Movies Similar to Liminal Spaces

Dancing not to be dead(2024)

Some spaces draw attention, as if they evoke something that’s about to happen. These are the places where we escape when we dream or die. The only thing that exists is time; we wait for the moment to arrive.

Iron Whispers(2025)

A short study on liminality, reversing the common experience of such a space by forcing engagement and contemplation over its subtle details and hidden memories.

Homebody(2023)

A filmographic essay featuring lines from "Bonedog" by Eva H.D. A pathos on memory, travelogue consciousness and the divets remaindered from environmental displacement.

The Art of Liminal Spaces(2022)

Liminal Spaces are the subject of a modern internet aesthetic portraying empty or abandoned places that appear eerie, forlorn, and often surreal. Directors such as Stanley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkovsky and David Lynch had mastered the art of liminal spaces, long before it became an internet aesthetic. This documentary aims to explore and demystify the strangely familiar world of liminal spaces.

Liminal Niagara(2025)

Night photography of the hauntingly empty city of Niagara Falls during the autumnal off-season.

nor any memories of the turning backs(2025)

[poem_body_memory_voice] None of them belong to each other. All of them belong to themselves. A layered accumulation —___- a poetic exercise on relating*_on_love, migration, and mourning.

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Trapped in his nostalgia and haunted by the impermanence of things, a sad little ghost is unable to pass through the liminal space he occupies.

L'araignée au fond de la cour(2025)

Dereliction(2018)

Elias is an I.T. technician preparing for an overnight gig. He thinks he's totally alone in the building and is about to find out he's wrong.

Sweet Dreams(2023)

A good night’s rest turns into a fight for her life when an anxious girl comes face to face with a stranger like no other.

I Saw the TV Glow(2024)

Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate Maddy introduces him to a mysterious TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.

LIMINAL(2021)

There is No Dream.(2025)

As a mysterious silhouette wanders through a dreamscape, a strange blue light begins to follow him.

Limiar(2022)

Vivarium(2019)

A young woman and her fiancé are in search of the perfect starter home. After following a mysterious real estate agent to a new housing development, the couple finds themselves trapped in a maze of identical houses and forced to raise an otherworldly child.

Backrooms(2026)

Planned film adaption based on viral found-footage shorts by 17-year-old Kane Parsons.

Road Ahead Closed(2024)

Meeting a closed road on his route home, a young man takes a risky turn, only to become hopelessly lost on a maze of backroads.

REMNIRA(2025)

After discovering a mysterious camera that transports him into fleeting moments of the past, a grieving photography student attempts to rewrite a painful history—only to uncover the blurred line between memory, art, and reality.

Noclip 2: Return to Lunchland(2025)

In this sequel to the award-winning found-footage film NOCLIP, the two explorers return from the void in search of even more liminal spaces. In the process, they find backrooms which lead to multiple new surreal locations, plus some familiar ones...

Future Future(2025)

In a rainy Brazilian city, an amnesic man is taken in by a lonely clickworker at a course for people with a strange neurological syndrome. After using an addictive AI device, he embarks on a tragic and absurd journey to find where he truly belongs.