The Matrix (1999), Providence (1977), Paprika (2006), Revolution No. 9 (2001), Raincoat (2004), Nocturnal Animals (2016), Berlin Calling (2008), Avalon (1990) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Reality Vs Illusion movies.
Storyline: Thomas A. Anderson is a man living two lives. By day he is an average computer programmer and by night a hacker known as Neo. Neo has always questioned his reality, but the truth is far beyond his imagination. Neo finds himself targeted by the police when he is contacted by Morpheus, a legendary computer hacker branded a terrorist by the government. Morpheus awakens Neo to the real world, a ravaged wasteland where most of humanity have been captured by a race of machines that live off of the humans' body heat and electrochemical energy and who imprison their minds within an artificial reality known as the Matrix. As a rebel against the machines, Neo must return to the Matrix and confront the agents: super-powerful computer programs devoted to snuffing out Neo and the entire human rebellion.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, action, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, dystopian, philosophy, futuristic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Clive Langham (Sir John Gielgud) spends one tormenting night in his bed suffering from health problems and thinking up a story based on his relatives. He is a bitter man and he shows, through flashbacks, how spiteful, conniving and treacherous his family is. But is this how they really are or is it his own vindictive slant on things?—Archie Moore <ar.moore@student.qut.edu.au>
Plot Keywords: surrealism, family relationships, dreams, memory, death, illness, time ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Three scientists at the Foundation for Psychiatric Research fail to secure a device they've invented, the D.C. Mini, which allows people to record and watch their dreams. A thief uses the device to enter people's minds, when awake, and distract them with their own dreams and those of others. Chaos ensues. The trio - Chiba, Tokita, and Shima - assisted by a police inspector and by a sprite named Paprika must try to identify the thief as they ward off the thief's attacks on their own psyches. Dreams, reality, and the movies merge, while characters question the limits of science and the wisdom of Big Brother.
Plot Keywords: animation, science fiction, psychological thriller, dreams, mystery, fantasy, crime ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A man (Michael Risley) tracks down the director (Spalding Gray) of a television commercial because he feels it contains hidden messages directed at him.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, independent film, american film, mystery, mental illness, reality vs illusion, directorial debut ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An unemployed Manoj (alias Manu) is told by his mother that they need some money for his sister's forthcoming marriage, and he sets out to find some. For this purpose, he visits his former Calcutta-based girlfriend, Neerj alias Neeru, whom he was to marry, but who preferred to marry someone wealthier, in Calcutta. He rings the doorbell, and the door is answered by Neerja herself, and he is invited inside. They talk and update each other on their lives. Neerja puts on Manoj's raincoat, so she could go out and buy something to cook for him. She warns him not to open the door nor let anyone in. After Neerja leaves a man knocks on the door, and requests entry into the house to use the toilet. Manoj opens the door and lets the male use the facilities. When this male finishes his business, he refuses to leave, and sits and talks with Manoj. It is during this conversation that Manoj finds out the stark truth behind Neerja, her husband, and their married life.—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, art film, indian cinema, bollywood, tragedy, reunion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A "story inside a story," in which the first part follows a woman named Susan who receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband, a man whom she left 20 years earlier, asking for her opinion. The second element follows the actual manuscript, called "Nocturnal Animals," which revolves around a man whose family vacation turns violent and deadly. It also continues to follow the story of Susan, who finds herself recalling her first marriage and confronting some dark truths about herself.
Plot Keywords: thriller, drama, crime, mystery, dark comedy, psychological, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A man tours clubs around the globe with his manager and girlfriend. On the eve of their largest album release he is admitted to a psychiatric clinic after overdosing at a gig.
Plot Keywords: electronic music, berlin, dj culture, drug abuse, mental breakdown, recovery, music production ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Polish-Jewish family arrives in the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century and they and their children try to build themselves a better future in the promised land.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, virtual reality, dystopian, technology, artificial intelligence, game, reality vs illusion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An over-the-hill salesman faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family.
Plot Keywords: tragedy, play adaptation, family conflict, american dream, mental breakdown, father-son relationship, social pressure ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An exploration of the impact of schizophrenia on a young woman and her family in today's Calcutta. The narrative pivots around the relationship of two sisters, older sister Anjali is a successful professor with a powerful personality. She is the anchoring rock for her family and carer for her sister Meethi whose progression into schizophrenia has been speed ed up by traumatic experiences. Anjali has always dominated the life of her attractive younger sister, and jealously warded off Meethi's handsome fiancé Jojo with fear of Meethi's impending illness. Years later when Meethi and Anjali are on holiday in the Hills there is a chance meeting with Jojo, now with his new wife and children. He is shocked to discover that Meethi does not now recognize him, but lives in a world visited by an imaginary husband and children of her own.—gavin@sunny_deol2009@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: drama, family, psychological, indian cinema, female perspective, social issues, mental illness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An obstetrician (Fanny Ardant) hires an upscale prostitute (Emmanuelle Béart) to help her take revenge on her philandering husband (Gérard Depardieu).
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, thriller, french film, psychological, mystery, erotic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Adam Bell is a Toronto area History college professor. He is a rather somber man, largely because he is stuck in a routine, which includes a relationship with his live-in girlfriend, Mary. While watching a rental movie, he spots an actor in a bit part that looks like him. He becomes obsessed with finding out about this double of his. He learns that the actor's stage name is Daniel Saint Claire, whose legal name is Anthony Claire. Claire is a Toronto based actor with only a few on-screen credits, and is married to a woman named Helen who is currently several months pregnant. Adam then becomes obsessed with meeting Claire, who he learns upon first sighting that they look exactly the same, from the facial hair to a scar each has, but Claire who outwardly is more "put together" than Adam. Their lives become intertwined as Claire himself ends up becoming obsessed with Adam, but in a slightly different way.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, mystery, drama, surrealism, identity, dreams, reality vs illusion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A thought-provoking and haunting exploration of how reality and dream-states may combine to form complex interactions. The line between the imagination and reality blurs when an accomplished Psychiatrist takes on a patient that appears to be suicidal.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, mystery, surrealism, schizophrenia, hallucination, nonlinear narrative, fate ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Allegra Geller, the leading game designer in the world, is testing her new virtual reality game, eXistenZ with a focus group. As they begin, she is attacked by a fanatic assassin employing a bizarre organic gun. She flees with a young marketing trainee, Ted Pikul, who is suddenly assigned as her bodyguard. Unfortunately, her pod, an organic gaming device that contains the only copy of the eXistenZ game program, is damaged. To inspect it, she talks Ted into accepting a gameport in his own body so he can play the game with her. The events leading up to this, and the resulting game lead the pair on a strange adventure where reality and their actions are impossible to determine from either their own or the game's perspective.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, thriller, virtual reality, psychological, horror, action, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Christian Petzold's drama deals with a woman, who leaves her hometown for a promising job and a new life, but is haunted by the truths of the past. As her marriage to Ben broke and her professional career has no future in her native town in the Eastern part of Germany, Yella has decided to search for a job in the West. When she gets to know Philipp, a smart executive at a private equity company in Hanover, she becomes his assistant and gets involved into the world of ruthless and big business. Realizing her dreams could come true with Philipp's help, she starts hearing voices and sounds from her past, which menace her new and better life...—fippi2000
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, german film, drama, mystery, surrealism, workplace, revenge ...
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