The Platform 2019

Psychological thriller
Thriller psicologico
Time Travel
Viajes en el tiempo
Loop
Bucles
Unexpected endings
Finales Inesperados

A selection of films, famed for their decision to throw convention out of the window. This list pays homage to the great surrealist films from the history of cinema.

Diary of everything I saw while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic

• 1–516 (March 17–June 22, 2020) we're under mandatory lockdown.
• the last movie i saw in the theaters was The Hunt on sunday, march 15, 1st viewing and HATED it!

Ontology is the philosophical study of being, existance, becoming and reality. In simple terms it seeks to classify and explain entities.

In movies and tv show ontology usually comes in the flavor of an ontological mystery at the center of the plot with several of the following elements: the characters do not know who they are, where they are, how they got to the place there are in, and the central conflict is to get out of there and find answers to the above questions.

In the most common version of the trope, the characters are locked into a strange room or find themselves at a strange place with no contact to the outside. They have no idea how they got there, why they are there or how to get out, nor do they know who is behind their predicament, if anyone at all.

The main idea behind such stories is the investigation of a restricted environment in which the characters find themselves with the goal of mastering the environment, revealing secrets, and ultimately escape.

This list focuses on such stories. I added a few edge cases for good measure, like pure escape room, death game or timeloop movies that have a strong ontological undertone, even though they are not ontological mysteries per se.

If you think something shouldn't be on this list, or if I missed something that should be on here please leave a comment.

Last Updated: 2023/02/03

‣ Play a game to survive
‣ Fight against time
‣ Puzzles/Escape room-esque

(Haven't seen them all and a bunch of them are bad lol)

movies with some messages anti capitalism or simply against economic liberal thinking

Standalone movies I want to watch...

Bottle movies are films set in a single location. Like a single room or vehicle. (ship in a bottle metaphor)

non-English films I have seen

Mes coups de cœurs, tout simplement ! Hors des sentiers battus pour la plupart :)

Melting-pot des films et séries préférés de la famille !

znanstvena fantastika

Art is the principal way in which the human mind has tried to remake the world in a way that makes sense. The carefully edited, slow-motion, action replay of a rugby tackle, a car crash or a sex act has more significance than the original event. Thanks to virtual reality, we will soon be moving into a world where a heightened super-reality will consist entirely of action replays, and reality will therefore be all the more rich and meaningful.

JG Ballard: Theatre of Cruelty

I might be a nihilist except that I don’t believe in anything.
― Mitchell Heisman

Everything with a (personal) Plot twist or mind f**k in the middle or at the end I watched!

(Complete personal view) This contains content that surprised me towards the end of the film/series (whatever) with the (for me) unpredictable twist. Sometimes it can also be content which just leaved me with an empty brain alone...

No guarantee for proper arrangement (everything is just a personal opinion)! This list is growing and expanding over time...

Everything "Sci-Fi/Fantasy" related stuff I watched!

For example, the official definition: Science fiction (sometimes shortened to sci-fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

No guarantee for proper arrangement (everything is just a personal opinion)! This list is growing and expanding over time...

Horror featuring madness. Updated weekly.