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Cast

Jonathan Pryce

Robert De Niro

Katherine Helmond

Ian Holm

Brazil (1985)

7.7 3.7K votes

Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 143 min.

Audience: R

Story: Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.

Style: irreverent, witty

Plot: dreams, government, bureaucracy, police state, technology, dystopia, office, dark comedy, ...

Place: great britain

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

7.6 6.2K votes

Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: G

Story: Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.

Plot: witch, adolescence, dreams, secret identity, lion, tornado, twister, scarecrow, ...

Cast

Jamie Bell

Gary Lewis

Julie Walters

Jean Heywood

Billy Elliot (2000)

7.6 4.1K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music

Country: France, United Kingdom

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: R

Story: County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.

Plot: dancing, friendship, dreams, dancing class, northern england, workers' quarter, strike, homophobia, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Mason Thames

Madeleine McGraw

Ethan Hawke

Jeremy Davies

The Black Phone (2022)

7.5 5.9K votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: R

Story: Finney Blake, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.

Plot: mask, small town, child abuse, dreams, sibling relationship, kidnapping, sadistic, supernatural, ...

Time: 1970s

Lost Highway (1997)

7.5 3.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: France, United States of America

Duration: 134 min.

Audience: R

Story: A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

Plot: prison, pornography, jealousy, dreams, dual identity, nightmare, police, sexual frustration, ...

Cast

Ethan Hawke

Julie Delpy

Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick

Jennifer Prior

Before Midnight (2013)

7.5 2.7K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Greece, United States of America

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: R

Story: It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with twin daughters but have spent a summer in Greece at the invitation of an author colleague of Jesse's. When the vacation is over and Jesse must send his teenage son off to the States, he begins to question his life decisions, and his relationship with Celine is at risk.

Style: romantic

Plot: hotel, hotel room, dreams, airport, greek, friends, author, writer, ...

Place: greece

Cast

Ethan Hawke

Julie Delpy

Wiley Wiggins

Bill Wise

Waking Life (2001)

7.5 960 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: R

Story: Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life.

Plot: dreams, philosophy, parallel world, existence, adult animation

Cast

Simone Mareuil

Pierre Batcheff

Luis Buu00f1uel

Salvador Dalu00ed

Un Chien Andalou (1929)

7.4 1.4K votes

Genre: Fantasy

Country: France

Duration: 17 min.

Audience: 15

Story: Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.

Style: surreal, psychotronic

Plot: dreams, donkey, cloud, razor, ant, surrealism, priest, death, ...

Cast

James Marsden

Gary Oldman

Amy Smart

Christopher Lloyd

Interstate 60 (2002)

7.4 787 votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.

Style: romantic

Plot: motel, highway, convertible, surrealism, road trip, dream girl, judgment, lawyer, ...

Cast

Yoo Ah-in

Steven Yeun

Jeon Jong-seo

Kim Soo-kyung

Burning (2018)

7.4 1.8K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: South Korea, Japan

Duration: 148 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Deliveryman Jong-su is out on a job when he runs into Hae-mi, a girl who once lived in his neighborhood. She asks if he'd mind looking after her cat while she's away on a trip to Africa. On her return, she introduces to Jong-su an enigmatic young man named Ben, who she met during her trip. One day Ben tells Jong-su about his most unusual hobby.

Style: melancholy, philosophical

Plot: fire, jealousy, dreams, countryside, love triangle, cat, sex shop, sadness, ...

Cast

Heather Langenkamp

Johnny Depp

Robert Englund

Amanda Wyss

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

7.3 5.8K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: R

Story: Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...

Style: shocking, suspenseful

Plot: dreams, nightmare, psychopath, sleep, child murder, supernatural, ohio, murder, ...

Amazing Stories (2020) TV Show

7.3 463 votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 5

Audience: TV-14

Story: This reimagining of the classic anthology series transports everyday characters into worlds of wonder, possibility, and imagination.

Plot: dreams, magic, anthology

Cast

Lewis MacDougall

Sigourney Weaver

Felicity Jones

Toby Kebbell

A Monster Calls (2016)

7.3 3.6K votes

Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Country: Spain, United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: 12-year-old Conor encounters an ancient tree monster who proceeds to help him cope with his mother's terminal illness and being bullied in school.

Plot: dreams, monster, based on novel or book, nightmare, grandparent grandchild relationship, truth, tree, artist, ...

Cast

Nicolas de Gunzburg

Maurice Schutz

Rena Mandel

Sybille Schmitz

Vampyr (1932)

7.3 594 votes

Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

Country: Germany

Duration: 74 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Allan Gray, a young man fascinated by the supernatural, goes to a small village where he feels a sinister force descending upon him. There, Allan meets an old man who asks him to protect his two daughters, for one of them has been bitten by a vampire.

Plot: dreams, based on novel or book, vampire, grave, castle, windmill, anemia, black and white, ...

Cast

Jeff Bridges

Kevin Spacey

Mary McCormack

Alfre Woodard

K-PAX (2001)

7.2 2.8K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: Germany, United Kingdom

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.

Plot: dreams, robbery, investigation, hypnosis, alien, murder, hospital, planet, ...

Cast

Robert Englund

Freddy's Nightmares (1988) TV Show

7.2 214 votes

Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 44

Audience: TV-14

Story: The evil, sinister killer of the "Nightmare On Elm Street" movies, Freddy Krueger, hosts this show, where each week, he shows us a tale of evil and death about the lives of people who live in Springwood.

Style: psychotronic

Plot: dreams, nightmare, anthology, based on movie, horror anthology, horror

Cast

Kathryn Beaumont

Ed Wynn

Richard Haydn

Sterling Holloway

Alice in Wonderland (1951)

7.2 6.3K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 75 min.

Audience: G

Story: On a golden afternoon, wildly curious young Alice tumbles into the burrow and enters the merry, madcap world of Wonderland full of whimsical escapades.

Style: whimsical

Plot: dreams, based on novel or book, heart, queen, villain, time, based on children's book, cartoon cat, ...

Ruby Sparks (2012)

7.1 1.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: R

Story: Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby, in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person.

Style: nostalgic

Plot: dreams, imaginary friend, therapy, novelist, magic realism, woman director, grand

Cast

David Dastmalchian

Laura Gordon

Ian Bliss

Fayssal Bazzi

Late Night with the Devil (2024)

7.1 2.2K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: Australia, United Arab Emirates

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: R

Story: A live broadcast of a late-night talk show in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation's living rooms.

Style: provocative

Plot: new york city, talk show, supernatural, halloween, possession, hallucination, hypnosis, gore, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Keanu Reeves

Laurence Fishburne

Carrie-Anne Moss

Hugo Weaving

The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

7.1 12.1K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 138 min.

Audience: R

Story: The Resistance builds in numbers as humans are freed from the Matrix and brought to the city of Zion. Neo discovers his superpowers, including the ability to see the code inside the Matrix. With machine sentinels digging to Zion in 72 hours, Neo, Morpheus and Trinity must find the Keymaker to ultimately reach the Source.

Plot: dying and death, mission, man vs machine, underground world, martial arts, kung fu, hero, dreams, ...

Time: future

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