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11 films tagged dreams
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2010 · Science fiction
A team that steals ideas out of people's dreams is hired to do the opposite and plant one. The job needs dreams inside dreams, and the rules are explained at length as it goes.
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2013 · Adventure
A photo archivist who daydreams elaborately and does very little finally leaves the building, chasing a missing negative across Greenland and Iceland. The daydreams stop once the trip starts.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2023 · Horror
An anxious man sets out to fly home to his mother and falls instead through one strange situation after another. It runs three hours and looks less like the real world the further it goes.
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2023 · Comedy
A mild biology professor finds he has started turning up in the dreams of strangers all over the world, doing nothing in particular. It plays as a comedy about sudden fame and gets darker as it goes.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2021 · Science fiction
A noble family is handed control of a desert planet that supplies the most valuable substance in the universe, which the family it was taken from has no intention of accepting. It is long, slow, and heavy on names and factions.
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2013 · Thriller
A tired history lecturer in a yellow-lit Toronto spots a bit-part actor who looks exactly like him, and sets out to find him. Slow, quiet, and confusing on purpose.
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2004 · Romance
After a bad breakup a shy man learns his girlfriend has had him wiped from her memory, and books the same procedure for himself. Most of it happens inside his head over one night, with the rooms coming apart around him.
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2017 · Horror
A family lives sealed inside a house in the woods with strict rules about the doors, and then a second family asks to come in. Very quiet, very dark, and almost entirely in that house.
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2001 · Mystery
A woman with no memory after a crash on a Los Angeles road, and a bright new arrival in town who decides to help her find out who she is. It does not run on normal rules and does not explain itself.
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2006 · Animation
A machine that lets therapists walk into their patients' dreams is stolen, and the team behind it has to chase it while dreams start leaking into waking life. Animated, very fast, hard to hold on to, in Japanese.
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2023 · Animation
A lonely dog in 1980s New York orders a robot for company, and the two of them spend a summer together. Nobody speaks a single word in the whole film.
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