By default, movies are sorted by year in descending order.

Set in the strange and oppressive emotional landscape of the year 1983, Beyond the Black Rainbow is a Reagan-era fever dream inspired by hazy childhood memories

Surrogates explores a world in which humans have no direct social contact with each other, instead using artificial proxies for all of their interactions.

Cold Souls
Cold Souls (2009)
A: 0.0 Q: 3.7 R: 3.7

A machine is invented to extract one's soul. Hoping to improve his performance, an actor uses this service, but then wants it back, and goes soul searching.

A teacher's attempt to demonstrate the perils of dictatorship gets out of control, as his students become swept up in a wave of groupthink and compliance.

The film delves into the psychology of the main casts whilst exploring other deeper themes.

Number 23, The
Number 23, The (2007)
A: 3.5 Q: 3.6 R: 3.7

Walter becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him. As his obsession grows, his identity becomes blurred with the mysterious author's.

Memoirs of a man who suffered from "locked-in syndrome" after a massive stroke. He could only communicate by blinking his left eye.

In the falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.

Special
Special (2006)
A: 4.1 Q: 4.1 R: 3.7

An experimental drug trial causes an otherwise very normal metermaid to believe that he has super powers.

Paprika
Paprika (2006)
A: 3.1 Q: 4.5 R: 4.3

A machine that allows therapists to enter patients' dreams is stolen, and the line between reality and fantasy is blurred.

A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's becomes challenged by his own perceptions and memories of their shared experience.

Revolver
Revolver (2005)
A: 4.3 Q: 4.7 R: 4.5

A fast-paced complex crime thriller that focuses on personal identity and asks the questions: Am I my mind? Is my ego me? Who is in control?

After a mortal accident, in the last seconds of his life, a boy "dreams" about himself, his life and his lover in a surrealistic expansion of space, time, logic

Machinist, The
Machinist, The (2004)
A: 4.0 Q: 4.3 R: 4.0

Christian Bale versus dissociative identity disorder.

Oldboy
Oldboy (2003)
A: 3.3 Q: 4.6 R: 3.5

A man, locked in a room for 15 years without knowing his captors’ motives, is suddenly released, but his mind remains ensnared in a web of deceit.

Equilibrium
Equilibrium (2002)
A: 3.0 Q: 4.0 R: 3.8

A facist society is balanced by Prozium, a mind-altering drug that prevents people from feeling anything.

Avalon
Avalon (2001)
A: 3.0 Q: 4.0 R: 3.8

A virtual reality video game is so enthralling that players become addicted, and the game has been outlawed. A hardcore gamer tries to see how far she can go.

A cinematic take on the infamous "Stanford Prison Experiment" conducted in 1971. Shows how fast and dramatically can people change in different environments.

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