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7.5

7.8

Waking Life (2002)

Basically the whole movie is a dream.

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2588

7.8

Rosemary's Baby

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340

7.6

Seconds (1966)

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331

7.6

7.8

Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

In drug-influenced dreams and hallucinations, he imagines seeing Jesus (Donald Sutherland) preparing to take soldiers on a train for their date with death. He sees himself as a freak in a sideshow run by his father and mother. He hears an oration on progress from a man played by Trumbo himself. He sees Kareen in a garden strewn with Greek sculptures telling him she had to marry someone else when he didn’t return from the front.

4854

8.3

Requiem for a Dream (2000)

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6238

8.2

8.8

Inception (2010)

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2886

7.2

7.5

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Knife-hands tugs Depp’s telly-watching teen dreamboat Glen inside his bed. Teen-Depp’s mattress spurts like a geyser!

3239

7.9

Mulholland Drive

Naomi Watts’ Betty fantasizes about foxy brunettes, taking control of auditions, Edith Head costume designs and living the Hollywood high-life.

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4301

7.9

8.1

The Big Lebowski

The Dude's trippy Busby Berkeley fantasy features Saddam serving bowling shoes, Julianne Moore in Viking gear, scissor-wielding nihilists and genitalian ball/pin imagery.

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5376

7.8

8.6

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Connor silently observes herself tending to young son John in a playground, when Skynet begins the war that distinguishes humanity.

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2862

8.3

Vertigo (1958)

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1942

7.5

7.7

Office Space (1999)

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1436

7.4

7.2

The Science of Sleep (2006)

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1393

6.9

A Serious Man (2009)

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1350

7.7

7.6

Mysterious Skin (2004)

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1100

8.3

8.1

Wild Strawberries (1957)

Ageing Professor Isak dreams of handless clocks, deserted streets, freaky-faced men, horse-drawn carriages crashing and coffins with his own corpse inside.

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574

8.4

8.2

Sherlock, Jr. (1924)

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770

8.3

Mirror

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1410

8.4

8.1

Stalker

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507

8.3

8.1

Ivan's Childhood (1962)

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1341

7.5

7.4

Jacob's Ladder

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4696

8.1

Trainspotting (1996)

Former junkie Renton attempts to go cold turkey under lock and key of his parents, the fever dreams begin to kick in, and the hallucinations get more and more intense.

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6.8

De zee die denkt (2000)

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2244

7.3

7.6

The Fly (1986)

Ronnie dreams of giving birth, with Biggins-spectacled Cronenberg as the gynaecologist. Out pops a wriggly larvae thing.

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6687

7.8

8.3

American Beauty (1999)

Lester Burnham daydreams about a 16-year-old who lactates petals, plants rose-petal kisses and washes in a bath of roses.

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1417

7.3

7.5

An American Werewolf in London

Wolf-scarred David Kessler dreams of a happy evening disturbed by throat-slashing Nazi werewolves.

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866

7.1

7.6

Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

4613

8.1

Blade Runner (1982)

Harrison Ford’s Deckard conks out on his piano and dreams of a unicorn cantering through a misty, magical forest.

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2953

6.9

7.2

Dumbo (1941)

Little big ears gets accidentally tipsy and dreams of shape-shifting psyche-delephants, reproducing, playing trunks as trumpets and the like.

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687

7.4

7.5

Spellbound (1945)

Troubled psychiatrist Dr Edwardes (Gregory Peck) dreams of big eyes, bloody great scissors, posh gambling dens, broken wheels, rooftops and vertiginous tumbles.

2298

7.8

7.9

Brazil (1985)

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1556

8.3

8½

Caught in a car-jam, Marcello Mastroianni’s Guido dreams of entrapment, escape, flying like a kite and being tugged back down to earth.

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321

The Last Laugh (1924) (1924)

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1838

7.5

7.4

Eraserhead (1977)

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1039

7.2

7.3

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)

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4094

6.2

7.3

Dumb and Dumber (1994)

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1358

6.3

7.1

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)

Kumar's daydream when he imagines life with the big bag of weed.

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1110

6.3

Pee-wee's Big Adventure

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3237

6.4

6.9

Vanilla Sky

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540

6.7

Inside (2007)

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570

6.8

6.9

Altered States

547

7.7

Dreams

100

6.7

Razorback (1984)

1543

6.4

6.8

One Hour Photo

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397

8.3

7.7

L'Atalante (1934)

505

8.1

The Exterminating Angel

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361

8.1

8.3

The Young and the Damned

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307

7.9

7.8

The Phantom of Liberty

666

7.8

7.9

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

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1543

7.8

7.9

The Artist (2011)

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A dream sequence is a technique used in storytelling, particularly in television and film, to set apart a brief interlude from the main story. The interlude may consist of a flashback, a flashforward, a fantasy, a vision, a dream, or some other element. Commonly, dream sequences appear in many films to shed light on the psychical process of the dreaming character. For instance in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, the purpose of Pee Wee's dreams is to inform the audience of his anxieties and fears after losing his bike. Other times major action takes place in dreams, allowing the filmmaker to explore infinite possibilities, as Michel Gondry demonstrates in The Science of Sleep.