Paprika
2006 · Animation · Satoshi Kon · 1h 30m
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.
- Strongly fantastic
- Strongly complicated
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Inception
91% alike
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.
- Strongly complicated
- Clearly fantastic
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Total Recall
89% alike
1990 · Science fiction
A construction worker who keeps dreaming of Mars buys an implanted memory of a holiday there and wakes up with people trying to kill him. Practical effects throughout, and a high body count.
- Strongly fantastic
- Clearly fast
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The Matrix
89% alike
1999 · Science fiction
A software developer who moonlights as a hacker is told the world he lives in is not the real one, and is offered a look at it. Kung fu, long coats, and a lot of talk about what is actually there.
- Strongly fantastic
- Clearly fast
- Clearly plot-driven
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