| Inception (2010) | 8.8 | |
| The Jacket (2005) | 7.1 | |
| Suicide Note (2016) | 4.6 | |
| Generation X (1996) | 4.4 | |
| Balestra (2024) | 5.1 |
Lucid dream movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant lucid dream movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out psychological, surreal, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing and psychological thriller films and TV shows about / with lucid dream, dream, nightmare, supernatural, surrealism, sleeping, death, dreaming, memory and obsession plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as lucid dream: Behind Her Eyes (2021), Inception (2010), Waking Life (2001), Lucid Dream (2017), The Jacket (2005), Dreamscape (1984), Paprika (2006), Vanilla Sky (2001), The Good Night (2007), Enakkul Oruvan (2015).
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List of lucid dream movies
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
A single mother enters a world of twisted mind games when she begins an affair with her psychiatrist boss while secretly befriending his mysterious wife.
Style:
enigmatic, twist ending, mystical, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
lucid dream, friendship, sociopath, psychopath, mental illness, twists and turns, mental disorder, soul transference, supernatural, body swapping, love affair, affair ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
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2.8M
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another ...
Style:
psychological, mind bending, cerebral, clever, twist ending ...
Audience:
date night, teens, adult
Plot:
dream, virtual reality, memory, alternate reality, teamwork, imagination, subconscious, philosophy, twists and turns, fictional reality, existentialism, lucid dream ...
Time:
year 2010, future, 2000s, 2010s, near future
Place:
japan, paris france, los angeles, iran, tokyo ...
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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, cerebral ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
philosophy, existentialism, dream, surrealism, alternate reality, trippy, consciousness, bohemian life, sleeping, meaning of life, life philosophy, imagination ...
Time:
20th century, year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
texas, tibet
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Dae-ho, an investigative journalist, seeks to track down the whereabouts of his son who was abducted three years ago. With the help of a detective and a psychiatrist friend, he will retrace his memory of the incident through the use of lucid ...
Style:
psychological, exciting, enigmatic, surreal, suspenseful ...
Plot:
lucid dream, time travel, reporter, dream, a vision, investigation, kidnapping, child abduction, loss of son, characters in danger, sleeping, surveillance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, korea
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
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, mind bending, enigmatic, tricky ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, psychology, mental institution, time loop, amnesia, supernatural, hallucination, destiny, memory loss, disorder, haunted by the past, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 90s, 20th century, year 1992 ...
Place:
vermont, iraq
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people's dreams, with some mechanical help. When a subject dies in his sleep from a heart attack Alex Gardner becomes suspicious that another of the psychics is killing people in ...
Style:
cult classic, surreal, psychological, futuristic, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
dream, nightmare, psychic power, psychic, conspiracy, lucid dream, assassin, murder, telepathy, cheerleader, nuclear holocaust, u.s. president ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, future
Place:
illinois, washington d.c., los angeles
Is relevant?
110K
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, philosophical, psychedelic, adult animation ...
Audience:
kids, teens, adult
Plot:
dream, trippy, lucid dream, virtual reality, surveillance, hallucination, surrealism, villain, mental illness, scientist, psychiatrist, doctors and patients ...
Time:
future, year 2006, 2000s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Is relevant?
306K
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
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 ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, philosophical, enigmatic, twist ending ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
virtual reality, dream, alternate reality, surrealism, lost love, disfigurement, redemption, obsession, tragic love, love, hopes, death ...
Time:
year 2001, future, 22nd century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Gary, a musician, is trapped in an unhappy relationship with his live-in lover, Dora. He becomes enthralled with a beautiful seductress who enters his dreams, and tries to control his dream-state so he can spend more and more time with her. When ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, humorous, sincere, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
midlife crisis, dream, friendship, advertising, unlikely friendships, thirtysomething life, couple relations, love and romance, fall in love, couples, lifestyle, musician's life ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
europe, london, new york, usa, new jersey
Is relevant?
