| Solaris (1972) | 7.9 | |
| K-PAX (2001) | 7.4 | |
| Sassy the Sasquatch (2022) | 9.2 | |
| Contact (1997) | 7.5 | |
| Stranger Than Fiction (2006) | 7.5 |
Metaphysics movies and TV shows – page 3
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List of metaphysics movies
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
A dive down to the collective subconscious, where the man's stinking corpse is broken down into nourishing soil from which we are born again and rise to the surface with a new feminine thinking and feeling and unimaginable perversions. An ...
Style:
experimental, avant garde, art house, art film, surreal ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
rebirth, death, lifestyle, life philosophy, life & death, secret, mysticism, symbolism, perversion, sexual content, visceral, taboo ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
"The Day Of The Purple Sun´´: The cosmos of the incurable Margarethe.
Her journey through the mysteries of the Egypt underworld.
Will she be coming forth by day? film in two parts by Carsten Frank
"DER TAG DER VIOLETTEN SONNE´´
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Style:
experimental, mystical, surreal, psychedelic, meditative ...
Plot:
journey, female protagonist, ancient egypt, afterlife, transformation, rebirth, mythology, metaphysics, haunting, ritual, macabre, intimate ...
Place:
egypt
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
"Leave out any hope of salvation, now you're getting in, to never leave again" (Hell - Canto III) It's been years since Beatrice died. Dante, now lonely, has lost control of his life and nothing on Earth is able to help him. Is a ...
Style:
spiritual, allegory, mystical, emotional, poetic ...
Plot:
hell, purgatory, paradise, afterlife, soul searching, grief, supernatural, soul, loneliness, loss, transformation, mourning ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In a single moment, life can change forever. Jason Masterman is a young and successful New York stock broker whose career comes to a bitter and humiliating end with the onset of the global financial crisis. Waking one morning to the sound of the ...
Style:
spiritual, inspirational, independent film, psychological, uplifting ...
Plot:
freedom, meaning of life, soul searching, life changing, self discovery, personal growth, waking up, redemption, financial crisis, identity, urban, metaphysics ...
Place:
new york, sydney australia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Dani, Yumi, Ovidiu, Ada and Cristi are youths addicted to one another, yet intent on escaping the pressure of their interconnectedness and frustrating realities by performing mind trips into different levels of existence and parallel worlds.
Style:
psychological, existential, surreal, psychedelic, melancholic ...
Plot:
trip, youth, friendship, escape, escapism, alternate reality, alienation, parallel world, self discovery, intimate, symbolism, identity crisis ...
Place:
eastern europe, romania
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Poland
Duration: 52 min.
Story:
Chronopolis tells the story of a gargantuan city lurking in the sky colonized by powerful immortals who have become jaded with eternal life. Most of their time is spent monotonously constructing bizarre and unusual objects while waiting for the ...
Style:
experimental, avant garde, existential, philosophical, surreal ...
Plot:
surrealism, immortality, eternal life, boredom, waiting, melancholy, architecture, loneliness, metaphysics, haunting, construction, creativity ...
Time:
80s, future
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city.
Style:
contemplative, bleak, existential, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
isolation, wasteland, loneliness, alienation, minimalism, metaphysics, character study, anonymity, identity, minimal dialogue, moral ambiguity, pilgrimage ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
europe
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A baroque mix of revolutionary politics, pop culture and semiotics loosely based on the play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. A young prince learns that life is just a dream from which we wake when we die. And that dreams may be as real as life.
Style:
philosophical, surreal, existential, allegory, reflective ...
Plot:
surrealism, metaphysics, identity crisis, literary, fatalism, adaptation, palace intrigue, moral dilemma, spirituality, ritual, dream, shootout ...
Place:
chile
Is relevant?
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
How much do we really know about ourselves when we make a decision? What if there are multiple versions of our I within us, each with something to say?
Style:
psychological, mind bending, existential, experimental, emotional ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
identity, self discovery, consciousness, self awareness, split personality, identity crisis, existential crisis, moral ambiguity, intimate, relationships, metaphysics, memory ...
Place:
italy
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: China, France, USA
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
In a world where humanity has lost the ability to dream, one creature remains entranced by the fading illusions of the dreamworld. This monster, adrift in reverie, clings to visions no one else can see — until a woman appears. Gifted with the rare ...
Style:
psychological, existential, philosophical, mind bending, surreal ...
