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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

[–] idreamedmusic 14 years ago

Also try Lucid, a Canadian film from 2005. VERY similar.

http://idreamedmusic.blogspot.com/

[–] Ilione 14 years ago

Well, not so much one about the character's mind being all messed up, but a film that uses a similar device by way of a story instead of a dream: The Fall by Tarsem Singh. Since you already listed and saw The Cell, I'm sure you'll know there's no going wrong with Tarsem! =)

Fantastic list by the way, shall have to dig in to it myself.

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[–] rider-d001 13 years ago

I am fairly obsessed with "rubber reality" movies. (I call them "puzzle movies")

I think Solaris needs to be mentioned again. I think I only saw it once on this list. It's Soderberg's artsy masterpiece and it stars George Clooney. Very trippy and very good ending. It has a good sci-fi element too.

The Fall deserves a second mention as well. It's probably my favorite movie of all time. It's extremely well shot- best cinematography hands down, had a terrific score, and has a very good story and a unique way of telling it.

Three other movies that I would highly recommend that are already on the list are The Fountain, Triangle, and Eternal Sunshine.

Two movies I will add to the list are The Tree of Life and Sucker Punch.

Great work on the list guys! Ill definitely have to check out a bunch of these.

"If you don't dance, you have no purpose."

[–] Lankasterss 12 years ago

The Escapist (2008) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0961728/

There is another movie, one guy wakes in the hospital in coma, he has nightmares, tortured by the doctors, anyone know the name?

[–] Kathledria 12 years ago

I think you're thinking of Sublime.

[–] Lankasterss 12 years ago

Thank you!

[–] In_Celluloid_We_Trust 12 years ago

It's not a film and someone has already mentioned the film version, but I think the short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is a precursor to a lot of these type of films.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge

[–] tcsung 11 years ago

I'm thinking of a black and white movie made probably in the 50's, about two brothers, little boys, who live in a farmhouse. There are parents, maybe an aunt and uncle on the same property. Toward the end of the film there is a big fire as the house or barn burn.

I can't remember the name of this film!

Don't want to give too much more away, but it's definitely one for this category, and a great one!

[–] lluismf 11 years ago

You might like Last year at Marienbad, it's surreal but definitely rubber-reality themed.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054632/?ref_=nv_sr_1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Year_at_Marienbad

[–] Imdb11168 9 years ago

Three More

Die Tur ( 2008 )
Heartless
The Lazarus Project

Darkness lies an inch ahead