Surreal movie recommendations
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, IMDb used to have user forums. On a forum post for Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain, someone asked for recommendations for similar movies and filmmakers. Thus was born the greatest thread in IMDb forum history....
Note: Repeated recommendations and any notes from the poster have been preserved to the best of my ability
A few of these I was unable to track down on IMDb:
Return to Light: A Spiritual Odyssey (2004) by Gregory Pearce [NateManD] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gVtL8kI4g8
Sex, Gewalt und gute Laune (1982) by Jörg Buttgereit [alelorax-1] - https://letterboxd.com/film/sex-gewalt-und-gute-laune/
*beep* Blues [alelorax-1] - Title was censored
Necro-fetish [alelorax-1]
Also mentioned:
Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1894-1941 [tommy52]
JIStory: Santiago Segura Corto Greatest Hits (1994) - compilation of short films [alelorax-1]
See also the companion list for filmmaker recommendations
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls527990863/
Note: Repeated recommendations and any notes from the poster have been preserved to the best of my ability
A few of these I was unable to track down on IMDb:
Return to Light: A Spiritual Odyssey (2004) by Gregory Pearce [NateManD] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gVtL8kI4g8
Sex, Gewalt und gute Laune (1982) by Jörg Buttgereit [alelorax-1] - https://letterboxd.com/film/sex-gewalt-und-gute-laune/
*beep* Blues [alelorax-1] - Title was censored
Necro-fetish [alelorax-1]
Also mentioned:
Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1894-1941 [tommy52]
JIStory: Santiago Segura Corto Greatest Hits (1994) - compilation of short films [alelorax-1]
See also the companion list for filmmaker recommendations
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls527990863/
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- DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsAlejandro JodorowskyHoracio SalinasZamira SaundersIn a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist leads a messianic character and seven materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment.Poster: P_walles
Note: Had to include the OP of course - DirectorDavid LynchStarsJack NanceCharlotte StewartAllen JosephHenry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.Poster: iscream22
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMartin PotterHiram KellerMax BornA series of disjointed mythical tales set in first-century Rome.Poster: iscream22
- DirectorRalph BakshiDoug CraneStarsThe Life CycleVerna D'AltoGary LantzMarvin, a teenage ball of fur, gets the idea to paint the entire city in groovy, psychedelic colors.Poster: iscream22
Note: Short - DirectorSlava TsukermanStarsAnne CarlislePaula E. SheppardSusan DoukasA small, heroin seeking UFO lands on a Manhattan roof, observes a bizarre, drug addicted fashion model and sucks endorphin from her sexual encounters' brains.Poster: iscream22
- DirectorSteven LisbergerStarsJeff BridgesBruce BoxleitnerDavid WarnerA computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.Poster: iscream22
- DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsKazuya NakayamaKaori MomoiRyûhei MatsudaAn executed samurai takes an existential journey throughout time, space and eternity in search of bloody vengeance.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorFernando ArrabalStarsAnouk FerjacNúria EspertMahdi ChaouchAt the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is accused of being a Red. Fando discovers that his mother may have aided in his father's arrest. Sometimes we witness Fando imagining explanations for what's going on; sometimes we see him at play, alone or with his friend Thérèse. Oedipal fantasies and a lad's natural curiosity about sex and death mix with his search for his mother's nature and his father's fate. Will Fando survive the search?Poster: NateManD
Note: Part of the panic movement with Jodorowsky - DirectorFernando ArrabalStarsGerard BorlantJean ChalonFrançois ChateletRunning away from the police, Aden goes to the desert where he meets an uncivilized man who has a special link with Mother-Earth. He ends up by convincing the hermit to come along with him into another desert... the big town!Poster: NateManD
- DirectorFernando ArrabalStarsMariangela MelatoRon FaberCosimo CinieriThe Spanish Civil War, as experienced by the town of Villa Ramiro. The local count and his Fascist nephews ally with the rebels; the count's son, indifferent to politics at the outset, later makes a choice; the town's teacher, Antonio Garcia, a pacifist, tries not to take sides but to inspire the children with ideas; a beautiful eccentric woman, Vandale, brings leadership and strength to the town; dwarfs long for equality. The fictive story of Villa Ramiro is inter-cut with archival footage of the war itself. The town is near Guernica, and the local Republicans draw inspiration from its freedom tree.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorRené LalouxStarsBarry BostwickJennifer DrakeEric BauginOn a faraway planet where blue giants rule, oppressed humanoids rebel against their machine-like leaders.Poster: NateManD