Plot:
dreamscape, androids, identity crisis, alienation, resurrection, female protagonist, haunting, loneliness, metaphysics, dystopia, slow burn, intimate ...
Time:
year 1999
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Genre: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Nathan and Daniel are caught in a road accident that kills them both. As they come to grips with their deaths, Nathan confronts his past and the consequences of his actions. Now trapped in the hellish void of Pandemonium, he encounters tortured ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, dark fantasy ...
Plot:
afterlife, death, hell, death of protagonist, torment, supernatural, problem, desperation, punishment, soul, grief, guilt ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Orléans is a typical provincial Russian town on the banks of a salt lake called Yarovoye. The town is 'steeped in evil'. But it isn't some great evil. This evil is of a banal and everyday type: Lida the hairdresser has indiscriminate ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, thought provoking, satirical ...
Plot:
mysterious stranger, satire, redemption, conscience, guilt, small town life, family problems, province, class society, mysterious man, society, lifestyle change ...
Place:
salt lake city utah
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
THE WAR WITHIN is a unique fantasy that takes viewers to a world that only God can see; the world of the inner man. Michael Sinclair (Brett Varvel) is a syndicated cartoonist whose dream of a perfect life is upended when tragic events transform his ...
Style:
psychological, spiritual, captivating, dark fantasy, tense ...
Plot:
faith, christian, belief in god, doubts and hesitations, change of heart, relationship problems, uncover truth, religious faith, marital problem, character change, changing lives, lifestyle change ...
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Sara is a young woman who fails to understand the world she lives in. Trying to find meaning in life she would come to a mysterious place to undertake an adventure: it is a parallel universe, dark and fantastic, where life and death hang in the ...
Style:
tense, dark fantasy, futuristic, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
parallel universe, teenage girl, save the world, supernatural power, supernatural ability, paranormal phenomena, parallel world, teenager, saving a life, paranormal, alternate reality, metaphysics ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
After an encounter with UFOs, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
Style:
captivating, cerebral, breathtaking, atmospheric, mysterious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, adult ...
Plot:
ufo, alien, first contact, alien abduction, technology, alien contact, space and aliens, contact, flying saucer, extraterrestrial, chase, airplane ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1977, near future, future
Place:
wyoming, indiana, india, ohio, north america ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA, UK, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
A Canadian-Brith film adaptation of Salman Rushdie's novel of the same name. The film tells the story of a pair of children born within moments of India gaining independence from England grow up in the country that is nothing like their ...
Style:
captivating, surreal, stylized, psychological, epic ...
Plot:
hopes, family relations, political unrest, youth, coming of age, love and romance, society, siblings relations, rich and poor, magic realism, coup, colonialism ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 50s, 60s, year 1917 ...
Place:
india, bombay india, pakistan, asia, kashmir ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
In the year 253 of the Neo-Civilization, Captain Luo Weizhao and Pei Su investigates a series of crimes tied to the controversial "Apaths," uncovering a deeper conspiracy that challenges society's beliefs about morality, free will, ...
Style:
detective, philosophical, futuristic, tense, mysterious ...
Plot:
conspiracy, crime investigation, moral ambiguity, free will, ethical dilemma, empathy, dystopia, dark future, cyberpunk, power struggle, social decay, urban ...
Time:
near future
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Guy Anatole joins the clandestine world of the Talamasca, an international spy agency for the immortal universe, as he searches for answers to his family's own part in the supernatural world.
Style:
dark fantasy, supernatural thriller, gothic, noir, suspenseful ...
Plot:
secret society, vampire, supernatural, witch, werewolf, immortality, occult, paranormal investigation, conspiracy, espionage, secret agent, metaphysics ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A motorist who comes upon an auto accident finds a bottle at the scene. The bottle contains a demon who proceeds to possess him.
Style:
retro, sinister, independent film, dark, psychological ...
Plot:
supernatural, possession, demon, car accident, cursed object, paranormal, paranoia, mind control, occult, guilt, superstition, isolation ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Bert Deling's surreal, button-pushing and hallucinogenic paean to the emerging possibilities of avant-garde and homemade filmmaking. Telling the tale of a violent ex-cop searching for the man who killed his partner, the film takes an unexpected ...
Style:
surreal, avant garde, experimental, independent film, art house ...
