Magical Realism Movies

A jaded entomologist starts to question reality at his dying arcade after committing academic fraud. An interactive film.

Ida is cleaning out the house that her grandfather, an artist, used to live in. She wades through a studio overflowing with artefacts, oddities and...

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

Follows a woman who sells words so potent that they even influence a powerful man’s quest for the presidency.

Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an abandoned and sinister town,...

An aging hermit, Eloy, lives in seclusion in the Colombian mountains, haunted by his grandfather’s ghost and bound to the land. When park...

After disappearing during a dive at sea, Cristián, a Chilean fisherman trapped in his own violence and guilt, returns months later to his...

In a magic realistic world, troubled young Bernard seeks the closeness of his father Carlos, who refuses a life-saving operation. His approaching...

The dream of living like the cowboy in a movie can become a reality in fiction, until the smoke of a cigarette recalls the ghosts of days gone by.

A nostalgia-prone man finds himself transported to a world where seventh grade lasts forever.

After a terrifying incident on campus involving one of their own, four young women seek justice by taking matters into their own hands.

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...

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...

Onuki asks people in a hospital to perform a play for Paco, who suffers from memory disorder. His only hope is to help Paco survive from her illness.

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

Based on four of the six short stories compiled in Murakami Haruki's anthology, After the Quake explores the complex aftermath of Japan’s...

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...

Nwa, a British-Nigerian woman, is in torment for not being able to have children. However, a transformative baptism leads her on an unusual journey...

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...