100 Best Trippy Movies of All Time
Any film is incomplete without good cinematography. A good or bad decision can make or break a movie. Normally, directors explore different styles to suit a story’s setting and storyline. In spite of this, some of the best trippy movies are created when the right idea clicks.
Directors sometimes use techniques like distorted imagery, bright colors, and complicated, layered montage to achieve a certain style. These types of movies are called trippy movies. As far as visual storytelling goes, they’re quite effective.
Now, we have made a huge list for you below, and now we encourage you to go below and find your next trippy movie from our list to enjoy yourself.
Enter the Void (2009)
Oscar and his sister Linda have just moved to Tokyo. Oscar is a small-time drug dealer, and Linda works as a stripper in a nightclub. However, one evening Oscar falls into a police ambush and is killed.
Although it seems that this is his end, it is not so. Oscar refuses to leave this world and remains present like a ghost to protect his sister.
Fantastic Planet (1973)
On the distant planet Ygam, enslaved humans called Oms are the playthings of giant blue native inhabitants, the Draags. Terr, kept as a pet since infancy, escapes from his gigantic child captor and is swept up by a band of radical fellow Oms, who are resisting the Draags’ oppression and violence.
Coraline (2009)
Coraline is a girl surrounded by alienation and misunderstanding, both from her closest relatives (parents) and from the neighborhood she moved to. A small hidden door that leads to a world similar to hers, but apparently with much more understanding and warmth, is a real way out of the grayness of everyday life.
But when the parallel reality wants to keep her, Coraline begins to fight for her own life, but also the lives of her parents and ghosts imprisoned on the other side of the mirror. Beneath the macabre layers is actually a very interesting story that, like all fairy tales, has a lesson – what is visible on the surface is not always the truth.
Altered States (1980)
Edward Jessup (William Hurt), a scientist is obsessed with discovering humanity’s true role in the universe. To this end, he conducts a series of experiments to expand human consciousness. In total isolation, Jessup takes hallucinogenic drugs and hopes to experience different levels of consciousness.
However, the results are completely unexpected: instead of being a creature with expanded horizons, Jessup turns into an ape-like creature. On his dangerous journey, which takes him to the very roots of life, his only salvation is his wife, the anthropologist, Emily.
Taxidermia (2006)
Each of the members of three generations of Hungarians leads an abnormal life: in an isolated guardhouse, dry, the guard on duty Vendel (C. Czene) defies the constant insolent objections of his superior Hadnagy (P. Molnar) by spying on people and masturbating.
He secretly sleeps with his corpulent wife, but when he finds out about it, the boss kills him. The wife gives birth to the lover’s child, but it has a pig’s tail that must be cut off. In the 1950s: the Hungarian fast-eating and vomiting champion Kalman (G. Troscanyi) is defeated by an equally fat competitor Gizi (A. Stanczel).
In the present day: the disreputable animal trainer Lajoš spends his days stuffing animals and taking care of his overweight father who can’t walk. He also takes care of his father’s overweight cats who hate their owner…
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Harry (Jared Leto) and Tyrone (Marlon Wayans) are two friends, petty criminals and drug addicts, who use all means to get drugs. Harry’s girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly) even agrees to prostitution for drugs.
At the same time, Harry’s mother is addicted to TV commercials and would do anything to get on television. In an attempt to lose weight, she reaches for pills and becomes addicted to them.
Spirited Away (2001)
Ten-year-old Chihiro and her parents are on their way to their new house in the suburbs, when her father decides to take a shortcut. This shortcut will lead them to an unusual other world, both fascinating and terrifying, where parents turn into pigs and Chihiro meets ghosts…
Paprika (2006)
Atsuko is a psychiatrist who uses advanced technology to study the human mind. She has created a machine that allows her to enter the dreams of her patients and study their psyches from the inside. But Atsuko has another job that she does under the name Paprika.
She is a high-tech detective who uses this new invention to find out what the people she follows are really thinking. However, when an unknown thief steals this unique invention from Atsuko, Paprika goes in search of the machine while the whole town is gripped by general psychological instability.
Yellow Submarine (1968)
The Blue Meanies take over Pepperland, draining it of all its color and music, firing anti-music missiles, bonking people with green apples, and turning the inhabitants to stone by way of the pointed finger of a giant blue glove. As the only survivor, the Lord Admiral escapes in the yellow submarine and goes to Liverpool to enlist the help of the Beatles.
House (1977)
Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip to the country to visit her aunt at their ancestral house. She invites her six friends, Prof, Melody, Mac, Fantasy, Kung Fu, and Sweet, to join her. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.
Run Lola Run (1998)
Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni, who accidentally left a bag with 100,000 German marks on the subway platform, only to have it stolen by a homeless person. Manni has to deliver the money to his boss, a drug dealer.
If he doesn’t comply, they will most likely kill him. His desperate plan to get out of his desperate situation is to rob a bank. Lola’s plan is to somehow, anyhow, get money from the rich banker’s father in twenty minutes and save Manni; and to achieve that she has to run.
Eraserhead (1977)
Filmed intermittently over a period of five years, David Lynch’s radical debut features Jack Nance as Henry Spencer, a man living in a nameless industrial wasteland. After learning that one of his former relationships resulted in a pregnancy, Henry agrees to marry the mother-to-be, Mary, and brings her into his small, dirty apartment.
Their child is born with disgusting mutations and with the appearance of a strange reptilian creature whose piercing screams never stop. Soon Mary flees in fear and disgust, leaving Henry to succumb to the seductive charms of the girl who lives across the street. A starkly intense nightmare, “Eraserhead” moves at its own slow, surreal pace: Henry’s world is a cancerous surreal dream, a place where sins manifest themselves in the form of strange beings and worlds that exist within other worlds.
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
On a golden afternoon, young Alice follows a White Rabbit, who disappears down a nearby rabbit hole. Quickly following him, she tumbles into the burrow – and enters the merry, topsy-turvy world of Wonderland!
Memorable songs and whimsical escapades highlight Alice’s journey, which culminates in a madcap encounter with the Queen of Hearts – and her army of playing cards!
The Big Lebowski (1998)
At the time of the Gulf War in Los Angeles lives the loser Jeff Lebowski (J. Bridges), a passionate lover of bowling, drinking beer and smoking weed, who calls himself the Dude. One evening, two burglars broke into his apartment, demanding that he return the money that his wife had spent.
When he explains that he doesn’t have a wife, the burglars urinate on his favorite rug and leave. Realizing that the burglars were actually looking for Jeffrey Lebowski (D. Huddleston), a handicapped rich man who really has a spendthrift wife, the Dude decides to ask him for a new carpet. Lebowski hates idlers, so he kicks the Dude out of the house. Soon, Lebowski calls Dude and explains that his wife has been kidnapped.
