Magical Realism Movies

An agoraphobic man traps himself in an astronaut costume to avoid the disastrous consequences of his condition

'Hold Me, Softly' follows the blossoming friendship between a reclusive video-game designer and her charming new neighbor. As they talk through the...

The third film version of the popular Mexican novel, about a wayfarer who travels to a mysterious arid village, to meet the father who long ago...

Set in a distant barrio, a strange skin disease throws a tight-knit village into turmoil. At the heart of their struggle stands an ancient tree...

The night before her eighteenth birthday recital, an overworked and undertalented pianist is abducted by three ghouls.

The conventions of documentary, musical theater, and magical realism are combined and subverted to address issues of personal, national, and artistic...

A group of literary charcaters refuse to be forgotten and decide to take matters into their own hands. A whimsical look at literature and the power...

The myths of Orpheus and Charon are interwoven with the entirely sung story of four friends dining in an Italian bistro who are fated to perish the...

Luca Venditto, a down-on-his-luck filmmaker drowning in student debt from film school, scrapes by working in a restaurant to make ends meet. One...

An introverted AI coder struggling to keep her grandfather's theater and her mother's legacy from being destroyed, decides to use her skills to blur...

A middle-aged man on the brink of divorce gets stalked by a blue chair that refuses to go away.

A paper-puppet stop-motion documentary about Two-Spirit people's gender experiences, contrasted with a white transgender experience, with...

When an ornithologist’s funding gets cut, her nurturing of abandoned bird eggs leads to a transformation as her marriage crumbles.

In 1962 Montreal, police receptionist Françoise leads a stifling life, dictated by her husband Germain and sanctioned by her aunt Agathe....

In a small circus deep in the Andes, a delusional performer named Loy dreams of building a miraculous show. But when his final act begins, reality...

Troubled by the death of her brother a young girl and her best friend run away from their convent school for an afternoon. After burying a dead bird...

A photographer disillusioned with her everyday life gets stranded in a remote Amazonian village. As she uncovers her host's hidden past with a river...

A retired mother becomes increasingly devoted to “The Jakrak Society", a cult that believes in healing through palm energy, as her illness...

At an abandoned gas station, the paths of Rue, Halley and Rayleigh cross and unravel through layers of time, where their memories and the impact of...

In a world where suicide requires a permit, a man seeking to end his life meets "Soulbound." To regain his permit, he must spend a day with this...