Movies like Vanilla Sky
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Vanilla Sky (2001)
273K
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between illusion and reality, between life and death, are blurred.
Style:
psychological, philosophical, surreal, twist ending, enigmatic, mind bending, ambiguous ending, futuristic, surprise ending, non-linear ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
surrealism, hallucination, virtual reality, mind game, love, tragic love, disfigurement, psychology, dream, obsession, lost love, alternate reality, love and romance, existentialism, hopes, love triangle, love story, disfigured face, suspense, death, jealousy, twists and turns, redemption, amnesia, lucid dream ...
Time:
future, 22nd century, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Most similar movies to Vanilla Sky
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out mind bending, psychological, visually appealing and weird films with plots about existentialism, storytelling, twists and turns, suspense, dialogue, plot twist and parallel universe mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Drama genres. Some movies like Vanilla Sky: Open Your Eyes (1997), Mr. Nobody (2009), The Discovery (2017), Stay (2005), Eyes Wide Shut (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.
Style:
psychological, surreal, atmospheric, twist ending, enigmatic ...
Plot:
psychiatrist, paranoia, disfigurement, nightmare, dreams, surrealism, love, suspense, memory loss, jealousy, love triangle, car accident ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula, europe, madrid
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, melancholic, mind bending, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
memory, surrealism, amnesia, love, existentialism, memory loss, love story, relationships, alternate reality, couples, loneliness, introspection ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
97%
237K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium, Germany, Canada, France, UK, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, surreal, philosophical, mind bending ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
destiny, time, philosophy, alternate reality, surrealism, depression, butterfly effect, utopia, multiple outcomes, life changing experience, twists and turns, bittersweet ...
Time:
future, year 1975, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In the near future, due to a breakthrough scientific discovery by Dr. Thomas Harbor, there is now definitive proof of an afterlife. While countless people have chosen suicide to reset their existence, others try to decide what it all means. Among ...
Style:
enigmatic, philosophical, intellectual, psychological, non-linear ...
Plot:
afterlife, suicide, alternate reality, life after death, macabre, plot twist, dreams, twists and turns, self discovery, science, religion, psychology ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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81K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, surprise ending, confusing, twist ending ...
Plot:
suicide, mental illness, mentally unstable, obsession, twists and turns, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, mental institution, unfulfillment, surrealism, death, doctors and patients ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
After Dr. Bill Hartford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly ...
Style:
sexual, psychological, sexy, artsy, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
marriage, voyeurism, sex, obsession, orgy, disguise, adultery, infidelity, lust, sexuality, secret society, prostitute ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city, seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
116K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.
Style:
psychological, surreal, enigmatic, mind bending, tricky ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, psychology, time loop, supernatural, mental institution, murder, memory loss, parallel universe, hallucination, supernatural ability, suspense, butterfly effect ...
Time:
future, 90s, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Matthew, a young advertising executive in Chicago, puts his life and a business trip to China on hold when he thinks he sees Lisa, the love of his life who left him without a word two years earlier, walking out of a restaurant one day.
Style:
sexy, romantic, twist ending, emotional, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
obsession, love story, fall in love, love triangle, unrequited love, love at first sight, suspense, love, relationships, twists and turns, flashback, track down ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, france, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Movie in collections
366K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore, China
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. ...
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, futuristic, surreal, enigmatic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
distopia, destiny, reincarnation, life & death, multiple storylines, life philosophy, dystopic future, existentialism, death, post apocalypse, human nature, karma ...
Time:
future, 20th century, year 1936, year 1975, 2010s ...
Place:
san francisco, belgium, seoul, south korea, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in his computer generated parallel ...
Style:
mind bending, intellectual, twist ending, atmospheric, confusing ...
Plot:
alternate reality, virtual reality, twists and turns, cyberpunk, cyberspace, time travel, computer system, parallel universe, parallel world, distopia, dystopic future, technology gone awry ...
Time:
future, 90s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1937 ...
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected ...
Style:
psychological, mind bending, dramatic, philosophical, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
time travel, time loop, butterfly effect, twists and turns, memory loss, suspense, alternate reality, psychology, memory, changing the past or future, time traveler, mind control ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
811K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Style:
psychological, mind bending, surreal, atmospheric, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult, teen drama
Plot:
mental illness, psychology, insanity, time travel, imaginary friend, surrealism, parallel universe, hallucination, suspense, time loop, suburbs, schizophrenia ...
Time:
80s, future, 20th century, year 1988
Place:
virginia, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
93K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million ...
Style:
enigmatic, mind bending, psychological, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
suspense, moral dilemma, supernatural, human nature, experiment, psychology, decision, life & death, conspiracy, research, mysterious character, stranger ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
usa, langley virginia, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, confusing, atmospheric ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, investigation, mental illness, insanity, suspense, plot twist, psychology, paranoia, psychiatrist, mental institution, memory, isolation ...
Time:
year 1954, 1940s, year 1945, 20th century, year 1952 ...
Place:
boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
405K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad -- a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nearly a nanosecond, ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, intellectual ...
Plot:
twists and turns, psychology, manipulation, suspense, mind game, game, uncover truth, scheme, life turned upside down, life philosophy, existentialism, disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
san francisco, usa, california, mexico, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A secret organisation offers wealthy people a second chance at life. The customer picks out someone they want to be and the organisation surgically alters the customer to look like the intended person, stages the customer's death, gets rid of ...