Note: Really screwed up animated film by Roland Topar another friend of Jodorowsky - DirectorTinto BrassStarsTina AumontGigi ProiettiNino SeguriniA runaway bride and an eccentric vagrant embark on a surreal journey in a twisted world reflecting 60s pop culture, sex, and politics.Poster: NateManD
Note: Really strange film by Tinto Brass director of Caligula - DirectorDerek JarmanStarsTilda SwintonJohnny MillsPhilip MacDonaldA nearly wordless visual narrative inter cuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones.Poster: NateManD
Note: Really trippy film about a gay couple crucified like Christ - DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsGaston ModotLya LysCaridad de LaberdesqueA surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorLloyd KaufmanStarsWill KeenanAlyce LaTourelleLloyd KaufmanA homicidal maniac is on the loose in the city and the low-budget film crew of a Troma movie has the power to stop them.Poster: NateManD
Note: Really disgusting bizarre Troma film about a killer on the set of a B-movie - DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsCarole LaurePierre ClémentiAnna PrucnalAfter winning the "most virgin" contest, Miss Canada is married to a rich milk tycoon. But she quickly flees the marriage to experience the world around her, full of sweetness and anarchy.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorRobert Downey Sr.StarsAlbert HendersonMichael SullivanLuana AndersA strange man named Jesse who can revive life and walk on water comes into a surreal and cruel western town.Poster: NateManD
Note: semi El Topo parody and musical - DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsJulia OrmondRalph FiennesPhilip StonePlagued with infertility, the inhabitants of Mâcon are naturally involved in the spectacle that is a masque about the miracle child born to a virgin mother.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorJuan López MoctezumaStarsClaudio BrookArthur HanselEllen ShermanThe inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, then put into action their own ideas of how the place should be run.Poster: NateManD
Note: another film from one of Jodorowsky's friends - DirectorJuan López MoctezumaStarsClaudio BrookDavid SilvaTina RomeroAfter the death of her parents, a young girl arrives at a convent and brings a sinister presence with her. Is it her enigmatic imaginary friend, Alucarda, who is to blame? Or is there a satanic force at work?Poster: NateManD
- DirectorKen RussellStarsVanessa RedgraveOliver ReedDudley SuttonIn 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier's protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun's accusation of witchcraft.Poster: NateManD
Note: masterpiece! - DirectorVera ChytilováStarsIvana KarbanováJitka CerhováMarie CeskováAfter realizing that all world is spoiled, Marie and Marie are committed to be spoiled themselves. They rip off older men, feast in lavish meals and do all kinds of mischief. But what is all this leading to?Poster: NateManD
Note: awesome psychedelic feminist Czech film - DirectorVera ChytilováStarsJitka NovákováKarel NovakJan SchmidAn experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical depiction of loss of innocence.Poster: NateManD
Note: about the garden of eden - DirectorJuraj JakubiskoStarsPhilippe AvronJirí SýkoraMagda VásáryováThree adolescent war orphans seclude themselves in an anarchic and playful existence of denial and juvenile joy.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMartin PotterHiram KellerMax BornA series of disjointed mythical tales set in first-century Rome.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorWilliam Peter BlattyStarsStacy KeachScott WilsonJason MillerAn ex-marine psychiatrist attempts to rehabilitate his patients by indulging their fantasies, and seeks to prove the existence of a loving God to one especially troubled inmate.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorRichard LesterStarsRita TushinghamRalph RichardsonPeter CookIn post-nuclear-holocaust England, a handful of bizarre characters struggles on with their lives in the ruins, among endless heaps of ash, piles of broken crockery and brick, muddy plains, and heaps of dentures and old boots. Patriotically singing "God Save Mrs. Ethel Shroake, Long Live Mrs. Ethel Shroake", they wander through this surrealistic landscape, forever being warned by the police to "keep moving", and prone to the occasional mutation into a parrot, cupboard, or even--yes, a bed-sitting room with "No Wogs" scrawled in the grime on its windows. In particular, this story revolves around the odd "love story" of a girl who lives with her parents in one compartment of a London Underground train, the commuter in the next compartment, and the doctor they meet after returning above ground in search of a nurse for the heavily-pregnant girl.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorF.A. BrabecStarsMartina BezouskováSylvie KraslováSára VorískováSeven unrelated Czech fairy tales from 1853 by Karel Jaromír Erben, united by folklore, atmosphere, and visuals, form this anthology film exploring themes through a series of poetic vignettes without a cohesive narrative.Poster: NateManD
