Movies Like kabu:s
If you liked kabu:s (2007), a movie directed by Artuss Kaimiņš, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Waking Life (2001)
★ 7.5/10Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like…
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Inception (2010)
★ 8.4/10Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the…
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MirrorMask (2005)
★ 6.4/10In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home.
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Paperhouse (1988)
★ 6.5/10A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in her school composition book.
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The Dark Tower (2017)
★ 5.8/10A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark Tower.
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Dead of Night (1945)
★ 7.2/10An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of the supernatural, he is filled with a growing dread.
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Pink Narcissus (1971)
★ 6.3/10An outrageous erotic poem focusing on the daydreams of a beautiful boy prostitute who, from the seclusion of his ultra-kitsch apartment, conceives a series of interlinked narcissistic fantasies populated by matadors…
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Slumberland (2022)
★ 7.2/10A young girl discovers a secret map to the dreamworld of Slumberland, and with the help of an eccentric outlaw, she traverses dreams and flees nightmares, with the hope that she will be able to see her late father again.
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Brainscan (1994)
★ 6.1/10A lonely teenage horror fan and video gamer plays a new immersive and hypnotic computer game where he becomes a psychopathic killer, but when he emerges, he finds that the murder has actually happened.
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Ghostland (2018)
★ 7.4/10A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters’ lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house…
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The Zero Theorem (2013)
★ 6.1/10A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him.
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Still Breathing (1997)
★ 6.5/10Two lost souls: she a con-artist in L.A.; he a puppeteer in San Antonio have the same dream linking each with the other. He travels to L.A. to find this woman he has become obsessed with. She resists, afraid of his…
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Northfork (2003)
★ 6/10The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley in the name of progress. It is the…
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Locked (2025)
★ 6.2/10When Eddie breaks into a luxury SUV, he steps into a deadly trap set by William, a self-proclaimed vigilante delivering his own brand of twisted justice. With no means of escape, Eddie must fight to survive in a ride…
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Passion of Mind (2000)
★ 5.8/10A psychological romantic thriller where fantasy and reality become indistinguishable for a woman leading a double life in her dreams.
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The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021)
★ 7.1/10Two teenagers trapped in an endless time loop set out to find all the tiny things that make that one day perfect.
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Before I Wake (2016)
★ 6.5/10An orphaned child's dreams—and nightmares—manifest physically as he sleeps.
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Strawberry Mansion (2021)
★ 6.8/10In the not-too-distant future, an all-seeing surveillance state conducts “dream audits” to collect taxes on the unconscious lives of the populace. Mild-mannered government agent James Preble travels to a remote…
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Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
★ 5.9/10The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817 in…