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Donnie Darko

2001 · Science fiction · Richard Kelly · 1h 53m

A teenager in 1988 sleepwalks out of his bedroom, and a jet engine falls through the roof into it. A figure in a rabbit suit tells him the world ends in 28 days, and the film is in no hurry to explain.

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    An undercover narcotics officer in a surveilled near-future America is assigned to spy on himself, while the drug he takes pulls his mind apart. Animated over live action, and hard to follow on purpose.

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    Describe: A Scanner Darkly

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  • The Endless

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    2017 · Science fiction

    Two brothers go back for a day to the camp they escaped as teenagers, where nobody has aged and something is wrong with the sky. Made cheaply, and the rules take a while.

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    A young man in east Los Angeles with no job and no rent money decides his neighbour's disappearance is a code, and starts decoding everything. Long and deliberately baffling.

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    Describe: Under the Silver Lake

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