Note: really awesome surreal Czech film - DirectorAndrzej ZulawskiStarsAndrzej SewerynJerzy TrelaGrazyna DylagA team of astronauts land on an inhabitable planet and form a society. Many years later, a single astronaut is sent to the planet and becomes a messiah.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsHelmut DöringPaul GlauerGisela HertwigA group of dwarfs at a correctional facility erupt in anarchy.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorRichard ElfmanStarsGene CunninghamMarie-Pascale ElfmanVirginia RoseThe bizarre and musical tale of a girl who travels to another dimension through the gateway found in her family's basement.Poster: NateManD
Note: really weird surreal musical from Oingo Boingo - DirectorA. Hans ScheirlStarsSuzie KrügerLeonora Rogers-WrightA. Hans ScheirlDust, a split-personality cyborg of fluid gender, zooms through time and space in search of his/her own memories and a sense of understanding. S/he travels from the Planet of White Dust where war is constant, to the Planet of Blood and Swelling, a hybrid of his/her father's body.Poster: NateManD
Note: a lesbian cyberpunk experimental film; makes no sense - DirectorSlava TsukermanStarsAnne CarlislePaula E. SheppardSusan DoukasA small, heroin seeking UFO lands on a Manhattan roof, observes a bizarre, drug addicted fashion model and sucks endorphin from her sexual encounters' brains.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorDarko MitrevskiAleksandar PopovskiStarsLazar RistovskiNikola RistanovskiVlado JovanovskiIn the year 2019, after global destruction and descent into savagery, the immortal Kuzman discovers his destiny. As he enters the whirling circles of time, he discovers the blasphemy of our century, and how it is to close its circle.Poster: NateManD
Note: Lordy, lordy! This is a strange surreal Macedonian film that reminds me of Jodorowsky. An awesome trip - DirectorStephen QuayTimothy QuayWeiser QuayStarsMark RylanceAlice KrigeGottfried JohnA young man goes to a school for servants run by a brother and sister. In the dreamlike and surreal world that he enters, how will his presence impact the people there and possibly even the school itself?Poster: NateManD
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsMireille DarcJean YanneJean-Pierre KalfonA surreal tale of a married couple going on a road trip to visit the wife's parents with the intention of killing them for the inheritance.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorWojciech HasStarsJan NowickiTadeusz KondratIrena OrskaJózef visits his dying father at a remote mental institution, where time itself doesn't seem to exist, and the line between dreams and memories becomes indistinguishable.Poster: Okada_Toru
Note: fantastic color, sets, at times truer to dream reality than anything I've seen - DirectorWojciech HasStarsZbigniew CybulskiIga CembrzynskaElzbieta CzyzewskaUpon finding a book that relates his grandfather's story, an officer ventures through Spain meeting a wide array of characters, most of whom have a story of their own to tell.Poster: Okada_Toru
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniStarsMark FrechetteDaria HalprinPaul FixAt a time of chronic civil unrest in late 1960s America, a young idealist and an anthropology student cross paths at Zabriskie Point in Death Valley, California. They start an unrestrained relationship by making love on the dusty terrain.Poster: cpuller-642-329716
- DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsAlejandro JodorowskyBrontis JodorowskyJosé LegarretaA mysterious black-clad gunfighter wanders a mystical Western landscape encountering multiple bizarre characters.Poster: cpuller-642-329716
- DirectorSergei ParajanovDodo AbashidzeStarsYuri MgoyanSofiko ChiaureliRamaz ChkhikvadzeA talented but poor minstrel is forced to wander throughout the world because of impossibility to be with his true love - a rich merchant's daughter.Poster: marymorrissey
- DirectorSergei ParajanovDodo AbashidzeStarsVeriko AnjaparidzeTamari TsitsishviliDudukhana TserodzeA film version of a well-known Georgian folk-tale. A young boy has to be immured into the walls of a fortress in order to stop it from crumbling to pieces.Poster: marymorrissey
