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Plot Summary:
Through his frustrations, an obsessed novelist connects with a dimension where a walking girl encounters weird characters in a mysterious urban world, slowly driving to the peaceful nature of the desert. In this trip between light and shadow, hope for finding an inner mental peace will prevail. This movie is characterized for an experimental language, with purposed technical and performing imperfections, wrapped in an organic fantasy effect.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Mystery
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, experimental, underground film, black and white
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Dead Meadow Three Kings (2010)
Plot Summary:
The film consists of footage from Dead Meadow's last L.A. hometown show after a five-month tour, intermingled with vignettes that abstractly depict themes of corruption, destruction, and rebirth. The band portrays the Three Kings who are the silent watchers of their world.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, avant garde
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Along the Roadside (2013)
Plot Summary:
Road movie about two young people from different parts of the world, their vastly different clashing cultures and their journey of self-discovery during the drive to the largest music festival in California.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 733
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (1969)
Plot Summary:
An experimental feature made by rephotographing the 1905 Biograph short Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: underground film, experimental, avant garde, independent film, art film, silent, silent film
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Flaming Creatures (1963)
Plot Summary:
Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously enough with several men and women, mostly of indeterminate gender, vamping it up in front of the camera and participating in a mock advertisement for an indelible, heart-shaped brand of lipstick. However, things take a dark, nightmarish turn when a transvestite chases, catches and begins molesting a woman. Soon, all of the titular “creatures” participate in a (mostly clothed) orgy that causes a massive earthquake. After the creatures are killed in the resulting chaos, a vampire dressed like an old Hollywood starlet rises from her coffin to resurrect the dead. All ends happily enough when the now undead creatures dance with each other, even though another orgy and earthquake loom over the end title card.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: experimental, underground film, erotic, psychedelic, dark, absurd, art film, black and white, cult classic, independent film
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The House That Swift Built (1982)
Plot Summary:
An immaculate, vivid and breathtaking implementation of Swift's romanticism.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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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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Under a Kaleidoscope (2014)
Plot Summary:
Caleb Loomis is an agoraphobic twenty-something. In his spare time he makes UFO videos with miniature cities and takes an unhealthy amount of LSD. One afternoon he hears Beatrice, the lady next door, being abused. After striking an odd friendship through the wall Caleb is made aware of who lives with Beatrice.. setting in to a motion a pitch-black psychedelic revenge fantasy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, underground film
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The Illiac Passion (1967)
Plot Summary:
Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to the "forest." There, under an apple tree, he communes with his selves, represented by celebrated personages from the New York "underground scene" who appear as modern correlatives to the figures of Greek mythology. The filmmaker, who narrates the situations with a translation of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound , finds the personalities of his characters to have a timeless universality.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: avant garde, experimental, underground film, independent film
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Toto Who Lived Twice (1998)
Plot Summary:
The film has three stories. First is about local village idiot Paletta, who can not afford the services of a whore and so steals a locket from a holy shrine belonging to local mafia don. Second shows the story of betrayal of Pitrinu (who's dead now) by his lover Fefe. Final episode is about lowlife Lazarus. He is killed by mob boss Toto, but raised from the dead by a local messiah, who is also known as Toto (and is played by same actor).