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
A man suffering from insomnia is tricked into buying a drug, Lucia, that makes his desires come true in his dreams, blurring the line between fantasy and reality.
Style:
non-linear, realistic, suspenseful, serious, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
insomnia, marriage proposal, disorder, danger, actor's life, workplace, artists and showbiz, drug, love, pills, dream, split personality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
Is relevant?
574
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Sport, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Joanna is a competitive fencer at the end of her career who is desperate to be the world’s best. In order to gain an edge, she pursues an experimental technology, allowing her to train via lucid dreaming, where she begins a tumultuous affair with ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, anime, intense
Plot:
fencing, ambition, female protagonist, lucid dream, obsession, experimental technology, infidelity, mental health, sexual tension, identity crisis, jealousy, guilt ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
As Liz struggles with nyctophobia (fear of the dark), a form of anxiety disorder that causes sleeping issues, she desperately tries to fall asleep by entering her “inner world” where she can access her happy childhood memories. However, she ...
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, mind bending, disturbing, surreal ...
Plot:
nightmare, dreamscape, lucid dream, subconscious, macabre, sleep disorder, trauma, isolation, rehearsal, mental illness, female protagonist, slow burn ...
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Zel, a lonely young man's life changes when his enigmatic neighbour offers to help him overcome social anxiety.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense
Audience:
adult
Plot:
socially awkward, loneliness, social anxiety, changing lives, antisocial behavior, lifestyle change, sociopathy, escapades, social issues, social problems, neighbor neighbor relationship, neighbor ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Due to her age, Professor Jennifer Connelly is often described as a science prodigy. A genius of our time, with five Phd's psychology, psychiatry, neurology, physics and chemistry. Jennifer's primary studies are in dreams and the effects ...
Style:
mind bending, psychological thriller, suspenseful, surreal, tense ...
Plot:
neuroscience, consciousness, artificial intelligence, dream, ethical dilemma, identity crisis, experimental technology, female protagonist, female scientist, lucid dream, moral ambiguity, laboratory ...
Is relevant?
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A woman with early signs of Alzheimer's begins to have lucid dreams and nightmares that a living Punch puppet has moved in with her and her family. She uncovers something sinister is observing her every move.
Style:
slasher, suspense, bleak, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
supernatural, alzheimer's disease, obsession, memory loss, illness, fear, family relations, house, fight, old dark house, female protagonist, brutality ...
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A woman with increasingly disturbing and violent dreams consults a famous sleep therapist known for his controversial treatments. Her experience plummets her into the dark, twisted depths of her subconscious, grasping for her sanity.
Style:
scary, psychotronic, slasher, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
nightmare, serial killer, murder, mystery killer, characters killed one by one, youth, serial murder, gossip and rumors, psychopath, violent, chase, threat ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
In a world shaped by the dreams we see in our sleep, ZEZTZ enters people's dreams as an agent on a mission. Equipped with a cutting-edge Rider belt worn across the chest, ZEZTZ brings a bold new form to the battle.
Style:
surreal, heroic, intense, psychological, fast paced ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
superhero, nightmare, dream, transformation, masked hero, dreamscape, teenager, hi-tech, alternate reality, identity, virtual world, urban ...
Place:
tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Judah is a young man with a condition - he dreams while he's still awake. His imagination makes it difficult for him to process the loss of an important person in his life, so when his cousin contacts him with a ridiculous scheme to get at the ...
Style:
surreal, melancholic, emotional, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
loss, grief, disappearance, imagination, confronting the past, bittersweet, ambiguity, intimate, family drama, mental health, isolation, slow burn ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A lonesome man at the threshold of death finds himself trapped in a place called the Endless.
Style:
surreal, silent, avant garde, experimental, art house ...
Plot:
lucid dream, lonely man, suicide, darkness, death, surrealism, dying, depression, nightmare, dream, awkward
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Ambitious psych major Molly White is on top of the world as she preps for her grad program entry exams. After celebrating with boyfriend Brady, Molly finds her roommate Emma crying after an incident she had with her boyfriend Adam. The next morning, ...