Now he begs Dude to deliver the ransom to the kidnappers. Dude reluctantly agrees. He is joined in this by his friend Walter (J. Goodman), who suggests that they hand over a fake bag to the kidnappers. Keeping the million dollars for themselves, the guys go bowling. But when they leave the bowling alley, they realize that their car, together with the money, has been stolen…
Fellini Satyricon (1969)
After that, we follow Encolpius through a series of adventures, through which he will be reunited with Ascyltus, when they help a man kidnap a hermaphrodite god from a temple. Hermaphrodite dies, and Encolpius becomes impotent as punishment. He will go in search of a cure…
The Cell (2000)
Psychotherapist Catherine Deane (Jennifer Lopez) uses a new experimental method to try to cure a boy who fell into a coma. Thanks to this method, she literally enters the patient’s consciousness and subconsciousness and tries to help him. At the same time, FBI agents are trying to locate the last living victim of an arrested serial killer who has fallen into a catatonic state.
The only hope for the agents and the victim is Catherine. She enters the criminal’s consciousness and subconsciousness, where the most difficult trials await her, so her life is also threatened…
The Painting (2011)
For mysterious reasons, a Painter has left a work incomplete – causing conflict between the Toupins (Allduns), who are entirely painted, the Pafinis (Halfies), who lack a few colors, and the Reufs (Sketchies), who are only sketches.
Toupins occupy the chateau, Pafinis are out in the gardens, and Reufs are treated as outcasts and hunted by the Toupins. Three friends, one of each class, go on a quest to find the artist so he can finish the piece and hopefully unite the people.
Donnie Darko (2001)
Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) is plagued by visions of a giant anthropomorphic rabbit, Frank, who predicts the end of the world in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds and urges Donnie to dangerous and destructive mischief. One night, Frank walks Donnie out of the house, moments before a Boeing 747 engine crashes out of the sky into his bedroom, prompting Donnie to think that maybe Frank’s prophecies are not fiction.
The next day, Donnie meets a new student at school, Gretchen, and the same night he meets Frank again, who persuades him to cause a flood in the school. Soon, Frank gets Donnie interested in time travel, so Donnie borrows from the physics professor the book “The Philosophy of Time Travel”, by Roberta Sparrow, a weirdo who stands on the road all day checking to see if the mail has arrived.
Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)
Spanning over two decades of research and innovation from the 1960s to the early-1980s, the Arboria Institute–a secluded New Age commune and a state-of-the-art research facility–and the pill-popping psychiatrist, Dr. Barry Nyle, are particularly interested in their newest specimen: the female patient, Elena.
To begin to understand her mind-boggling telekinetic and telepathic abilities, the demented doctor keeps Elena heavily sedated and in a constant catatonic state; however, her capabilities are unfathomable. What are Dr. Nyle’s deeper intentions? In the end, could the institute’s utopian doctrine be flawed after all?
Samsara (2011)
Filmed over a period of almost five years and in 25 countries, the documentary “Samsara” transports us to sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial areas and natural wonders.
By renouncing dialogue and descriptive text, “Samsara” subverts our expectations related to traditional documentaries and encourages us to internal interpretations inspired by scenes and music that permeate the ancient with the modern.
The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
On the thirteenth floor of a skyscraper, visionaries Douglas Hall (Craig Bierko) and Hannon Fuller (Armin Mueller-Stahl) created Los Angeles with the latest virtual technology on a computer chip in 1937. Fuller discovers something extremely important, but when he notices that he is in danger, in a parallel leaves the world a letter to Hall.
When Hall wakes up, with no memory of the night before, he finds bloody clothes in his bathroom, Fuller stabbed, and himself the prime suspect. To solve the crime, Hall begins a search for the truth that drags him into a world of fraud and murder.
Reality and fantasy continue to intertwine, and the thin line that separates them becomes even more blurred when Hall meets the beautiful and enigmatic Jane (Gretchen Mol). In order to find the answers, Hall must cross the border of reality into a computer-simulated world of his own creation.
Holy Motors (2012)
Oscar’s only friend is the blonde Selin, who drives him up and down the streets of Paris. There seems to be a feeling of tranquility between them. But what is it actually?
The Holy Mountain (1973)
An alchemist gathers together a group of people to represent the planets in the solar system. The man’s intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the gods who secretly rule the universe.
Metropolis (1927)
In the distant future, the super modern city of Metropolis is home to two classes: the very rich who spend their days at leisure, and the slaves who work the machines in the city’s underground. The son of the richest man in Metropolis, Freder Fredersen (G. Froehlich), is part of that society. One day he spots a beautiful girl (B. Helm) surrounded by poor children, but they quickly disappear.
Obsessed by what he saw, Freder decides to find her. That’s how he reaches the underground world and is shocked when he realizes the misery the workers live in. Only a few people know how Metropolis works, and one of them is Freder’s father (A. Abel), but they never talked about it…
The Seventh Seal (1957)
In the middle of the 12th century, the knight Antonius Block (Max von Sydow) and his squire returned to Sweden after a ten-year crusade. A plague is ravaging the land, and Antonius quickly discovers that Death (Bengt Ekerot) has come for him as well. In order to gain time and manage to return home, he challenges Death to a multi-day game of chess. Along the way, playing chess, he travels around the country and tries to figure out the existence of God and the meaning of his own life. His faith is shaken, and it is further undermined by the events around him and the cynical squire.
Along the way, they come across various characters and phenomena of medieval life: flagellants, witch burning, human cruelty and love woes; the criticism of the clergy, which uses fear to control the people, is very emphasized. Antonius increasingly doubts the existence of God and fears the nothingness that may follow death.
The despair of the knight and the resentment of the squire are contrasted with the happiness and spirituality of a married couple of traveling entertainers. At the end of the chess game, Antonius outsmarts Death and allows the young couple to be saved. As the knight and the rest of the party are drawn into the dance of death, the two continue their journey.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Joel (Jim Carrey) is a bit withdrawn and silent guy. His girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet) is his exact opposite: a chatterbox who dyes her hair a different color every now and then, tells very strange stories and is full of positivity. The story begins when Joel realizes that Clementine, after a long-term relationship, underwent an experimental memory erasure procedure and completely erased her memory of him.
Whether for revenge on her or for the fact that he loves a person who doesn’t even know who he is, Joel decides to do the same thing. During the process, he realizes that he made a mistake, but there is no turning back.
