Best Metaphysical Movies and Documentaries
In this era of heightened interest in spiritual growth, extraterrestrial contact, time travel and the law of attraction, there are many metaphysical movies, series and documentaries that touch on these topics. Following is a list of my favorite metaphysical movies with helpful contributions from friends. Some of the films, although written as fiction, have elements of truth in them; the truth about our supernatural multi-dimensional world.
| Title | Writer-Director-Narrator | Year | Synopsis | actors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley Kubrick | 1968 | Fiction: There is an artifact found on earth, on the moon and around Jupiter. A computer named HAL on a spaceship decides to follow its own agenda which may be related to these artifacts. | Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood |
| The 4400 | Rene Echevarria, Scott Peters | 2004-2007 | TV Series. Reappearance of 4,400 missing persons on a single day all from different time periods in history. They haven't aged. | Jacqueline McKenzie, Joel Gretsch, Patrick John Flueger |
| About Time | Richard Curtis | 2013 | At the age of 21, a young man is told he has the ability to travel through time but only to places and times he has been before. He applies this skill to improve romantic relationships. | Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams Bill Nighy |
| Arrival | Denis Villeneuve | 2016 | Fiction: An extraterrestrial spacecraft lands in Montana. It communicates telepathically (and without regard to linear time) with a linguist assigned to the project of communicating with the aliens. | Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker |
| Astral City: A Spiritual Journey (nosso lar) | Director – Wagner de Assis Writers: Laura Malin, Wagner de Assis | 2010 | Brazilian Fiction film. A man dies and awakes in a limbo called "Umbral". He is rescued and brought to "Nosso Lar" (meaning "Our Home"), a spiritual city where people live in peace, working for the good of humanity, for self evolution and awaiting reincarnation | Renato Prieto, Fernando Alves Pinto |
| Babylon 5 | J Michael Straczynski | 1994-1997 | TV series anticipating life on a space station between 2257 and 2262. The Psi Corps control any telepathic humans that are detected. The Vorlons are revealed to be the basis of legends about angels on various worlds, including Earth, and are the ancient enemies of the Shadows. | Bruce Boxleitner, Michael Ohare, Claudia Christian, Bill Mumy |
| Battlestar Galactica | Ronald Moore | 2003-2009 | Sci Fi series. Dark drama occurring in the aftermath of a major war with android machines created by humans. Investigates whether machines can be intrigued by religious myths and how their morals and ethics compare with humans | Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sachoff |
| The Butcher's Wife | Terry Hughes, Ezra Litwak, Marjorie Schwartz | 1991 | A psychic has a dream about a man she thinks she should marry. She finds out that she can predict for others better than she can predict for herself. | Demi Moore, Jeff Daniels |
| Butterfly Effect | Eric Bress, J. Macye Gruber | 2004 | A young man is able to travel back into the past and change the decisions he previously made | Ashton Kutcher, Melora Walters |
| Chronosthesia | Hayden J. Weal | 2016 | Filmed in New Zealand. Chronosthesia (mental time travel) was first hypothesized by Endel Tulving in the 1980s to represent the ability to be aware of one's past or future. In the movie, a man sees messages on mirrors and windows from his future self. | Nick Blake, Bonnie Bryant, Colleen Cleary |
| City of Angels | Brad Silberling | 1998 | Fiction: An angel hovers over the city listening to people's thoughts. He prevents a female physician from saving someone marked for death. He is touched by the physician's grief and makes himself visible to her. | Nicholas Cage, Meg Ryan |
| Cloud Atlas | Director= Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Writer=David Mitchell, | 2012 | Fictional stories about how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings, an act of kindness inspires a revolution | Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent |
