Movies like Mitzukos Dream (2022)
The best movies like Mitzukos Dream (2022) are Smashing Monuments (2023), Broken Eyes (2023) and James Ensor in Oostende, ca. 1920 (2000). If Mitzukos Dream hooked you with its mystery, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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Smashing Monuments (2023)
The title may evoke images of gleeful, destructive anarchism, but "smashing" here signals a relationship between people and official city statues that is friendly, jovial, even a little melancholic.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Broken Eyes (2023)
Arrancar los ojos is a project that proposes a constellation of works around the gaze and its political dimension. A reflection on the concepts of institutional violence, repression and collective trauma, focusing on the pattern of eye attacks by state security forces.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
James Ensor in Oostende, ca. 1920 (2000)
In 2000, which was ‘Ensor Year’, the installation artist Guillaume Bijl made a short fictitious found-footage film entitled ‘James Ensor in Oostende ca. 1920’, which shows the painter at this resort with his friends. We see them having a drink, strolling in the arcades of the Thermae Palace and sitting on the beach. Bijl’s meticulous choice of locations, belle époque dress (including bathing costumes) and his cinematographically perfect imitation of the rather jerky black & white images, as well as the patina and the perfectly imitated scratches on the film emulsion, all resulted in a perfect replica: an apparently forgotten roll of film from the days of silent film. Bijl himself classifies this faultless slice of life, one of his rare excursions into film and video, under ‘cultural tourism’, one of the elements of his work in which he popularizes cultural history subjects and reduces them to clichés for the general public.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
In the Dark (1996)
A film as part of the Spellbound installation at the Hayward Gallery in 1996 by Peter Greenaway.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Violent Incident: Man-Woman, Segment (1986)
In this video work Bruce Nauman explores violence, gender and behaviour. Set around a simple middle class dining table, the scene quickly escalates into a slapstick fight between a man and a woman. Their actions become increasingly more erratic and aggressive yet also ridiculous and cartoon-like as the video progresses. Nauman explores the ways in which anger can be provoked by others and questions the way we can react to them. Much like many of his other artworks, he employs the use of humour and exaggeration to explore serious and even dangerous topics - he produced this work as a result of his frustration with futile acts of violence in ordinary life. He explains, “The viewer is presented with a hypnotic repetition of pointlessly cruel and destructive violence which is both seductive and alienating.”
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Disappear Here (2004)
2 Small Channel Video Installation, featuring a monologue excerpted from an untitled novel by Alissa Bennett
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Serious Games 4 – A Sun With No Shadow (2010)
An exploration of how the U.S. military employs video game technology to train troops for war. In A Sun With No Shadow, Farocki calls attention to the subtle differences between the simulations for combat training and PTSD. With the former, the sun can be programmed to cast shadows in the virtual combat zones, while the latter, less expensive technology does not offer this feature.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Serious Games 2 – Three Dead (2010)
An exploration of how the U.S. military employs video game technology to train troops for war. Three Dead depicts a military exercise within a mock Iraqi town built on the outskirts of Twentynine Palms, California, blurring the line between computer simulation and reality.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Serious Games 3 – Immersion (2010)
An exploration of how the U.S. military employs video game technology to train troops for war. In Immersion, Farocki presents footage of a role-playing exercise in which military psychologists demonstrate how to use the PTSD program on their colleagues, who describe traumatic wartime experiences. On a second channel, their descriptions play out as virtual renderings.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Sea Body (2018)
Videoinstallation with methacrylate / no sound / 2018. Underwater Images recorded in Baja California Sur (México)
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Iizuna Fair (2021)
In the midst of the frenzy night a man finds himself lost in the crevasse of time. It was not the grotesque beings nor the monsters, but it was he who “was here, but wasn't here”. He was the phantom. Buried under memories full of inhibition and promises that never kept – words washed up on the shore – time keeps him at a distance from the “place”. And he hears poems coming on the waves from the other side rhyming and lapping against the shore. A 360° scope video Installation commissioned by Nagano Art Museum.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Cremaster 3 (2002)
CREMASTER 3 is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner, antagonistic forces at play for access to the process of (spiritual) transcendence. These factions find form in the struggle between Hiram Abiff or the Architect...
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Phase Shifting Index (2020)
A multi-channel video installation about movement and bodies.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Anthropomorphic City (2026)
Amidst the Israeli bombings of Lebanon in 2024 and 2026, the filmmaker examines her relationship to the homeland, as she grapples with the responsibility of being a filmmaker forced away from the city. When embodying Beirut in the form of a woman, she understands that distance creates proximity, shown through their toxic love-hate relationship that tests the filmmaker's sense of belonging and citizenship.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
This Is Not for Clients (2026)
A sex worker’s subconscious is not for clients. Autofiction on desire, labour and life under capitalism.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Skin Shade Night Day (2022)
Skin Shade Night Day explores the daily routine and rituals practised by the artist’s Cambodian-Australian family, which are reperformed and documented through a process of embodied empathy. Acts of service, such as gardening and cooking, play out as echoes from the past across a sound and image installation displayed in a shadehouse. Spectres, shadows and aural textures conjure up impressions of a place that remembers how its inhabitants once lived.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Mini Epochs (2003)
Experimental animated film made for the Palazzo Zenobio at the Venice Biennale in 2003
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Pixel Forest (2016)
Each pixel is separated like an exploded screen, set in a chaotic way into the space. The video has a whole movement in the room, as one three dimensional image. The experience resembles the brain, working with electromagnetic waves and low voltage information.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
superposition (2012)
superposition is a project about the way we understand the reality of nature on an atomic scale and is inspired by the mathematical notions of quantum mechanics. Performers will appear in Ikeda’s work for the first time, performing as operator/conductor/observer/examiners. All the components on stage will be in a state of superposition; sound, visuals, physical phenomena, mathematical concepts, human behaviour and randomness – these will be constantly orchestrated and de-orchestrated simultaneously in a single performance piece.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Dark Matter (2020)
The camera hovers above the Mir diamond mine in Sakha, northeastern Siberia, one of Earth's largest kimberlite pipes. This colossal crater spans a continuum of Soviet and Russian resource politics from Stalin to Putin, where technology and ideology inscribe military and economic imperatives into a landscape transformed by radioactive residues and industrial toxicity. Dark earth is excavated and transported, the images governed by extraction processes that sustained the Soviet Union through Sakha's mineral wealth. Out of dense nocturnal fog, debris and dimly lit industrial plants slowly crystallize, apocalyptic scenery alternating with undulating earthworks evoking folds of velvet. The observational camera remains still, registering rather than narrating, while a finely arranged soundscape transmits the ceaseless whirring of machines. Finally, the camera descends into the open pit, its contours dissolving into darkness, like an infinitely slow fall into bottomless depths.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Mitzukos Dream?
The closest matches to Mitzukos Dream are Smashing Monuments (2023), Broken Eyes (2023) and James Ensor in Oostende, ca. 1920 (2000). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Mitzukos Dream?
Start with Smashing Monuments (2023), the closest match to Mitzukos Dream.
What is the newest movie like Mitzukos Dream?
This Is Not for Clients (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Mitzukos Dream?
Yes: Smashing Monuments (2023), In the Dark (1996) and Violent Incident: Man-Woman, Segment (1986).
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