The following contains minor spoilers for Everything Everywhere All at Once, now in theaters and available to rent on VOD.

Everything Everywhere All At Once, the latest movie from filmmaking duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert -- known together as the Daniels -- is already one of the most popular movies of 2022, and with good reason. The Daniels seem to have created a style of filmmaking that is entirely their own, using a trove of inspirations from sci-fi, comic book and martial arts movies, all filtered through their own delirious, other-worldly aesthetic. While there might be nothing quite like Everything Everywhere All At Once, here are five must-watch titles for anyone looking for more in this style.

Swiss Army Man Is the Daniels' Debut and Required Viewing

Anyone who has seen Everything Everywhere All At Once but somehow missed the Daniels' first feature film needs to immediately watch Swiss Army Man. Coming out in 2016, their debut film stars Paul Dano as Hank Thompson, a castaway on a deserted island who comes across the corpse of Manny, played with a wild vivacity by a post-Harry Potter Daniel Radcliffe. As the unlikely duo overcomes the dangers of life away from civilization using the magical power of Manny’s farts, erections and bodily cavities, audiences will easily recognize the Daniels' fascination with a person's basest functions and that connection to their more personal and emotional selves.

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Ostensibly, Swiss Army Man is the story of a man longing to be returned to Sarah, a person he saw on the bus and fell in love with. But in the same way that Evelyn's transformation in Everything Everywhere All At Once is as much about letting go of the people she cares about than it is about holding onto them, Swiss Army Man tells a similar story of self-discovery that is less about the supposed romance between Hank and Sarah but more focused on the relationship between the physical with the metaphysical and the importance of understanding oneself before anything else.

Stephen Chow’s Shaolin Soccer Film Blends Martial Arts and Family Dramedy

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Other than Jackie Chan, Stephen Chow is likely the most famous and successful filmmaker who has made a career bringing together martial arts and comedy. Alongside Kung Fu Hustle and The God of Cookery, Shaolin Soccer has much in common with Everything Everywhere All At Once with its story about a family that reconnects while fighting evil with martial arts. Rather than fighting a pandimensional, omnipotent daughter, Shaolin Soccer brings together seven estranged brothers, each with their own kung fu style, who work together to defeat Team Evil in a soccer competition.

Much like the Daniels, Chow knows just how far to push reality to a point that doesn't destroy an audience's suspension of disbelief while also maximizing comedic effect, and Shaolin Soccer often feels like a live-action cartoon. Despite this high-energy pacing and outlandish effects, Shaolin Soccer never loses focus on its more grounded story of a family coming together, making it a wonderful counterpoint to Everything Everywhere All At Once.

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Richard Linklater Literally Plays With Time and Space in Boyhood

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One of the most exciting elements of Everything Everywhere All At Once is how it uses the expansive concept of the multiverse to focus on the intimate relationship between a family. This mix of boundless sci-fi action with a grounded drama is a tour-de-force that is as astoundingly fun as it is powerful. And while rarely working in direct sci-fi, Richard Linklater is a surprisingly similar filmmaker to the Daniels, seemingly drawn to the same fictional concepts but exploring them in a more literal way.

With cerebral dramas such as Waking Life and the Beyond Trilogy, Linklater made a name for himself as a filmmaker who could blur the line between reality and fiction with films that inherently adopt the makings of a documentary as he uses elements from the real world in his fiction. Boyhood is the ultimate example of this experiment, a movie shot in real-time over nine years with the actors aging in their own lives just as they grew up in the film. And just as Everything Everywhere All At Once used multiverse travel and epic fights to focus on the relationship between parents and their child, Boyhood takes a more literal journey through time and space to create a similarly powerful exploration of family life.

Cloud Atlas Was the Wachowskis' Biggest Box Office Flop but Worth the Watch

While the plot of Everything Everywhere All At Once might most bring to mind The Matrix -- a character's mundane life is interrupted by a person from another reality who explains the true nature of the universe and helps them to understand their own power to help stop an out-of-control villain from destroying the world -- there is another of the Wachowskis' films that syncs up even better with the Daniels' latest: Cloud Atlas. While seriously underperforming at the box office, Cloud Atlas is an incredible journey and even more epic than their earlier franchise, making great use of the acting talents of Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Jim Broadbent as each performer helms multiple characters that live across numerous interconnected timelines.

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While avoiding the raucous energy and weird comedy of Everything Everywhere All At Once, Cloud Atlas tells a more somber version of a similar story, as each character feels the connection they have with each other across these worlds and learns from these other selves, much in the same way Evelyn confronts the many different versions of herself that exist within the multiverse.

Paprika Turned Satoshi Kon Into an Animated Daniels

While not the most prolific filmmaker before his tragic death in 2010, Satoshi Kon created a short filmography of anime titles that remains one of the most profoundly beautiful and exciting collections of fiction ever produced. His fascination with reality and dreams could be seen all throughout his work, and his daring use of animation made reality and delirium nearly impossible to tell apart. Paprika, his final feature film from 2006, tells the story of a police detective who is investigating the theft and murders surrounding a device that allows people access to their own dreams that eventually leads to the dream world overtaking reality.

Both Kon and the Daniels seem to be interested in the same concepts, as each of their films distorts real life with elements of fantasy. Whether it's Kon's dreamworld or the Daniels' version of the multiverse, both filmmakers use unconventional and surreal storytelling to highlight the inner struggle and growth of their main characters. Even though it is presented in another medium, Paprika has so much in common with Everything Everywhere All At Once and should not be missed.