Topic: Magic Realism
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Titles found: 146
Direction Guan Hu
Cast Huang Bo · Yan Ni · Gao Hu · Hua Zi
Synopsis Dou Niu (Cow) is a movie by another sixth-generation Chinese director and is about to hit the international red carpet. Set in the winter of 1940, the movie revolves around Niu Er, a peasant who is tasked with protecting his...
6.8
97 votes
6.8
97 votes
Last Life in the Universe
2003 · Movie · 104 min. · Thailand
Direction Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Cast Tadanobu Asano · Sinitta Boonyasak · Chermarn Boonyasak · Yutaka Matsushige
Synopsis A mysterious, obsessive-compulsive, suicidal Japanese man living in Bangkok, Thailand, is thrown together with a Thai woman through a tragic chain of events. The woman is everything he is not. He is a neat freak who keeps his dishes washed...
6.8
1K votes
6.8
1K votes
Arabian Nights: Volume 1 - The Restless One
2015 · Movie · 125 min. · Portugal
Direction Miguel Gomes
Cast Miguel Gomes · Carloto Cotta · Adriano Luz · Rogério Samora
Synopsis This unconventional blend of documentary and fantasy uses the stories-within-stories structure of the classic Arabian Nights to explore the lives of ordinary people in austerity-stricken, contemporary Portugal. Among the tales: A group of bankers discover a cure for impotence, a...
6.7
711 votes
6.7
711 votes
Starry Starry Night
2011 · Movie · 99 min. · Taiwan
Direction Tom Lin Shu-yu
Cast Rene Liu · Harlem Yu · Kenneth Tsang · Hui Ming Lin
Synopsis Mei, only child of a couple on the verge of divorce, spends her time playing with puzzles of famous paintings. Jay, a new and shy boy with a great artistic talent, joins her class. A popular children book by Jimmy...
6.7
173 votes
6.7
173 votes
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Tobacco Barns
2022 · Movie · 98 min. · Spain
Direction Rocio Mesa
Cast Vera Centenera Carnero · Ada Mar Lupiañez Huertas · Tamara Arias · Cristina Eugenia Segura Molina
Synopsis The landscape of a rural area is filled with mysterious tobacco barns. Three generations spend the summer uncovering the secrets of these structures in a little town that is a childhood playground, a teenage cage, and an elder's memory.
6.6
303 votes
6.6
303 votes
Arizona Dream
1992 · Movie · 142 min. · United States
Direction Emir Kusturica
Cast Johnny Depp · Faye Dunaway · Jerry Lewis · Lili Taylor
Synopsis A romantic comedy about the adventures of an innocent dreamer in the weird landscape of the American West. Caught between childhood and adulthood he finds himself back in his hometown where he becomes involved with a wealthy widow and her...
6.6
4K votes
6.6
4K votes
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2023 · Movie · 38 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Wes Anderson
Cast Benedict Cumberbatch · Ralph Fiennes · Ben Kingsley · Dev Patel
Synopsis A beloved Roald Dahl story about a rich man who learns about a guru who can see without using his eyes and then sets out to master the skill in order to cheat at gambling.
6.6
7K votes
6.6
7K votes
Tomorrow and Thereafter
2017 · Movie · 96 min. · France
Direction Noémie Lvovsky
Cast Luce Rodríguez · Noémie Lvovsky · Mathieu Amalric · Micha Lescot
Synopsis Mathilde is nine years old. She’s a smart little girl, but she doesn’t have many friends. Mathilde is different, or rather her life is. When she gets home, she is the one who has to take care of her mother,...
6.5
76 votes
6.5
76 votes
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Beasts of the Southern Wild
2012 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Benh Zeitlin
Cast Quvenzhané Wallis · Dwight Henry · Levy Easterly · Lowell Landes
Synopsis Waters gonna rise up, wild animals gonna rerun from the grave, and everything south of the levee is goin’ under, in this tale of a six year old named Hushpuppy, who lives with her daddy at the edge of the...
6.5
15K votes
6.5
15K votes
Citizen Dog
2004 · Movie · 100 min. · Thailand
Direction Wisit Sasanatieng
Cast Mahasamut Boonyaruk · Saengthong Gate-Uthong · Sawatwong Palakawong Na Autthaya · Chuck Stephens
Synopsis With force to spend her days to align sardines in cans, Pott ends up cutting his index, which he see disappearing with horror in one of the boxes intended for the supermarkets of the city. But in a marked Bangkok...