What Dreams May Come (1998)
Soul mates Chris (Robin Williams) and Annie (Annabella Sciorra) couldn’t be happier than they are. They live in an idyllic marriage and have two beautiful children. Unfortunately, after some time, a severe tragedy befell them. Both of their children lose their lives in a car accident. Devastated by this, they somehow recover, but not long after, Chris dies in another car accident.
Chris wakes up in Paradise and realizes that Paradise is something he could never have imagined. As his personal guide, Chris gets Albert (Cuba Gooding Jr.), the first doctor he worked with. Albert helps him see his children again and thus makes Chris happy. But in everyday life, his wife Annie is desperate. Having lost her two children and her husband, Annie takes a desperate step and takes her own life.
Unfortunately, this act does not make her go to Heaven. Now Chris, who cannot find happiness without his wife, goes with Alberta to Hell, to save his wife from damnation, while she is unaware of what threatens her.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
In this fierce screen adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s book, journalist Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) goes to Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race, and he takes with him a lawyer, Dr. Gonzo (Benicio Del Toro).
The year is 1971 and Duke and Gonzo are on their way to Sin City, with a scared hitchhiker (a barely recognizable Tobey Maguire) and a trunk full of drugs, which they keep taking.
Naked Lunch (1991)
In 1953, in New York, William Lee (P. Weller) was employed by a company that exterminates insects. The apparatus he works with is often short of poisonous powder and Lee discovers that his wife Joan (J. Davis) is using it as a narcotic.
And he starts taking drugs, and that’s when his encounters with giant talking insects begin. After he accidentally kills Joan by throwing a glass at her head, Lee flees from the police to the mysterious city of Interzone…
The Science of Sleep (2006)
The life of the shy and withdrawn Stephan (Gael García Bernal) finally takes a turn for the better when his mother convinces him to return to France, where he spent his childhood and where an extraordinary job awaits him. With a wild imagination, Stephan’s eccentric dream world threatens to suffocate his real life. He is bitterly disappointed when the job does not meet his expectations.
However, a new acquaintance in the form of an attractive neighbor, Stephanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg), helps him overcome his despair and, before long, he falls in love with this young woman whose fantasy undoubtedly matches his own. He confides in her unreservedly, shares with her all his plans, dreams and projects. He introduces her to his rather crazy and very colorful inner world. Things that were once part of only the wildest dreams are turning into reality, and he is happily heading toward a happy, magical future with Stephanie…
The Animatrix (2003)
In the first story called “The Last Flight of Osiris”, the crew of a flying ship tries to warn all the people in their city about an attack that is impossible to avoid. In the two-part story entitled “The Second Renaissance”, we will look at the story of the behind-the-scenes actions in the war waged by humans against machines. In “The Boy’s Story” the focus is on a teenager contacted by Neo who manages to escape from the Matrix.
“Program” brings us the story of two warriors who fight in a samurai training simulation. One of them will decide to betray his comrades and re-enter the Matrix. The sixth story, entitled “World Record”, focuses on a sprinter, a champion, who manages to escape the Matrix thanks to his athletic talent.
The main character of the segment “Iza” is a girl who discovers a haunted house while looking for her cat. In the eighth, “Detective Story”, we will meet a private investigator who is trying to track down a hacker. The final story deals with humans capturing a robot and inserting it into the human Matrix.
The Matrix (1999)
A retired software professional leads a double life. He spends his nights in front of his computer where, under the pseudonym Neo, he becomes a hacker trying to discover something he himself is not sure exists. After he comes into contact with Morpheus, a legendary hacker whom the government claims is a terrorist, he is pursued by the police led by the dangerous agent Smith (H. Weaving).
Morpheus reveals to him that he is part of the matrix, which is an illusion of the world, that is, a virtual reality that computers have been using for centuries to control the enslaved human race. Morpheus is the leader of a small group of people who have learned the truth and are trying to start a war for liberation from the computers. A new hope awakens in them, because according to legend, the Chosen One is coming – the only one who will be able to stand up to the machines. Everything indicates that Neo could be the one.
Princess Mononoke (1997)
In a fight with a demon that attacked his village, Prince Ashitaka was wounded and infected. He finds out that his wound will spread all over his body and that he himself will turn into a demon and die. In order to try to prevent this, the prince must leave home and meet his destiny. After a long journey, he reaches a town whose inhabitants are engaged in iron production.
The ruler of the city, Eboshi, fights against the forest deities and wants to rule the area. Her opponent is Princess Mononoke, a girl raised by wolves. She, together with the animals, wants to drive away the people who are destroying the forest. Prince Ashitaka, who falls in love with Mononoke, would like to prevent a conflict between humans and forest dwellers…
Tekkonkinkreet (2006)
In the Treasure City where the moon smiles and boys can fly, life can be both beautiful and brutal. And this is especially true for the heroes Black and White, two boys from the street who protect the city by fighting against a group of evil Yakuza and foreign assassins who are trying to rule the neglected metropolis.
TEKKON KINKREET is a dynamic story about the brotherhood that deals with the shortcomings of today’s society, the lost true love and the goodness of the human heart.
Melancholia (2011)
Justine and Michael celebrate their marriage with a lavish party at her sister and brother-in-law’s house. Meanwhile, the planet Melancholia is approaching earth…
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
A thousand years ago, the incorrigible gambler Dr. Parnassus made a bet with the devil, Mr. Nick, and won eternal life on the bet. Several centuries later, Parnassus meets the love of his life and makes a new contract with Mr. Nick (negotiates). In exchange for immortality, he gets youth, but on the condition that when his daughter Valentina turns sixteen, she becomes Mr. Nick’s property. Time passes quickly, Valentina is approaching the age of sixteen and Mr. Nick comes to get her.
As both Dr. Parnassus and Mr. Nick are addicted to betting, they arrange a new bet – Valentina is won by the first to seduce five souls. Parnassus desperately wants to save his beloved daughter and promises her hand to whoever helps him defeat the devil… an incredible race against time begins.
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Little girl Dorothy Gale (J. Garland) grows up without her parents on the farm of her Uncle Henry (C. Grapewin) and Aunt Em (C. Blandick) in Kansas. Although she spends a happy childhood with the people who love her the most in the world, Dorothy is also plagued by problems. Namely, her faithful dog Toto is targeted by Miss Gulch (M . Hamilton), who owns half the district. When she decides to take Toto, because he bit her, Dorothy runs away with her pet, but finds herself in the middle of a tornado and loses consciousness…
He wakes up in an unknown land and realizes that without a spell he will not be able to return home. Dorothy’s house, raised in a tornado, killed the Wicked Witch of the East, who was abusing the Chewbacca people, and her sister, the Wicked Witch of the West (M. Hamilton), decides to take revenge on her. To help her, Glinda the Good Witch of the North (B. Burke) directs her to the most powerful resident of the land of Oz, the enigmatic wizard (F. Morgan) who lives in the Emerald City.
