Best movies like The Woman Who Dreamed
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Plot Summary:
Something changes in the relationship of Achilleas and Anna when she starts to dream vividly and insists on relating her dreams to her husband. He is a barrister in the middle of an important murder trial and his temper becomes frayed with Anna's seeming indifference and involvement and preoccupation with her dream world.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Greece
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: allegory, detective
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Paandurangadu (2008)
Plot Summary:
A playboy in the medieval times discovers his divinity towards Lord Krishna.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: India
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags:
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The Colours of Desire (2017)
Plot Summary:
In a perfect, violent-free world, a young vagabond must decide between human decency or self-interest when it comes to the matter of assassinating three people and gifting their corpses to a powerful figure full of impossible wishes.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Adagio sostenuto (2008)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the love story between Anna and José, while at the same time approaches the intersections of urban violence and artistic creation, nature and civilization, war and peace, life and death, abandon and union, showing that in the end of our path we are still coping with mystery, emptiness and transcendence.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film, meta
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Valley of Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
A story of two famous actors who used to be a couple. They reunite after the son's death and receive a letter asking them to visit five places at Death Valley, which will make the son reappear.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Secret Friends (1991)
Plot Summary:
As an express train hurtles towards its destination, John (Alan Bates) a man whose sanity hangs by a thread, attempts to uncover his possible role in a brutal murder and the identity of the victim. The balance of his mind is strained to the limits by dark memories of a punishing childhood and a passionate jealousy for a beautiful young woman (Gina Bellman) - who may be a prostitute... or his wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, adaptation directed by original author
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Padikkadavan (1985)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: cult film
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The Apple Tree of Paradise (1986)
Plot Summary:
Girls no more, four heroines emerge into womanhood with a more clear-eyed outlook on life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Palaces of Pity (2011)
Plot Summary:
Haunted by their own directionless lives, two pre-adolescent girls reunite while visiting their ailing grandmother. In the midst of her fantasies of a medieval past - one consumed by fear and desire - the two girls are transformed and confront a legacy of oppression.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Portugal
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags:
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Betrayed: A Story of Three Women (1995)
Plot Summary:
Joan Bixler and Amanda Nelson have known each other for several years and lead successful and seemingly functional families. However, their friendship is ripped to shreds and their families shattered when the husband of one of the women has an affair with the other woman's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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The Letter (1982)
Plot Summary:
The wife of a Malaysian planter kills an employee of her husband one night, but her motive begins to appear not entirely truthful.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: eighties
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Private Collections (1979)
Plot Summary:
Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and compliant. He decides to erase his signs of distress and remain on the island. What awaits? In the second, an adolescent searches for the words of a nursery rime he remembers bits of. His journey takes him into dreams, sexual awakening, and Oedipal fantasy. Third, a man of wealth in late-nineteenth century Paris hires a prostitute for the night. She's also cabaret performer and takes him to her room. He fears he's about to be robbed. What's her secret?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: anthology, erotic, sensual, allegory
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Witches of the Caribbean (2005)
Plot Summary:
A persistent nightmare about a 16th century sorceress burned to death on a beach sends 17-year-old Angela looking for enlightenment at a fortnight retreat on a beautiful Caribbean isle. All the teens at the gathering are part of Angela's inexplicable dream, and when professed witch Bethany begins luring others into her coven, Angela slowly discovers the truth in this bloody horror tale with an exotic twist.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Strawberries Need Rain (1971)
Plot Summary:
Death comes to take a beautiful young girl, and she persuades him to let her live out her fantasies before he finally takes her away.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (2006)
Plot Summary:
Big Bang Love tells the story of two young prisoners from different backgrounds whose bond transcends their pasts. This stunning, imaginative film has been adapted from Masaki Ato's homoerotic graphic novel. Two beautiful young men become lovers in jail until one kills again. As they open their hearts to each other, life around them dissolves between the real world with a murder mystery and a surreal journey filled with images of a primitive past and an ambiguous future.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, disturbing, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, surreal, art house, suspense thriller, avant garde
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Scent of Gardenias (1992)
