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Imaginary(2024)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 44min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 89 votes)

When Jessica moves back into her childhood home with her family, her youngest stepdaughter Alice develops an eerie attachment to a stuffed bear named Chauncey she finds in the basement. Alice starts playing games with Chauncey that begin playful and become increasingly sinister. As Alice’s behavior becomes more and more concerning, Jessica intervenes only to realize Chauncey is much more than the stuffed toy bear she believed him to be.

Directed by Jeff Wadlow - With Betty Buckley, DeWanda Wise, Tom Payne, Veronica Falcón, Dane DiLiegro

Inside Out(2015)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 35min | Animation, Kids & Family, Adventure, Drama, Comedy
4.0/5 (with 9,428 votes)

Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Riley's guiding emotions— Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness—live in Headquarters, the control centre inside Riley's mind, where they help advise her through everyday life and tries to keep things positive, but the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school.

Directed by Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen
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Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey(2023)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 40min | Horror, Thriller
2.6/5 (with 516 votes)

Christopher Robin is headed off to college and he has abandoned his old friends, Pooh and Piglet, which then leads to the duo embracing their inner monsters.

Directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield

Donnie Darko(2001)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 54min | Fantasy, Drama, Mystery
3.9/5 (with 5,674 votes)

After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.

Directed by Richard Kelly - With Patrick Swayze, Mary McDonnell, Jake Gyllenhaal, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Katharine Ross, Jena Malone, ...
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Jojo Rabbit(2019)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 48min | Comedy, War, Drama
4.0/5 (with 4,116 votes)

A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.

Directed by Taika Waititi - With Scarlett Johansson, Taika Waititi, Rebel Wilson, Thomasin McKenzie, Sam Rockwell, Alfie Allen, ...
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The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl(2005)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 32min | Adventure, Kids & Family, Science Fiction
2.6/5 (with 643 votes)

Everyone always knew that Max had a wild imagination, but no one believed that his wildest creations -- a boy raised by watchful great white sharks and a girl with the force of a volcano -- were real. Now, these two pint-sized action masters will show Max that even an ordinary kid has what it takes to be extraordinary.

Directed by Robert Rodriguez - With Taylor Lautner, Cayden Boyd, George Lopez, David Arquette, Kristin Davis, Sasha Pieterse, ...
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When Marnie Was There(2014)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 43min | Animation, Drama, Kids & Family
4.0/5 (with 768 votes)

Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may or may not be real.

Directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi
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The Orphanage(2007)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 45min | Horror, Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 1,276 votes)

A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.

Directed by J. A. Bayona - With Belén Rueda, Geraldine Chaplin, Édgar Vivar Villanueva, Fernando Cayo, Mabel Rivera, Roger Príncep, ...
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Paranormal Activity 4(2012)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 28min | Horror
2.7/5 (with 837 votes)

It has been five years since the disappearance of Katie and Hunter, and a suburban family witness strange events in their neighborhood when a woman and a mysterious child move in.

Directed by Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman - With Katie Featherston, Kathryn Newton, Matt Shively, Alexondra Lee, Stephen Dunham, Sprague Grayden, ...
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Hide and Seek(2005)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 41min | Horror, Mystery
3.2/5 (with 690 votes)

David Callaway tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide and has been left to raise his nine-year-old daughter, Emily on his own. David is at first amused to discover that Emily has created an imaginary friend named 'Charlie', but it isn't long before 'Charlie' develops a sinister and violent side, and as David struggles with his daughter's growing emotional problems, he comes to the frightening realisation that 'Charlie' isn't just a figment of Emily's imagination.

Directed by John Polson - With Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen, Elisabeth Shue, Amy Irving, Dylan Baker, ...
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Heart and Souls(1993)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 44min | Fantasy, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 179 votes)

A fateful night in 1959, four people die when the bus they are riding crashes. They continue as ghosts; their souls become eternally entwined to the life of a child born at the moment of their deaths as his guardians. Baby Thomas grows up to be a businessman who has memories of his playmates, but assumes they are products of his youthful imagination. When the ghosts realize they need Thomas' help to move on to the afterlife, they decide to make an appearance once more.

Directed by Ron Underwood - With Robert Downey Jr., Charles Grodin, Alfre Woodard, Kyra Sedgwick, Elisabeth Shue, Tom Sizemore, ...
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Ruby Sparks(2012)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 44min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Fantasy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 707 votes)

Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby, in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person.

Directed by Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris - With Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Antonio Banderas, Annette Bening, Chris Messina, Deborah Ann Woll, ...
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A Stork's Journey(2017)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 25min | Kids & Family, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 59 votes)

Orphaned at birth and raised by storks, the teenage sparrow Richard believes he is one of them. But when the time comes to migrate to Africa, his stork family is forced to reveal his true identity and leave him behind in the forest, since he is not a migratory bird and would not survive the journey. Determined to prove he is a stork after all, Richard ventures south on his own. But only with the help of Olga, an eccentric owl with an imaginary friend and Kiki, a narcissistic, disco-singing parakeet, does he stand a chance to reach his goal and learn to accept who he really is.

Directed by Toby Genkel
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Harvey(1950)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 44min | Comedy, Fantasy
3.9/5 (with 253 votes)

The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.

Directed by Henry Koster - With James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Charles Drake, Cecil Kellaway, Jesse White, Wallace Ford, ...
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Paper Man(2009)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 50min | Comedy, Drama
3.2/5 (with 139 votes)

A coming-of-middle-age comedy that chronicles the unlikely friendship between failed author Richard Dunne and a Long Island teen who teaches him a thing or two about growing up, all under the disapproving eye of his long-suffering wife and his imaginary Superhero friend.

