma.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 778
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, captivating, suspenseful, mind bending, clever, serious, realistic, stylized
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They Came Back (2004)
Plot Summary:
The lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead inexplicably come back to life and try to integrate themselves into society that has changed for them.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, psychedelic, surreal, scary, contemplative, spooky, weird
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Face to Face (1976)
Plot Summary:
A sensitive exploration of the tragic irony of the psychiatrist suffering with mental illness.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: art house, mind bending, psychedelic, offbeat, depressing, surreal, action adventure, psychological, atmospheric, serious
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Snow White (2012)
Plot Summary:
A black and white silent movie, based on the Snow White fairy tale, that is set in a romantic version of 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Spain, Belgium, France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: silent, atmospheric, captivating, stylized, fairy tale, black and white, neo noir, social, surreal, poignant
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Northfork (2003)
Plot Summary:
"We are all angels. It is what we do with our wings that separates us." In the next two days, the town of Northfork will cease to exist. The year is 1955 and Northfork is literally about to be "dammed," flooded to make way for a new hydroelectric project.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: bleak, surreal, psychological, melancholic, touching, disturbing, mindfuck, visually stunning, independent film, spiritual
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Levitation (1997)
Plot Summary:
Sarah Paulson stars as a pregnant teenager who searches for her biological mother, with the help of a guardian angel.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, atmospheric, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Cremaster 3 (2002)
Plot Summary:
CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner, antagonistic forces at play for access to the process of (spiritual) transcendence. These factions find form in the struggle between Hiram Abiff or the Architect.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 182 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, atmospheric, stylized, serious, thought provoking, psychedelic, disturbing, independent film, avant garde
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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
Plot Summary:
Suffering from acute kidney failure, Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave - the birthplace of his first life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Thailand, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Netherlands
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, disturbing, art house, philosophical, meditative, visually appealing, cerebral, slow cinema, contemplative
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Alice (2009)
Plot Summary:
Everything you know about Alice's adventures in Wonderland is about to be turned upside down in this modern-day miniseries event. Stars Kathy Bates, Caterina Scorsone, Matt Frewer, Harry Dean Stanton and Tim Curry.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 184 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, atmospheric, exciting, bleak, offbeat, light, enigmatic, absurd, touching, surreal
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After Life (1998)
Plot Summary:
After death, people have just one week to choose only a memory to keep for eternity.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: philosophical, surreal, emotional, spiritual, existential, psychological, sincere, touching, contemplative, stylized
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2004)
Plot Summary:
On his 83rd birthday, Eddie (Voight), a war vet and a maintenance worker at the Ruby Pier amusement park, dies while trying to save a girl who is sitting under a falling ride. When he awakens in the afterlife, he encounters five people with ties to his corporeal existence who help him understand the meaning of his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: spiritual, emotional, touching, christian film, serious, psychological, mystical, inspirational, philosophical, sad
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977)
Plot Summary:
A disturbed,institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, surreal, controversial, cult classic, independent film, tense, sincere, serious, emotional
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010)
Plot Summary:
An adventure set in the early part of the 20th century, focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters, and other distractions.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, semi serious, dark fantasy, sweet, captivating, entertaining, gothic horror, period piece, fantasy adventure, humorous
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The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Poland
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, psychological, psychedelic, dark, mindfuck, disturbing, existential, philosophical, slasher
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Paperhouse (1988)
Plot Summary:
Anna is becoming lost in the loneliness of her own world when she discovers she can visit another, a house she has drawn herself and occupied by a young disabled boy. But as she discovers more of the links between her fantasy world and the mundane present, she is drawn only deeper into a dream turning into a nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, surreal, tense, intense, serious, creepy
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Mirrormask (2005)
Plot Summary:
In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: stylized, atmospheric, surreal, offbeat, visually stunning, mindfuck, visually appealing, cerebral, visual, cult classic
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The Fall (2006)
Plot Summary:
In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 116000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, South Africa, India
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: surreal, offbeat, fairy tale, visual, visually stunning, touching, visually appealing, mind bending, light, psychological
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Tideland (2005)
Plot Summary:
Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: disturbing, surreal, psychedelic, bleak, dark fantasy, atmospheric, psychological, controversial, cult classic, mindfuck
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Neverwas (2005)
Plot Summary:
Zach Riley (Aaron Eckhart) is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, 'Millwood'. What he doesnt reveal at the time of his appointment is that this was the very place where his novelist father, T.L. Pierson (Nick Nolte), spent many years of his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, visual, fairy tale, crying, whimsical
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Enter the Void (2009)
Plot Summary:
This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta). When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past -- where he sees his parents before their deaths -- to the present -- where he witnesses his own autopsy -- and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan
Duration: 161 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, art house, visually stunning, philosophical, atmospheric, meditative, disturbing, surreal, cerebral, mindfuck
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Ink (2009)
Plot Summary:
Invisible forces exert power over us in our sleep. A mercenary named Ink, on a literal nightmare mission, captures the spirit of 8-year-old Emma in the dream world. To save her, the dream-givers marshal all their resources, focusing on saving the soul of Emma's tragically broken father.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: surreal, dark fantasy, atmospheric, mind bending, enigmatic, fairy tale, serious, clever, visually appealing, independent film
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Hide Away (2011)
Plot Summary:
A successful businessman attempting to resurrect his life buys and boards a dilapidated sailboat.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, emotional, psychological, captivating, sincere, touching, serious, independent film
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What Dreams May Come (1998)
Plot Summary:
Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife, Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in hades for the small chance that he will be able to bring her back to heaven.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 113000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: surreal, philosophical, touching, inspirational, spiritual, emotional, tear jerker, cerebral, reflective, thought provoking
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Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Plot Summary:
Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real father, Ofelia must complete three terrifying tasks.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 694000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, surreal, dark fantasy, atmospheric, gothic, stylized, serious, emotional, suspenseful, captivating