On the way to the wizard, Dorothy meets the Scarecrow (R. Bolger) who wants to gain wisdom from the magician, the Tin Man (J. Haley) who fervently wants a heart, and the Scary Lion (B. Lahr) who hopes for courage. However, the high-spirited company is closely watched by the Wicked Witch of the West with her army of flying monkeys. Dorothy’s only protection is the wondrous red shoes of the Wicked Witch of the East, given to her by Glinda…
Pi (1998)
Max Cohen is an IT genius with a great talent for mathematics through which he views and interprets all of life and events. He lives alone, moreover, he is extremely antisocial and hardly socializes with anyone except his self-made computer, which has unimagined capabilities to analyze and predict movements on the stock exchange.
Max tries to find the numerological principle by which the value of stocks moves and which would allow him to accurately predict the rise or fall of stocks. As it approaches the solution, ie. to a magical number that will reveal many secrets and even religious ones, Max’s headaches and apparitions, from which he normally suffers, are getting stronger and stronger.
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
In Spain in 1944, immediately after the Civil War, the girl Ofelia (I. Baquero) moves away with her pregnant mother to stepfather Vidal (S. López), a cruel military commander of Franco’s army. In order to escape from the ugly everyday life, Ofelia constantly escapes into her fantasy world. One day, her curiosity takes her to the forest, and to a mysterious underground labyrinth where she meets an unusual being, the mythical Pan (D. Jones).
Pan claims that she is the reincarnation of Princess Moanna – the lost daughter of the underground king and that his task is to guard the portal that should return her to her father. But first of all, it is necessary to check whether her immortal soul has remained unchanged and Ophelia must complete three tasks during the full moon. However, this will dangerously intertwine this fairy tale with the reality of war.
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
And so, in a rarely used scene of Sci-Fi events, the human body becomes the stage of dynamic adventures, full of unusual crafts. The plot is further complicated by the circumstance that one member of the medical team is, in fact, a saboteur, but he will end up with tiny heads or, in this case, huge antibodies that will crush him as an intruder.
The Fall (2006)
In director and screenwriter Tarsem Singh’s film The Fall, shot in twenty locations around the world over two long years, the visuals (primarily camera, set and costumes) are truly impressive – many frames seem like art photographs brought to life.
The basic thread of the story, the fantasy of a sick girl (Alexandria is in the hospital because of a broken arm, and an injured stuntman fuels her wild imagination with a mystical story about five avengers who want to kill the evil Odious) and a journey through a fictional country where the characters are interpreted by familiar faces from everyday life, will remind viewers to the Wizard of Oz, but unfortunately, the screenplay didn’t work out that way.
12 Monkeys (1995)
Philadelphia, 2035. After an unknown infectious disease ravaged humanity in the mid-nineties, killing five billion people, the rest of the human race survives deep beneath the Earth’s crust. The surface is ravaged and ruled by wild animals.
In order to save the remaining people, the authorities send the prisoner James Cole (B. Willis) to the past to isolate a dangerous virus and thus make it possible to create a vaccine in the future. Cole mistakenly ends up in 1990, not 1996 when the pandemic happened, where he is immediately locked up and assigned to Dr. Kathryn Railly’s (M. Stowe) doctors.
Dr. Railly thinks that he has a schizophrenic raving in front of him. Therefore, he places him in a psychiatric hospital, where the distraught James meets the paranoid Jeffrey Goines (B. Pitt), the son of a famous virologist (C. Plummer) and the leader of the so-called The army of the twelve monkeys, which in the future took responsibility for the spread of the virus.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Gangster Acme is found dead and the prime suspect is Roger. The strange and power-hungry Judge Doom (Christopher Lloyd) wants to bring Roger to justice. Roger begs Valiant to find the real culprit.
The tension builds as Eddie uncovers one scandal after another and learns that the city is about to be destroyed!
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Once upon a time in Baghdad lived Prince Ahmad (J. Justin), who was arrested by his evil advisor Jaffar (C. Veidt) as soon as he became king. Jaffar takes the throne, and in the dungeon Ahmad meets the young man Abu (Saba), the biggest thief in Baghdad. Abu helped Ahmad escape to Basra the day before his execution.
In Basra, Ahmad falls in love with the sultan’s daughter (J. Duprez) and in the garden of her castle he appears to her in the water of a small lake as if he were a genie from a bottle. It was just his reflection in the water, and when he descended from the tree to the ground next to the princess, she fell in love with him. Ahmad promises her that he will love her forever and then runs away. On the second day, Jaffar visits the Sultan and gives him a mechanical horse on which the Sultan can fly above the rooftops. In return, he asked for the sultan’s daughter’s hand in marriage.
At that moment, Ahmad and Abu appear, and Jaffar, who is also a sorcerer, blinds Ahmad with a spell and turns Abu into a dog. He takes the princess in, but she doesn’t love him and thinks only of Ahmad. From then on, Ahmad will have three goals in life – to remove the spells from himself and Abu, save the princess and return to the throne that belongs to him…
Delicatessen (1991)
In post-apocalyptic France, food, especially meat, has become such a valuable commodity that it is used instead of money. But the residents of the building, whose owner is a butcher, often enjoy delicious sausages and steaks.
The butcher procures much-needed meat, so every week or two he hires a new doorman, whom he eventually kills, cuts and serves to the ever-faithful residents of the building. But when love develops between the new doorman and the butcher’s daughter, the plan changes.
Time Bandits (1981)
The young boy’s clothes contain a time hole. A whole gallery of dwarves fleeing from the Superior Being passes through it. They take Kevin with them on various adventures through time, from the time of Napoleon, through the Middle Ages to the early nineties, and again in the time of legends, great forts and ultimate darkness, where they face the primordial evil itself.
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The Zero Theorem (2013)
An exceptionally talented but socially isolated computer operator is given the task of proving the null theorem: that the universe ends in nothingness and therefore life is meaningless. But the meaning is exactly what he already longs for…
Loving Vincent (2017)
The intrigue is revealed through interviews with the characters who were closest to Vincent and through a dramatic reconstruction of the events that led to his death. The film shows 120 of van Gogh’s most famous paintings.
The plot, which is taken from 800 letters written by the painter himself, takes us to important people and events in the time before his unexpected death. Each scene is painted using the technique used by Vincent himself.
Mirrormask (2005)
After an argument with her parents over Helena’s (Leonidas) plans for the future, her mother falls ill and Helena is convinced that it is her fault. The night before her mother’s operation, she dreams that she is in a strange world with two opposing queens, bizarre creatures, and masked inhabitants.