Directed by Kieran Mulroney, Michele Mulroney - With Jeff Daniels, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Lisa Kudrow, Hunter Parrish, Kieran Culkin, ...

Drop Dead Fred(1991)

1h 43min | Comedy, Fantasy, Kids & Family
3.0/5 (with 155 votes)

When Elizabeth returns to her mother's home after her marriage breaks up, she recreates her imaginary childhood friend, Fred, to escape from the trauma of losing her husband and her job. In between the chaos and mayhem that Fred creates, Elizabeth attempts to win back her husband and return to normality.

Directed by Ate de Jong - With Rik Mayall, Phoebe Cates-Kline, Marsha Mason, Tim Matheson, Carrie Fisher, Daniel Gerroll, ...
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Daniel Isn't Real(2019)

1h 40min | Horror, Mystery
3.0/5 (with 77 votes)

A troubled college freshman, Luke, suffers a violent family trauma and resurrects his childhood imaginary friend Daniel to help him cope.

Directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer - With Miles Robbins, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sasha Lane, Mary Stuart Masterson, Hannah Marks

Sorry to Disturb(2008)

2h | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
3.5/5 (with 13 votes)

Hassan, a brilliant aviation engineer struggles with loneliness and depression while trying to design his exceptional project.

Directed by Khaled Marei - With Ahmad Helmi

Bogus(1996)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 50min | Fantasy, Comedy, Kids & Family
2.9/5 (with 105 votes)

Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant, French magician named Bogus.

Directed by Norman Jewison - With Whoopi Goldberg, Gérard Depardieu, Haley Joel Osment, Al Waxman, Andrea Martin, Denis Mercier, ...
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The Curse of the Cat People(1944)

1h 10min | Horror, Drama, Mystery
3.2/5 (with 55 votes)

Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.

Directed by Robert Wise, Gunther von Fritsch - With Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, Ann Carter, Julia Dean, Elizabeth Russell, ...

Pimped(2018)

1h 20min | Thriller
2.2/5 (with 11 votes)

Over the course of one night, Sarah meets the handsome, captivating and smooth talking Lewis, who aims to be the bait in a sick sexual trap set up by himself and his low-life, rich kid housemate Kenneth. When their ruse backfires, Lewis and Sarah are forced into an unlikely alliance with deadly consequences.

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House by the Lake(2016)

1h 17min | Horror, Thriller
1.9/5 (with 3 votes)

The Morgans, a loving yet troubled family, go on vacation with intentions to reconnect with one another. However, when their autistic 10-year-old daughter begins to fixate on a mysterious friend who may or may not be real, and retreats further into her own world, family tensions start to rise to the surface.

Directed by Adam Gierasch - With James Callis, Anne Dudek, Michael Bowen

Fuzzbucket(1986)

46min | Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family, TV Movie
2.6/5 (with 4 votes)

In the vein of "Harvey", an invisible creature befriends a 12 year old boy. Of course, no one else can see him nor believes in him.

Directed by Mick Garris - With Chris Hebert, Phil Fondacaro, Joe Regalbuto, Wendy Phillips, Robyn Lively, John Vernon, ...

Everything You Want(2005)

1h 33min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love, TV Movie
2.5/5 (with 10 votes)

A visionary and artistic young woman finds her love torn between her imaginary boyfriend and a real boy from one of her classes.

Directed by Ryan Little - With Shiri Appleby

Love Surreal(2015)

1h 33min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love, TV Movie
2.6/5 (with 8 votes)

A visionary and artistic young woman finds her love torn between her imaginary boyfriend and a real boy from one of her classes.

Foster's Movie: Destination Imagination(2008)

1h 6min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, TV Movie
4.0/5 (with 2 votes)

The gang must venture into a crazy imaginary world to rescue Frankie when she disappears inside a mysterious box.

Directed by Craig McCracken, Rob Renzetti

Kryptonite!(2011)

1h 38min | Drama, Comedy
3.3/5 (with 21 votes)

Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended dysfunctional family change. Psychedelic flower power and hippie love is threatening the old traditional southern Italian family. Dad is having an affair and Mom has taken to her bed with depression. Super-mod brother and sister Titina and Salvatore take the boy under their wings, introducing him to demonstrations and love-ins, whilst caped superhero Gennaro visits Peppino even after being knocked down and killed by the number 12 bus. It is the imaginary appearances of this older superman cousin that help the nine-year-old navigate the complicated adult world.

Directed by Ivan Cotroneo - With Valeria Golino, Luca Zingaretti, Cristiana Capotondi, Libero De Rienzo, Fabrizio Gifuni, Massimiliano Gallo, ...

Creating Rem Lezar(1989)

48min | Kids & Family, Music
4.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Zack and Ashlee discover the meaning of true friendship when they create an imaginary friend, the superhero Rem Lezar.

Directed by Scott Zakarin - With Jack Mulcahy, Kathleen Gati, Scott Zakarin

The Imaginary(2023)

1h 45min | Animation, Fantasy, Adventure

Meet Rudger, the boy created by the imagination of a girl who lost love. They spend precious time together, running through a world of breathtaking imagination and a challenging reality. One day that world of imagination is about to disappear with the arrival of a mysterious man seeking to destroy Rudger.

Directed by Yoshiyuki Momose

Mollami(2019)

1h 21min | Drama, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 14 votes)

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