Topic: Magic Realism

Direction Tim Burton

Cast Ewan McGregor · Albert Finney · Billy Crudup · Jessica Lange

Plot Edward Bloom (Finney) has always been a teller of tall tales about his oversized life as a young man (Ewan McGregor), when his wanderlust led him on an unlikely journey...

Direction Emir Kusturica

Cast Miki Manojlovic · Lazar Ristovski · Mirjana Jokovic · Slavko Stimac

Plot 'Underground' takes a look at the modern history of Yugoslavia through the often absurd misadventures of two friends over several decades. The film begins in Belgrade in 1941, establishing the...

Direction Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Cast Audrey Tautou · Mathieu Kassovitz · Rufus Magloire · Lorella Cravotta

Plot Bursting with imagination and having seen her share of tragedy and fantasy, Amelie (Audrey Tautou) is not like the other girls. When she grows up she becomes a waitress in...

Direction Hayao Miyazaki

Plot Two young girls, Satsuke and her younger sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother. Satsuke and Mei discover...

Direction Vittorio De Sica

Cast Francesco Golisano · Emma Gramatica · Paolo Stoppa · Guglielmo Barnabò

Plot Once upon a time, in the story of Vittorio De Sica's MIRACLE IN MILAN, an old woman, Lolotta (Emma Grammatica), discovered a young child in her cabbage patch. She cared...

Direction Emir Kusturica

Cast Davor Dujmovic · Bora Todorovic · Ljubica Adzovic · Husnija Hasmovic

Plot A young gypsy boy, raised by his honest and moral grandmother, is soon taught the art of thievery, begging and baby-selling by the richest gypsy in the community. But when...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Martin Scorsese · Akira Terao · Mitsuko Baisho · Mieko Harada

Plot Akira Kurosawa's Dreams comprises eight dream sequences, featuring impressive special effects and beautiful scenery from Japan. Kurosawa's dream sequences are elusive, metaphoric and influenced by Japanese legends, reflecting in some...

Direction Leonardo Favio

Cast Walter Vidarte · Graciela Borges · Nora Cullen · Fernando Iglesias 'Tacholas'

Plot Fernandez is a lonely man leading a lonely life. All he does is work for an old man in a hardware store. But all that changes, when he meets the...

Direction Yorgos Lanthimos

Cast Emma Stone · Mark Ruffalo · Willem Dafoe · Ramy Youssef

Plot Bella Baxter is a young girl brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Under Baxter's protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the...

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Jet Li · Tony Leung Chiu-Wai · Maggie Cheung · Zhang Ziyi

Plot 2003 Foreign Language Oscar nominee. At the height of China's Warring States period, the country was divided into seven kingdoms: Qin, Zhao, Han Wei, Yan, Chu and Qi. For years,...

Direction Alice Rohrwacher

Cast Josh O'Connor · Carol Duarte · Vincenzo Nemolato · Isabella Rossellini

Plot We all have a chimera, something we wish to do, to have, but we never find it. For the gang of 'tombaroli', the thieves of ancient tombs and archaeological sites,...

Direction Alice Rohrwacher

Cast Adriano Tardiolo · Alba Rohrwacher · Agnese Graziani · Luca Chikovani

Plot A man travels through time for about 50 years, but this is not science fiction.

Direction Javier Fuentes-León

Cast Cristian Mercado · Manolo Cardona · Tatiana Astengo · José Chacaltana

Plot An unusual ghost story set on the Peruvian seaside; a married fisherman named Miguel (Cristian Mercado) struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions.

Direction Alejandro González Iñárritu

Cast Michael Keaton · Emma Stone · Edward Norton · Zach Galifianakis

Plot A washed up actor who once played an iconic superhero must overcome his ego and family trouble as he prepares to mount a Broadway play in a bid to reclaim...

Direction Miguel Gomes

Cast Crista Alfaiate · João Pedro Bénard · Isabel Muñoz Cardoso · Margarida Carpinteiro

Plot A murderer on the run from authorities becomes a folk hero in the second instalment of this surreal epic about the lives of ordinary people in austerity-stricken, contemporary Portugal. Elsewhere,...

Direction Alfonso Arau

Cast Marco Leonardi · Lumi Cavazos · Regina Torné · Ada Carrasco

Plot The passionate Tita (Lumi Cavazos) is in love with Pedro (Marco Leonardi), but her controlling mother (Regina Torne) forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro instead marries her sister, Tita...

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Grazyna Szapolowska · Jerzy Radziwilowicz · Aleksander Bardini · Maria Pakulnis

Plot It's 1982: Poland is under martial law, and Solidarity is banned. Ulla, a translator working on Orwell, suddenly loses her husband, Antek, an attorney. She is possessed by her grief,...

Direction Shuji Terayama

Cast Tsutomu Yamazaki · Mayumi Ogawa · Yoshio Harada · Yôko Takahashi

Plot In a tale that is visually stunning in certain segments, director Shuji Terayama (who died before this movie was released) has woven a spell of magic and social reprobation around...

Direction Guan Hu

Cast Huang Bo · Yan Ni · Gao Hu · Hua Zi

Plot 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...

Direction Pen-Ek Ratanaruang

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Sinitta Boonyasak · Chermarn Boonyasak · Yutaka Matsushige

Plot 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....