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General => Movies and TV => Topic started by: Vajra on June 14, 2011, 06:35:00 PM
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I’m looking for movies similar to the following…
The Fountain
What Dreams May Come
Eternal Sunshine of the spotless Mind
Enter the Void
Inception
Emphasis on dreams, spirituality, death, memories, etc.
Any good suggestions? I'd appreciate it.
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Hmm. Well. I've got one sort of similar. It's very psychological. And sooorta deals with death and memories if you look at it that way. The ending is kind of left to interpretation. It's very good though.
Session 9. I will warn you, it takes quite a while for things to really get going. It's kind of slow, but it works well. All that build up is needed. I know some people don't have the patience for it. But it's really good. And the people that actually watched the whole thing loved it. There's a moment where you'll pretty much suddenly be very interested because shit gets real. Though some are interested through out.
Anyway, I'm rambling. Point is, Session 9. Fantastic movie that's sorta in the realm of what you want. Strongly recommended.
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Hmm. Well. I've got one sort of similar. It's very psychological. And sooorta deals with death and memories if you look at it that way. The ending is kind of left to interpretation. It's very good though.
Session 9. I will warn you, it takes quite a while for things to really get going. It's kind of slow, but it works well. All that build up is needed. I know some people don't have the patience for it. But it's really good. And the people that actually watched the whole thing loved it. There's a moment where you'll pretty much suddenly be very interested because shit gets real. Though some are interested through out.
Anyway, I'm rambling. Point is, Session 9. Fantastic movie that's sorta in the realm of what you want. Strongly recommended.
Just checked out the trailer, it looks very interesting! Thanks for the suggestion, I'm def going to check it out.
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It's on Netflix for streaming, if that helps.
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Stalker and Solaris deal with some pretty heady material.
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Deja Vu
Hereafter (I havent seen it, just an assumption based on the premise)
I'll try to think of a few more
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Eyes Wide Shut
Good luck, my son.
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Cell
Though I can't remember if it is good or bad, since I saw it in falling asleep as a teenager one night. :lol
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Check out Dreamscape with Dennis Quaid. It's an 80's movie version of Inception but has different rules. Also check out The Prophecy with Christopher Walken.
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Not sure if these really fit the bill, but:
Meet Joe Black
The Sixth Sense
Magnolia
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Tree of life
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Not sure if this fits either, but The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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The Machinist. One of my favorites. Same director as the aforementioned Session 9, which is also one of my favorite horror movies.
Anti-christ. Viewer discretion advised. Very surreal and awesomely twisted movie.
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Not sure if these really fit the bill, but:
Meet Joe Black
The Sixth Sense
Magnolia
Definitely.
Not sure if this fits either, but The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Did you mean the Butterfly Effect? If so, that's the first one that came to my mind.
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The Waking Life.
...have fun!
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Not sure if these really fit the bill, but:
Meet Joe Black
The Sixth Sense
Magnolia
Definitely.
Not sure if this fits either, but The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Did you mean the Butterfly Effect? If so, that's the first one that came to my mind.
No, its called the Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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The Waking Life.
...have fun!
This x1000. Has everything you like. Is literally dream like.
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The Machinist. One of my favorites. Same director as the aforementioned Session 9, which is also one of my favorite horror movies.
Anti-christ. Viewer discretion advised. Very surreal and awesomely twisted movie.
I loved Session 9. I'm going to have to check that out.
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The Science of Sleep.
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The best part of Session 9 was it was zero gore and all psychological.
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Vanilla Sky...it's decent, could be better if Tom Cruise wasn't the lead. Same with Eyes Wide Shut.
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Tom Cruise is awesome... Don't understand all the haters.
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Tom Cruise is bat shit crazy. :biggrin:
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The Room
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Vanilla Sky...it's decent, could be better if Tom Cruise wasn't the lead. Same with Eyes Wide Shut.
yes! I was trying to remember what that movie was but typing Vanilla into IMDB didn't get me very far...
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The Lovely Bones could fit the bill. About a girl who is murdered and tries to help her family find her killer. Lots of dreamy afterlife sequences.
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Arbre los ojos > Vanilla Sky
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Thanks for all the replies guys!
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To second what was said earlier, seeing "dream-like/spiritual" made me think of Waking Life immediately. Beautiful, thought-provoking movie with some of the best film music ever.
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The Lovely Bones could fit the bill. About a girl who is murdered and tries to help her family find her killer. Lots of dreamy afterlife sequences.
I would read the book first, great read.
My movie suggestion, Jacob's Ladder.
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Not sure if these really fit the bill, but:
Meet Joe Black
The Sixth Sense
Magnolia
Definitely.
Not sure if this fits either, but The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Did you mean the Butterfly Effect? If so, that's the first one that came to my mind.
No, its called the Diving Bell and the Butterfly
To be fair, proper names that begin with "the" should have the word "the" capitalized to avoid confusion.
Carry on...
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I have a new suggestion. Rubber. Just watch it. Don't look up anything about it. Just trust me.
It's not technically spiritual or anything. But if you force some meaning and symbolism and interpretation, it can be a very heady, intellectual, artistic film.
But it's fucking fantastic. I almost ragequit at the amount of fuck on film. Just. God damn. Everyone needs to watch it. Everyone ever.