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Movies that feel like Paprika (2006)

If you loved Paprika, the closest films we have are Timecrimes (2007), Perfect Blue (1998) and Summer Wars (2009). Most of the picks below share Paprika's cerebral and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 12 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Philo, Magnolia Selects Amazon Channel and Monsters and Nightmares Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

Dr. Atsuko Chiba is a research psychologist who uses a device called the DC Mini to enter her patients' dreams, wherein she adopts the alter-ego "Paprika". When the device is stolen, she must stop rogue elements from merging the dream and waking worlds.

πŸ… 87% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Satoshi Konwhimsicalcerebraltensedreamlike

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If Paprika hit the spot, these will too

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Timecrimes
2007 Β· dir. Nacho Vigalondo
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.1science fiction Β· thriller

Cerebral where it counts, tense underneath

The difference: Not nearly as whimsical as Paprika

A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.

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Perfect Blue
1998 Β· dir. Satoshi Kon
πŸ… 85%β˜… 8animation Β· thriller

The same hand behind both of them: Satoshi Kon

The difference: None of the ideas that defines Paprika

Rising pop star Mima Kirigoe quits singing to pursue a career as an actress. After she takes up a role on a popular detective show, her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered. Harboring feelings of guilt and haunted by visions of her former self, Mima's reality and fantasy meld into a frenzied paranoia.

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Summer Wars
2009 Β· dir. Mamoru Hosoda
πŸ… 81%β˜… 7.4animation Β· science fiction

Adult animation and anime, at the center of both

Teenage math whiz Kenji Koiso agrees to take a summer job at the Nagano hometown of his crush, Natsuki. When he arrives, he finds that her family have reunited to celebrate the 90th birthday of their matriarch. His job: pretend to be Natsuki's fiancΓ©. Meanwhile, his attempt to solve a mathematical equation causes a parallel world's collision with Earth.

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Source Code
2011 Β· dir. Duncan Jones
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.5thriller Β· science fiction Β· mystery

Science fiction built on dream logic, twice over

The difference: Plays it as mystery more than Paprika does

When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train.

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The Butterfly Effect
2004 Β· dir. Eric Bress
πŸ… 34%β˜… 7.6science fiction Β· thriller

Cerebral thriller in both cases

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected consequences.

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Predestination
2014 Β· dir. Michael Spierig
πŸ… 84%β˜… 7.4science fiction Β· thriller

Tense animation, and it commits to that

Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.

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Knowing
2009 Β· dir. Alex Proyas
πŸ… 35%β˜… 6.2science fiction Β· thriller

Science fiction with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the events that are about to unfold.

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
2003 Β· dir. Stephen Norrington
πŸ… 17%β˜… 5.8fantasy Β· action Β· thriller

Both trade on dream logic more than on being thriller

The difference: Leans fantasy where Paprika does not

To prevent a world war from breaking out, famous characters from Victorian literature band together to do battle against a cunning villain.

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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
2006 Β· dir. Mamoru Hosoda
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.6fantasy Β· animation Β· drama

Anime is the engine of both

When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to 'leap' backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon realises that changing the past isn't as simple as it seems, and eventually, will have to rely on her new powers to shape the future of herself and her friends.

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Fantastic Planet
1973 Β· dir. RenΓ© Laloux
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.7animation Β· science fiction

Adult animation sits at the heart of each

The difference: A 1970s film, from a different era of filmmaking

On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra's inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those who live in slavery are treated as simple pets and used to entertain Draag children; those who live hidden in the hostile wilderness of the planet are periodically hunted and ruthlessly slaughtered as if they were vermin.

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The Matrix Reloaded
2003 Β· dir. Lana Wachowski
πŸ… 74%β˜… 7.2adventure Β· action Β· thriller

The same preoccupation in both: dreams

The Resistance builds in numbers as humans are freed from the Matrix and brought to the city of Zion. Neo discovers his superpowers, including the ability to see the code inside the Matrix. With machine sentinels digging to Zion in 72 hours, Neo, Morpheus and Trinity must find the Keymaker to ultimately reach the Source.

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The Happening
2008 Β· dir. M. Night Shyamalan
πŸ… 17%β˜… 5thriller Β· science fiction

Animation built on tension, twice over

When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliot Moore and his wife Alma flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it terrorism, the accidental release of some toxic military bio weapon -- or something even more sinister?

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