Movies with dreamlike vibe

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Claustrophobic Eerie Stylish Dreamlike Measured

Overview

We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes youthful, sometimes old. By turns murderer, beggar, company chairman, monstrous creature, worker, family man.

Themes

Performative identities, Commodification of work, Blurred boundaries of roles, Obsession with appearance, Spectacle vs reality, Impermanence of art

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Tense Steady Atmospheric Contemplative Dreamlike

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While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.

Themes

Nostalgia vs reality, Artistic longing, Past-era idealization, Time travel longing, Creative ambition vs relationship, Romance vs commitment

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Tense Claustrophobic Fast-paced Dreamlike Surreal

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Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

Themes

Memory and guilt, Corporate espionage ethics, Control of consciousness, Manipulation of belief, Layered reality and time, Identity and projection

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Bleak Deliberate Dreamlike Minimalist Lingering

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Suffering from acute kidney failure, Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave—the birthplace of his first life.

Themes

Karma and illness, Mortality and caregiving, Nonhuman transformation, Reincarnation and longing, Spirits and human bonds, Ritual memory

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Stylish Dreamlike Intense Measured Oppressive

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This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda. When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past -- where he sees his parents before their deaths -- to the present -- where he witnesses his own autopsy -- and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave.

Themes

Intergenerational trauma, Afterlife navigation, Memory fragmentation, Family loyalty under peril, Drug trade risk, Sex industry exploitation

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Playful Tense Fast-paced Stylish Dreamlike

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Alice, now 19 years old, returns to the whimsical world she first entered as a child and embarks on a journey to discover her true destiny.

Themes

Power and legitimacy, Resistance against tyranny, Quest for agency, Constraints of society, Gender role pressure, Rebellion and revolution

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Realistic Tense Steady Whimsical Stylish

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A blue harvest moon will rise, allowing the fairies to use a precious moonstone to restore the Pixie Dust Tree, the source of all their magic. But when Tinker Bell accidentally puts all of Pixie Hollow in jeopardy, she must venture out across the sea on a secret quest to set things right.

Themes

Temper under blue moon pressure, Duty to protect moonstone, Collaboration under mirror constraints, Balloon bound quest, Learning through error and repair, Safeguarding pixie dust tree

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Intimate Stylish Dreamlike Measured Vast

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Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.

Themes

Love across time, Time reversal, Aging and memory, Caregiving and loyalty, Legacy and inheritance, Memory and mortality

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Tense Claustrophobic Deliberate Stylish Dreamlike

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A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

Themes

Work-life boundary, Reality vs performance, Existential alienation, Obsessive artistic creation, Surreal domesticity, Fragile relationships

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Tense Steady Intimate Bleak Dreamlike

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Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love, but are soon compelled to separate. Lyla is forced to give up her newborn but unknown to her, he grows up to become a musical genius.

Themes

Adoption and reunion, Mentorship and exploitation, Motherly love, Pursuit of family, Music as destiny, Deception and lies

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