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10 somewhat similar movies - Rubber Reality Movies

posted 17 years ago by Imdb11168
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I would define these movies as 'Rubber Reality' Movies - a genre in which the main characters mind is all mixed up ) ill suggest some more for you

Jacobs ladder
Butterfly Effect ( only part 1 )
Fountain
Jacket
Stay
Donnie Darko
Sixth Sense
12 Monkeys
Vanilla Sky
Unbreakable
The Others

Any similar you have seen that can be added to this list ?

2 years later, Thanks everyone - i saw everythng you all reccomended. Ive added to the list. Remember, there are many genres here, sci fi, drama, thriller, madness, time travel, disturbing, reincarnation, mystery even Romance - ..... but they have one thing in common - a dark emotion which haunts your mind with questions.

A Beautful mind
Open Your eyes
Blade runner
Carnival Of Souls
Danika
Door out of the Dark
Dreams
Elephant
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
First Snow
For all Time
Forever Young
Frequency
If Only
Lost Highway
Moon
Mulholland Drive
One flew over the cuckoos nest
Paperhouse
Passion of mind
Premonition
Repulsion
Seconds
Siesta
Slaughterhouse - five
Slipstream
Somewhere in time
Special
Spider
The Cell
The Dead Zone
The i Inside
The invisible
The Lake House
The Lathe of heaven
The life before her eyes
The Machinest
The time travellers wife
The Village
Till human voices wake us up
Tomorrows memoir
Waltz with Bashir
Vana Espuma ( idle mist )
Waking Life
What dreams amy come

[–] CheezCayke 16 years ago

Not that these are great but they fit the catagory:

Lulu on the Bridge
Lovers of the Arctic Circle
Dancer in the Dark

[–] Imdb11168 16 years ago

i read about your 3 movies on imdb. I havnt seen them yet, but they seem to be terrific stories. Thanks, its great to know there are people with very much the same tastes as i have

[–] atropos_thefate 16 years ago

No one has mentioned Run, Lola, Run

Also I have read that these movies fit this discussion, but I have not seen them or checked them out myself, so I am not sure about them:

Carnival of Souls
Revolver
One Point O
The Thirteenth Floor

[–] ddeboer 16 years ago

Siesta is a movie no one has mentioned much less seen (perhaps). It stars Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Grace Jones, and Jodie Foster. It is all about death versus life and reality versus dream. It thought it was a bit too surreal but it certaintly fits into this category.

[–] dangerousturtle 16 years ago

I'd been meaning to watch this forever, and finally got to it. To me it seemed almost like a cross between Vanilla Sky and a movie I don't think anyone else has mentioned, Till Human Voices Wake Us, which I thought had a similar tone to it.

[–] burger_time 16 years ago

just check out this site ffs
http://www.classreal.com/

[–] DrHerbertWest 16 years ago

Angel Heart?

[–] Kooldancin 16 years ago

what dreams may come, the science of sleep, requiem for a dream and the Cell...

The cell isn't that great but I love what dreams may come...

\(^o^)/YATTA
"There's More Than One Way To Eat A Sam and Dean Winchester!"
House M.D.

[–] davidsena 16 years ago

What Dreams May Come

I am surprised no one mentioned this before. This movie was hard enough to watch on its own but even worse to watch with someone who had her teen daughter die and tried to make a suicide pact with her other daughter afterwards.

[–] WalletGuy 16 years ago

Total Recall
Existenz
The Matrix

[–] jd33j 16 years ago

In the beginning of "rubber reality" films there was "Last Year at Marienbad".

I saw it in the 1960s and loved it; it's cool, elegant, mysterious. It has been explained as a visual exploration of how the mind tries to remember things. Images repeat in variations, the mind seeks to place things in context, trying to figure out how things looked, who was where, who did what, how...

There have been other explanations, you decide...

It may bore you if you're used to color, high tech, visual tricks. Marienbad is in black and white, set in one or more old, classy luxury hotels in spas in Central Europe. The actors are Italian and French, well-dressed, classy...

It won the award at the Cannes film festival and deserves it. See it if you like elegant 1950s European movies plus the "rubber reality" element.

[–] keepitgoan 16 years ago

How come no one ever mentions BRAINDEAD (1990) with Bill Paxton and Bill Pullman??? This movie is straight EPIC if a bit low budget.

.:PERFECT NIGHT OF BRAIN HORROR/THRILLERS:.

1st - BRAINDEAD (1990)
2nd - THE JACKET (2005)
3rd - JACOB'S LADDER (1990)
4th - STAY (2005)

bOOm

[–] rdjenkins-4 16 years ago

I'll add two of my favorites-- both underated and well worth watching.

One is "Happy Accidents" with wonderful performances by Marisa Tomei and Vincent D'Onofrio. It's a sort of sci-fi/ romance with a thrilling and satisfying ending that ties it all together. Tomei's new fun-crazy boyfriend might actually be certifiably crazy after all. Holds up to repeated viewings.
(Incidentally-- this was directed by Brad Anderson who did "The Machinist", also mentioned in this thread.)

The other is "Dead Funny" with Elizabeth Pena and Andrew McCarthy.

"Dead Funny" gives us Pena trying to piece together the reality of why her boyfriend is dead on her kitchen table. We see the story leading up to the dramatic opening moment (dead lover McCarthy) via flashbacks of their relationship. The closing song "Play with Fire" has a nice spooky feeling to it. I've watched this several times and it always pleases.

Corrected per following post. I added the direction note after writing the whole and put it under the wrong film.

Thanks Cagney!

[–] Cagney68 16 years ago

"Chasing Sleep" (2000)

Which is similar to "The Machinist." Anderson directed "Happy Accidents," though, not "Dead Funny." Also did "Session 9" mentioned here.

[–] txsizzle2001 16 years ago

Passion of Mind - Demi Moore

[–] designaddict 16 years ago

The Life Before Her Eyes

[–] sleepystevey 16 years ago

The Lazarus Project (2008) is similar type of movie which has not been named and isn't too bad of a film.

I really enjoy the atmosphere of these movies. Not just the type of film, but the way it is filmed, and the music that goes with it. I think Stay (2005) did a really great job at this. The movie wasn't perfect, but I think the atmosphere was. If I remember correctly I think The Lazarus Project (2008) is the movie I am thinking of that also gave off a similar feel. There are a couple others that are like these that I can't think of off the top of my head. I have seen just about every movie listed, but not any of the others are like this. The Jacket (2005) is close as well. I'm not really talking about story line/type of movie, more of the feeling it gives off.

Anybody else understand what I am saying? Know any others like these?

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[–] baishinin 16 years ago

Ironically, I just watched The Jacket a couple days ago... You might like the movie "Re-cycle" by the Pang brothers. Visually, it's a stunning film and it has that "rubber reality" component to it. It begins like a typical Asian horror movie complete with a woman with long black hair, but the story veers in a different direction towards the middle.