En komedie om en helt almindelig mand, der pludselig opnår kendisstatus, efter at han begynder at dukke op i alles drømme.
Craig Schwartz er en talentfuld dukkefører, men gennembruddet udebliver. Han er gift med den nærmest manisk arbejdsomme Lotte. Deres ægteskab er blevet rutine; der er ingen gnist, ingen passion. For at skaffe nogle penge får Craig arbejde som arkivar på 7 1/2 etage hos firmaet LesterCorp, hvor han forelsker sig i den smukke Maxine, men hans følelser er bestemt ikke gengældte. En dag taber han ved et uheld et chartek bag et arkivskab, her opdager han en lille dør. Bag den finder han indgangen til en smal, mørk gang, der viser sig at være en portal, der giver adgang til John Malkovichs hjerne.
Solaris er et filosofisk foruroligende portræt af menneskets destruktive interaktion med omverdenen. Filmen er en visuel tour de force, der tematisk kredser om kærlighed, bevidsthed, personlig identitet, erindring og ikke mindst forsoning og nostalgi. En fremmed entitet, selvmordstraumer og store filosofiske spørgsmål skaber en foruroligende ubalance, der i samspil med tempoet og filmens lange spilletid tvinger seeren næsten fysisk ind i karakterernes ulidelige mentale trængsler.
Fra vikingernes oplevelser med fluesvampen til de sydamerikanske indianers oplevelse med kokaplanten. Siden tidernes morgen har mennesket eksperimenteret med sind og sjæl, og da den unge fysiolog Dr. Jessop under en rejse til Mexico finder en meskalinholdig svamp, starter han et frygtindgydende forsøg med sig selv. En dag forvandler en af hans forsøg ham til et slags abemenneske, og kun hans kone, antropologen Emily, kan redde ham.
A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.
On their road trip through the southwestern desert, Alex and his girlfriend Scarlett arrive in a town in the middle of nowhere and take a room in a mysterious hotel so that Scarlett, who is feeling increasingly ill, can get some rest.
Following a strange encounter with a swan found on the streets of London, a girl begins to lose her grip on reality. She is led to a large house where the lines between dreams and memories become indistinguishable, as she struggles with her relationships, her obsession with perfection and her identity. Loosely inspired by the mythology of Leda and The Swan, it looks at the way women cope with trauma, questions the idea of self and takes you on a journey through one woman's psyche.
It is a significant day for 80 year old Antonio. After an absence of many years, his estranged son is coming to visit. All must be perfect. There will be a toast with a very special champagne an embrace; warm words that may finally bridge the gap between them-- But before, Antonio must wait. Bedridden, he looks out his window at the Patagonian landscape and sees light and life, the past and the pr
A married, middle-aged professor meets a mysterious woman in the woods and has an affair with her.
A scientist attempts to perform memory transfusions with disastrous results.
The argument with the soul becomes a crucial phase of the individuation process, since, after all, it is our most personal ambiguity that, with cunning and delusion, drags incredible things into life, as the desire of an inert body, convincing us of moving, touching the earth, getting tangled up and staying.
Prarthana and her friends embark on a weekend getaway, but Prarthana becomes increasingly uneasy when Sandeep fails to arrive. Her concern escalates into panic as she desperately searches for him, only to come up empty-handed. As she investigates further, she begins to experience paranormal activity around her, and sinister forces seem to be closing in.
MARIANNE (Evabritt Strandberg) is a 68-year old woman diagnosed with a terminal disease. Left with angst, she seeks therapy at a clinic where she is treated with Psilocybin (LSD) and meditation by a counselor, Eva (Hanna Schygulla). Through this she is transferred to her subconscious, where she meets and confronts her 25-year old self and her former husband.
In September 1957, the philosopher Carl Gustav Jung was interviewed in Houston. Part of that interview was filmed in 16mm. After reviewing the images obtained, the footage was censored in many countries, ending up in oblivion, lost in a warehouse in Central America. Just 50 years later, after several years of searching for images around the world and a difficult reconstruction and restoration, the director Shang Solomon offers us on the big screen almost all of the interview with Jung, known as the main opponent to the theories of Freud and an eminence of the Philosophy and the History of Psychology.
We all carry hell with us. The filmmaker’s hell exists on a canvas, which he studied carefully in childhood. The mystical picture has many names: Circus, Hell, Game at the Arena. Decades later he finds the painting again. The film unravels as loose ponderings about the plight of being an artist and touches upon the filmmaker’s personal demons. Can he see the painting in a new light?
A metaphorical tale of subconsciousness.
In a world where everyone's faces are painted, hers gets complicated with an experience. This leads her to a long and heavy journey with those of the same biological species. But is this sufficient for humanity's individuals to be similar?
A survival story of a man who goes through a dream filled with thirst and unresolved issues from his past.