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25 films tagged dreams
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2025 · Horror
A college student keeps dreaming of a 1969 tower collapse her grandmother saw coming and stopped, and learns Death has been working through the survivors and their children ever since. The sixth in the series.
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2025 · Horror
Four years on, Gwen is dreaming about murders at a winter camp she has never been to, so she takes her brother and a friend there. A blizzard shuts them in, and the dead phone starts ringing again.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Animation
Two kids trying to stop their parents splitting up go looking for the Sandman, who is supposed to grant one wish. Most of it happens in a dream world they can bend, with a talking stuffed giraffe along for it.
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2025 · Horror
After her parents die, a teenager moves in with her blind grandmother in Florida, where a local legend says the Sandman comes in dreams for people who have done wrong. She witnesses something and says nothing.
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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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2025 · Science fiction
In a future where people gave up dreaming in exchange for long life, a woman finds a creature who still dreams and gives him a projector to relive a century of past lives. Long segments, each its own world, and no straight line through it.
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2026 · Crime
A Chicago gang leader out of prison orders a retaliation killing, then starts having visions of a saint who was once a gang leader himself. It is a crime story that turns into a question about faith.
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2026 · Science fiction
A dream system keeps passengers' minds busy through a decades-long interstellar crossing, until it fails and traps an administrator and the ship's captain inside it. Every new dreamscape hands them different identities and another fight.
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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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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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1984 · Horror
Teenagers on one suburban street start having the same dream about a burned man with knives on his hand, and dying in their sleep. The rules about what is real go early.
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1985 · Science fiction
A clerk in a vast paperwork bureaucracy chases a woman from his dreams after a typing error sends the wrong man to be arrested. Cluttered, funny and increasingly airless.
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2020 · Animation
Young demon hunters board an overnight train where forty people have vanished, and the thing aboard attacks them in their sleep. Almost the entire film is one fight.
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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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2020 · Drama
A woman drives through a snowstorm with her new boyfriend to meet his parents on their farm, planning to end it. The rules slip, and it is mostly conversation in a car.
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2010 · Horror
A boy will not wake up after a fall in the attic, and moving house does not help his parents at all. Quiet for half of it, then very loud.
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2011 · Drama
An Ohio construction worker starts having dreams about a coming storm and spends money the family does not have on the shelter in the yard. Slow, and it stays with him.
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1983 · Horror
The head of a small cable channel goes looking for the source of a pirate signal showing torture, and starts hallucinating. Very physical effects, and reality gives way.
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