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: experimental, controversial, anthology, aesthetic, disturbing, avant garde, grotesque
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Black Biscuit (2011)
Plot Summary:
Featuring today's modern outlaws - These are the outsiders of society. And their all stars. Director Fabrizio Federico has created a fact feature film about money, sex, dignity, and dreams. A group of misfit outsiders all face the difficult question of choosing between their dreams and talents, or following greed.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: experimental, underground film, avant garde, independent film, cult film
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Gospel According to Harry (1994)
Plot Summary:
The film is a biblical soap-opera whose action unfolds in the Californian desert. Karen and Wes's marriage is crumbling apart - like a sandcastle. Karen can't even make love to her husband any more - the sand has managed to get everywhere. Harry, a tax collector, is a witness to this marriage falling apart. As a civil servant he hears Wes confession. However he isn't able to help him. The omnipotent eye of television glitters above the desert - that raw allegory of America where neither the white nor the black have it good. If Samuel Beckett and Joan Collins had a romance, then their child would look like this film.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, serious, realistic, surreal, gloomy, absurd, allegory, dark comedy, art house
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Microscopic Liquid Subway to Oblivion (1970)
Plot Summary:
An acid trip of a movie.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Bahamas, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, underground film, art house, independent film
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Chelsea Girls (1966)
Plot Summary:
Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's art house classic follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City, presented in a split screen with a single audio track in conjunction with one side of screen.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 210 min
Plot tags: underground film, experimental, avant garde, psychedelic, art house, art film, cult classic, independent film, gay cinema, queer cinema
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The Inner Scar (1972)
Plot Summary:
A collage of dreams. Garrel made a name for himself with this film as a new Jean Vigo. With Nico (Velvet Underground). A poetic and painterly film that has been described as 'a collage of dreams'. The film was shot without a script, but Garrel had already thought up the eventual title ('the scar inside'). This title was an obsession for him, every shot had to be an expression of 'the scar inside'. Apart from Garrel himself and actor Pierre Clementi, Garrel's former partner Nico, member of the legendary Velvet Underground, played a role in the film. Another important role was for the landscape. Garrel, 23 when he made the film, was compared with Jean Vigo because of his age and talent. La cicatrice intérieure even led Claude Mauriac to call him the Rimbaud of film. (from https://www.iffr.com/en/films/la-cicatrice-int-rieure/).
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 738
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: France
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: experimental, surreal, avant garde, weird
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Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted (1992)
Plot Summary:
After her boyfriend ends their relationship, the dreamself of a heartbroken woman floats through the air over an industrial wasteland singing ballads of love.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: surreal, cult classic, experimental, atmospheric, offbeat, serious, stylized, gloomy, avant garde, weird
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Wavelength (1967)
Plot Summary:
Wavelength consists of almost no action, and what action does occur is largely elided. If the film could be said to have a conventional plot, this would presumably refer to the three “character” scenes. Snow’s intent for the film was “a summation of my nervous system, religious inklings and aesthetic ideas,” he said of the 45-minute-long zoom that incorporates in its time frame four human events, including a man’s death. In the first scene two people enter a room, chat briefly, and listen to “Strawberry Fields Forever” on the radio. Later, a man (played by filmmaker Hollis Frampton) enters inexplicably and dies on the floor. And last, the female owner of the apartment is heard and seen on the phone, speaking, with strange calm, about the dead man in her apartment whom she has never seen before.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Short, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: experimental, contemplative, underground film, surreal, avant garde, psychedelic, art house, deviant, slow cinema, independent film
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The Legend of Kaspar Hauser (2012)
Plot Summary:
Arriving on a deserted beach in the Mediterranean sea, in a time and a place unspecified, Kaspar Hauser is forced to confront the evil of a Grand Duchess who feels threatened by the power she exercises over the community.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surreal, experimental, atmospheric, serious, stylized, captivating, psychedelic, realistic, aesthetic, informative
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Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
Plot Summary:
A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives pre-empted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 193 min
Plot tags: surreal, experimental, mind bending, psychedelic, mindfuck, disturbing, art house, cult classic, psychological, atmospheric
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The Red Squirrel (1993)
Plot Summary:
Jota is about to commit suicide. As he fighting against himself, trying to jump off a bridge, a girl riding a motorcycle falls off the bridge. He runs to help her, and goes with her to the hospital. She has forgotten even what her name is, and he invents her life. He makes up a name for her and tells her and the doctors that they live together as a couple for four years. The lie goes on for a while.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: erotic, experimental, manga, art house, cult classic, suspense thriller, psychological, atmospheric, thought provoking, clever
