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9. Last Year at Marienbad. 1961 1h 34m Not Rated. 7.6 (25K) Rate. In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before. Director Alain Resnais Stars Delphine Seyrig Giorgio Albertazzi Sacha Pitoëff. 10. The Science of Sleep.
- Pitfall (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1962) A mine worker walks around from town to town with his young son trying to find work when he arrives at a village, Kyushu, and finds out it is a ghost town.
- 8 ½ (Federico Fellini, 1963) After his last great film, Guido, a film director, descends into an artistic crisis. His past coworkers are constantly looking for new ideas but Guido finds himself unable to come up with any.
- Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966) Elisabeth Vogler is an actress who won’t speak for unknown reasons. Alma, a young nurse, is put in charge of her and develops a kind of friendship with her.
- Belle de Jour (Luis Bunuel, 1967) Severine is a beautiful young woman and an ordinary housewife married to a doctor. She loves her husband but doesn’t seem to feel sexual attraction to him, so she just contents herself to wild, erotic fantasies.
- 15 Lost in Translation
- 14 Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind
- 13 Waking Life
- 12 After Hours
- 11 Paprika
- 10 Looper
- 9 Mulholland Drive
- 8 Perfect Blue
- 7 Climax
- 6 8 1/2
As one watches Sofia Coppola's Lost In Translation, they feel like they’re wandering through Tokyo's neon-lit nightscape, exploring the depths of loneliness and connection. As Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson portray the protagonists, the disorienting effect of culture shock amplifies the dreamlike quality of the film. Like a dream, their intense...
Take a wild ride through the mind of a man determined to erase memories of a failed relationship in Michel Gondry's surreal film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. As the film unfolds, its non-linear narrative and visually stunning memory sequences take the audience on a journey through a dreamlike atmosphere. The chaos and unpredictability of...
Waking Lifeby Richard Linklater takes us on a journey through the philosophical depths of reality, dreams, and consciousness. As viewers delve into the film's rotoscope animation style and episodic narrative structure, they are transported into a dreamlike world that challenges their understanding of what is real. Through engaging conversations wit...
Through New York City's nocturnal underworld, Martin Scorsese's After Hours takes the audience on a darkly comedic odyssey that remains one of a kind. As the film progresses, its surreal encounters and absurdity intensify, creating a sensation of being trapped in a strange and unsettling dream. The protagonist's descent into this bewildering realm ...
Venturing into the realm of dreams, Satoshi Kon's Paprika is an anime that captivates with its breathtaking visuals, allowing for viewers to transcend their own cognitive boundaries and explore abstract spheres of perception. As the audience watches the film, it will feel like they’re floating through a hazy dream world where reality and the subcon...
Looperby Rian Johnson bends the rules of reality with its time-travel thriller plot, merging the boundaries between past, present, and future in an awe-inspiring manner. The dystopian future setting and intricate storyline create a disorienting, dreamlike effect that challenges viewers' perceptions, making them question the nature of time and their...
Mulholland Driveby David Lynch is a cinematic journey through a dreamlike world. The film's haunting, dreamlike experience lingers long after it ends, thanks to its labyrinthine narrative, surreal imagery, and unsettling atmosphere that seem to move and shift like a maze. As viewers traverse this enigmatic landscape, they are confronted with provoc...
Perfect Blue, a masterpiece by Satoshi Kon, takes the audience on a psychological thriller journey that delves into the sinister aspects of fame. The disorienting narrative and disturbing imagery create a nightmarish, dreamlike quality that moves the reader through a surreal experience. As the protagonist grapples with the perils of her newfound ce...
In Climax, visionary filmmaker Gaspar Noé takes the audience on a surreal, hallucinatory journey into madness that transcends time and space. This extraordinary experience unfolds within the confines of a single location, stripping away all distractions and focusing attention solely on the dynamics at play among its inhabitants. The hypnotic dance ...
Federico Fellini's 8 1/2takes the audience on a surreal journey through a director's creative crisis, exploring the complexities of artistic expression and the human psyche. The dream sequences and non-linear narrative create a dreamlike quality that mirrors the protagonist's inner turmoil, as he grapples with his past, present, and future, resulti...
- 'Source Code' (2011) Colter (Jake Gyllenhaal) is part of a military operation that allows him to relive the last few minutes of a man on a train right before he died in a terrorist explosion.
- 'Alice in Wonderland' (1951) Alice in Wonderland is a quintessential movie in the age-old trope of waking up where the story has been all “just a dream.”
- 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' (1984) “Whatever you do, don't fall asleep” is some of the best advice that horror movies have given viewers. After all, monsters are most fearsome in your sleep, especially in Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) and her friends' dreams in A Nightmare on Elm Street.
- 'The Babadook' (2014) The Babadook is an interesting movie in that it is one of few horror movies with absolutely no deaths. Many horror movies have used the idea of dreams and nightmares in their narratives, but the characters in The Babadook only have to worry about being haunted instead of killed.
- The Matrix (The Wachowskis, 1999) The cyberpunk imaginary that the Wachowskis brought to the silver screen suggested that humanity lived an illusion, deep into its consciousness to realise the nuances that differed it from the true, wrecked reality.
- The City of Lost Children (Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, 1995) Jeunet and Caro went on to create a curious little steampunk city to put in front of the camera and entertain the spectator with slapstick characters and uncanny close-ups that add to the grotesque visual elements of the film’s fantasy.
- Dreams (Akira Kurosawa, 1990) Kurosawa is one of the most renowned filmmakers in cinema history. Dreams is one of his last contributions to the art form that he so much loved and helped build.
- Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven, 1990) Far into the future, humanity has come to the point of profiting from the sale of dreams. Douglas Quaid has had many layers of his memory erased over time, and lives a life of lies.
Apr 25, 2024 · The Panic in Needle Park. Al Pacino, Kitty Winn, Alan Vint. 4 votes. Jerry Schatzberg's The Panic in Needle Park provides a harrowing portrayal of heroin addiction in 1970s New York City – a rawness that will appeal to fans drawn to Requiem for a Dream's unflinching examination of substance abuse.
Mar 18, 2021 · Dead of Night (1945) Directors: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and Robert Hamer. Dead of Night (1945) Beating Inception to its ‘dream within a dream’ premise by 65 years, Dead of Night follows Walter (Mervyn Johns), an architect who is called to a house in the country to discuss renovations.
