Magic realism films

The Green Mile

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1999 IMDB Rating: 8.6

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, rec...

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2004 IMDB Rating: 8.3

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still...

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Repentance

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 8.1

The day after the funeral of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, his corpse turns up in his son's garden. Although it is secretly reburied, the corpse keeps returning until the polic...

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Donnie Darko

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 2001 IMDB Rating: 8

After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.

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Black Swan

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 2010 IMDB Rating: 8

A journey through the psyche of a young ballerina whose starring role as the duplicitous swan queen turns out to be a part for which she becomes frighteningly perfect.

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Big Fish

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 2003 IMDB Rating: 8

Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the re...

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Song of the Sea

Film Age rating: 5 Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 8

The story of the last Seal Child’s journey home. After their mother’s disappearance, Ben and Saoirse are sent to live with Granny in the city. When they resolve to return to their home by the sea, the...

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Soul

Film Age rating: 5 Year: 2020 IMDB Rating: 8

Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is tra...

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Life of Pi

Film Age rating: 6 Year: 2012 IMDB Rating: 7.9

The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

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