Movies like Imaginaerum

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Imaginaerum (2012)
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Imaginaerum (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Finland, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Imaginaerum tells the story of an elderly composer, Tom, who suffers from severe dementia. As he has had the disease for years and has regressed into childhood, he remembers practically nothing from his adult life. His music, friends, all his past including the memory of his daughter are a blur in his fragile mind. All he has left is the imagination of a ten year old boy. As he drifts away into coma, it seems impossible to get back what he has lost. Or is it?
Style: surreal, psychological, serious, stylized, fairy tale, dark fantasy, mythical, spooky, art film
Plot: orphan, father daughter relationship, imagination, heavy metal, coma, father son relationship, resentment, memory loss, haunted by the past, hopes, grudge, music, girl, self discovery, depression, hospital, suicide, dream, pianist, poet, composer, memory, snowman, nightmare, dementia ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, psychological, surreal and atmospheric films with plots about surrealism, family relations, flashback, supernatural, dream, hopes and magic realism mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Adventure genres. Some movies like Imaginaerum: Ink (2009), What Dreams May Come (1998), Alice (2009), Paperhouse (1988), Northfork (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ink (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Invisible forces exert power over us in our sleep. A mercenary named Ink, on a literal nightmare mission, captures the spirit of 8-year-old Emma in the dream world. To save her, the dream-givers marshal all their resources, focusing on saving the ...
Style: surreal, dark fantasy, atmospheric, fairy tale, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: another dimension, parallel universe, good versus evil, imagination, supernatural, father daughter relationship, parent child relationship, time paradox, dystopia, surrealism, existentialism, fantasy world ...
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What Dreams May Come (1998)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife, Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in hades for the ...
Style: surreal, philosophical, touching, inspirational, tear jerker ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: afterlife, heaven and hell, life & death, life philosophy, heaven, redemption, reincarnation, spirituality, love, hell, metaphysics, life after death ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: cuba
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Alice (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 184 min.
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Story: Everything you know about Alice's adventures in Wonderland is about to be turned upside down in this modern-day miniseries event. Stars Kathy Bates, Caterina Scorsone, Matt Frewer, Harry Dean Stanton and Tim Curry.
Style: fairy tale, atmospheric, exciting, bleak, offbeat ...
Plot: fantasy world, fish out of water, imaginary kingdom, good versus evil, imaginary, curses spells and rituals, insanity, alice in wonderland, surrealism, transformation, chase, prejudice ...
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: An adventure set in the early part of the 20th century, focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters, and other distractions.
Style: exciting, semi serious, dark fantasy, captivating, sweet ...
Audience: family outing, teens, family friendly, kids, pre-teens
Plot: strong female character, archaeologist, mummy, egyptology, adventurer, obsessive quest, adventuress, sister sister relationship, pterodactyl, dinosaur, steampunk, monster ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 2010, victorian era
Place: egypt, paris france, france, europe
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100%
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Paperhouse (1988)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Anna is becoming lost in the loneliness of her own world when she discovers she can visit another, a house she has drawn herself and occupied by a young disabled boy. But as she discovers more of the links between her fantasy world and the mundane ...
Style: scary, disturbing, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: nightmare, children, mother daughter relationship, supernatural, boy, visceral, transformation, serial killer, father daughter relationship, coming of age, supernatural ability, dream world ...
Place: britain, england
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Northfork (2003)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: "We are all angels. It is what we do with our wings that separates us." In the next two days, the town of Northfork will cease to exist. The year is 1955 and Northfork is literally about to be "dammed," flooded to make way for a ...
Style: bleak, surreal, psychological, melancholic, touching ...
Plot: small town, adoption, dream, boy, coming of age, society, hopes, human nature, social relations, sick child, priest, terminal illness ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: montana, usa, california, minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Looking for Alexander (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Disturbing and violent memories haunt a man after he emerges from a lengthy coma.
Style: psychological, captivating, atmospheric, suspenseful, mind bending ...
