Films about dreams

Inception is a 2010 science fiction action film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced it with Emma Thomas, his wife. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a professional thief who steals information by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets. He is offered a chance to have his criminal history erased as payment for the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious. The ensemble cast includes Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Elliot Page, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Dileep Rao, and Michael Caine.

2016 anime film directed by Makoto Shinkai

The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, it was primarily directed by Victor Fleming, who left production to take over the troubled Gone with the Wind. The screenplay is credited to Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf, but includes contributions from other writers. The film stars Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Billie Burke, and Margaret Hamilton. The music was composed by Harold Arlen and adapted by Herbert Stothart, with lyrics by Edgar "Yip" Harburg.

Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 erotic psychological drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, and starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. The plot centers on a Manhattan doctor who is shocked when his wife reveals that she contemplated cheating on him. He embarks on a night-long adventure and infiltrates a masked orgy of a secret society. It is based on the 1926 novella Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler, and transfers the story's setting from early twentieth-century Vienna to 1990s New York City.

2001 film by David Lynch

8½ ( ) is a 1963 avant-garde comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Federico Fellini. The metafictional narrative centers on famous Italian film director Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) who suffers from writer's block as he attempts to direct an epic science fiction film. Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, Rossella Falk, Barbara Steele, and Eddra Gale portray the various women in Guido's life. An international co-production between France and Italy, the film was shot in black and white by cinematographer Gianni Di Venanzo and features a score by Nino Rota, with costume and

2022 film directed by Sam Raimi

1957 film by Ingmar Bergman

Dune: Part Two is a 2024 American epic space opera film co-produced and directed by Denis Villeneuve, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jon Spaihts. The sequel to Dune (2021), it is the second of a two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel Dune by Frank Herbert and the second installment in Legendary Pictures' Dune film series. It follows Paul Atreides as he unites with the Fremen people of the desert planet Arrakis to wage war against House Harkonnen. Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Zendaya, Charlotte Rampling, and Javier Bardem reprise their roles from the first film, with Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Christopher Walken, and Léa Seydoux joining the cast.

2001 film by Cameron Crowe

1990 film directed by Paul Verhoeven

1985 dystopian film by Terry Gilliam

Eraserhead is a 1977 American horror film written, directed, produced, and edited by David Lynch in his feature-length directorial debut. Lynch also created its score and sound design, which included pieces by a variety of other musicians. Shot in black and white and surrealist style, the independent film was Lynch's first feature-length effort following several short films. Starring Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Jeanne Bates, Judith Anna Roberts, Laurel Near, and Jack Fisk, it tells the story of a man (Nance) who is left to care for his grossly deformed child in a desolate industrial landsca

2013 film directed by Hayao Miyazaki

1972 film by Luis Buñuel

2012 film directed by Len Wiseman

2016 film by Steven Spielberg

1992 film by David Lynch

The Black Phone is a 2021 American supernatural horror film directed by Scott Derrickson from a screenplay he wrote with C. Robert Cargill, based on the 2004 short story by Joe Hill. It is the first installment in the Black Phone franchise. It stars Mason Thames as Finney, a teenage boy abducted by a serial child killer known colloquially as the Grabber. When Finney encounters a mystical black rotary phone in captivity, he uses it to plot his escape by communicating with the ghosts of the Grabber's slain victims. Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies, and James Ransone also feature in the principal cast. Derrickson and Cargill produced The Black Phone in association with Blumhouse Productions CEO Jason Blum. Universal Pictures oversaw the film's commercial distribution, and funding was sourced through a pact with Blumhouse and tax subsidies from the North Carolina state government.

2011 film by David Cronenberg

2021 film directed by Edgar Wright

1990 film by Akira Kurosawa, Ishirō Honda

2017 film directed by Ildikó Enyedi

1987 film by John Carpenter

2006 anime film directed by Satoshi Kon

1997 film by Alejandro Amenábar

1953 film by Ed Wood

1944 film by Fritz Lang

2005 film by Robert Rodriguez

Dune: Part Three is an upcoming American epic space opera film co-produced and directed by Denis Villeneuve, who co-wrote the screenplay with Brian K. Vaughan, based on the 1969 novel Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert. It is the sequel to Dune: Part Two (2024) and the third and final film in Legendary Pictures' Dune trilogy. The film stars Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Jason Momoa, Florence Pugh, Rebecca Ferguson, Isaach de Bankolé, Charlotte Rampling, Anya Taylor-Joy, Robert Pattinson, and Javier Bardem.

2024 animated film directed by Sean Charmatz

1994 comedy film by Rob Reiner

2006 film by Michel Gondry

2001 film directed by Richard Linklater

2023 film directed by Kristoffer Borgli

1993 film directed by Jennifer Lynch

1907 film from Georges Méliès

2022 film directed by Francis Lawrence

1977 film by Peter Weir

1969 Japanese sci-fi/action film by Ishirō Honda

2006 film directed by Goran Dukić

MirrorMask is a 2005 British-American dark fantasy film designed and directed by Dave McKean, and written by Neil Gaiman from a story they developed together. Produced by The Jim Henson Company, the film stars Stephanie Leonidas, Jason Barry, Rob Brydon, and Gina McKee.

1991 film by Wim Wenders

2010 film by Gregg Araki

1955 film by Frank Tashlin

1989 Japanese/American animated adventure fantasy film

1994 Miniseries based on the Stephen King novel of the same name

1987 animated short film directed by John Lasseter

2021 film by Jia Ling

1983 film directed by Paul Verhoeven

1906 film directed by Edwin S. Porter and Wallace McCutcheon, Sr.

2008 film by Javier Fesser

2020 film by Jeff Baena

1953 film by Roy Rowland

2021 film directed by Chiaki Kon

2017 anime film directed by Kenji Kamiyama

1935 film directed by Aleksandr Ptushko

2008 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-duk

1952 film by René Clair

1943 American musical film with an all-Black cast, directed by Vincente Minnelli