Reality versus fantasy movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant reality versus fantasy movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out psychological, captivating, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful and surreal films and TV shows about / with reality versus fantasy, reality vs fantasy, nightmare, isolation, hallucination, dream, female protagonist, obsession, supernatural and paranoia plots mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as reality versus fantasy: Some Other Woman (2023), Destination Marfa (2021), When It Rings (2023), Miller's Girl (2024), Pulse (2022), Illusion (2022), I Kill Giants (2017), Strawberry Mansion (2021), The Turn of the Screw (2009), The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018).
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Cayman Islands
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Eve was promised a few months on a tropical island for her husband’s work... but years later, unable to build the family they wanted, she has given up on any of her own desires. As island fever intensifies, reality unravels around Eve as a strange ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, psychological thriller, atmospheric ...
Plot:
tropical island, female protagonist, island, reality versus fantasy, problem, loneliness, isolation, intimate, mysterious stranger, slow burn, emotional manipulation, female rivalry ...
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
While on a road trip from a long weekend at the Terlingua cookoff, four lifelong friends decide to veer off road and venture into a small West Texas town known as Marfa. What attracted them to do so? Could it be the strange unexplained ghost lights ...
Style:
entertaining, captivating, tension, independent film, atmospheric ...
Plot:
friends, small town, friendship, undercover, magic, magician, secret, magical, reality versus fantasy, road trip, supernatural, secrets ...
Place:
texas
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
Years after the tragic death of his sister, Zach returns to his childhood home. There he finds an old toy phone he used to "talk" to his dead sister, setting off a series of terrifying events, making him question what, and who, is real.
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, psychological, mystical ...
Plot:
supernatural, trauma, loss, grief, reality versus fantasy, loss of sister, mysticism, supernatural horror, paranormal activity, paranormal, getting home, loss of family member ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
TV show
Story:
Kevin a video store clerk is closing his store, when he accidentally opens a vortex and gets sucked in with some of his movies. He has to fight his way through different genres to stay alive.
Style:
captivating, mind bending, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
friends, quantum physics, plot twist, dinner party, alternate timeline, trapped, disorder, satire, parallel world, alter ego, time loop, dialogue ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A precocious young writer becomes involved with her high school creative writing teacher in a dark coming-of-age drama that examines the blurred lines of emotional connectivity between professor and protégé.
Style:
humorous, suspenseful, bleak, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
teacher student relationship, male teacher female student affair, male female relationship, college student, female protagonist, reality versus fantasy, imaginary, couples, relationships, aspiring writer, youth, student ...
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, South Africa
TV show
Story:
An Electromagnetic Pulse bomb disables a secure building and disrupts the bio-electric signals in everyone's minds, trapping a group of video game designers and turning each floor into a psychotic battlefield. Survival is not just a game.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, psychological horror, intense ...
Plot:
survival, nightmare, paranoia, mind control, fantasy becomes reality, problem, reality versus fantasy, video game, trap, computer game, role playing, struggle for survival ...
Place:
south africa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Months after disappearance, the mother of a missing daughter begins her own increasingly irrational investigation.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, disturbing, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
investigation, missing daughter, mother love, female nudity, missing person, mother daughter relationship, reality versus fantasy, missing girl, private investigation, mysterious disappearance, missing child, obsession ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, Belgium, Denmark, UK, Sweden, China
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Sophia, a new high school student, tries to make friends with Barbara, who tells her that “she kills giants,” protecting this way her hometown and its inhabitants, who do not understand her strange behavior.
Style:
sad, psychological, atmospheric, rough, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
teenage girl, school, escape from reality, imagination, death of mother, giant, cancer, illness, forest, fantasy world, bully, girl ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In the not-too-distant future, an all-seeing surveillance state conducts “dream audits” to collect taxes on the unconscious lives of the populace. Mild-mannered government agent James Preble travels to a remote farmhouse to audit the dreams of ...
Style:
surreal, unusual plot structure, visually appealing, atmospheric, dark ...
