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Plot Summary:
Theodore, a young Spanish engineer who works as a professor at the University of Oklahoma, returned to Spain to enjoy a sabbatical year. Upon arrival, he discovers that his father killed his mother and, to compensate for the loss, he bought a motorcycle with sidecar to travel together. Father and son arrive in a remote mountain village seems empty, what happens is that all residents are in church every day, because the Mass is a true spectacle. Jimmy and Theodore are discovering the peculiarities of the people, attend the elections held each year to appoint mayor, priest, teacher, bitch ... In addition, the town has come a group of students at the American University of Eaton, a Belgian meteorologists, a dissident group of the Russian Army Choir, invading people's hidden above.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: surreal, absurd, weird, cult film
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The Merman Prince for El Presidente Emperor Warlord! (2017)
Plot Summary:
The Merman Prince has swum to the Shore! He has left behind his underwater utopia, in order to try his hand at global politics. A camera crew is hired to follow The Merman Prince on the campaign trail, as he runs for the newly created position of El Presidente Emperor Warlord of the Entire World.
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Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: parody, political, avant garde, independent film, mockumentary
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Dark at Noon (1992)
Plot Summary:
In this mystical comedy, Felicien has traveled to Portugal from France soon after the end of the First World War. It seems that his recently deceased father had invested a lot of money in a factory located in a remote village, and he has come to evaluate that investment. He gets some clues to the real situation in the town when the man driving his coach refuses to go any further and leaves him on a section of road which is practically paved with abandoned crutches. After a short trek, he meets up with the local dignitary who is to show him around, and he meets a priest and an artist. The priest gives a further clue to the events taking place in the village when he indicates that he's completely exasperated with the endless miracles that seem to be taking place. From that point onward, amazing coincidences, visions and miracles take place in great numbers.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: allegory
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Bukraken! (2023)
Plot Summary:
In 2016, journalism student Susana Rojas disappeared without a trace while making a documentary for her end-of-career work. After several years, her project is finally uncovered.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, independent film, horror comedy, absurd
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Jungle Freaks (1969)
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Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an adventure-filled trip to the city of São Paulo. Once there, he becomes something of a dandy, falling in love with Ci, a revolutionary who dies in an accidental bombing. After robbing a ruthless industrialist, Macunaima returns to his village where he finds his newly acquired knowledge and possessions of little use.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, black comedy, weird
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Freak Orlando (1981)
Plot Summary:
FREAK ORLANDO is divided into five more-or-less distinct sections, all featuring "Freak" Orlando, a woman, played by the late Magdalena Montezuma, who appears in various guises, and deformities, throughout.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: surreal, dark, avant garde, experimental, absurd, cult film
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The Woman with Red Boots (1974)
Plot Summary:
An elderly millionaire manipulates an avant-garde writer and a happily married man.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, surreal
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Mascots (2016)
Plot Summary:
Eager contestants don big heads and furry suits to vie for the title of World's Best Mascot.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: funny, satirical, surreal, absurd, mockumentary, light, sexy, clever, enigmatic, breathtaking
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The Planters (2019)
Plot Summary:
Awkward telemarketer Martha Plant is down and out — sucking at her job and grieving her recently deceased parents. When she finds unlikely friendship in Sadie Mayflower, a bubbly vagrant with multiple personalities, Martha discovers having three friends in one may be more than she bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 500
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: surreal, weird
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Mandibles (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two simple-minded friends discover a giant fly in the trunk of a car and decide to domesticate it to earn money with it.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, surreal, dark comedy, weird
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Bedside Highway (1972)
Plot Summary:
In this Danish sex comedy, precisely opposite goals lead a young official of the Department of Roads and Traffic and all the women of the local village to end up in the sack. His goal is to get them to sign papers allowing a new highway to go through the middle of town. Their goal is to get him to re-route the highway.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, hot
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Dying Beyond Their Means (2014)
Plot Summary:
Isaki Lacuesta presents a social satire in which five common or garden citizens, from a country pretty much identical to our own, see their lives ripped apart by the economic crisis. With nothing more to lose, they come up with a crazy plan to save the Spanish and world economy: kidnap the chairman of the Central Bank and demand that he return everything to the way it used to be.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, surreal, light, entertaining, absurd, realistic
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Citizen Dog (2004)
Plot Summary:
Follow the life of Pod as he moves to Bangkok from the country. Pod's new life starts with getting a job, loosing a finger and dreaming about a girl. A movie were nothing is impossible, and just because you get killed by raining red helmets doesnt mean you have to stop driving motorcycle taxi.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: surreal, feel good, humorous, semi serious, sad, art film, offbeat, weird
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Funky Forest: The First Contact (2005)
Plot Summary:
An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, humorous, stylized, semi serious, sketch comedy, cult classic, mind blowing, psychological, mind bending
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The Telephone Book (1971)
Plot Summary:
The story of a day in the life of a lonely, sensitive, exhuberent, attractive, young woman. Her exploits, encounters, and frustrations as she attempts to find a "special" someone, a caller who has "class", as she puts it.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 703
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: surreal, sex comedy, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, experimental, controversial, semi serious, dark comedy
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Escape from the 'Liberty' Cinema (1990)
Plot Summary:
The film is set just before Poland's communist regime came to an end, and the central character is a provincial censor (Janusz Gajos), a tired, sloppy, lonely man, whose wife has long since left him. For him, censorship is both an art and a game, but he does not enjoy it. During a screening of a sentimental Polish melodrama called "Daybreak" at the Liberty cinema across the road from the censor's office, the actors start to rebel and refuse to speak their lines. There is anarchy and when the censor is unable to control the situation, senior party officials are called in. Eventually a film critic notes that the situation reminds of "The Purple Rose of Cairo" by Woody Allen and brings a reel of the film to demonstrate. The officials watch the film with amusement until another mix-up occurs: the second projector is turned on accidentally and superimposes "Daybreak" over "Purple Rose".