All is not so well in that fantasy world: the white queen has fallen ill and needs a magical mask to recover, and Helena must find it. But as her adventures continue, she begins to wonder if this is really a dream or something much more sinister.
Nosferatu (1922)
Thomas Hutter is a real estate agent who leads a happy life with his wife Ellen in the German city of Bremen. One day he receives and accepts the task of traveling to Transylvania to the castle of Count Orlok, who is interested in buying some real estate. With a heavy heart, he says goodbye to his wife and sets off on a long journey. But when he gets there, Thomas gets an unpleasant surprise from the local residents who don’t even want to go near Orlok’s castle, let alone take him there in a carriage.
When he finally enters his castle, Thomas notices that Orlok is behaving strangely and that he only appears at night. However, the latter persuades him to sell him a house in his hometown and imprisons him in his castle. It turns out that Orlok is a Nosferatu vampire who fell in love with his wife and immediately took a boat to his new home in Germany. Thomas managed to free himself and went home alone to warn his wife. Nosferatu had already found her and brought the plague to the city, but he died when the sun shone on him one morning and he did not hide in his coffin.
Dark City (1998)
John Murdoch wakes up in an unfamiliar hotel and realizes that he has lost his memory. At the same time, he learns that he is wanted for a series of brutal and bizarre murders.
While trying to remember his past, he encounters a diabolical underworld led by a group of beings known as Strangers, who have the ability to put people to sleep and change cities and their inhabitants. Murdoch must find a way to stop them before they take control of his mind and destroy him forever.
Mr. Nobody (2009)
One hundred and eighteen-year-old Nemo Nobody (J. Leto) is the last living mortal on Earth, who in the dystopian future world of 2092 recalls his life, or rather his possible lives, in front of a persistent journalist. While the public in a kind of reality show follows the anticipation of his imminent death, because people have meanwhile become immortal thanks to “telomerization”, Nemo, with the help of a psychiatrist, mentally returns to his initially happy childhood, until the moment in which, when he was 9 years old, the boy’s father (R. Ifans) and mother (N. Little) decided to divorce.
If he had run after the departing train at the train station that day after his parent’s divorce and continued to live with his mother, Nemo would have gotten closer to the romantic Anne (D. Kruger). If he had stayed with his father, he would have met the capricious Elise (S. Polley), and if he had gone his own way, Nemo would have found his soul mate in the timid Jeanne (L. Dan Pham), but neither in that marriage nor in the other two would be happy. Moreover, in all three cases, he would have died a violent death either in a traffic accident or as the wrongful victim of a contract killer.
Trainspotting (1996)
A wild, unconventional journey on the trail of Rabelais through the darkest corners of Edinburgh’s underworld leads us to Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), who is trying to wean himself off heroin. We see how the drug has affected Mark Renton and his relationship with his family and friends: Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller) possessed by Sean Connery, goofball Spud (Ewen Bremner), psycho Begbie (Robert Carlyle), 14-year-old Diane (Kelly McDonald), and athlete and purist Tommy (Kevin McKidd), who has never tried drugs, but still feels for her curiosity.
Cloud Atlas (2012)
Everything in the world is connected: a diary of a trip across the Pacific from 1849; the composer’s letters to his friend; a thriller about a murder in a nuclear plant; a farce about a publisher in a home for the infirm; a wild clone in a futuristic Korea and the story of a tribe that inhabits a post-apocalyptic Hawaii, far in the future.
Being John Malkovich (1999)
Craig Schwartz is a talented but unemployed puppeteer who lives with his wife Lotte and a bunch of her pets, including a chimpanzee. Lotte, who works as a saleswoman in a pet store, would still somehow make ends meet, but not with a bunch of her four-legged and feathered friends. Therefore, Craig is forced to look for a job.
He finds it in a New York company, located on a mezzanine floor where the ceilings are so low that all employees have to bend down when walking. The owner of the company, the elderly dr. Lester fills poor Schwartz’s ears with his bizarre sexual fantasies about the dyslexic secretary Floris. Craig’s silent suffering is represented by his sexy colleague Maxine, who can’t even imagine herself with such a pathetic loser.
But Craig’s life suddenly changes when, through a combination of circumstances, he finds a hidden tunnel in the building that leads him nowhere but into another person’s mind. That person is none other than the famous actor John Malkovich, and Craig has the opportunity to hear everything Malkovich hears, see everything Malkovich sees and feel everything Malkovich feels.
Memento (2000)
Leonard (G. Pearce) is a man with no long-term memory, only short-term. Thanks to a complex system of reminders scattered across Polaroid photos, pieces of paper, and even tattoos on his body, he knows that after receiving a blow to the head in a fight with the rapist and murderer of his beloved wife, he was forever pushed into the present.
From the past, brief flashes of faces and events that he can’t connect keep coming to him. Everything he does, and it’s obvious that he’s looking for the killer to get revenge on him, is questionable and probably wrong.
There is no solid point for him to cling to, and giving up on dealing with the elusive shadows of the past would also make his future questionable. Has he turned into a deadly weapon controlled by others? Doesn’t revenge, with which he tries to put an end to what he lost, open a new cycle of crime?
Gandahar (1987)
On the planet Gandahar where peace reigns and poverty is unknown, this utopian lifestyle is upset by reports of people at the outlying frontiers being turned to stone. Sylvain is sent to investigate this mysterious threat.
Daisies (1966)
it follows two young girls (Jitka Cerhová and Ivana Karbanová), both named Marie, who engage in strange pranks. Originally planned as a satire of bourgeois decadence, the movie targets those attached to rules and was referred to by Chytilová as “a necrologue about a negative way of life.”
Wizards (1977)
After the death of his mother, the evil mutant wizard Blackwolf discovers some long-lost military technologies. Full of ego and ambition, Blackwolf claims his mother’s throne, assembles an army and sets out to brainwash and conquer Earth.
Meanwhile, Blackwolf’s gentle twin brother, the bearded and sage Avatar, calls upon his own magical abilities to foil Blackwolf’s plans for world domination – even if it means destroying his own flesh and blood.
Under the Skin (2013)
In this psychological sci-fi story, Scarlett Johansson stars as an alien who assumes the guise of an attractive young woman to lure men into her trap. She stalks the streets of Scotland leading lonely, unsuspecting men to their deaths.
