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Metaphysical fiction films

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2001: A Space Odyssey

1968 film by Stanley Kubrick

It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas fantasy drama film directed and produced by Frank Capra. It is based on the short story and booklet "The Greatest Gift", self-published by Philip Van Doren Stern in 1943, which itself is loosely based on the 1843 Charles Dickens novella A Christmas Carol.

The Seventh Seal

1957 film by Ingmar Bergman

Everything Everywhere All at Once

2022 film by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

1979 film by Andrei Tarkovsky

1972 film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

2020 American computer-animated film

The Tree of Life

2011 film directed by Terrence Malick

Being John Malkovich

1999 film by Spike Jonze

2012 film directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis

Wings of Desire

1987 film by Wim Wenders

The Adjustment Bureau

2011 film directed by George Nolfi

Mother! (stylized as mother!) is a 2017 American psychological horror film written and directed by Darren Aronofsky, and starring Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer, Domhnall Gleeson, Brian Gleeson, and Kristen Wiig. Its plot follows a young woman whose tranquil life with her husband at their country home is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious couple, leading to a series of increasingly chaotic and destructive events.

1985 film by Elem Klimov

2014 film directed by Wally Pfister

1988 film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo

The Lovely Bones

2009 film directed by Peter Jackson

What Dreams May Come

1998 film by Vincent Ward

1993 film by Bernardo Bertolucci

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring

2003 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-duk

1998 film by Barry Levinson

1990 film by Akira Kurosawa, Ishirō Honda

2006 film directed by Darren Aronofsky

1962 French science fiction featurette directed by Chris Marker

2016 feature-length animated film by Michaël Dudok de Wit

A Wrinkle in Time

2018 film directed by Ava DuVernay

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

2020 film by Charlie Kaufman

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

2010 film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

The Holy Mountain

1973 film by Alejandro Jodorowsky

2008 film by Pascal Laugier

2009 film directed by Gaspar Noé

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

2018 interactive film directed by David Slade

Ordet (, meaning "The Word" and originally released as The Word in English) is a 1955 Danish drama film, written and directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer. It is based on a play by Kaj Munk, a Danish Lutheran priest, first performed in 1932. The film won the Golden Lion at the 16th Venice International Film Festival, and was the only film by Dreyer to be both a critical and financial success.

2014 film directed by Mike Cahill

The End of Evangelion

1997 anime film directed by Hideaki Anno

Southland Tales

2006 film directed by Richard Kelly

A Matter of Life and Death

1946 film by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell

2001 film directed by Richard Linklater

1980 film by Ken Russell

1995 film directed by Carlo Carlei

1989 experimental horror film by E. Elias Merhige

Youth Without Youth

2007 film by Francis Ford Coppola

1983 film by Douglas Trumbull

2021 film directed by Kogonada

2001 film by Pan Nalin

2004 film by Masaaki Yuasa

2020 film directed by Edson Oda

The Celestine Prophecy

2006 film by Armand Mastroianni

Valley of Flowers

2006 film by Pan Nalin

1972 film directed by Conrad Rooks

1991 film by Michael Tolkin

2022 film by Mark Jenkin

2013 Chinese film directed by Zhang Xin