- DirectorJan SvankmajerStarsKristýna KohoutováCamilla PowerA surrealistic revision of Alice in Wonderland.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorJan SvankmajerStarsPetr CepekJan KrausVladimír KudlaAn ordinary man is lured into a strange puppet theatre by a map and finds himself embroiled in a production of the Faustian legend.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorJan SvankmajerStarsPetr MeisselGabriela WilhelmováBarbora HrzánováSix people unknowingly form a cycle of masturbation as they each cause others to privately indulge in their fetishes.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorJan SvankmajerStarsVeronika ZilkováJan HartlJaroslava KretschmerováA childless couple passes off an anthropomorphous tree stump as their baby, but things get out of hand when the monstrosity comes to life and demands to be fed.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorJosé Mojica MarinsStarsJosé Mojica MarinsTina WohlersNadia FreitasAfter the events of the previous film, Coffin Joe continues to seek a maiden to give him a son. With the help of servant Bruno, he kidnaps six girls from a village. Which one of them will pass his trials of fear?Poster: NateManD
- DirectorJosé Mojica MarinsStarsJosé Mojica MarinsÂngelo AssunçãoRonaldo BeibePsychiatrist experiments LSD on 4 volunteers, to investigate Coffin Joe's influence over them. Each patient presents a different reaction, involving sex, perversion and sadism.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorAdrian LyneStarsTim RobbinsElizabeth PeñaDanny AielloMourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam War veteran attempts to uncover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusions, and perceptions of death.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorBen LewinStarsBob HoskinsJeff GoldblumNatasha RichardsonA farce, Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious pictures who searches for a model for Jesus. He does a favor for a friend and finds himself doing a voice track for a porno movie with Natasha Richardson. Hoskins finds his model for Jesus in Jeff Goldblum and a romantic triangle begins in which Goldblum finds adoring crowds believing him to be Jesus and then begins to believe it himself.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorAnthony NewleyRichard WilliamsStarsAnthony NewleyJoan CollinsAlexander NewleyHeironymus Merkin (Anthony Newley) screens an autobiographical movie of his life, growth, and moral decay.Poster: NateManD
Note: if you find a copy - DirectorPhilip RidleyStarsBrendan FraserAshley JuddViggo MortensenA young man who has spent his life as a member of an ultraconservative Christian cult loses his parents and becomes disoriented, wandering into a forest and meeting a coffin transporter, a caring woman, her mute boyfriend, and his mother.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorHarry KümelStarsOrson WellesSusan HampshireMichel BouquetA young sailor finds himself trapped in the labyrinthine mansion of his occultist uncle, along with a number of eccentric and mysterious relatives who all seem to be harboring a dark secret.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicLazar RistovskiMirjana JokovicTwo underground black marketeers, Marko and Blacky, sell weapons to the Communist resistance in wartime Belgrade, living the good life along the way.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsPierre BatcheffSimone MareuilLuis BuñuelLuis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.Poster: NateManD
Note: masterpiece - DirectorGuy MaddinStarsKyle McCullochGosia DobrowolskaSarah NevilleThe wary residents of a 19th century mountain village must tread carefully and speak softly lest they cause an avalanche. Sexual frenzies teem in this world of repression, setting off incestuous love triangles with deadly consequences.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorGuy MaddinStarsIsabella RosselliniMark McKinneyMaria de MedeirosA musical of sorts set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, where a beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world. Musicians from around the world descend on the city to try and win the $25,000 prize.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorÁlex de la IglesiaStarsRosie PerezJavier BardemHarley CrossA psychotic criminal couple kidnaps a random teenage couple. The woman rapes the male captive, and lets him watch his lover being raped by the man. They then plan to sacrifice the couple.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorÁlex de la IglesiaStarsAntonio ResinesÁlex AnguloFrédérique FederIn a future ruled by attractive people, mutant terrorists kidnap a rich man's daughter to claim rights for the ugly. Escaping police, the mutant leader crashes into a planet of crazy miners where no women live.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorÁlex de la IglesiaStarsÁlex AnguloArmando De RazzaSantiago SeguraBent on committing as many sins as possible to avert the birth of the beast, a Catholic priest teams up with a Black Metal aficionado and an Italian connoisseur of the occult. Now, he must become an unrelenting sinner. Is there still hope?Poster: NateManD
- DirectorDante TomaselliStarsIrma St. PauleChristie SanfordDanny LopesSixteen year-old Bobby is emotionally damaged by his mother's early death. He accidentally causes a nun's death, unleashing a chain of supernatural events that lead him into the pits of Hell.Poster: NateManD