Plot:
surrealism, dream, nightmare, dreaming, male female relationship, advertising, escape from reality, imagination, technology, tax collector, fictional reality, sleeping ...
Time:
2030s, future
Place:
hawaii
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young governess, Ann, is sent to a country house to take care of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Soon after her arrival, Miles is expelled from boarding school. Although charmed by her young charge, she secretly fears there are ominous reasons ...
Style:
suspenseful, costume drama, atmospheric, serious, gothic ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, children, mentally unstable, repression, estate, female nudity, sexual repression, haunted house, youth, sibling relationship, haunting ...
Time:
victorian era, 1920s, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
london, england
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Genre: Animation, Family
Country: Estonia, Belgium, Ireland, UK
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Morten, a ten-year-old boy, is shrunk to the size of an insect due to a magical fog gun. Soon, he finds himself on his makeshift model ship sailing through a flooded cafe.
Style:
thrilling, semi serious, entertaining, captivating, funny ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
stop motion, shrinking, body transformation, little boy, magic, transformation, escapades, save the day, boy, children, magic realism, survival ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Spain, France, Belgium, Portugal, UK
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
An advertising executive jumps back and forth in time between 21st century London and 17th century La Mancha, where Don Quixote mistakes him for Sancho Panza.
Style:
period piece, entertaining, captivating, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
filmmaking, dream, delusional man, insanity, business deal, film producer, time travel, surrealism, don quixote, actor, actor's life, escapades ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2008
Place:
spain
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Alice and Jack are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. But when cracks in their idyllic life begin to appear, ...
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, psychedelic, surreal, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
housewife, women, undercover, social satire, feminism, passionate sex, orgasm, male female relationship, family life, oral sex, egg, captive ...
Time:
1950s, 2020s, 50s
Place:
palm springs california, california
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
What if there was a primitive island tribe where all the women were gorgeous and all the men were nasty-looking uggos? Might Mother Nature fix this by creating a tribe on a nearby island where all the men are hunks, and the women are brutes? You’d ...
Style:
satirical, captivating, semi serious, parody, absurd ...
Plot:
satire, island, surrealism, camp, tropical island, reality versus fantasy, map, reality vs fantasy, stock footage, breaking the fourth wall, lunch
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Genre: Horror, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 56 min.
Story:
Haunted by disturbing dreams from an inherited book, a young man becomes interested in the writings of H.P. Lovecraft.
Style:
lovecraft, dark, atmospheric, gothic, psychological ...
Plot:
occult, dream, nightmare, cosmic horror, monster, haunting, supernatural, madness, literary, obsession, biopic, isolation ...
Place:
new england
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Genre: Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
The Nutcracker is Mikhail Baryshnikov's breathtaking and critcally acclaimed Emmy nominated production. The thisspectacular performance is danced by the magnificent team of Baryshnikov, one of the greatest classical dancers of the century, and ...
Style:
light, light hearted, cute, sweet
Plot:
christmas, nutcracker, opera, dancing, choreography, magical, broadway, ballet, dance performance, classical music, reality versus fantasy, reality vs fantasy ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
After a glamorous career as a successful model, Gaby must start a new life, away from the catwalk and the limelight. But she cannot bring herself to accept that the peak of her career is now behind her. In an effort to lift her spirits, Dan, her ...
Style:
psychological thriller, atmospheric, suspenseful, melancholic, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
identity crisis, macabre, country house, isolation, obsession, fashion model, aging, claustrophobia, slow burn, mental disorder, surveillance, haunting ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Jean-Pierre (Francis Renaud) and his wife Blanche (Sophie Museur) live a quiet but happy life in their small Belgian town. But their world is shattered when their young son goes missing. In the aftermath of the family tragedy, the couple's own ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, poignant, suspenseful, contemplative ...