Plot:
lsd, surrealism, trippy, counterculture, revenge, acid trip, ex cop, ambiguity, drug lord, obsession, metaphysics, urban ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Fantasy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Cheated on by his girlfriend, Akhil, a troubled young guy decides to end his life but instead, he ends up in a comatose state. Soon his soul detaches itself from the body and wanders off, only to find the company of another soul Priya. Together ...
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, spiritual, life affirming, melancholic ...
Plot:
connection, out of body experience, supernatural, soul mate, spiritual journey, empathy, consciousness, life & death, redemption, second chance, coma, afterlife ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
TV show
Story:
From the creator of The Big Lez Show, Sassy the Sasquatch follows the adventures of Lez’s former neighbor Sassy as he travels across space and time, making old and new friends in a spiritual quest of self-discovery.
Style:
semi serious, entertaining, captivating, adult animation, psychedelic ...
Plot:
sasquatch, satire, self discovery, friendship, mythical creature, travel, irreverent, character study, road trip, space travel, loneliness, metaphysics ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Grief-stricken after the loss of her child, Vanessa takes refuge at a lake house only to be met with an aberration of herself from a parallel universe and realizes the multiverse gates hold the key to releasing her grief or trapping her forever.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, captivating, thrilling, mind bending ...
Plot:
female protagonist, journey, alternate reality, multiverse, grief, parallel world, parallel universe, adventure hero, supernatural ability, supernatural power, identity crisis, trauma ...
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A reborn gangster accidentally found himself being able to see ghosts, which led to a life-changing experience. "Guests" came to him for help one after another... Started from death, what did they want him to see?
Style:
psychological, suspense, captivating, tense, thrilling ...
Plot:
ghost, paranormal, supernatural, investigation, triad, crime solving, afterlife, murder investigation, supernatural power, uncover truth, crime investigation, mysticism ...
Place:
hong kong
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
“Hana-Dama”—a flower in the wasteland. This flower is a symbol of earthly desires and every human is overwhelmed by desire and their rationality collapses wherever the flower is in bloom. And even today, the “Hana-Dama” continues to ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, surreal, art house ...
Plot:
projectionist, cinema, desire, theater, mystery woman, confronting the past, tragic past, male female relationship, mysterious man, memories, repression, obsession ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Greece, France, Croatia, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A post-modern theater adaptation of a classic Greek tragedy takes place in a central theater of Athens. Like every night, the audience take their seats and the play begins. Suddenly, the lights on stage go out. A group of young people, dressed in ...
Style:
experimental, postmodern, tension, unpredictable, surreal ...
Plot:
theater, moral ambiguity, live performance, performance art, ambiguity, adaptation, social commentary, single, urban, ritual, claustrophobia, intimate ...
Place:
athens greece, ancient greece, bosnia herzegovina
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Iran
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
On their way back from a wild party, Arine and Nobahar cause a car accident. A mysterious stranger by the name of Toofan offers to cover the costs. This won't be the last time they'll cross his path over the course of the night.
Style:
surreal, road movie, captivating, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mysterious stranger, farce, absurdism, car, surrealism, mysterious man, accident, culture clash, culture, friends, night, political satire ...
Place:
tehran iran, tehran, persia, iran
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Ukraine, Czech Republic
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An ordinary funeral procession moves along its path from church to cemetery. Observing, you slip from reality into a place where time has lost its linearity, looping through the odd images thrown off by a distorted reality. Images of non-existence, ...
Style:
art house, psychedelic, non-linear, neo noir, surreal ...
Plot:
surrealism, murder, insanity, hanging, psychotic, identity crisis, mental illness, family drama, claustrophobia, metaphysics, obsession, isolation ...
Place:
ukraine
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young wife and mother of two children is challenged to overcome her passive beliefs on religion after a serious car accident. Receiving haunting images of her past she is forced to make a decision that will decide her fate.
Style:
emotional, reflective, contemplative, bleak, mind bending ...
Plot:
spiritual awakening, a vision, life & death, existential crisis, moral dilemma, car accident, female protagonist, motherhood, family drama, redemption, flashback, survival ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Poetic, experimental and different, Container is described by Lukas Moodysson as "a black and white silent movie with sound" and with the following words; "A woman in a man's body. A man in a woman's body. Jesus in ...
Style:
experimental, black and white, avant garde, art film, poetic ...
Plot:
desire for fame, identity crisis, minimalism, intimate, metaphysics, human relationship, darkness
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