Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)
All pirates must die.
Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Capt. Jack Sparrow feels the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost sailors led by his old nemesis, the evil Capt. Salazar, escape from the Devil's Triangle. Jack's only hope of survival lies in seeking out the legendary Trident of Poseidon, but to find it, he must forge an uneasy alliance with a brilliant and beautiful astronomer and a headstrong young man in the British navy.
In Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “cursed pirate seas”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing piracy, curses, legacy, authority, freedom.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
One Piece Film: Strong World (2009)E8 · authority, freedom
Tangled (2010)E8/E9 · authority, freedom
Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses (2006)E8/E9 · authority, freedom
Old School (2003)E8/E9 · authority, freedom
Persepolis (2007)E8/E9 · authority, freedom
Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Blood Prison (2011)E8/E9 · authorityAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)consciousness in the dead · spectral invasion
The Turning (2020)consciousness in the dead · haunted manor
The Devil's Backbone (2001)consciousness in the dead · haunted orphanage
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021)consciousness in the dead · cursed sorcery
Field of Dreams (1989)consciousness in the dead · magical baseball field
Down a Dark Hall (2018)consciousness in the dead · possession boarding schoolSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Dunston Checks In (1996)consciousness in animals · authority, freedom
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)consciousness in monsters · authority, piracy
Astro Boy (2009)consciousness in machines · authority, freedom
The Little Prince (2015)consciousness in aliens · authority, freedom
Flight of the Navigator (1986)consciousness in machines · authority, freedom
Wicked: For Good (2025)consciousness in animals · authority, freedomSame people
Shared director or cast.
