If the recent release of Marvel’s Doctor Strange has you hankering for further films that embrace the dazzling visual and intellectual possibilities of altered realities, here are six comparably complex but lesser known films. Doctor Strange distinctly recalls elements of Inception, with the two movies even sharing an art director, but one can only ponder the significance of a top so many times and there are other works that disassemble viewer’s sense of reality in similarly profound and poetic ways. All of the films on this list contain the onion-like layers of both Inception’s dreams within dreams and the multiple dimensions in Doctor Strange.
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