Akira (1988)
Set in a dystopian 2019, it tells the story of Shōtarō Kaneda, a leader of a biker gang whose childhood friend, Tetsuo Shima, acquires incredible telekinetic abilities after a motorcycle accident, eventually threatening an entire military complex amid chaos and rebellion in the sprawling futuristic metropolis of Neo-Tokyo.
eXistenZ (1999)
Allegra Geller, the world’s leading virtual game designer tests her new virtual reality game: eXistenZ with her chosen target group of users. Soon she is attacked by a fanatical killer and she has to escape with a marketing intern who becomes her bodyguard. Reality and the virtual world of the game begin to mix.
James and the Giant Peach (1996)
An orphan with terrible aunts for guardians befriends human-like bugs who live inside a giant peach, who take the boy on a journey to New York City.
Waking Life (2001)
It is centered on a young man who wanders through a succession of dream-like realities wherein he encounters a series of individuals who engage in insightful philosophical discussions.
Easy Rider (1969)
USA, the 1960s. Two hippies, Wyatt “Captain America” (P. Fonda) and Billy (D. Hopper), smuggle drugs from Mexico to Los Angeles. With the money earned from the sale, they decide to travel across America on motorcycles and visit New Orleans. Cruising the American roads, Billy and Captain America meet numerous biographical characters.
The hitchhiker they pick up (L. Askew) takes them to a hippie commune and presents them with LSD on parting. They then briefly end up in prison where they meet disillusioned lawyer George Hanson (J. Nicholson) who will join them on the trip. The environment, unaccustomed to free-spirited hippies, constantly creates problems for them…
The Truman Show (1998)
Thirty-year-old Truman Burbank (J. Carrey) lives an idyllic life: he works a well-paid job as an insurance salesman, lives in the picturesque Seahaven in the south of the country, and is married to the beautiful and caring Meryl (L. Linney).
However, the world around good-natured Truman is the most ordinary semblance. Namely, since childhood, Truman has been the star of the most popular TV show on the planet, where millions of viewers follow his everyday life 24 hours a day, while all the people in Truman’s life are actors and actresses.
The producer of the show, Christof (E. Harris), makes sure that the naive Truman, who was abandoned by his parents in his early childhood, does not understand what is really happening around him. But one day exactly that will happen.
The NeverEnding Story (1984)
The boy Bastian (B. Oliver) is an imaginative and sensitive child who, because of this, is often a victim of misunderstanding by adults and teasing of other children. Fleeing from a group of school bullies, Bastian hides in a bookstore, where he steals a mysterious book that he talked to the librarian about a moment before. He locks himself in the school attic and starts reading a story about a boy who lives in a fantasy world.
He is a warrior to Atreyu (N. Hathaway) who must save the sick Empress and all of Fantasia from a threat called the Void that is devouring everything before it. Atreyu embarks on an arduous journey to save his world, but time is running out. At one point, Bastian realizes that he is a part of that story and that the boy they mention as salvation is him.
Santa Sangre (1989)
A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the heretical church of Santa Sangre (“Holy Blood”), and then commit suicide. Back in the present, he escapes and rejoins his surviving and armless mother.
Toys (1992)
Old industrialist Kenneth Zevo (D. O’Connor) decides to leave the toy factory to his rigid and strict brother Leland (M. Gambon), a three-star general, and not to his son Leslie (R. Williams) and daughter Alsatia (J. Cusack). . Lying on his deathbed, Kenneth believes that Leslie and Alsatia are too immature and irresponsible to be engaged in such a demanding and serious job. But no one expects that Leland, tired of long and boring meetings, will soon decide to fundamentally change the production program of the Zevo factory at the mention of industrial espionage.
After introducing military-grade security measures to the company, Leland will replace the production of harmless toys with the creation of violent video games. After realizing the direction Leland is leading his father’s company, Leslie, Alsatia and their friends decide to stop him and take over the management of the factory…
Stalker (1979)
Based on the Strugacki brothers’ novel “Roadside Picnic”, the film tells the story of two men, the Writer (A. Solonitsyn) and the Professor (N. Grinko), who, led by the mysterious Stalker (A. Kaidanovsky), travel to an area known as the Zone, where there is a room that supposedly fulfills all wishes.
Each of them has their own reasons for wanting to get to the Room; The writer wants to find inspiration there, while the Professor wants to win the Nobel Prize. Stalker reveals to them that the previous person who reached Soba acquired a lot of money as she wished, but hanged herself because Soba fulfills not only expressed wishes, but also subconscious ones…
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
In the welfare state of the future, Alex (Malcolm McDowell), an evil young hooligan, sleeps all day and spends his nights roaming the city with his comrades, attacking innocent people on the streets and in their homes.
After the police finally capture him, Alex undergoes rehabilitation in the form of aversion therapy, as brutal and terrible as any of his crimes.
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953)
Young Bart Collins lives with his widowed mother Heloise. The major blight on Bart’s existence is the hated piano lessons he is forced to endure under the tutelage of the autocratic Dr. Terwilliker.
Bart feels that his mother has fallen under Terwilliker’s sinister influence, and gripes to visiting plumber August Zabladowski, without much result. While grimly hammering away at his lessons, Bart dozes off and enters a fantastical musical dream.
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
America has lost the war on drugs in the near future. The government is paranoid, and two out of ten Americans are hired to work for the government and spy on the other eight in the name of national security and the war on drugs. Meet Fred, an indecisive plainclothes policeman recruited by the government. In order to maintain his cover, Fred regularly takes the popular substance D. Because of the drug, Fred has developed a multiple personality disorder, one of which he is unaware of: his alter ego is Bob Arctor, a drug dealer.
Fred’s superiors plant a holographic camera in his home as part of an operation to stalk Bob. A shape-shifting suit allows Fred to appear on camera as Bob and prevents his colleagues from learning his true identity. A camera in Fred’s/Bob’s apartment reveals that his friends regularly snitch on each other to get more drugs. Even Donna, the young dealer Fred is in love with, prefers drugs to human contact.
A journey into the absurd, a place where identity and loyalty almost no longer exist and where you can’t trust anyone – not even yourself. Welcome to the world of Replicants.
Mind Game (2004)
The film follows Nishi, a loser who has a crush on his childhood girlfriend. After an encounter with the Japanese mafia, the film follows Nishi as he journeys to heaven and back, and ends up trapped in an even more unlikely place.
The Color of Pomegranates (1969)
A portrait of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat Nova, the ‘King of Song’. Through his poetry and a series of lavish tableaux, the film charts his life from humble weaver, to king’s minstrel and cloistered monk before being martyred for his faith by invading Persians.
A Town Called Panic (2009)
Our heroes Cowboy and Indian want to surprise the Horse for his birthday with homemade fireworks. Instead of being surprised, they destroyed the house and this is where the unimaginable adventures of these three begin, from a trip to the center of the Earth to the discovery of a parallel underwater universe…
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Astronaut David Bowmann (K. Dullea) is invited to the headquarters of space research to take on, together with his group, a new and very unusual task. The order is to figure out the mysterious, mysterious function of the geometrically regular black monolith from the crater of the Moon.