Style:
detective
Plot:
campus, love, suicide, dormitory, art gallery, lucid dream, university, toxic relationship, coffee shop, classmate, student, group of friends ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story of a beautiful teenager Jim who, having traveled from rural Essex, finds himself in Soho where he falls in with a gang of unusual high class male escorts – The Raconteurs – who specialize in post-coital conversation. From shy novice to ...
Style:
tense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, avant garde ...
Plot:
rent boy, gay, male prostitution, male escort, male prostitute, prostitution, escort, art, muse, male nudity, lgbtq, society ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
london, england
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A man goes on a mission to locate a stolen artifact for a client, which leads him to a haunted town full of vampires, sleeping beauties, and Voodoo gangsters.
Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, psychedelic, surreal ...
Plot:
supernatural, private investigation, artifact, vampire, private detective, investigation, private investigator, fantasy world, supernatural being, sleuth, superhuman powers, relic hunter ...
Time:
year 1973
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A group of shark-attack survivors is hunted by a supernatural shark that haunts their dreams.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, scary, suspense, psychotronic ...
Plot:
nightmare, shark attack, survival, danger, fear, terrorizing, shark, creature feature, animal attack, giant animal, sea creature, killer shark ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
18-year-old Penny Cooper spent years pining for Johnny Sanders Jr., but when a mysterious musician shows up on the beach, Penny is torn.
Style:
psychological, captivating, sincere, light, cult classic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
beach, surfing, surfer, voyeurism, death of father, country music, awkward situation, love and romance, grownups, self discovery, introspection, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
malibu california, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A woman who us researching alien abductions for her new book begins to receive reports of a nocturnal attacker whose description matches that of Santa Claus. She enlists the help of a scholar of mythology to see fi there is a darker side to the ...
Style:
christmas horror, psychological thriller, creepy, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
santa claus, xmas, supernatural, urban legend, christmas season, folk horror, nightmare, hypnosis, paranormal, mythology, alien abduction, investigation ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Since her childhood, Jessica has been haunted by recurrent nightmares whose meaning escapes her. This peculiarity has led her to study the psychophysiology of dreams and to follow a therapy with Sean, her mentor and boyfriend, to try and understand ...
Style:
surreal, suspenseful, psychological, scary, atmospheric ...
Plot:
incest, supernatural, obsession, danger, haunted by the past, woman in danger, homecoming, ghost, evil force, exorcism, fear, nightmare ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 608 min.
TV show
Story:
Stephen King's take on the masterpiece series by Lars von Trier. The story takes place in a hospital in Lewiston, Maine, built on the site of a Civil War-era mill fire in which many children died.
Style:
medical horror, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, scary ...
Plot:
hospital, stephen king, ghost, supernatural, losing-it hero, psychic power, haunted by the past, danger, supernatural ability, doctors and patients, supernatural power, arson ...
Place:
maine
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Sleepwalkers is an American science fiction series which began airing on NBC in late 1997. It tells the story of a team of researchers who used technology to enter the dreams of psychiatric patients in order to diagnose their problems.
The show was ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, surreal, suspense, dark ...
Plot:
nightmare, dream, subconscious, trauma, a vision, technology, memory, psychoanalysis, identity, virtual reality, medical, dreaming ...
Time:
90s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master and those who get too close to him.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, creepy, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
monkey, revenge, murder, bare chested male, vengeance, macabre, dangerous animal, animal attack, possessiveness, nudity, experiment, rage ...
Time:
80s
Place:
pittsburgh
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Sixteen year-old Bobby is emotionally damaged by his mother's early death. He accidentally causes a nun's death, unleashing a chain of supernatural events that lead him into the pits of Hell.
Style:
religious horror, mystic, independent film, avant garde, psychotronic
Plot:
nun, killer clown, child abuse, catholic school, hell, supernatural, childhood trauma, hallucination, sleeping, mysticism, bad kids, afterlife ...
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