Note: has a real low budget, but some creepy religious images - DirectorWalerian BorowczykStarsSirpa LaneLisbeth HummelElisabeth KazaIn order to inherit a fortune a young woman agrees to marry a young man. She soon discovers that his family harbours a dark past involving a monstrous beast.Poster: NateManD
Note: really screwed up adult Beauty and the Beast - DirectorJohn BoormanStarsSean ConneryCharlotte RamplingSara KestelmanIn the late 23rd century, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorDamon PackardStarsDamon PackardNicole VanderhoffBeverly MillerJulie, who died of a PCP overdose as a teen in the early '70s, searches from beyond the ethers for her little brother, Bob, an obese watch-seller, who is dying of sucrose intolerance, in the early '90s.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorLloyd KaufmanStarsJane JensenWill KeenanValentine MieleTromeo, a filmmaker, falls in love with Juliet, the daughter of a former partner who tried to steal his business from him.Poster: NateManD
Note: Troma's take on the classic story; given a punk rock twist to it - DirectorShûji TerayamaStarsEimei SasakiMasahiro SaitoYukiko KobayashiAn angst-ridden teen dealing with his dysfunctional family hits the streets. The story is inter-cut with various psychedelic, energetic vignettes.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorKen RussellStarsRoger DaltreySara KestelmanPaul NicholasComposer and pianist Franz Liszt (Roger Daltrey) attempts to overcome his hedonistic life-style while repeatedly being drawn back into it by the many women in his life and fellow composer Richard Wagner (Paul Nicholas).Poster: NateManD
Note: Another Ken Russell masterpiece - DirectorJack BondStarsNeil TennantChris LoweJoss AcklandA young boy's holiday at a seaside resort includes a crazy blind priest, nuns in suspenders and a whole bunch of fat ladies.Poster: NateManD
Note: really trippy musical from the Pet Shop Boys - DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsKenji SawadaKeiko MatsuzakaShinji TakedaA family moves to the country to run a rustic mountain inn when, to their horror, the customers begin befalling sudden and unlikely fates.Poster: NateManD
Note: Awesome Japanese horror musical - DirectorDave BorthwickStarsNick UptonDeborah CollardFrank PassinghamA boy born the size of a small doll is kidnapped by a genetic lab and must find a way back to his father in this inventive adventure filmed using stop motion animation techniques. Tom meets a variety of strange creatures and eventually discovers a race of miniature humans like himself.Poster: NateManD
Note: Crazy stop motion movie - DirectorMatthew BarneyStarsMatthew BarneyThe Cremaster Cycle is a series of five feature-length films, together with related sculptures, photographs, drawings, and artist's books, created by American visual artist and filmmaker Matthew Barney.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsBrian DeaconEric DeaconAndréa FerréolTwin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsBernard HillJoan PlowrightJuliet StevensonThree generations of women share the same problem--marriage woes--and want to put an end to it.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsRichard BohringerMichael GambonHelen MirrenAt Le Hollandais gourmet restaurant, every night is filled with opulence, decadence and gluttony. But when the cook, a thief, his wife and her lover all come together, they unleash a shocking torrent of sex, food, murder and revenge.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsVivian WuEwan McGregorYoshi OidaA woman with a body-writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsJJ FeildRaymond J. BarryMichèle BernierThe first of three parts, we follow Tulse Luper in three distinct episodes: as a child during the first World War, as an explorer in Mormon Utah, and as a writer in Belgium during the rise of fascism. Packed with stylistic flourishes, it's a dense, comic study of 20th century history, revolving around the contents of one man's suitcases.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsJJ FeildRoger ReesAna TorrentTulse Luper is a 20th century everyman whose collection of 92 suitcases intersects with every person, event and movement in history. Here in the second of a three part story, we find him working in a cinema, which gives him ample opportunity to cross paths with virtually every artistic device and dramatic character known to man.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsJJ FeildRoger ReesStephen BillingtonThe story of Tulse Luper, whose life is reconstructed through the evidence from 92 suitcases. He is the author and project manager, and constantly end up in prisons around the world.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsJohn GielgudMichael ClarkMichel BlancThe magician Prospero attempts to stop his daughter's affair with an enemy.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorSteve BaldersonStarsKaren BlackMike PattonSusan TraylorA young boy who lives in a dysfunctional home went to the carnival and met a singer. Shortly after, a murder took place. The town's sheriff is seeking answers. The singer is trying to escape her environment so is the boy. But both has to face their own horror.Poster: NateManD