Flight control is entrusted to the newest computer model – HAL 9000. However, the computer fails and David remains in space having experienced a complete transformation.
Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
The girl Sofija lives a quiet life in her hometown and works in her mother’s hat shop. The Witch of the Desolation casts spells on her and turns her into an old woman, which she can’t do anything about. Now she can no longer continue her business with hats and goes to the disreputable movable castle of the notorious wizard Vihor, where she gets a job as a housekeeper.
He befriends Calcifer, the fire demon who runs the castle and who is bound to the master by an unbreakable contract. Sofia and the demon agree that they will help each other and remove the spells. Like Calcifer, the witch also cursed Vihor, and Sofia will fall in love with him. She will help him face the Witch of the Wasteland and his former magic teacher…
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
The year is 2029. Many people have become cyborgs by replacing some of their body parts with artificial implants. But the brain cannot be replaced. Agent Motoko Kusanagi is one of those cyborgs who works for the police. With the help of a special department, it is possible for her to become invisible and get closer to the target.
Soon, together with her partner Bato, she gets a new task; find a mysterious “puppet master”, a hacker who manages to break through the armor barrier and directly manipulate the spirit of some citizens, forcing them to commit crimes for him. At first, they only manage to capture one scavenger and his hacker mentor, but they discover that they were only implanted with artificial memories and that they were only controlled spies of the “puppet master”.
Interstellar (2014)
Caring father Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), a trained pilot and engineer, has devoted himself to a peaceful life as a farmer on the farm where he lives with his children. When a group of scientists discovers a hole in the universe that could allow the human species to travel interstellar, they will turn to him to start a journey from which there may be no return. The stakes are as high as the responsibility that Cooper carries on his back…
An epic story of a heroic interstellar journey beyond the limits of scientific knowledge. The film explores the premise of the existence of a man who was born on Earth, but who is not destined to die on Earth.
They Live (1988)
A lonely wanderer named Nada comes to an unknown city in search of work. He manages to find a job at a construction site, where he meets Frank, who offers him accommodation in a shelter for the poor. Nada accepts the offer and begins to notice some suspicious things, such as a church where something strange and suspicious is happening, and someone often interrupts the TV program and talks about some kind of defense.
Afterward, Nada finds a pile of sunglasses in the church. Putting on one pair of glasses, he is shocked to learn that our world is ruled by aliens who look like humans…
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
In a city under occupation, a traveling troupe of actors presents a play about the legendary Baron Munchhausen, who supposedly, together with his troupe, traveled the world and went from adventure to adventure.
Then a man appears who introduces himself to everyone as the real Baron Munchausen, and after proving that he is telling the truth, he goes on his last journey in which he will try to save the city and its inhabitants.
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
A father and his two young daughters, Satsuki and Mei, have moved to a new house somewhere in the countryside to be close to their mother who is suffering from tuberculosis in the local hospital. The new house looks normal, but the girls noticed strange little spider-like creatures in it. Later, they discover an even more unusual being in the forest, a giant cat-like creature they call Totoro.
They tell this to their father, who trusts them with everything. The girls make friends with Totoro, who connects them in a cat-like bus. When the visit to the hospital is canceled, Mei decides to go there herself, but she disappears, so Satsuki and her father get scared and start searching. Totoro appears again and helps Satsuki find Mei, and leads them to their mother’s hospital.
Annihilation (2018)
Something strange is happening in Zone X. We only know that there are no human beings living in the zone, the animal and plant life is unknown and unpredictable, and everything inside the Zone seems alive, as if it is part of one huge invisible entity.
Eleven expeditions have entered Zone X so far and all have ended badly. At the beginning of the story, we follow the 12th expedition, four women who put everything on the line to discover the real truth behind Zone X.
Across the Universe (2007)
Jude (Jim Sturgess), is a young man who works on the docks in Liverpool. Eager for a change, he travels to America, leaving behind his job at the shipyard and the girl he was dating. Jude ends up in Princeton where he meets Max (Joe Anderson) and his younger sister Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), a girl from the suburbs with whom he falls in love. Max and Jude are soon going to live in New York. Jude works as an artist while Max drives a taxi. After some time, they are joined by Lucy, whose boyfriend was killed in Vietnam.
It is a tumultuous time: violence pervades the struggle for civil rights at home, while in a far, far away country young men die on the front lines of an escalating war and together with a group of friends Jude and Lucy join increasingly loud anti-war movements led by a certain Dr. Rober (Bono Vox) and Mr. Kite (Eddie Lizard). Circumstances will separate the young couple, but this will not stop them from trying to continue their romance.
Alice (1988)
A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit. She becomes surrounded by living inanimate objects and stuffed dead animals, and must find a way out of this nightmare- no matter how twisted or odd that way must be. A memorably bizarre screen version of Lewis Carroll’s novel ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’.
Metropolis (2001)
As humans and robots live together in the great city of Metropolis, severe community structures and prejudice dominate. Each new day brings more unrest and violence.
The Japanese detective Shunsaku Ban and his nephew Kenichi arrive at Metropolis to search for the scientist Dr. Laughton, suspected of violating human rights by trading organs. Kenichi discovers a girl with no memory of her past life in the scientist’s lab. In order to help her, he decides to run away with her.
To find Duke Red, the man ruling from the shadows, his uncle follows him and penetrates the city’s dark secrets. In the meantime, Kenichi desperately tries to protect the mysterious girl. There are, however, deep reasons why Duke Red and his adoptive son chase after the girl. It has to do with her true identity and the struggle for dominance in Metropolis.
The Fountain (2006)
The search for the magic tree Or, more importantly, for its gift, haunts Tom (Hugh Jackman) for a thousand years. Told out of chronological order, The Fountain of Life follows Tom’s soul through three different incarnations, and during each of them, he desperately tries to save the life of his soulmate, Izza (Rachel Weisz) with the help of a tree.
We first meet Tomas, a conquistador in the 16th century who serves Queen Isabel. In order to save Spain from the Inquisition, he is tasked with finding a tree, and heads with fearless soldiers into the mysterious Mayan jungle.
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In modern times, Dr. Tom Creo is involved in groundbreaking brain tumor research. He becomes obsessed with it when his wife Izzie also falls ill with a tumor, and she has only a few days to live. He is particularly interested in a tree that gives incredible results in the treatment of this dangerous disease… At least in monkeys.
