Magical Realism Movies

Over two summers, between city streets and forest paths, young art student Adnan has a series of unexpected intimate encounters.

An animated horror short about a Nigerian-American teenager returning to Nigeria after the death of her grandfather.

Yelena, a Russian woman, is dragged off to her in-laws' vacation home for Christmas for the umpteenth time. This time, a surprise awaits: a new...

A person falls in love with a printer.

A young girl repairs a treasured wooden hummingbird, her late mother's last gift, bringing hope and healing to her grieving father.

With a taxidermy parrot and pistol in hand, Praxi, breaks into the home of a mute spiritual guru who trapped his lover’s soul inside the parrot...

Fatma becomes entangled with Berlin’s bike-theft mafia. Her meteoric rise to becoming the gang’s chief lock-picker brings initial success...

A middle aged Indian man works a monotonous nine to five. During a smoke break, he retreats into magical memories that he doesn’t quite...

An old man, named Cipriano, is about to die. He spent his whole life tormented by dreams and now he is lost inside one of them. His sons, Bigail and...

An apathetic museum archivist is tasked with returning a mythical artifact back to its resting place, deep in the forest.

In an unnamed town in 2000s India, a barber and his son can regrow people’s hair in exchange for years from their lives. In a parallel realm...

A young woman is forced to deal with her identity crises, when a mysterious old woman squats on her chest.

In the wake of her parents' divorce, 13 year old Nova is confronted by an identical but seemingly older version of herself called The Other, forcing...

Ana is a college student with a dark secret: her boyfriend is a zombie. After his tragic death 3 months prior, she used ancient magic to reanimate...

Parallel stories of two siblings. One follows a marine biologist searching for a mythical sea creature in Costa Rica, who perhaps has dark...

An isolated young black man leaves reality behind to become a giant Octopus.

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

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