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Fans of Everything Everywhere All At Once Will Love These Genre-Benders (2025/2026)

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By Chinka!Published 6 months ago 3 min read

Let’s be honest: Everything Everywhere All At Once broke our brains — and our hearts — in the best possible way. It was chaotic, heartfelt, weird, deep, hilarious, and devastating... all at once. It wasn’t just a multiverse movie; it was a love letter to generational trauma, immigrant families, googly eyes, and bagels. Who else could make a rock scene with no dialogue feel like an emotional gut-punch?

If you’re still thinking about that film — the existential spirals, the kung-fu action, the absurd humor, and the quiet, tearful moments between mother and daughter — then you’re probably craving more movies that take risks, bend genres, and leave you with a thousand thoughts buzzing in your head.

Here are 12 genre-bending, mind-expanding, heart-squeezing films to add to your 2025/2026 list if you loved Everything Everywhere All At Once.

1. Swiss Army Man (2016)

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Before multiverse bagels, the Daniels gave us a farting corpse movie — and somehow made it beautiful. Swiss Army Man is weird, wonderful, and strangely profound, full of lonely characters searching for meaning in the absurd.

2. I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

Genre: Drama, Psychological, Horror

Charlie Kaufman’s haunting exploration of identity, memory, and regret is disorienting in all the best ways. It’s surreal, cerebral, and heavy — kind of like EEAAO’s darker, moodier cousin.

3. The Science of Sleep (2006)

Genre: Romance, Fantasy, Comedy

Michel Gondry’s dreamlike film about love, imagination, and awkward vulnerability feels handmade and personal. It mixes stop-motion and reality in ways that blur the line between the emotional and the surreal.

4. Synecdoche, New York (2008)

Genre: Drama, Fantasy

If Everything Everywhere made you think about the infinite versions of yourself, this one goes full existential. A theater director builds a life-sized replica of New York inside a warehouse to make his magnum opus — and things get... layered.

5. The Matrix (1999)

Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Philosophy

The original multiverse mind-bender. If you loved the blend of martial arts, existentialism, and reality-questioning themes in EEAAO, this is where it all began.

6. Paprika (2006)

Genre: Anime, Sci-Fi, Thriller

This visually wild anime dives into dream manipulation and the subconscious. It’s packed with surreal imagery and a sense of narrative free-fall that Everything Everywhere fans will absolutely vibe with.

7. The Lobster (2015)

Genre: Dark Comedy, Sci-Fi

Yorgos Lanthimos’ dystopian satire imagines a world where being single is illegal — and turning into an animal is the punishment. Absurd, tragic, and darkly funny, it asks big questions in the most offbeat way possible.

8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Genre: Romance, Sci-Fi, Drama

Like EEAAO, this film explores love, memory, and pain through a sci-fi lens. It’s visually inventive, emotionally raw, and timeless in how it asks: Would you erase the ones who hurt you... or choose to remember?

9. Annihilation (2018)

Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror, Psychological

A cerebral, unsettling journey into a mutated world that reflects its explorers' inner turmoil. This one’s a slower burn but ends in a visually stunning, completely bonkers climax that’ll sit with you for days.

10. Coherence (2013)

Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller

A dinner party gone multiverse. This indie gem proves you don’t need a big budget to blow minds — just a comet, some overlapping realities, and a cast that sells the anxiety of realizing you might not be “you” anymore.

11. Sorry to Bother You (2018)

Genre: Satire, Sci-Fi, Comedy

Boots Riley’s debut is loud, sharp, weird, and unapologetically original. It dives into capitalism, race, and identity with surreal twists that even EEAAO would admire. (Let’s just say: horse people.)

12. Cloud Atlas (2012)

Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Epic

Spanning centuries and souls, Cloud Atlas tells interconnected stories that echo across lifetimes. It’s ambitious, complex, and emotionally rich — a grand meditation on reincarnation, cause and effect, and the power of choice.

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