I guess the romance written by Colombian Nobel Prize winner, Garcia Marquez and his book is A Hundred Years of Solitude... because in that book you could see the history of a family unravels with repetitions happening during generations and everything was somehow pre-recorded like a film and few protagonists have glimpses of that fact. The first MATRIX film stroke me like a thunderbolt not just because of the Gaeta 360 degrees bullet/slow motion time special FXs but because the concept mixing Budhism and philosophy. In that sense I also liked the dream world of a schizophrenic mind in The Cell and everything about Altered States.