Note: Similar to Santa Sangre and Twin Peaks - DirectorWenzel StorchStarsJürgen HöhneJasmin HarnauHolger MüllerCaptain Gustav commands a floating snail boat in an odd world.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorCrispin GloverStarsMichael BlevisCarlos RichardsonLisa FuscoWhat Is It? is a bewildering, unnerving, surreal, blackly comic film from the visionary mind of Crispin Glover that tells the inner and outer struggles of a young man facing villains and demons on multiple planes.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsAxel JodorowskyBlanca GuerraGuy StockwellA former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms".Poster: NateManD
- DirectorJacques RivetteStarsJuliet BertoDominique LabourierBulle OgierA mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives preempted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.Poster: ital72
- DirectorDonald CammellNicolas RoegStarsJames FoxMick JaggerAnita PallenbergA violent East London gangster undergoes a transformation of identity while hiding from his former colleagues in the home of a jaded Bohemian rock star and his two girlfriends.Poster: ital72
- DirectorKen RussellStarsWilliam HurtBlair BrownBob BalabanA psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories.Poster: ital72
- DirectorPeter BrookStarsDragan MaksimovicTerence StampMikica DimitrijevicG.I. Gurdjieff is a spiritual teacher and mystic who, after a lifetime study, developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.Poster: pinealrapture
- DirectorKenneth AngerStarsKenneth AngerBobby BeausoleilDonald CammellEgyptian gods summons the angel Lucifer - in order to usher in a new occult age.Poster: sievetronix
- DirectorJaromil JiresStarsJaroslava SchallerováHelena AnýzováPetr KoprivaSurreal tale in which love, fear, sex, and religion merge into one fantastic world. Based on a classical Czech novel of the same title.Poster: DrillYeTarriers
Note: absolutely gorgeous. - DirectorRoy AnderssonStarsLars NordhStefan LarssonBengt C.W. CarlssonWhere are we humans going? A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. We meet people in the city. People trying to communicate, searching compassion and get the connection of small and large things.Poster: NateManD
Note: bizarre Swedish film - DirectorKarim HussainStarsSophie LauzièreAnne-Marie BelleyBrea AsherAn anthology of horror, consisting of four segments all themed around gory subjects.Poster: NateManD
Note: If you can stomach it...really disturbing - DirectorDavid LynchStarsDorothy McGinnisRichard WhiteVirginia MaitlandA young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.Poster: NateManD
Note: Short film that's even stranger than Eraserhead - DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsPeter WellerJudy DavisIan HolmAfter developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsNinetto DavoliFranco CittiFranco MerliIn ancient Arabia, a beautiful slave girl chooses a youth to be her new master, then she is kidnapped and they must search for each other. Stories are told within stories: love, travel and the whims of destiny.Poster: NateManD
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsJeroen KrabbéRenée SoutendijkThom HoffmanA man who has been having visions of an impending danger begins an affair with a woman who may lead him to his doom.Poster: NateManD
Note: a surreal Dutch film from the director of Robocop and Basic Instinct - DirectorGregg ArakiStarsJames DuvalRachel TrueNathan BextonFollows a day in the lives of a group of Los Angeles high school students and the strange lives they lead.Poster: NateManD
Note: trippy teen angst with more style than substance, but a guilty pleasure - DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsBibi AnderssonLiv UllmannMargaretha KrookA nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.Poster: NateManD
Note: a classic - DirectorJean CocteauStarsEnrique RiveroElizabeth Lee MillerPauline CartonTold in four episodes - an unnamed artist is transported through a mirror into another dimension, where he travels through various bizarre scenarios.Poster: NateManD
Note: an artist enters a mirror which takes him to an alternate reality - DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsEddie ConstantineAnna KarinaAkim TamiroffA U.S. secret agent is sent to the distant space city of Alphaville where he must find a missing person and free the city from its tyrannical ruler.Poster: NateManD
Note: a Godard classic - DirectorJean-Claude LauzonStarsMaxime CollinGinette RenoGilbert SicotteThe story of a young Canadian boy who tries to escape mentally from his disturbed family thanks to his fantasy and imagination.Poster: NateManD
Note: Really odd coming of age French Canadian movie. Just your average story of a young boy convinced that his mother was impregnated by a semen covered Tomato imported from Italy