6.5
230 votes
6.5
230 votes
La mitad del cielo
1986 · Movie · 127 min. · Spain
Direction Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Cast Ángela Molina · Fernando Fernán Gómez · Margarita Lozano · Antonio Valero
Synopsis Rosa is an cantabrian woman who travel to Madrid after the Civil War. With the help of Don Pedro, a chief supplies, she opens a restaurant that transforms in a political and intelectual center.
6.5
2K votes
6.5
2K votes
Quartier Lointain
2010 · Movie · 100 min. · France
Direction Sam Garbarski
Cast Léo Legrand · Pascal Greggory · Jonathan Zaccaï · Alexandra Maria Lara
Synopsis A grown man wakes up to discover he is a teenager again.
6.4
103 votes
6.4
103 votes
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The Day Silence Died (El día que murió el silencio)
1998 · Movie · 110 min. · Bolivia
Direction Paolo Agazzi
Cast Darío Grandinetti · Gustavo Angarita · Elías Serrano · Guillermo Granda
Synopsis Handsome entrepeneur Abelardo Rios Clarios arrives in the sleepy little town of Villaserena, rigs up speakers throughout the village, and begins broadcasting "Radio Nobleza". For a small sum of money, they can now buy the opportunity to express publicly what...
6.4
158 votes
6.4
158 votes
The House of the Spirits
1993 · Movie · 138 min. · United States
Direction Bille August
Cast Jeremy Irons · Winona Ryder · Glenn Close · Meryl Streep
Synopsis A sweeping and brooding melodrama, spanning generations and filled with violence, revenge, and telekinesis. The tale begins in South America in 1926, when a young man, Esteban (Jeremy Irons), falls in love with the daughter of a rich man, Rosa...
6.3
12K votes
6.3
12K votes
Schmigadoon! (TV Series)
2021 · Series · 28 min. · United States
Direction Cinco Paul · Ken Daurio · Barry Sonnenfeld
Cast Cecily Strong · Keegan-Michael Key · Alan Cumming · Kristin Chenoweth
Synopsis TV Series (2021-). First Season: 6 Episodes. A couple (Cecily Strong & Keegan-Michael Key) on a backpacking trip designed to reinvigorate their relationship discover a magical town in which everyone is living in a musical from the 1940s. They then...
6.3
218 votes
6.3
218 votes
I Am Not a Witch
2017 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Rungano Nyoni
Cast Maggie Mulubwa · Gloria Huwiler · Travers Merrill · Chileshe Kalimamukwento
Synopsis After a minor incident in her village in Zambia, 9-year-old Shula is exiled to a travelling witch camp where she is told that if she tries to escape she will be transformed into a white goat. She must decide whether...
6.3
327 votes
6.3
327 votes
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Encanto
2021 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Jared Bush · Byron Howard · Charise Castro Smith
Synopsis Encanto tells the tale of an extraordinary family, the Madrigals, who live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house, in a vibrant town, in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has...
6.3
14K votes
6.3
14K votes
Liza, the Fox-Fairy
2015 · Movie · 98 min. · Hungary
Direction Károly Ujj Mészáros
Cast Mónika Balsai · Szabolcs Bede Fazekas · David Sakurai · Piroska Molnár
6.3
1K votes
6.3
1K votes
The Swan
2023 · Movie · 17 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Wes Anderson
Cast Rupert Friend · Ralph Fiennes · Asa Jennings · Benoît Herlin
Synopsis Two large, ignorant bullies ruthlessly pursue a small, brilliant boy in this young adult Roald Dahl short story. Starring:Rupert Friend and Ralph Fiennes
6.3
2K votes
6.3
2K votes
Chicken with Plums
2011 · Movie · 87 min. · France
Direction Marjane Satrapi · Vincent Paronnaud
Cast Mathieu Amalric · María de Medeiros · Isabella Rossellini · Golshifteh Farahani
Synopsis Nasser-Ali, a talented musician, loses the will to live after his wife breaks his beloved violin during an argument. He searches for a replacement, and finding none that sounds quite the same, he vows to die. Eight days later, he...
6.3
2K votes
6.3
2K votes
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