| Contact | Director = Robert Zemeckis Writers=Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan | 1997 | Fiction: A signal is received from Vega that is the schematics for a machine to transport a single occupant | Jodie Foster, John Hurt, Matthew McConaughey |
| Danny Deckchair | Jeff Balsmeyer | 2003 | Based on a true story of a man who tied helium balloons to a lawnchair. Should we listen to someone's philosophy on life just because they've done something unique. | Rys Ifans,Miranda Otto, Justine Clarke, Rhys Muldoon |
| DaVinci Code | Ron Howard | 2006 | At the Louvre, a curator is found dead with a message of mysterious symbols. An investigation uncovers a secret society and the theory that Mary Magdalene was one of the apostles and gave birth to Jesus's child. | Tom Hanks |
| Dragonfly | Tom Shadyac | 2002 | After his pregnant wife dies in South America, he sees signs related to dragonflies. His wife communicates an important message to him. | Kevin Costner |
| Edge of Tomorrow | Doug Liman | 2014 | Fiction: A soldier fighting aliens is caught in a time loop to relive the same day again and again | Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt |
| Ender's Game | Gavin Hood | 2013 | Fiction about Ender, a newly recruited member of a battle school designed to train “young” people to prepare to war with a deadly alien force. | Harrison Ford Asa Butterfield |
| The Event | Nick Wauters, Evan Katz, Steve Stark, Jeffrey Reiner | 2010 to 2011 | Netflix Series-After World War II, a UFO crashed in northern Alaska. The passengers who appeared human, were extraterrestrial. They age at a slower rate. 97captured survivors refused to disclose information to the US, they were held in a government facility. Remaining survivors escape the crash scene, hiding among the regular populace. | Jason Ritter, Sara Roemer, Laura Innes |
| First Contact | Daryl Anka | 2017 | Available July 2017. The true story of Darryl Anka's UFO encounters that led him to channel an extraterrestrial being known as BASHAR, who delivers messages to prepare Earth for contact with another civilization. | Narrated by James Woods |
| Flatliners | Joel Schumacher Peter Filardi | 1990 | Medical Students experiment with 'near death' experiences in their lab. Spooky consequences begin to jeopardize their lives. | Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, Julia Roberts |
| Fourth Kind | Olatunde Osunsanmi | 2009 | Mockumentary, about a psychological investigation in Nome, Alaska where multiple people experience feelings of being abducted. Although these particular hypnosis sessions are contrived for the film, there have been actually unexplained missing people in Nome. | Milla Jovovich, Elias Koteas, Corey Johnson Will Patton |
| Ghost | Jerry Zucker | 1990 | A woman whose husband dies makes contact with him through a medium | Patrick Swayze, Whoopi Goldberg, Demi Moore |
| Gravity | Alfonso Cuaron, Jonas Cuaron | 2013 | Two astronauts work together to survive after an accident. It is through contact after death that enables survival. | Sandra Bullock, George Clooney |
| Groundhog Day | Harold Ramis | 1993 | A weatherman reporting on Groundhog Day gets caught in a time loop repeating that day over and over. | Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell |
| Happy Accidents | Brad Anderson | 2000 | A woman falls in love with a man who claims he came back in time from 2470 to save her life. | Marisa Tomei, Vincent D'Onofrio |
| Harry Potter | Steve Kloves, Michael Goldenberg; Chris Columbus, Alfonso Cuaron, Mike Newell, David Yates | 2001-2011 | Series of 8 films based on the books by JK Rowling about a wizardry school located near the U.K. | Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson |
| Heart and Souls | Ron Underwood | 1993 | Fiction: A bus accident kills everyone on board. In the car that swerves away from the bus, a woman delivers a new baby. That new baby has four guardian angels from the bus. | Robert Downey Jr., Kyra Sedgwick |
| Highlander | Russel Mulcahy | 1986 | A 16th century Scottish feud is still going on in modern New York because the men involved are immortal. | Christopher Lambert, Roxanne Hart, Clancy Brown, Sean Connery |
| Inception | Christopher Nolan | 2010 | Fiction - A thief who can enter people's dreams and steal their secrets from their subconscious makes him a hot commodity in corporate espionage. | Leonardo DiCaprio |