With precious little time left, Tom must rush his research to show his sympathetic (but pragmatic) superiors and colleagues the riddle of the tree and save his wife.
Light years away, Tommy transports the tree to a mystical region of the galaxy. As he remembers Izzie and his past lives, he travels to a nebula that, once he arrives, promises both of them rebirth and departure into the world.
Labyrinth (1986)
Teenage Sarah (J. Connelly) arrives home late and is mildly reprimanded by her rushing parents for counting on baby brother Toby to look after her. When the parents leave, Toby starts crying non-stop. Angry and not knowing how to calm him down, Sarah wishes that the goblins would take her brother, which they do.
Not believing her eyes that the child had disappeared from the crib, Sarah immediately regretted it, but the house was already inhabited by goblins and the goblin king Jareth (D. Bowie), who took Toby to his castle. Jareth will keep his brother and turn him into a goblin if Sarah fails to get through the maze that leads to Jareth’s castle within 13 hours. Determined to get her brother back, Sarah goes into the labyrinth where she will meet the strangest creatures and many goblins.
Dreams (1990)
In the center of the first part is a young man (Mitsunori Izaki) who, despite his mother’s (Mitsuko Baisho) warning, watched the forest wedding of foxes. In the second part, the same young man talks to the spirits of the peach trees after they have been cruelly cut down by humans. It follows a dream about a group of hikers struggling to get back to camp in the middle of a big storm. In the fourth dream, we meet a man (Akira Terao) who in an abandoned tunnel meets a soldier who is responsible for the death of his comrades.
We then observe an art student (Martin Scorsese) who meets Van Gogh and enters the world of his paintings. The sixth and seventh dreams represent nightmares. One describes a nuclear disaster that threatens Japan, and the other a post-nuclear world and mutants. In his last dream, Kurosawa meets a 103-year-old man (Chishu Ryu) in a utopian village.
Inception (2010)
Leonardo DiCaprio is Dom Cobb, a man who possesses the ability to manipulate dreams. Thanks to this fantastic ability, Cobb has become extremely sought after by powerful corporations who use his unique skills to outwit the competition and obtain valuable information. However, his latest assignment is unlike anything he’s done before
Solaris (1972)
The film talks about the ethical problems of humanity seen through the prism of contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. It won a big prize at the Cannes festival, and according to the results of polls, the film is regularly among the greatest sci-fi films in the history of cinema.
Wings of Desire (1987)
Two angels (B. Ganz and O. Sander), invisible to people, walk through West Berlin before the wall was demolished and listened to the thoughts of Berliners.
One of them (B. Ganz) is particularly interested in a French circus performer (S. Dommartin) and an American actor (P. Falk) who is starring in a movie that is currently being filmed, but he suddenly notices that the actor is addressing him directly as if he sees him…
Memories (1995)
An animated science fiction anthology from the visionary anime director, Katsuhiro Otomo.
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The film is composed of three shorts: Magnetic Rose, directed by Studio 4°C co-founder Kōji Morimoto and written by Satoshi Kon; Stink Bomb, directed by Tensai Okamura of Darker than Black fame and written by Otomo, and Cannon Fodder, written and directed by Otomo himself.
Rubber (2010)
In the Californian desert, an old tire appears and starts rolling on the road under its own power, stopping and starting at will. The idea that a tire can move on its own isn’t half as miraculous as its other gift – rubber has telekinetic abilities and can make things explode when she wants to, including people’s heads.
A vicious tire goes on a killing spree after a beautiful woman (Roxanne Mesquida) doesn’t reciprocate his feelings, and local law enforcement officer Lt. Chad (Stephen Spinella) begins an investigation.
Meanwhile, a handful of people spot tires. abilities, but follows her from a safe distance until they are poisoned by a mysterious criminal; one of them (Wings Hauser) manages to survive and starts a personal revenge
Suspiria (1977)
Suzy (J. Harper) is a young American woman who has just arrived in Germany by plane in order to enroll in the famous ballet school in Freiburg. Arriving in front of the school, despite the ringing of the bell and the unusual woman she sees, no one opens the door for Suzy.
The next day, she seems to have better luck: Miss Tanner (A. Valli), the headmistress of the school, who, although kind, seems cold and reserved, like most of the staff, while the students, although young and visibly interested in dance, open the door for her to suspect that something strange is happening at school.
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Little by little, Suzy senses that some inexplicable phenomena are really taking place in the school – as if someone is walking in the corridors at night, suddenly all the walls appear full of worms, and soon the students start disappearing…
Brazil (1985)
Sam Lowry (J. Pryce) works as a clerk in a ministry of a totalitarian state that is practically suffocating in the overwhelming bureaucracy. The country is ravaged by a group of so-called terrorists who persistently fight against the tyrannical government. One of the main anti-state activists is Harry Tuttle (R. De Niro), so the government issues an order for his arrest. Due to a bureaucratic error, the police catch the innocent Harry Buttle.
As the system does not want to admit the mistake, Buttle is executed, and Lowry needs to apologize to the victim’s family. On this assignment, he accidentally meets a girl, Jill (K. Greist), who constantly appears in his dreams and imagination. At first, Jill is reluctant to talk to Lowry, believing him to be the same as all government people, but soon becomes convinced of his good intentions. As she is also on the government’s blacklist, Lowry tries to help her.
Moon (2009)
Sam Bell still has two weeks left on the three-year contract he signed with Lunar Industries. During those three years, Sam’s job was to collect and send Helium-3 to Earth. Since he has no direct communication with Earth, except for messages from his own wife that arrive from time to time, Sam’s only friend is GERTY, an intelligent computer whose function is to take care of his daily needs.
With almost no human contact, Sam begins to believe that three years of isolation from the rest of civilization is too much and is convinced that he is beginning to hallucinate. All he wants is to return to Earth to enjoy himself with his wife and three-year-old daughter who was born just before he left for the moon.
However, two weeks before the end of the contract, Sam has an accident with one of the machines that collect Helium-3, and after he wakes up, he discovers a terrifying secret that makes him question his sanity, his own identity, the company he works for and even the computer GERTY.
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962)
The whimsical Baron Münchausen mistakes a modern-day astronaut for a lost moon man and leads him on a series of miraculous adventures, riding on seahorses, battling the sultan’s armies, and romancing the beautiful Princess Bianca.
Barbarella (1968)
She is a female James Bond who defeats evil robots and monsters. But she also rewards handsome men who help her in her adventures. Whether she’s fighting the Black Guardians, the evil Queen, or the angel Pygar, Barbarella always loses a piece of her tight space suit!
The film Barbarella features the same boldness, originality, fantasy, humor, beauty, horror, violence and erotica that made the comic of the same name very popular.
