Magic Realism Movies

A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.

Rachel is a rambunctious girl from a polygamist colony in southern Utah. On Rachel’s 15th birthday, she finds a forbidden cassette tape. Having...

80-year-old Thomas recounts his childhood and middle age through a series of flashbacks and dream sequences. Thomas believes he’s been taken...

Karrer plods his way through life in quiet desperation. His environment is drab and rainy and muddy. Eaten up with solitude, his hopelessness would...

A married fisherman struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions.

Over a 5-year period in Bridgend in Wales, 79 people, many of them teenagers, committed suicide without leaving any clue as to why. This is the...

An open-pit mine is unearthed in an idyllic town in Northern Finland. A strange chain of dreadful events affect the life of Pepe, a kind and...

Three strangers with one thing in common — the same father — come to a Turkish village to bury him, and learn about him and each other.

Two teen girls see their long-time friendship crumble from the pressures of adulthood in their last year of high school.

When a young woman investigates her town's Nazi past, the community turns against her.

A story told in four parts, "He" explores the swell of poetic love and the breathless aftermath of its heartache.

Yuri leaves Ryo with mysterious words. Ryo goes to Hokkaido knowing that his doppelganger magician is missing. Ryo realizes Yuri was also the...

What do fictional characters do with the rest of their lives, once their stories have been told? This charmingly offbeat, deadpan fantasy attempts to...

In this coming-of-age-film about self-love, Maya is a girl who has always held a pessimistic view of the rain, reminding her of failed love and other...

In 1995, during the Angolan civil war, Nayola sets out in search of her missing husband.

A young actress rehearsing for a play about human trafficking begins to relive terrifying scenes that may be dreams -- or an alternate reality.

On a desolate farm, a couple's prayers are answered after a visitor offers them a sinister deal. Blinded by their joy, they struggle to realize that...

A veteran theatre artist who lives for his art 'enters' the world of films. Can the film industry hold on to his inimitable artistry?

Hiromi appears on the outside to be a mature, resilient girl, but on the inside she feels like she's falling apart. She is having troubles at home...