Plot:
female nudity, female pubic hair, reality vs fantasy, loss of child, coming of age, hallucination, insanity, missing child, grief, parenthood, character study, family tragedy ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
belgium, europe, france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Boi leads an isolated life on a mountain with his unwed daughter and his mentally disabled son Maize. Feeling death approach, he becomes obsessed with the continuation of the family line and he resolves to find his son a wife. After numerous intense ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, minimal cast
Plot:
sex education, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, dream, family problems, family relations, social problems, unfulfilled love, antisocial behavior, parents and children, family life, dysfunctional family ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the resistance about a bomb which the departing Germans have set to blow up a weapons cache.
Style:
political, humorous, thinking, cult classic, realistic ...
Plot:
world war one, anti war, cello, insanity, mental illness, wartime, great war, soldier, hospital, psychopath, small town, duchess ...
Time:
1910s, year 1966, year 1918, 18th century
Place:
france, germany
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
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, suspense, fairy tale ...
Plot:
novelist, paranoia, reality vs fantasy, psychiatrist, fort, cabin in the woods, secret, father son relationship, book, death of father, alternate reality, writers ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
new england
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A soap opera writer gets hit on the head and wakes up as a character in his own show.
Style:
spoof, funny, soap opera, metafiction, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, date night
Plot:
writers, alternate reality, hospital, amnesia, fantasy world, double barreled shotgun, wish fulfillment, auction, aspiring actress, surrealism, it was all a dream, doctor ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 80s
Place:
ohio, new york, africa, cleveland ohio
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap, and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding are the three episodes, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating, philosophical ...
Plot:
coincidence, love triangle, women, encounter, lgbt, lesbian, revenge, female protagonist, destiny, multiple storylines, change of luck, love story ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
japan, tokyo
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
This film was the pinnacle of anti-D&D fearmongering. Bound together by a desire to play "Mazes and Monsters," Robbie and his four college classmates decide to move the board game into the local cavern. Robbie loses his mind, and ...
Style:
fantasy adventure, dark fantasy, bleak, cult classic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
delusion, disappearance, world trade center manhattan new york city, quest, psychosis, college, tragic event, loss of brother, depression, map, missing person, breakup ...
Time:
80s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The fictional world of Royston Vasey is facing apocalypse and the only way to avert disaster is for our nightmarish cast of characters to find a way into the real world and confront their creators. From present day Soho to the fictional film world ...
Style:
surreal, horror comedy, semi serious, humorous, witty ...
Plot:
apocalypse, time travel, scarecrow, good versus evil, farce, parallel world, danger, village life, halloween, monarch, monarchy, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
england, europe, london
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Norway, France, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A college student starts to experience extreme seizures while studying at a university in Oslo, Norway. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable, and often dangerous, supernatural abilities.
Style:
suspense, psychological, captivating, twisted, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, bird, university, teenage girl, faith, lesbian attraction, healing power, hysteria, disappearance, lesbian relationship ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place:
scandinavia, oslo norway, indiana, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Netherlands, UK, Japan, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.
Style:
surreal, psychedelic, cult classic, philosophical, cerebral ...
Plot:
hallucination, surrealism, exterminator, nightmare, addiction, trippy, repressed homosexual, secret agent, drug addiction, paranoia, reality vs fantasy, homosexuality ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, year 1953, year 1991, 90s ...
Place:
north africa, usa, new york, canada
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.
Style:
disturbing, tense, neo noir, sexy, harsh ...
Audience:
date night, manly
Plot:
twists and turns, self defense, revenge, violent, small town, organized crime, sex scene, redemption, gangster, sex, murder, attempted robbery ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
indiana, philadelphia, columbus ohio, usa, pennsylvania ...
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404K
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists beneath the landscape of ...
Style:
dark fantasy, gothic, suspense, satanic, dark ...
Audience:
chick flick, family friendly, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, demon, devil, angel, occult, good versus evil, demonic possession, exorcism, heaven and hell, hell, one man army, god or devil ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, mexico
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267K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.
Style:
psychological, scenic, tense, sexy, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
island, adventurer, tourist, jungle, drug, travel, beach, utopia, desire, hippie, marijuana, survival ...
Time:
year 2000, 20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place:
thailand, bangkok thailand, southeast asia
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