Magical Realism Movies

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...

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...

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

A woman struggles to keep her fading family restaurant alive, stuck upholding its legacy alone. When Meng Po — the old goddess who serves soup...

Hazel Monroe, a trans pageant queen finds herself back in the spotlight to reclaim the space she once fled. But as the pressure mounts, her surreal...

A girl with vitiligo finds an unlikely friend in the school's talking goldfish, and orchestrates a jailbreak.

When Martin is fired and subsequently forced to move in with his sister following a Misophonia outburst at work, he sets out on a comically...

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...

A person falls in love with a printer.

A disheveled, humanoid Moth, drawn into a 24/7 optometrist office by the allure of its neon-light sign, regales the attending physician about his...

After a man-made disaster decimates an evergreen island, a stranded 11-year-old girl must find the tenacity to leave behind her home with the help of...

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...

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

When his mother Dolores dies, Juan Preciado, son of Pedro Páramo, goes to Comala to claim his inheritance; but when he arrives he finds an...

Wallflower Mina wants a promotion at the TV production company she works at, but while navigating a fierce rivalry with colleague Dara, Mina realises...

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

A stop-motion documentary about Two-Spirit people's gender experiences with magical-realism visuals.

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...

The dream of living like the cowboy in a movie can become a reality in fiction, until the smoke of a cigarette recalls the ghosts of days gone by.