Style:
surreal, philosophical, thought provoking, cerebral, tense ...
Plot:
surrealism, plastic surgery, haunted by the past, new identity, macabre, cult, suspense, existentialism, redemption, midlife crisis, faked death, mental disorder ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, california, malibu california, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A traumatized Vietnam war veteran finds out that his post-war life isn't what he believes it to be when he's attacked by horned creatures in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him...
Style:
surreal, scary, bleak, twist ending, psychological ...
Plot:
paranoia, nightmare, hallucination, twists and turns, delusion, mind game, psychology, dealing with death, mental illness, haunted by the past, conspiracy, memory ...
Time:
20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place:
new york, vietnam, usa, asia, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Suffering short-term memory loss after a head injury, Leonard Shelby embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife in this gritty, complex thriller that packs more knots than a hangman's noose. To carry out his plan, Shelby ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, confusing, neo noir ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
suspense, amnesia, memory loss, murder, plot twist, revenge, memory, paranoia, vengeance, psychology, twists and turns, haunted by the past ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
34K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways.
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, confusing, philosophical, surreal ...
Plot:
artist, obsession, metaphysics, alternate reality, twists and turns, supernatural, video game, losing-it hero, lifestyle, parallel universe, love and romance, human nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A man glimpses the future Fate has planned for him – and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman ...
Style:
mind bending, romantic, thought provoking, philosophical, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night
Plot:
destiny, love story, alternate reality, power of love, fictional reality, twists and turns, fall in love, politics, changing the past or future, manipulation, true love, mind control ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Telly Paretta is a grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 8-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist reveals that she has created eight years of memories about a son she never had. But when she meets a man who has had a ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, mind bending, enigmatic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
memory loss, conspiracy, twists and turns, memory, psychiatrist, missing child, paranoia, mind game, delusion, abduction, grief, alien ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
397K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The Machinist is the story of Trevor Reznik, a lathe-operator who is dying of insomnia. In a machine shop, occupational hazards are bad enough under normal circumstances; yet for Trevor the risks are compounded by fatigue. Trevor has lost the ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surreal, surprise ending, mind bending ...
Plot:
insanity, insomnia, hallucination, uncover truth, paranoia, obsession, twists and turns, mysterious character, suspense, losing-it hero, loneliness, schizophrenia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, twist ending, non-linear, atmospheric ...
Plot:
time travel, insanity, post apocalypse, apocalypse, psychology, paranoia, time loop, virus, end of the world, alternate reality, social misfits, save the world ...
Time:
future, 90s, 2030s, 20th century, year 1990 ...
Place:
philadelphia, maryland, canada, baltimore, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the day after to a world in which he is still dead.
Style:
surprise ending, psychological, mind bending, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
time travel, alternate reality, destiny, time loop, death, parallel world, dealing with death, memory loss, twists and turns, foreknowledge, family problems, couples ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
32K
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An unsuspecting, disenchanted man finds himself working as a spy in the dangerous, high-stakes world of corporate espionage. Quickly getting way over-his-head, he teams up with a mysterious femme fatale.
Style:
psychological, mind bending, suspenseful, thought provoking, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, memory loss, espionage, twists and turns, distopia, spy, technology, brainwashing, uncover truth, hidden identity, mysterious character, dystopic future ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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206K
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Walter Sparrow is an animal control officer that becomes obsessed with a mysterious book that seems to be based on his own life. As soon as he opens the book, he notices strange parallels between what he reads and what he's experienced. But now ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, mind bending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
insanity, twists and turns, obsession, murder, losing-it hero, paranoia, a vision, uncover truth, escape from reality, investigation, plot twist, psychology ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.
Style:
surreal, psychological, psychedelic, mind bending, philosophical ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
love, dreams, surrealism, dream, magic, daydreamer, artist, escape from reality, insanity, existentialism, melancholy, imagination ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, mexico, france, latin america, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Simon Cable wakes up in a hospital bed, confused and disoriented. He soon discovers from doctors that he has amnesia and is unable to remember the last two years of his life. Cable investigates what has happened to him and slowly pieces together his ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Plot:
memory loss, time loop, time travel, hospital, paranoia, murder, nightmare, uncover truth, memory, dishonesty, investigation, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 2002, year 2000, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
128K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
I Origins follows a molecular biologist studying the evolution of the human eye. He finds his work permeating his life after a brief encounter with an exotic young woman who slips away from him. As his research continues years later with his lab ...
Style:
thought provoking, mind bending, philosophical, enigmatic, spiritual ...
Plot:
reincarnation, metaphysics, eye, religion, elevator, buddhism, spirituality, atheism, genetics, society, evolution, love story ...
Time:
year 1998, year 2005, year 2012, year 2009, 21st century
Place:
india, usa, new york, asia, delhi
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The story of the forbidden relationship between a 'low born' boy and a 'high born' girl in an alternate reality where every person's relationships and life worth are determined by their innate 'frequencies'.
Style:
mind bending, thought provoking, philosophical, fairy tale, cerebral ...
Plot:
philosophy, love, destiny, love story, fighting the system, parallel universe, culture clash, imagination, life philosophy, manipulation, science, existentialism ...
Time:
future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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