| Interstellar | Christopher Nolan | 2014 | Fiction: To ensure humanity's survival, it is necessary to travel through time to get a message through. | Matthew McConaughey Anne Hathaway |
| John Dies at the End | Don Coscarelli | 2012 | Fictional Film -A new drug is used for out-of-body experiences, but users are coming back not-human, and an extraterrestrial invasion of Earth is underway | Rob Mays |
| Just Like Heaven | Mark Waters | 2005 | A workaholic doctor dies in a car accident but does not know she is dead. | Reese Weatherspoon, Mark Ruffalo |
| The Lake House | Alejandro Agresti, David Auburn | 2006 | A female doctor who once occupied a lakeside house begins exchanging love letters through some kind of time portal with its former resident, an architect. | Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves, Christopher Plummer |
| Last Mimzy | Robert Shaye | 2007 | Fiction: children find toys sent from the future that are trying to collect DNA from the past to rebuild damaged humans in the future. | Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, Chris O'Neil |
| Living Matrix-Science of Healing | Greg Becker, Harry Massey | 2009 | Documentary about factors that determine our health. Energy and information fields, not genetics, control health | Adam Dreamhealer, Arielle Essex, Peter Fraser |
| Looper | Rian Johnson | 2012 | Hired killers kill their victims by sending them through time to avoid trying to dispose of the bodies. Joe's next victim is actually himself, older and from the future. | Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt |
| Lucy | Luc Besson | 2014 | A woman is forced to transport a drug that is placed inside of her stomach. When it leaks, it transforms her into a powerful warrior. | Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Min-sik Choi |
| Man who Fell to Earth | Paul Mayersberg, Nicolas Roeg | 1976 | An extraterrestrial lands on earth to obtain water to bring back to his planet which is in severe drought. | David Bowie |
| Matrix 1, 2 & 3 | Wachowski brothers | 1999,2003 | In this vision of the future, humans are kept in tubes (that use them to generate energy). They view a virtual reality that they think is real. A few individuals find out the truth and rebel. | Keanu Reeves |
| Meet Joe Black | Martin Brest | 1998 | Fiction: A man named Joe, representing death, visits a 65 year old man. While the elder man resolves open issues to prepare for death, Joe falls in love with his daughter. | Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani |
| Meetings with Remarkable Men | Peter Brook | 1979 | Filmed in Afghanistan, a spiritual teacher and mystic, G.I. Gurdjieff develops a form of meditation incorporating modern Sufi dance while seeking spiritual peace. | Dragan Maksimovic, Terence Stamp, Mikica Dimitrijevic |
| Michael | Nora Ephrom | 1996 | Archangel Michael is living on earth in Iowa enjoying life as a tourist. Three reporters are sent to investigate. Michael has a mission to help one of the reporters awaken his heart. | John Travolta, Andie MacDowell |
| I Origins | Mike Cahill | 2014 | A molecular biologist after his girlfriend dies, tries to find someone with identical eyes. | Michael Pitt, Brit Marling |
| Out on a Limb | Robert Butler | 1987 | Based on Shirley MacLaine's spiritual quest and interactions with trance channellers" Kevin Ryerson and Sture Johanssen. | Shirley MacLaine, John Heard, Anne Jackson |
| Phenomenon | John Turteltaub | 1996 | Fiction: A mechanic sees a bright light that knocks him unconscious. When he awakens his intelligence has increased and he has developed psychic powers | John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Robert Duvall |
| Practical Magic | Griffin Dunne | 1998 | Two sisters from a magical family deal with a curse that prevents them finding love. | Sandra Bullock Nicole Kidman |
| Prelude to a Kiss | Norman Rene | 1992 | Fiction: At the wedding of a young couple, an old man asks to kiss the bride. When he does, their spirits switch bodies. The old man's spirit is now in the young woman's body. | Alec Baldwin, Meg Ryan, Sydney Walker |
