Magical Realism Movies

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

Two lovers explore their own consumption of each other in this garden of eden like fairytale.

Marina is thirteen and alone. After her grandfather's suicide, she wants to disappear, wishing her imagination could be real.

A guitar-playing drifter helps a rancher's granddaughter find her true calling. They soon find themselves in the middle of a land war driven by...

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

A conversation between two old friends who meet in a dream.

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

A queer stop-motion animation live-action hybrid film following four women in a surrealist parallel narrative unconstricted to heteronormative space...

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...

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...

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

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...

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 factory worker martyred on July 15 wants to return to Earth to feel that unique spiritual bliss again. He fights relentlessly to be the target of a...

The bold new girl at school inspires three classmates to follow her down a blissful path of self-realization, where they stumble upon a dark truth...

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...

As a young woman walks home alone one night, a chance encounter with a missing dog incites the reclamation of her body and self — as she learns...

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...

A chance spark in a cafe sends two lovers into a surreal mud wrestling ring where they must find a common rhythm while their friends demand a fight.