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200 Motels (1971)
Plot Summary:
"Touring makes you crazy," Frank Zappa says, explaining that the idea for this film came to him while the Mothers of Invention were touring. The story, interspersed with performances by the Mothers and the Royal Symphony Orchestra, is a tale of life on the road. The band members' main concerns are the search for groupies and the desire to get paid.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, surreal, mind bending, mondo, cult classic, independent film, atmospheric, offbeat, humorous, non-linear
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Friction (2010)
Plot Summary:
Filmmaker Cullen Hoback travels to a private high school where he writes a script about a real couple and the student who comes between them.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, surreal, semi serious, captivating, psychological, enigmatic, teen, independent film, mind bending, offbeat
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Wrong (2012)
Plot Summary:
Dolph Springer wakes up one morning to realize he has lost the love of his life, his dog, Paul. During his quest to get Paul (and his life) back, Dolph radically changes the lives of others -- risking his sanity all the while.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: France, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: surreal, experimental, humorous, not serious, mindfuck, black comedy, philosophical, underground film, fast paced, existential
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One Hamlet Less (1973)
Plot Summary:
The "Hamlet" in this well-mounted Italian spoof is the Danish prince, not a small town or village. The movie irreverently draws on both the Shakespeare play and the 1877 story by Jules Laforgue. In the story, Hamlet (Carmelo Bene) is a would-be playwright. He suffers from inept Freudian analysis by Polonius (Pippo Tuminelli), and Ophelia and Gertrude (Isabella Russo & Luciana Cante) are women conjured up in his erotic imagination.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, experimental
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Slipstream (2007)
Plot Summary:
Aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer has lived his life in two states of existence: in reality and his own interior world. While working on a murder mystery script, and unaware that his brain is on the verge of implosion, Felix is baffled when his characters start to appear in his life, and vice versa.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, humorous, semi serious, mind bending, psychedelic, intellectual, existential, esoteric, independent film
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Psychotropica (2009)
Plot Summary:
A confused and tormented young man (known only as 'The Patient') relates his dreams and memories to a mysterious and sadistic doctor. As The Patient dives deeper into his mental landscape he discovers a shocking truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: retro, experimental
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Pastoral Hide and Seek (1974)
Plot Summary:
A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: surreal, experimental, psychedelic, mind bending, disturbing, avant garde, weird, cult film
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WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
Plot Summary:
A dense film that cuts up footage of a primary plot of two young Yugoslavian girls, one a politico and the other a sexpot, and an affair with a visiting Russian skater. Mixing metaphors of Russia's relationship with Yugoslavia, intercut with footage and interviews with Wilhelm Reich and Al Goldstein of Screw magazine. The film applies Reich's theories of Orgone energy and analogies of Stalinism as a form of Freudian sexual repression. Also known as W.R. The Mysteries of the Organism in English subtitled version. Was banned in Yugoslavia shortly after it was made.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Yugoslavia, West Germany
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: surreal, experimental, avant garde, controversial, disturbing, sexy, sex comedy, mind bending, psychedelic, educational
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Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
Plot Summary:
The inhabitants of an institution in a remote country rebel against their keepers. Their acts of rebellion are by turns humorous, boring and alarming. An allegory on the problematic nature of fully liberating the human spirit, as both commendable and disturbing elements of our nature come forward. The film shows how justifiable revolt may be empowering, but may also turn to chaos and depravity. The allegory is developed in part by the fact that the film is cast entirely with dwarfs.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: black and white, cult classic, surreal, disturbing, art house, black comedy, atmospheric, experimental, dark comedy, mind bending
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About Endlessness (2019)
Plot Summary:
A reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality, guided by a Scheherazade-esque narrator. Inconsequential moments have the same significance as historical events. Simultaneously an ode and a lament, presents a kaleidoscope of all that is eternally human, an infinite story of the vulnerability of existence.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, Germany, Norway, France
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, sincere, thought provoking, contemplative, anthology, mind bending, psychedelic, stylized, existential
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You, the Living (2007)
Plot Summary:
In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman (Jessica Lundberg) remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Sweden, Germany, France, Denmark, Norway, Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surreal, dark comedy, philosophical, melancholic, ironic, meditative, tragicomedy, black comedy, art house, visually appealing