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, intellectual
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Asylum Seekers (2009)
Plot Summary:
Six people on the verge of a breakdown decide to check themselves into an insane asylum, only to discover there is just room for one.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious, surprise ending, mindfuck, cult classic, independent film, offbeat, cult film
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Takeshis' (2005)
Plot Summary:
Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, Kitano seems to begin hallucinating about becoming Beat.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: surreal, stylized, semi serious, mind bending, psychedelic, offbeat, non-linear, postmodern
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The Miracle of P. Tinto (1998)
Plot Summary:
Wafer factory-owner P. Tinto and his wife Olivia want a child of their own more than anything else in the world. Years of trying, however, have left them with nothing but a pair of extraterrestrial midgets living in the spare bedroom. When they decide to try adoption, a series of misroutings and chance encounters results in an escaped adult mental patient arriving at their door with adoption papers in hand. P. Tinto and Olivia accept this without question and welcome him in as their son. Can this family arrangement work?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: manga, offbeat, humorous, surreal, semi serious, spoof, parody, weird
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The Book of Life (1998)
Plot Summary:
The end of the millenium has taken on a certain significance in modern day prophecies. What happens if Jesus Christ has second thoughts about the Apocalypse? It is December 31, 1999 and New Year's Eve takes on new meaning when the Devil, Jesus Christ, and Christ's assistant Magdelina discuss and debate the end of the world, the opening of the seven seals, and the essence of being human.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, USA
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: humorous, enigmatic, surreal, futuristic, philosophical, indie film, offbeat, witty, semi serious, biting
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The Brand New Testament (2015)
Plot Summary:
God lives in Brussels. On earth though, God is a coward, with pathetical morals and being odious with his family. His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can't stand being locked up in a small apartment in ordinary Brussels, until the day she decides to revolt against her dad.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: philosophical, surreal, dark comedy, meditative, sentimental, talky, cynical, stylized, funny, touching
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Wholly Moses! (1980)
Plot Summary:
Harvey and Zoey, two tourists in Israel, discover an ancient scroll about Herschel, the man who was almost Moses. Herschel receives the command from God to free his people from slavery, but Moses keeps getting all the credit.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: parody, biblical, spoof, humorous, offbeat, witty, not serious, independent film, funny, light
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Symbol (2009)
Plot Summary:
A Japanese man wakes up alone in a brightly illuminated white room with no windows or doors. When he presses a mysteriously phallic protuberance that appears on one wall, a pink toothbrush materializes from nowhere, clattering to the floor and setting in motion a genuinely bizarre chain of events. Soon the imprisoned man is engaged in absurd and hilarious attempts to escape the gleaming room, releasing random objects from the walls, creating a life sized mouse trap game in which a rope, a toilet plunger and an earthenware jug full of sushi might just be the keys to his escape. Meanwhile, in a dusty town, a green masked Mexican wrestler known as Escargot Man prepares for an important match.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surreal, not serious, mind bending, deep, mindfuck, philosophical, psychedelic, absurd, disturbing, art house
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The Taste of Tea (2004)
Plot Summary:
A spell of time in the life of a family living in rural Tochigi prefecture, north of Tokyo. Though her husband is busy working at an office, Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project at home. Uncle Ayano has recently arrived, looking to get his head together after living in Tokyo for several years. Meanwhile, Yoshiko's daughter Sachiko is mainly concerned with why she seems to be followed around everywhere by a giant version of herself.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: surreal, touching, semi serious, mind bending, psychedelic, disturbing, contemplative, poignant, independent film, black comedy
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City of Women (1980)
Plot Summary:
A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: surreal, satirical, art house, cerebral, atmospheric, mind bending, psychedelic, cult classic, clever, offbeat
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
Plot Summary:
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: surreal, disturbing, atmospheric, talky, humorous, art house, philosophical, satirical, absurd, meditative
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Plot Summary:
King Arthur, accompanied by his squire, recruits his Knights of the Round Table, including Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot and Sir Galahad the Pure. On the way, Arthur battles the Black Knight who, despite having had all his limbs chopped off, insists he can still fight. They reach Camelot, but Arthur decides not to enter, as "it is a silly place".
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 563000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: absurd, humorous, surreal, parody, ironic, spoof, funny, slapstick, hilarious, dark comedy
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Rapture-Palooza (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two teens battle their way through a religious apocalypse on a mission to defeat the Antichrist.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, parody, humorous, surreal, absurd, stylized, apocalyptic, teen, offbeat, not serious
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Monkeybone (2001)
Plot Summary:
After a car crash sends repressed cartoonist Stu Miley (Fraser) into a coma, he and the mischievous Monkeybone, his hilariously horny alter-ego, wake up in a wacked-out waystation for lost souls. When Monkeybone takes over Stu's body and escapes to wreak havoc on the real world, Stu has to find a way to stop him before his sister pulls the plug on reality forever!.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: stylized, humorous, absurd, not serious, cult classic, black comedy, dark comedy, surreal, funny, adult animation
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A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)
Plot Summary:
An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, Germany, Norway, France, Denmark
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: surreal, realistic, talky, lyrical, dark comedy, humorous, philosophical, semi serious, absurd, art house
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Beetlejuice (1988)
Plot Summary:
Thanks to an untimely demise via drowning, a young couple end up as poltergeists in their New England farmhouse, where they fail to meet the challenge of scaring away the insufferable new owners, who want to make drastic changes. In desperation, the undead newlyweds turn to an expert frightmeister, but he's got a diabolical agenda of his own.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 331000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, black comedy, surreal, witty, dark comedy, funny, scary, offbeat, humorous, horror comedy