Plot: uncover truth, haunted by the past, police detective, family problems, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, doctors and patients, parents and children, memory loss, a vision, hospital, coma ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
They Came Back (2004)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead inexplicably come back to life and try to integrate themselves into society that has changed for them.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, surreal, psychedelic ...
Plot: back from the dead, undead, small town, supernatural, friendship, haunted by the past, social relations, living dead, dead, infection, mutant, epidemic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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31%
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Snow White (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Spain, Belgium, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A black and white silent movie, based on the Snow White fairy tale, that is set in a romantic version of 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.
Style: captivating, atmospheric, stylized, fairy tale, black and white ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: matador, bullfighting, desire for fame, rise to the top, good versus evil, danger, rivalry, intrigue, escapades, physical appearance, bullfighter, poisoning ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 1920s, 20th century, year 1929
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.6
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After Life (1998)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: After death, people have just one week to choose only a memory to keep for eternity.
Style: philosophical, surreal, emotional, spiritual, existential ...
Plot: afterlife, eternity, death, memory, heaven and hell, life after death, life & death, heaven, videotaping, destiny, hospital, childhood ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century
Place: the philippines, tokyo
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29%
 7.8
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The Fall (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, South Africa, India
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, ...
Style: surreal, offbeat, fairy tale, visually appealing, visual ...
Audience: kids, date night, adult
Plot: hospital, surrealism, suicide attempt, escape from reality, magic realism, imagination, storytelling, suicide, imaginary kingdom, friendship, stuntman, child ...
Time: 1920s, year 2006, 2000s, 20th century, 1910s
Place: india, los angeles, california, cambodia, taj mahal ...
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28%
The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Poland
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Set in pre- World War II era. A young man is on a strange train to see his dying father in a sanatorium. But the place is going to ruin and recalls a lot of memories from the past. He is beset by soldiers from the past, colonial black mercenaries, ...
Style: surreal, mind bending, psychological, psychedelic, dark ...
Plot: surrealism, alternate reality, metaphysics, female nudity, mental disorder, time travel, magic realism, macabre, trippy, existentialism, parallel universe, politics ...
Time: year 1973, 20th century
Place: eastern europe, poland
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28%
 6.7
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Mirrormask (2005)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home
Style: stylized, surreal, offbeat, visually stunning, mindfuck ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens, date night, teen fantasy, kids ...
Plot: fantasy world, circus, magic, imaginary kingdom, trippy, coming of age, alternate reality, alternate dimension, parallel universe, good versus evil, imaginary, save the kingdom ...
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Story: Suffering from acute kidney failure, Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a ...
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Tideland (2005)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
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Style: disturbing, surreal, psychedelic, bleak, dark fantasy ...
Audience: teens
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Story: A disturbed,institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
Style: disturbing, surreal, psychological, controversial, cult classic ...
Audience: teen drama
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25%
 6.4
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The Pied Piper (1972)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her dowry to pay his army while his father ...
Style: fairy tale, stylized, art house, independent film, serious ...
Plot: bubonic plague, ancient, wedding, burned alive, clergy, revenge, witchcraft, siblings relations, parents and children, society, vengeance, dealing with death ...
Time: year 1972, 14th century, medieval times, middle ages
Place: germany, europe, northern germany
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25%
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Cremaster 5 (1997)
Genre: Musical, Drama
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
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Duration: 114 min.
Story: A sensitive exploration of the tragic irony of the psychiatrist suffering with mental illness.
Style: art house, action adventure, surreal, psychedelic, mind bending ...
Plot: mental illness, nordic, art, european, existentialism, dialogue, psychopath, misfit, destruction, cowboy, psychotherapy, suicide attempt ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
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Story: Zach Riley (Aaron Eckhart) is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, 'Millwood'. What he doesnt reveal at the time of his appointment is that this was the ...
Style: psychological, serious, visual, fairy tale, crying ...
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22%
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Style: psychedelic, art house, philosophical, atmospheric, disturbing ...
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Style: surreal, mind bending, stylized, atmospheric, serious ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
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21%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
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Audience: date night
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