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Plot Summary:
Dreamwood narrates the oniric quest of a modern argonaut in a mysterious island located somewhere on the borders of the unconscious.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: anthology, experimental, avant garde, independent film
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Bible! (1974)
Plot Summary:
A softcore, adult-oriented version of the tales from the Bible.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Fantasy, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: avant garde, anthology, biblical, queer cinema
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Pound (1970)
Plot Summary:
In a pound, 18 dogs wait to be adopted.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: controversial, grindhouse, offbeat, experimental, surreal, semi serious, biting, underground film, suspense
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Once (1973)
Plot Summary:
Filmed on a California beach, this arty outing features loin-cloth wearing actors silently telling the allegorical love story between Creation and Humanity on a lonely California beach.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: minimal cast, allegory, independent film, art film, silent, silent film
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Aphrodisiac (1973)
Plot Summary:
Eccentric Professor Leviticus Wirtsus is obsessed with crossbreeding animals of different species. His research leads Wirtsus to discover a LSD-type substance called Fongaluli.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, weird
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Day of the Idiots (1981)
Plot Summary:
In this non-story of the mentally and emotionally impaired inhabitants of a clinic for the insane, the medical profession along with humanity is distorted into a long, filmic exhibition of sado-masochism, urination, and ample nudity for its own sake. Critics that support the avant-garde might feel that the lack of apparent purpose in each "idiot's" (the title is "Day of the Idiots') physical and emotional problems is a form of high art. The viewers will have to decide for themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: weird
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Org (1979)
Plot Summary:
Explores the complex relationship between the spirit, body, and mind. The film is a nightmare with closed eyes because it counts among the most terrible moments of my life, my second exile, which lasted a very long time. Inspired by an ancient Hindu legend.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 177 min
Plot tags: avant garde, psychedelic, experimental
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Necropolis (1970)
Plot Summary:
A surreal and disturbing distillation of Western Civilization, Necropolis is the unhinged vision of Italian director Franco Brocani. Pierre Clémenti is Attila the Hun, naked and on horseback, while Warhol superstar Viva is a drunken and abusive Countess Bathory. A pop pastiche for the psychedelic generation, Necropolis features a soundtrack by Gavin Bryars.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: surreal, experimental, avant garde, weird
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The Mutilation Man (1998)
Plot Summary:
Ivan is a young man who travels a barren wasteland performing shows of self mutilation to small but adoring crowds. He is doing so to attempt to understand the cycle of child abuse he has been a part of. Through flashbacks and halucinations we see his Father murder his mother as well as the psysical abuse Ivan suffered. He must make peace within himself through a sacrifice of blood and honor.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Horror, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, art house, experimental, underground film, avant garde, spoof, parody, weird, cult film
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The Switch or How to Alter Your Ego (1974)
Plot Summary:
A shy, withdrawn female scientist invents a formula that turns her into a horny, oversexed nymphomaniac.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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In Passing (2011)
Plot Summary:
In Passing is a collaboration between seven different filmmakers from around the world in response to Jesse Richards' 2008 Remodernist Film Manifesto.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Ireland, Netherlands
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: anthology, inspirational, experimental, avant garde
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Luminous Procuress (1971)
Plot Summary:
A series of erotic vignettes and sexual imagery (mostly of the gay variety) are presented courtesy of The Cockettes (a gay/drag performance art ensemble of late 60s/early 70s San Francisco).
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: avant garde, dark, explicit, aesthetic, transgressive, homoerotic, underground film, independent film, queer cinema
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Hidden Beauties (1999)
Plot Summary:
Three gorgeous beauties awaken from an ancient nap and immediately begin making up for lost time, engaging in as many passionate encounters as time will allow.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: independent film, sexy, stylized, semi serious, sexual
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Shock-O-Rama (2005)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: anthology, queer horror
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Kung Fu and Titties (2013)
Plot Summary:
Richard Titties, an out-of-shape martial arts wannabe, is shot into an alternate dimension after his girlfriend Cynthia is kidnapped. Her captors are a group of tittie obsessed madmen led by Zeefros, the master of the supernatural realm. Zeefros kidnaps women for the sole purpose of seeing their titties. Richard joins up with his sister Raine Brown, a Gorilla and a gaggle of other strange characters, in order to save his girlfriend. He must search inside, overcome his futile martial arts skills, and find the kung fu fighter within if he is to save himself and all those that dwell in the alternate world.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, parody, independent film, slapstick, slapstick comedy
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Freedom Deep (1998)
Plot Summary:
Abandoned at six by his off-kilter parents, Liam pursues his passion for writing, and reaches child-prodigy status while under the roof of a pair of drug-addicted mates, one of whom is a transvestite. The 1998-problem is with the "creative editing" of his words. Twenty years later, there's been a global holocaust, and the problem is, simply, getting ANYBODY to see his words. Written by Kim Williams.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Fantasy
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: experimental
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Angel Mine (1978)
Plot Summary:
A young and affluent couple become fatally entangled in their own wish-fulfillment world.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Fantasy
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: weird
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At Night All the Cats Are Black (2022)
Plot Summary:
