Perfect Blue

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What Is It?

The 1997 Japanese anime (animated) psychological thriller mystery movie Perfect Blue.

Perfect Blue 1997 Trailer | Junko Iwao | Rica Matsumoto

Here is how Wikipedia describes this anime movie:

Perfect Blue (Japanese: パーフェクトブルー, Hepburn: Pāfekuto Burū) is a 1997 Japanese animated psychological thriller film[4][5] directed by Satoshi Kon.[6] It is based on the novel Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis (パーフェクトブルー：完全変態, Pāfekuto Burū: Kanzen Hentai) by Yoshikazu Takeuchi, with a screenplay written by Sadayuki Murai. Featuring the voices of Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shiho Niiyama, Masaaki Okura, Shinpachi Tsuji and Emiko Furukawa, the plot follows a member of a Japanese idol group who retires from music to pursue an acting career. As she becomes a victim of stalking, gruesome murders begin to occur, and she starts to lose her grip on reality.

Like much of Kon’s later works, such as Paprika, the film deals with Kon’s longstanding theme of the blurring of the line between fantasy and reality.[7]

The Fourth Kind

The Fourth Kind DVD

What is it?

The 2009 American mystery science fiction psychological thriller movie The Fourth Kind.

The 4th Kind Official Trailer #1 – Will Patton Movie (2009) HD

This is how The IMDb describes this movie:

A thriller involving an ongoing unsolved mystery in Alaska, where one town has seen an extraordinary number of unexplained disappearances during the past 40 years and there are accusations of a federal cover up.

Sucker Punch (2011 Film)

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What is it?

The 2011 American psychological fantasy action movie Sucker Punch.

Joker (2019 Film)

Joker (2019)
Joaquin Phoenix in Joker (2019)

What is it?

The 2019 American psychological thriller film Joker.

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JOKER – Final Trailer – Now Playing In Theaters

What is it about?

This is how Rotten Tomatoes describes this movie:

“Joker” centers around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone fictional story not seen before on the big screen.

Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Fleck, who is indelibly portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, is of a man struggling to find his way in Gotham’s fractured society.

A clown-for-hire by day, he aspires to be a stand-up comic at night…but finds the joke always seems to be on him.

Caught in a cyclical existence between apathy and cruelty, Arthur makes one bad decision that brings about a chain reaction of escalating events in this gritty character study.

Paprika (2006 Film)

Papurika (2006)

What is it?

The 2006 Japanese science-fiction psychological thriller anime (animated) movie Paprika.

Paprika (2006) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]

What is it about?

Here is how The IMDb describes this anime movie:

Three scientists at the Foundation for Psychiatric Research fail to secure a device they’ve invented, the D.C. Mini, which allows people to record and watch their dreams.

A thief uses the device to enter people’s minds, when awake, and distract them with their own dreams and those of others.

Chaos ensues.

The trio – Chiba, Tokita, and Shima – assisted by a police inspector and by a sprite named Paprika must try to identify the thief as they ward off the thief’s attacks on their own psyches.

Dreams, reality, and the movies merge, while characters question the limits of science and the wisdom of Big Brother.

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