Autumn Spring (2002), Spider (2002), A Merry War (1997), The Red Shoes (1948), Big Fish (2003), I Vitelloni (1953), Harvey (1950), Synecdoche, New York (2008) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Reality Vs Fantasy movies.
Storyline: Following the death of his father in Mexico, Stéphane Miroux, a shy insecure young man, agrees to come to Paris to draw closer to his widowed mother Christine. He lands a boring job at a calendar-making firm and falls in love with his charming neighbor Stéphanie. But conquering her is no bed of roses for the young man and the only solution he finds to put up with the difficulties he is going through is escape into a dream world...
Plot Keywords: fantasy, romance, comedy, dream, surreal, art, imagination ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Calvin is a genius novelist who begins to type a new novel on his manual typewriter about Ruby, his dream girl. He can't believe his eyes, because the next day, Ruby becomes a real person, and they begin to have a beautiful relationship together. If the relationship isn't perfect, all Calvin has to do is simply type the words on the page and Ruby's actions change to what he needs.
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, fantasy, drama, romantic comedy, surreal, writer ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This is just another roadside cafeteria. Gino, who enters it discreetly, is an armed robber ... without an arm! He tries to hold up the place but fails pitifully: the pretty waitress won't allow! Two amateur kidnappers take a rich teenage girl hostage and want to exchange her for ransom. But their victim is not easy to deal with. Two singers meet in the cafeteria by chance and talk about a stolen song and a stolen woman. Five seventy-year-old retired robbers also meet at the cafeteria - where their hideout used to be - and work out a last caper. In the end, after having tried to steal from each other, go away together.—Guy Bellinger
Plot Keywords: crime, comedy, black comedy, french film, indie film, short film, drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bobby Taylor wants to be a respected actor. From Sam Spade to Shakespeare to superheros, he can do it all. He just has to convince Hollywood that gangstas, slaves and "Eddie Murphy-types" aren't the sum of his talents.—Renee Ann Byrd <byrdie@wyrdbyrd.org>
Plot Keywords: comedy, satire, race, hollywood, black culture, actor's life, social commentary ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Asako is a 21-year-old woman, living in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku who has a free spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and she meets Ryohei. He looks just like her ex-boyfriend Baku, but he has a completely different personality. Ryohei is a salaryman, with a sincere personality. Asako falls in love with Ryohei.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, romantic, fate, memory, identity, lost ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The UK is about to switch its currency from Pounds to Euros, giving a gang a chance to rob the poorly-secured train loaded with money on its way to incineration. But, during the robbery, one of the big bags falls literally from the sky on Damian's playhouse, a 7-year old given to talking to saints. The boy then starts seeing what the world and the people around him are made of. Ethics, being human and the soul all come to the forefront in this film.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, family, comedy, drama, children, adventure, british film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Exploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of Lewis Carroll's classic book, the movie follows Alice Liddell Hargreaves (Coral Browne) (the book's inspiration) as an old woman who is haunted by the characters, by whom she was once so amused. As she thinks back on it, she starts to see her relationship with Reverend Charles L. Dodgson/Lewis Carroll (Sir Ian Holm) in a new way, and realizes the vast change between the young Alice and the old.—Max Vaughn
Plot Keywords: fantasy, drama, adventure, children, literary adaptation, memory, aging ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A burgeoning stand-up comedian struggles with the stress of a stalled career, a stale relationship, and the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he is desperate to ignore.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, romance, independent film, autobiographical, marriage, relationships ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In London, the sideshow troupe of Doctor Parnassus promises the audience a journey to the "Imaginarium", an imaginary world commanded by the mind of Doctor Parnassus, where dreams come true. In the stories that Doctor Parnassus tells to his daughter Valentina, the midget Percy, and his assistant Anton, he claims to have lived for more than one thousand years; However, when he fell in love with a mortal woman, he made a deal with the devil (Mr. Nick), trading his immortality for youth. As part of the bargain, he promised his son or daughter to Mr. Nick on their sixteenth birthday. Valentina is now almost to the doomed age and Doctor Parnassus makes a new bet with Mr. Nick, whoever seduces five souls in the Imaginarium will have Valentina as a prize. Meanwhile the troupe rescues Tony, a young man that was hanged on a bridge by the Russians. Tony was chased until he finds and joins the group. Tony and Valentina fall in love with each other and the jealous Anton discovers that his ...
Plot Keywords: fantasy, adventure, surreal, allegory, magic, dreamlike, visual spectacle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 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 present, she is drawn only deeper into a dream turning into a nightmare.—David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au>
Plot Keywords: fantasy, psychological thriller, surrealism, dreams, psychological horror, coming of age, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Young filmmakers (Rafer Weigel, Eric McCormack) trying to hawk a movie titled "Bradykillers" about a serial killer who goes after victims Marcia, Jan, and Cindy meet their screen idol, William Shatner. Shatner, appearing as himself, has fun poking fun at his own image. The two young men, who idolize him and in their fantasies have seen him as a shadowy fairy godfather figure, are alarmed at the reality of the middle-aged non-Captain Kirk man that they meet. However, their relationship helps anchor the two more into reality.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: science fiction, comedy, independent film, coming of age, pop culture, friendship, midlife crisis ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A lovable slacker (Paulo Costanzo) becomes part of a money-laundering scheme, then finds it difficult to buy happiness with his ill-gotten gains. Meanwhile, his hippie friend discovers the joys of capitalism in an illegal way; his brother remains big on money but short on ethics; and his father loses his job but finds profit outside the system.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, independent film, coming of age, canadian film, urban life, dark comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A well-educated psychiatrist leaves an academic career to work at an institution where his father, a novelist, lived before writing a renowned children's book. Acclimating to his position, he encounters a schizophrenic who helps him to discover the book's secrets and his place in the story.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: fantasy, drama, psychological, adventure, mystery, healing, fairy tale ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set in 1949 New York, a Holocaust survivor who makes a living as a ghostwriter for a Jewish rabbi, finds himself involved with three women - his current wife, a passionate affair with a married woman, and his long-vanished wife whom he thought was killed during the war and suddenly reappears. The film concentrates on the views of the Jewish survivors, who no longer abide by religious morales and question a God who could let the Holocaust occur.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, black comedy, jewish culture, marriage, love triangle, post-war ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: DEAR WENDY is a story about the young loner Dick who lives in the poor mining town of Estherslope. When he happens upon a small handgun one day, he finds himself strangely drawn to it, despite his fervent pacifist views. Together with his newfound partner he soon convinces the other young outcasts in the town to join him in a secret club he calls The Dandies. A club based on the principals of pacifism and guns. Despite their firm belief in the most important Dandy rule of all - never draw your weapons - they soon find themselves in a predicament where they realise that rules are made to be broken.—Distributionsselskabet
Plot Keywords: youth, coming of age, rebellion, social outcasts, violence, utopia, dystopia ...
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