A crew is shooting a libertine costume film in the countryside when Valentin, the director, suddenly disappears. While the local police investigates, the film shoot continues but takes an odd turn. Robin, the cameraman and director’s lover, follows a promise and reaches the Mexican Pacific.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Fantasy
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: avant garde, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Lucinda's Spell (1998)
Plot Summary:
Something Magical Is In The Air...... Jason the last descendant of Merlin, must father a child on the eve of Beltane. A coven of the world's most powerful witches have gathered in New Orleans for a spell contest to determine who will bear his magical child. But a bizarre battle between good and evil ensues when a young prostitute, Lucinda challenges the coven with her own special brand of magic. To complicate matters, Madison, a desperate New Orleans voodoo priest, hungry to use Jason's alchemical blood to turn lead into gold, stikes a treacherous alliance with the seductive witch Beatrice whose only desire is to use Merlin's offspring to control the most powerful magic on earth... Revel in magic and mayhem as Lucinda struggles to overcome diabolical odds in the most outlandish spell contest you've ever seen!.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: bizarre
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Private Collections (1979)
Plot Summary:
Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and compliant. He decides to erase his signs of distress and remain on the island. What awaits? In the second, an adolescent searches for the words of a nursery rime he remembers bits of. His journey takes him into dreams, sexual awakening, and Oedipal fantasy. Third, a man of wealth in late-nineteenth century Paris hires a prostitute for the night. She's also cabaret performer and takes him to her room. He fears he's about to be robbed. What's her secret?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: anthology, erotic, sensual, allegory
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The Emperor's Wife (2003)
Plot Summary:
In an undisclosed location and time, in the land of 1001 nights, the law dictates that the Emperor must take a new wife if his current Empress does not bear a son within seven years of marriage. At the celebration Ball of their sixth wedding anniversary, the Emperor (MAX BEESLEY - Torque) and his faithful manservant, Chamberlain (JONATHAN RHYS-MEYERS - Vanity Fair, Bend It Like Beckham, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead) begin the covert operation to find and prepare a virgin candidate to become the new Empress.A suitable young woman, Sabah (LETICIA DOLERA) is secretly transported into an isolated wing in the Imperial Palace. In this prison of fairytale rooms, she is tutored by the Masters and spied upon by the Emperor and Chamberlain. Should the current Empress (ROSANA PASTOR) conceive, everyone in the secret wing will be executed.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Fluctuations (1970)
Plot Summary:
A bizarre don't-even-try-to-make-sense-of-it bombardment of sexual imagery that plays like stream of consciousness from a degenerate: threesomes, foursomes, lesbians, bondage, hair-whipping (!) and, believe it or not, even kung-fu. Avant-garde masterpiece or pure gutter trash? Perhaps both.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: bizarre
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Strawberries Need Rain (1971)
Plot Summary:
Death comes to take a beautiful young girl, and she persuades him to let her live out her fantasies before he finally takes her away.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Scars of Youth (2008)
Plot Summary:
In a post-apocalyptic world 200 years in the future, society has broken down into fragmented groups who now dwell within a tangled wood, completely unaware of any civilization that exists beyond and governed by the white-suited agents of some ominous force, which could perhaps be nothing more than a high-tech manifestation of their own guilt and suffering. In this world, a young man living in a decaying wreck of a dwelling struggles to come to terms with his bleak existence while trying to save his mother from the grip of a strange black fluid which seems to prolong life but at the same time leaves it's users in a drug-like haze and causes scar-like tissue to cover their bodies. Scars of Youth follows in the tradition of classic European science fiction such as Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker and Solaris, while at the same time forging new ground in surrealistic fantasy film.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: experimental, independent film
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In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal (1986)
Plot Summary:
300 kilos of heroin have disappeared in Necrocity, a city of terror—city of night—where Captain Speed has a gang, and the government hides the dead. Pierre Clémenti’s In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal (À l’ombre de la canaille bleue) is an experimental crime film considered to be a landmark of Parisian underground cinema.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: experimental, avant garde
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Eggshells (1969)
Plot Summary:
Experimental allegorical story about a group of hippie students in Austin, Texas, who move into an old big house in the woods. However, something else is there and it's influencing them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, mind bending, surreal, experimental, allegory, independent film, art film, weird
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Drawing Restraint 9 (2005)
Plot Summary:
The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, stylized, serious, experimental, disturbing, controversial, artsy, slow cinema, aesthetic
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War Is Menstrual Envy (1992)
Plot Summary:
Set in a post-apocalyptic future, the story finds a handful of ragged survivors attempting to communicate with dolphins, while another cadre of survivors have made it their crusade to destroy all the world's religions.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: mind bending, political, disturbing, controversial, experimental, underground film, avant garde, independent film, art house, bizarre
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The Princess and the Pauper (1997)
Plot Summary:
A fairy tale about a twin princess and a prince who where seperated after their birth.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Fantasy
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags:
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Prospero's Books (1991)
Plot Summary:
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, Italy, Japan
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: experimental, surreal, psychedelic, epic, art house, non-linear, psychotronic, postmodern, cult classic, atmospheric
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Subconscious Cruelty (2000)
Plot Summary:
A surrealistic anthology of horror films; four segments structured as an intense fever dream.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, rough, brutal, anthology, bloody, suspense, experimental, controversial, extreme horror