Movies like Mind Game

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Mind Game (2004)
 7.7
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Mind Game (2004)
Original name: マインド・ゲーム
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The film follows Nishi, a loser who has a crush on his childhood girlfriend. After an encounter with the Japanese mafia, the film follows Nishi as he journeys to heaven and back, and ends up trapped in an even more unlikely place.
Style: anime, surreal, atmospheric, stylized, psychedelic, touching, humorous, cerebral, mindfuck, adult animation ...
Plot: self discovery, trippy, supernatural, family relations, danger, family in danger, hopes, dealing with death, righting the wronged, couples, imaginary, siblings relations, surrealism, time travel, heaven, existentialism, psychology, lsd, parallel universe, moving, darkness, sex crime, female nudity, voyeur, flashback ...
Time: 2000s, year 2004, 21st century, contemporary
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
Keyword: gangsters, dreams

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Most similar movies to Mind Game

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, adult animation, weird and surreal films with plots about surrealism, trippy, imaginary, mature, escapades, dream and danger mostly in Animation, Drama and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Mind Game: It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012), Perfect Blue (1997), Paprika (2006), Anomalisa (2015), Dead Leaves (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
Story: Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche, in this new feature film version of Don Hertzfeldt's animated short film trilogy.
Style: philosophical, surreal, adult animation, thought provoking, atmospheric ...
Plot: surrealism, illness, mental health, mental illness, narration, dark humor, nightmare, hospital, divorced parents, loneliness, life & death, existentialism ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.0
 93K
Perfect Blue (1997)
Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A retired pop singer turned actress' sense of reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan and seemingly a ghost of her past.
Style: surreal, suspense, adult animation, anime, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: murder, serial killer, mentally unstable, stalking, obsession, actor's life, actress, twists and turns, psychopath, rape, losing-it hero, woman in danger ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place: japan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 96K
Paprika (2006)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it: Paprika.
Style: surreal, psychological, psychedelic, anime, philosophical ...
Audience: teens, kids, adult
Plot: dream, surveillance, virtual reality, lucid dream, surrealism, villain, trippy, scientist, mental illness, hallucination, psychiatrist, introspection ...
Time: future, year 2006, 2000s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The second of two theatrically released follow-ups to the Neon Genesis Evangelion series. Comprising of two alternate episodes which were first intended to take the place of episodes 25 and 26, this finale answers many of the questions surrounding ...
Style: anime, psychological, mecha, ambiguous ending, surreal ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: depression, loneliness, violence, insanity, philosophy, infiltration, existentialism, death, end of the world, post apocalypse, angel, high school ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 7.2
 75K
Anomalisa (2015)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man crippled by the mundanity of his life experiences something out of the ordinary.
Style: surreal, adult animation, depressing, atmospheric, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, depression, stop motion, one night stand, sex toy, infidelity, adaptation, relationships, philosophy, character study, obsession, love at first sight ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, 2000s
Place: cincinnati ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 4K
Dead Leaves (2004)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min.
Story: Pandy and Retro awaken naked on Earth with no recollection of their past. They embark on a crime spree in search of food and clothing, but are captured by authorities and sent to the infamous lunar penitentiary named Dead Leaves.
Style: anime, psychedelic, surreal, disturbing, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, rescue, character study, good versus evil, heroic mission, dystopian future, survival, escapades, superhero, imaginary, robot, moon ...
Time: future
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Rocks in My Pockets (2014)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Latvia, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A fantastical tale based on true events, about five women of Signe Baumane's family, including herself, and their battles with depression and madness.
Style: surreal, stylized, adult animation, humorous, psychological ...
Plot: depression, mental illness, strong female presence, mental health, family relations, hopes, imaginary, redemption, women, psychiatry, trauma, trippy ...
Time: 2010s
Place: soviet union, latvia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: One Christmas Eve three people, a middle-aged alcoholic named Gin, a former drag queen Hana and a dependent runaway girl Miyuki, discover an abandoned newborn while looking through the garbage.
Style: anime, touching, adult animation, atmospheric, witty ...
Audience: kids, chick flick
Plot: holiday, christmas, homeless, transgender, baby, friends, life is a bitch, parents and children, friendship, melancholy, lgbt, gay ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 7.5
 14K
Tekkonkinkreet (2006)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When mysterious foreign entrepreneurs appear with the intention of tearing down Treasure Town and replacing it with an amusement park, Black and White face their greatest adversaries yet. It is up to the destructive Black to save the fate of the ...
Style: anime, psychedelic, stylized, exciting, disturbing ...