Plot Summary:
Driver who was left by his wife, who wanted to try a career in the movies, has to deal with their son's revolt when the latter finds his mother, whom he thought dead, singing in a nightclub.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags:
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Heroic Purgatory (1970)
Plot Summary:
Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan. One day, his wife Nanako returns home with a lost teenager called Ayu. A man, pretending to be the father, comes to get her back; Ayu keeps telling him that Rikiya and Nanako are her parents. Through this disruption, Rikiya suddenly starts remembering his youth as a revolutionary.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 817
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: avant garde, weird
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The Adventures of God (2000)
Plot Summary:
It tells the story of a man and a woman trapped inside what appears to be a dream set in the labyrinthine hallways, mysterious rooms of a large hotel in the 30's, facing the sea.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: art house, captivating, surreal, absurd, experimental
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Concurs (1982)
Plot Summary:
An outdoors orientation contest turns into a journey to the participants' self and conscience.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: allegory
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The Entrepreneur (2011)
Plot Summary:
Strangled by debt and the banks, the owner of a factory that is on the brink of closing will go to any lengths to solve his financial and marital problems.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Nymph (2009)
Plot Summary:
An urban husband and wife travel to the jungle and learn just how precious their relationship is.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 587
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Thailand
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: bleak, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, contemplative, gloomy
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Suing the Devil (2011)
Plot Summary:
Luke O'Brien, a washed-up salesman turned night law student, decides to sue Satan for $8 trillion dollars. On the last day before Luke files a default judgment, Satan appears to defend himself. On Satan's legal team are 10 of the country's best trial lawyers. The entire world watches on Legal TV to see who will win the Trial of the Century.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: christian film, semi serious, tense, suspense, political, political thriller, humorous, independent film
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The Christmas Box (1995)
Plot Summary:
A ski-shop owner reluctantly moves himself, his wife, and his daughter in to an estate as live-in help for an elderly widow. While struggling to balance his career and family life, he has recurring dreams about an angel.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, semi serious
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Three Days (2001)
Plot Summary:
Ten years ago, Andrew married his childhood sweetheart, Beth. Now Andrew's a high-powered literary agent, but his relationship with his wife has not fared as well. When Beth is tragically killed just days before Christmas, an angel gives Andrew the chance to relive the last three days his wife was alive. But he can't change fate and Beth will still lose her life. However, Andrew can still discover the gift Beth needs most from him.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, sentimental, touching, captivating
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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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Butterfly Dreaming (2008)
Plot Summary:
Anxious dreams, hallucinations, and paranoid reality torment a young math professor in the aftermath of his wife's death in a car accident. As madness, addiction and affairs send the story spiraling towards its conclusion, the truth about what really happened to the professor's wife comes into focus.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, tense, mind bending, serious, independent film
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The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Plot Summary:
The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave. The Exterminating Angel is a 1962 surrealist film, written and directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Silvia Pinal. Sharply satirical and allegorical, the film contains a view of human nature suggesting "mankind harbors savage instincts and unspeakable secrets". It is considered one of the best 1,000 films by The New York Times.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surreal, avant garde, dark comedy, allegory, black comedy, philosophical, political, black and white, mindfuck, atmospheric
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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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The Shack (2017)
Plot Summary:
After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips spirals into a deep depression causing him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Despite his doubts, Mack journeys to the shack and encounters an enigmatic trio of strangers led by a woman named Papa. Through this meeting, Mack finds important truths that will transform his understanding of his tragedy and change his life forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada, Hong Kong
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: christian film, spiritual, philosophical, psychedelic, motivational, inspirational, mystical, thought provoking, emotional, disgusting
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Holy Motors (2012)
Plot Summary:
We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes youthful, sometimes old. By turns murderer, beggar, company chairman, monstrous creature, worker, family man.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: surreal, art house, psychedelic, cerebral, mindfuck, enigmatic, disturbing, atmospheric, experimental, artsy