| Premonition | Mennan Yapo | 2007 | Fiction: A housewife learns her husband was killed in a car accident but the next morning he is there and awake because it is the previous morning. She awakens the next day and he is dead again. | Sandra Bullock Julian McMahon |
| The Secret | Rhonda Byrne | 2006 | Documentary: Interviews with authors, philosophers and scientists about the Law of Attraction and how to use this to improve your day to day life. | Bob Proctor, Joe Vitale, John Assaraf, Michael Beckwith, Bill Harris, Dr. John Hagelin, Dr. John Demartini |
| Sense 8 | Lana and Lilly Wachowski and J. Michael Straczynski | 2016 | Netflix series- 8 strangers experience visions and can communicate telepathically with each other. An organization is hunting them to kill them. | Daryl Hannah, Aml Ameen, Doona Bae |
| Sixth Sense | M. Night Shyamalan | 1999 | A child psychologist works with a 9 year old boy who says he can see ghosts. | Bruce Willis, Toni Collette |
| Sliding Doors | Peter Howitt | 1998 | The movie shows two possible life scenarios based on whether a London woman catches or misses a particular train. | Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, John Lynch |
| Somewhere in Time | Jeannot Szwarc, Richard Matheson | 1980 | A playwright travels back in time through a portrait hanging in a grand hotel and meets the woman in the portrait. | Jane Seymour, Christopher Reeve |
| Source Code | Duncan Jones, Ben Ripley | 2011 | An army captain is sent into a computer program that creates alternate timelines, over and over again to disarm a bomb on a train. | Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright |
| Starman | John Carpenter, Bruce Evans, Raynold Gideon | 1984 | An extraterrestrial takes the form of a young widow's husband to get her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona. | Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen |
| The Thirteenth Floor | Josef Rusnak, Daniel Galouye | 1999 | A man learns something important but is afraid for his life. He leaves a letter in the computer generated parallel world his company has created | Craig Bierko, Gretchen Mol, Armin Mueller-Stahl |
| Time Traveler's Wife | Robert Schwentke | 2009 | A man has a genetic disorder that causes him to travel backwards and forwards through time without being able to stop it. He meets a woman on his travels that he falls in love with. | Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams, Ron Livingston |
| Tin Man | Nick Willing | 2007 | SciFi Channel Miniseries – A waitress DG in Kansas is pulled into a magical place called the O.Z. ruled by sorceress Azkadellia. DG needs to recover her lost memories and find her true parents | Zooey Deschanel, Alan Cumming, Neal McDonough |
| Total Recall | Paul Verhoeven | 1990 | Fiction: He signs up for a virtual reality trip to Mars but there is a question as to whether he really went there or not. | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| Unacknowledged | Steven Greer | 2017 | Documentary: The Political and economical reasons behind a government that does not want to reveal that we have had extraterrestrial contact | |
| Unmistaken Child | Nati Baratz, Ilil Alexander, Ron Goldman | 2009 | Documentary. In Nepal, Tenzin Zopa searches and finds a child who he believes is the reincarnation of his master Lama Konchog who died in 2001. | Tenzin Zopa |
| What Dreams May Come | Vincent Ward | 1998 | A couple loses their children in a car crash. Sometime afterwards the man dies in a car crash, and then the wife commits suicide and is sent to a version of hell. The man tries to rescue her from there. | Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr., Annabella Sciorra |
| What the bleep do we know | William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente | 2004 | Documentary about the link between quantum mechanics, neurobiology, human consciousness and day-to-day reality. | Marlee Matlin |
| Witches of Eastwick | George Miller | 1987 | Three single women in a New England town are mesmerized by a new man in town who awakens powers in them that they never knew they had. | Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer |
| X Files | Chris Carter, | 1993-2002 | Fox TV series: Two FBI agents investigate cases involving the paranormal and extraterrestrials. | David Dochovny, Gillian Anderson |