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: good versus evil, friends, danger, urban, fantasy world, orphan, flying, heroic mission, save the day, heroes, mischievous children, rivalry ...
Time: y2k
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Tatami Galaxy (2010)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 253 min.
TV show
Story: When a college dropout stops for a late night bite at a mysterious ramen stand, he crosses paths with a self-proclaimed deity of matrimony. This bizarre meeting sends the young man hurtling through a horrifying flashback to his not-so-glorious ...
Style: anime, psychological, disturbing, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: time jump, second chance, changing the past or future, time travel, couples, change of heart, love, time warp, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, time loop, time traveler, time paradox ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 380
Hells (2008)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Amagane Rinne had an accident and died while hurrying to school. She suddenly arrived in an awkward school... in Hell, filled with demons. While she is struggling and wishing to go back to the world whence she came from, she makes friends with her ...
Style: anime, atmospheric, humorous, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: adam and eve, dead, teenage life, supernatural, escapades, danger, dark humor, school, underworld, demon, death, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Millennium Actress (2001)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a key she had lost and thought was gone forever, the filmmaker could not ...
Style: anime, surreal, touching, talky, atmospheric ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: actor's life, female protagonist, lost love, popularity, love and romance, retired, haunted by the past, unfulfilled love, love story, mother daughter relationship, interview, movie star ...
Time: 20th century, year 2001, 2000s, 1940s, 1930s ...
Place: japan, tokyo, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 6K
Time Masters (1982)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Switzerland, West Germany, UK, Hungary
Duration: 78 min.
Story: On planet Perdide, an attack of giant hornets leaves Piel – a young boy – alone in a wrecked car with his dying father. A mayday message reaches their friend Jaffar, an adventurer travelling through space. On board Jaffar’s shuttle are the ...
Style: stylized, surreal, psychedelic, anime, atmospheric ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, adult
Plot: time travel, trippy, space opera, rescue, child in peril, evil alien, survival, space adventure, sword and sorcery, conspiracy, alien life-form, space ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 7K
Greedy Guts (2000)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story: When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However the woman takes the ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, mindfuck ...
Audience: kids
Plot: surrealism, killer child, folk horror, absurdism, tree, baby, monster, dark humor, obsession, couple relations, parents and children, macabre ...
Time: 90s
Place: czechoslovakia, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
I Married a Strange Person! (1997)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A newlywed develops a strange lump on his neck that gives him the ability to transform people or objects at will. His wife is very upset. Meanwhile, the CEO of Smilecorp learns of this man and his ability and sees a way to achieve world domination ...
Style: anime, humorous, semi serious, black comedy, cult classic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: insanity, couples, surrealism, imaginary, supernatural ability, wish come true, creativity, dark hero, moral ambiguity, brutality, absurd humor, trippy ...
Time: year 1997
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Xavier: Renegade Angel (2007)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 12 min.
TV show
Story: The show follows Xavier, a rather strange-looking faun-like wanderer/seeker (complete with snake hand, backwards knees, a beak and six nipples) who is traveling across the land to find out the truth about his mysterious and uncertain origin. Xavier ...
Style: adult animation, surreal, witty, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: surrealism, self discovery, adventurer, absurd humor, hopes, nothing goes right, escapades, goofy hero, misfit, disorder, imaginary, satire ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her - but ultimately she must confront her fate, the ...
Style: touching, anime, atmospheric, stylized, melancholic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, princess, friendship, children, parents and children, dream, self discovery, female protagonist, japanese woman, family relations, surrealism, melancholy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, year 2013
Place: japan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl (2017)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A boy falls in love with his junior in a Kyoto college club, and struggles daily to be noticed by her. However, she is naïve and unsophisticated and is completely indifferent to him.
Style: anime, sweet, light, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience: teens
Plot: theatre play, binge drinking, summer, party, drinking, fall in love, love, youth, friendship, hopes, love and romance, escapades ...
Time: 2010s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 4.8
 19K
Monkeybone (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After a car crash sends repressed cartoonist Stu Miley (Fraser) into a coma, he and the mischievous Monkeybone, his hilariously horny alter-ego, wake up in a wacked-out waystation for lost souls. When Monkeybone takes over Stu's body and ...
Style: stylized, humorous, absurd, not serious, cult classic ...
Audience: date night, family outing, teens, adult
Plot: parallel world, coma, surrealism, monkey, alternate reality, dream, carnival, drawing, cyclops, goofy hero, imaginary, stop motion ...
