Udaan (2010), Bellissima (1951), Happiness Is a Four-Letter Word (2016), Rampo (1994), Fear in the Night (1947), Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937), On an Island With You (1948), Premonition (2007) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Dream Vs. Reality movies.
Storyline: After being abandoned for eight straight years in boarding school, Rohan returns to the small industrial town of Jamshedpur and finds himself closeted with an authoritarian father and a younger half brother who he didn't even know existed. Forced to work in his father's steel factory and study engineering against his wishes, he strives to forge his own life out of his given circumstances and pursue his dream of being a writer.
Plot Keywords: student, half brother, father, uncle, emotional, moving, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daugther to Cinecittà, hoping she'll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria, even if her husband would prefer they save their little money for the rent, instead of paying teachers, hairdressers or bribes for her illusions.—Yepok
Plot Keywords: mother, daughter, father, celebrity, child actor, talent scout, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Perfectionist Nandi seems to have the New South African Dream life within her grasp, black female partner in a major firm, marriage, the perfect house - but it all goes up in flames a few months before the wedding. With her friends Zaza and Princess, Nandi will have to find out what truly makes her happy and then fight to get it.—Helena Spring
Plot Keywords: woman, business woman, friend, fiancé, uplifting, emotional, south africa ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts, his publisher shows him a newspaper with an account of events just like his forbidden story. As the film progresses, fantasy and reality intermingle in a tale that draws heavily on influences from Poe and Stoker's Dracula. The film's strongly Expressionistic direction skillfully combines a variety of media (animation, computer-generated imagery, grainy black-and-white fast film stock, color negatives) for artistic effect.—Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>
Plot Keywords: writer, government official, femme fatale, murderer, alter ego, marquis, eerie ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Bank teller Vince Grayson wakes from a nightmare in which he and an unknown woman murdered a man in a strange, mirrored room. Only a dream...but Vince finds that he has physical objects and bruises from his "dream." His cop brother-in-law dismisses his story...until the family, on a picnic, takes shelter from a thunderstorm in a deserted mansion containing that mirrored room. Is doom closing in on Vince?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: bank teller, brother-in-law, cop, wife, girlfriend, murderer, eerie ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A movie company is doing the Arabian Nights when a hobo enters their camp, falls asleep and dreams he's back in Baghdad as advisor to the Sultan. In a spoof of Rosevelt's New Deal, he organizes work programs, taxes the rich and abolishes the army.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: sultan, princess, commoner, nurse, director, fan, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young navy lieutenant is brought in as techninical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being made by screen star Rosalind Reynolds. Having once done a number with her - and been kissed at the end - at a Forces show, the young lad somehow believes she should be his girl. Her boyfriend - and fellow co-star - is just one of those disagreeing.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: movie star, lieutenant, assistant director, actor, dancing girl, orchestra conductor, winsome ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Middle-class couple Linda and Jim Hanson exist in a rut with their two daughters in their comfortable suburban home. One Thursday morning, the local sheriff informs Linda that Jim died in a car accident the day before. When she awakens the next morning, she finds Jim safe and sound at home; the morning after that she awakens to find him dead. She realizes that her days are out of order; her family and friends believe that she's insane.
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, police officer, mother, psychiatrist, stranger, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the Olympic Athlete Village, a young cross-country skier bonds with a volunteer doctor after her competition ends. Starring Nick Kroll and Alexi Pappas. Filmed on location in the actual Olympic Village at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics with three people comprising the entire cast and crew: Jeremy Teicher, Nick Kroll, and Alexi Pappas. Real Olympic athletes, including Jamie Anderson and Gus Kenworthy, also make their way into the film as additional characters.
Plot Keywords: skier, volunteer, olympic athlete, love interest, dentist, confident, cool ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: John and his class go on a school trip to the Tower of London. While he is there he loses his pet mouse and vows to return and find her later. Back in school, he is not very attentive and falls asleep during a lesson about electricity so his teacher sends him home. On the 'tube' there is a sudden flash, and John, the train and all of the passengers turn yellow. With the help of Nick (short for 'Electronic') John learns about electricity, invades the Tower of London and saves his pet mouse ... or was it a dream. This is the Powell & Pressburger touch applied to children's films.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: schoolboy, schoolteacher, mouse, amusing, charming, cheeky, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1938 Los Angeles, the manager of the Culver Hotel leaves his nephew in charge for a weekend. The nephew changes the name to the Hotel Rainbow and overbooks with royalty, assassins, secret agents, Japanese tourists, and munchkins (from the cast of The Wizard of Oz (1939)). Secret Service agent Bruce Thorpe and casting director Annie Clark find romance amidst the intrigue and confusion.—<rth@ece.arizona.edu>
Plot Keywords: actress, little person, wizard of oz, mailroom clerk, passenger, duke, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A parody/homage to Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance, The Pirate Movie is a comedy/musical utilizing both new songs and parodies from the original, as well as references to popular films of the time, including Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark. In your typical boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy fights girl with swords plot, the story revolves around Mabel, the youngest of Maj. Gen. Stanley's many daughters, and Frederic, an ex-Pirate of Penzance. They fall in love and proceed to retrieve the Stanleys' fortune from the Pirates (stolen 20 years ago). The Pirate King informs Frederic that since he was a Leap Year baby born on February 29, Frederic is still technically the King's apprentice. Frederic must then decide between duty and honor--the only good qualities the King taught him- and true love.—Todd Kogutt: SCAVENGER
Plot Keywords: pirate, young woman, military officer, sailor, suitor, young man, cheery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: As Susan Hamilton sleeps, she dreams that she is another person in an alternative reality. As her greatest fears come to life, she is pursued by the notorious serial killer known as the Night Stalker.
Plot Keywords: young woman, young man, serial killer, mortician, police detective, dreamy, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the desert outside Cactus Gulch, Arizona, Buzzard and Betty Jean Wall live in a trailer decorated in Hawaiian themes. Betty's trying to get pregnant. Buzz wants to market "Cammo," a sun block lotion that looks like camouflage; but financing is tough to find and Betty thinks he should get a real job. Buzz's half-brother Turkey, a murderous psychopath, escapes from jail, comes to the trailer, ties up Buzz, kidnaps Betty, steals $10,000 they've just won from Publisher's Clearing Hut's Lucky Loser drawing, and heads for Mexico. Buzz is untied by Maya, an ex-girlfriend who's now a TV reporter in search of a story. They pick up Turk's trail and set out to rescue Betty.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: wife, husband, brother, ex-girlfriend, escaped convict, grandmother, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Not long after John Chambers and his family arrive at their new home in a small country town of Pennsylvania, John begins to experience sleep paralysis. Lying there paralyzed, trapped within his own nightmare, other-worldly beings visit John. They are entities which exist in the darkest shadows of the night and can only be seen out of the corner of one's eye. These encounters begin to haunt John, transforming to complete terror as he discovers the entities' sole purpose... the abduction of his seven year old son, Nathan
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, son, creature, ghost, enemy, engaging ...
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