Category
page 1Metaphysical fiction films
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
Stalker
1979 film by Andrei Tarkovsky
Solaris
1972 film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
Soul
2020 American computer-animated film
The Tree of Life
2011 film directed by Terrence Malick
Being John Malkovich
1999 film by Spike Jonze
Cloud Atlas
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!
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.
Come and See
1985 film by Elem Klimov
Transcendence
2014 film directed by Wally Pfister
Akira
1988 film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo
The Lovely Bones
2009 film directed by Peter Jackson
What Dreams May Come
1998 film by Vincent Ward
Little Buddha
1993 film by Bernardo Bertolucci
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
2003 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-duk
Sphere
1998 film by Barry Levinson
Dreams
1990 film by Akira Kurosawa, Ishirō Honda
The Fountain
2006 film directed by Darren Aronofsky
La Jetée
1962 French science fiction featurette directed by Chris Marker
The Red Turtle
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
Martyrs
2008 film by Pascal Laugier
Enter the Void
2009 film directed by Gaspar Noé
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
2018 interactive film directed by David Slade
Ordet
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.
I Origins
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
Waking Life
2001 film directed by Richard Linklater
Altered States
1980 film by Ken Russell
Fluke
1995 film directed by Carlo Carlei
Begotten
1989 experimental horror film by E. Elias Merhige
Youth Without Youth
2007 film by Francis Ford Coppola
Brainstorm
1983 film by Douglas Trumbull
After Yang
2021 film directed by Kogonada
Samsara
2001 film by Pan Nalin
Mind Game
2004 film by Masaaki Yuasa
Nine Days
2020 film directed by Edson Oda
The Celestine Prophecy
2006 film by Armand Mastroianni
Valley of Flowers
2006 film by Pan Nalin
Siddhartha
1972 film directed by Conrad Rooks
The Rapture
1991 film by Michael Tolkin
Enys Men
2022 film by Mark Jenkin
Avalokitesvara
2013 Chinese film directed by Zhang Xin