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The Company of Wolves
Why this pick
Like Paperhouse, it enters a young girl’s inner world through dark, tactile fantasy, where childhood fears and desire reshape reality with unsettling storybook logic.
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MOVIE1988 1h 32m GBR
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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Why this pick
A dreamlike coming-of-age fable with the same porous boundary between a child’s imagination, anxiety, and a beautiful but threatening fantasy landscape.
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The Reflecting Skin
Why this pick
Its child’s-eye view turns ordinary surroundings into vivid menace and mystery, matching Paperhouse’s blend of innocence, illness, isolation, and uncanny visual imagination.
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The Fall
Why this pick
A bond between an isolated child and a troubled adult unfolds through elaborate imagined worlds; it shares Paperhouse’s emotional tenderness and reality-fantasy interplay, though in a more ornate register.
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The Spirit of the Beehive
Why this pick
A quiet, haunting portrait of childhood imagination meeting adult darkness, told with the patient, mysterious atmosphere and emotional ambiguity that make Paperhouse linger.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
While suffering from Infectious mononucleosis, 11-year-old Anna Madden draws a house. When she falls asleep, she has disturbing dreams in which she finds herself inside the house she has drawn. After she draws a face at the window, in her next dream she finds a disabled boy named Marc living in the house. She learns from her doctor that Marc is a real person.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Elliott Spiers
Marc
Gemma Jones
Dr. Sarah Nicols
Glenne Headly
Kate Madden
Ben Cross
Dad Madden