Time: 20th century, year 2001
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.1
 20K
FLCL (2000)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, Canada, UK, France
Duration: 151 min.
TV show
Story: In this 6-part mini-series, a 12-year old boy named Naota one day meets a strange woman, riding a Vespa and wielding a big guitar. As soon as she appears, mysterious things start happening.
Style: anime, atmospheric, psychedelic, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, absurdism, robot, alien, imaginary, surrealism, space and aliens, stranger, youth, monster, friendship, androids and robots ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 39K
Watership Down (1978)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.
Style: emotional, adult animation, disturbing, serious, sad ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: rabbit, friendship, blood, journey, animal, violent, mature, survival, vegan, folk horror, literary, anthropomorphism ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, 20th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Belladonna of Sadness (1973)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A peasant woman is banished from her village and makes a deal with the devil to gain magical powers.
Style: anime, psychedelic, hentai, adult animation, experimental ...
Plot: deal with the devil, wedding, surrealism, snake, rape, witch, trippy, female nudity, occult, woman, pagan, women ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times
Place: japan, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Interstella5555: The 5tory of The 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (2003)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 68 min.
Story: A sci-fi anime House-musical movie collaboration between Daft Punk--and their music--and designer Leiji Matsumoto. During the recording of their DISCOVERY album and using the themes of sci-fi celebrity, decadence and space travel, Daft Punk--with ...
Style: anime, atmospheric, lyrical, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: music, space and aliens, music business, self discovery, space travel, musician's life, rising to stardom, space, rescue, lifestyle, escapades, benign alien ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth (1997)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Originally a collection of clips from the Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series, Death was created as a precursor to the re-worked ending of the series. Rebirth was intended as that re-worked ending, but after production overruns Rebirth became only the ...
Style: anime, psychological, stylized, cult classic, mecha ...
Audience: teens
Plot: androids and robots, distopia, evil alien, apocalypse, hospital, loneliness, surrealism, giant robot, mature, superhero, transcendence, worldwide chaos ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Fantastic Planet (1973)
Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Fantastic Planet tells the story of “Oms”, human-like creatures, kept as domesticated pets by an alien race of blue giants called “Draags”. The story takes place on the Draags’ planet Ygam, where we follow our narrator, an Om called Terr, ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, adult animation, art house, stylized ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: trippy, surrealism, giant, dystopia, alien, slave, distopia, alien life-form, alien species, meditation, baby, utopia ...
Time: distant future, year 1973, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 67K
Waking Life (2001)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
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 ...
Style: philosophical, spiritual, psychedelic, surreal, stylized ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: philosophy, existentialism, dream, trippy, surrealism, alternate reality, consciousness, bohemian life, meaning of life, life philosophy, psychology, imagination ...
Time: year 2001, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: texas, tibet
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 3K
$9.99 (2008)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Israel, Australia
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Have you ever wondered "What is the meaning of life? Why do we exist?" The answer to this vexing question is now within your reach! You'll find it in a small yet amazing booklet, which will explain, in easy to follow, simple terms ...
Style: surreal, humorous, ironic, adult animation, touching ...
Audience: adult
Plot: stop motion, loneliness, life philosophy, self discovery, society, human nature, introspection, hopes, social misfits, meaning of life, apartment building, suicide ...
Time: year 2008
Place: australia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to, quite literally, "leap" backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon realises that changing the past ...
Style: anime, touching, feel good, humorous, manga ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night
Plot: time travel, high school, friendship, supernatural ability, teenage girl, school, classmate, changing the past or future, time loop, coming of age, teenage love, friends ...
Time: future, 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Patema Inverted (2013)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In an underground world where tunnels extend everywhere, even though they live in dark and confined spaces, people wear protective clothes and lead quiet and enjoyable lives. Patema, a princess in her underground village, loves to explore the ...
Style: anime, captivating, semi serious, manga, colorful ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: friendship, fighting the system, self discovery, dystopia, steampunk, imaginary, love and romance, culture clash, conspiracy, escapades, investigation, good versus evil ...
Time: future, 2010s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Surviving Life (2010)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Eugene, an aging man, leads a double life – one real, the other in his dreams. He goes to see a psychoanalyst, who tries to interpret the meaning of his dreams. Eugene finds a way of entering his dream-world at will and finds out about his ...
Style: humorous, witty, semi serious, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot: hopes, elderly, moral dilemma, escape from reality, impossible love, crumbling marriage, couples, love and romance, couple relations, introspection, aging, subconscious ...
Time: 21st century
Place: czech republic, czechoslovakia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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