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Plot Summary:
Fando and his partially paralyzed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar. Based on Jodorowsky's memories of a play by surrealist Fernando Arrabal.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, experimental, mind twisting, psychedelic, disturbing, avant garde, philosophical, depressing, suspense
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Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983)
Plot Summary:
In this classically surreal fantasy, a sailor, known for telling tales, sees a student killing his teacher and decides to spin a few yarns for him. He tells the boy of his many adventures in exotic South American ports where he visited opium dens and stayed in cathouses. In such dark, dreamlike places, the sailor meets many strange, mystical characters.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, atmospheric, mind bending, offbeat, serious, experimental, surreal, contemplative, stylized, postmodern
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Bunuel and King Solomon's Table (2001)
Plot Summary:
Toledo in the 30s: The godfather of cinematic surrealism, Luis Buñuel, the poet Federico Garcia Loca and the painter Salvador Dalí are on a search for the mythical table of King Salomon, which is known to have the power to see in the past, the present and the future. Their scour paths them through hilarious moments of absurdity and lots of references to movie history.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 535
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Spain, Mexico, Germany, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: clever, surreal, contemplative, stylized, manga, offbeat, serious, mind bending
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Rampo Noir (2005)
Plot Summary:
Mars Canal - Within absolute silence, a naked man wanders through a dark and depressing landscape recalling the excruciating details of his last encounter with his former lover. Mirror Hell - When a series of women are discovered with their faces burnt and skulls charred, a young detective investigates, discovering that a unique hand mirror is always found at the scene. Caterpillar - A war hero returns home with no limbs and only his eyesight remaining. His beautiful wife, tired of taking care of him, turns to torturing her crippled husband for amusement. Crawling Bugs - A sexy actress is returning home from a successful night on stage, until her limo driver decides that she should be coming home with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychedelic, avant garde, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, inspirational, clever, suspense
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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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Goodbye, 20th Century (1998)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2019, after global destruction and descent into savagery, the immortal Kuzman tried to discover his destiny in order to learn how to die. As he enters the whirling circles of time, we discover the blasphemy of our century, and how it is to close its circle.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 733
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country:
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, surreal, dark comedy, mind bending, controversial, apocalyptic, mystic, horror comedy, slasher, absurd
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Taxandria (1994)
Plot Summary:
young prince is taken for tuition at a seaside hotel but there quickly bores and wanders off to visit a nearby lighthouse. Befriended by the keeper, he learns of a secret world he can see inside the light of the lamp - the world of Taxandria ruled by the dictatorship of the 'eternal present' where all machines, progress and time have been banned. However, a naive but creative printing clerk unwittingly causes a revolution when he upsets a printing press and tries to replace the spilled letters only to have his new words taken for a subversive code. On the run he falls in love with a palace princess, discovers the forbidden art of photography and sets out to fulfill his dream of building a flying machine. Written by L.H. Wong.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 464
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Belgium, Germany, France, Hungary, Netherlands, UK, USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: surreal, anime, independent film, fairy tale, atmospheric, offbeat, serious, stylized
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Finisterrae (2010)
Plot Summary:
Two ghosts walk along the Camino of Santiago.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: surreal, contemplative, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, road movie, mind bending, psychedelic, dark, deep
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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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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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Goodbye to Language (2014)
Plot Summary:
About a man who’s angry at his wife because she’s met another man on a park bench and they no longer even speak the same language.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: surreal, experimental, atmospheric, thought provoking, serious, stylized, avant garde, psychedelic, art house, erotic
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The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Plot Summary:
The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave. The Exterminating Angel is a 1962 surrealist film, written and directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Silvia Pinal. Sharply satirical and allegorical, the film contains a view of human nature suggesting "mankind harbors savage instincts and unspeakable secrets". It is considered one of the best 1,000 films by The New York Times.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surreal, avant garde, dark comedy, allegory, black comedy, philosophical, political, black and white, mindfuck, atmospheric
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The Dance of Reality (2013)
Plot Summary:
“Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.” This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in 1929 in Tocopilla, a coastal town on edge of the Chilean desert, where this film was shot. It was there where he discovered the fundamentals of reality, as he underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: art house, surreal, atmospheric, touching, realistic, serious, mind bending, psychedelic, mindfuck, funny
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Black Moon (1975)
Plot Summary:
There is a war in the world between the men and the women. A young girl tries to escape this reality and comes to a hidden place where a strange unicorn lives with a family: Sister, Brother, many children and an old woman that never leaves her bed but stays in contact with the world through her radio.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, atmospheric, experimental, psychological, offbeat, psychedelic, art house, mind twisting, mindfuck
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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
Plot Summary:
Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a different light, Valerie must endure her sexual awakening while attempting to discern reality from fantasy as she encounters lecherous priest Gracian, a vampire-like stranger and otherworldly carnival folk.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, surreal, suspenseful, gothic, disturbing, dark, experimental, gothic horror, allegory, erotic
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On the Silver Globe (1988)
Plot Summary:
A small group of cosmic explorers leave Earth to find freedom and start a new civilization.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Poland
Duration: 166 min
Plot tags: avant garde, surreal, atmospheric, art house, mind bending, psychedelic, dark, mysterious, deep, metafiction
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Zardoz (1974)
Plot Summary:
In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Ireland, USA, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychedelic, stylized, philosophical, apocalyptic, political, psychotronic, mindfuck, independent film, psychological
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Jauja (2014)
Plot Summary:
A father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Western
Country: Denmark, Mexico, France, Argentina, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: contemplative, atmospheric, surreal, serious, road movie, captivating, slow cinema, tense, philosophical, cerebral
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Renegade (2004)
Plot Summary:
U.S Marshal Mike Donovan has dark memories of the death of his first love. He keeps peace between the Americans and the natives who had temporarily adopted and taken care of him. The evil actions of a white sorcerer lead him to confront the villain in the Sacred Mountains, and, through shamanic rituals conquer his fears and uncover a suppressed memory he would much rather deny.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Western
Country: UK, France, Mexico
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, psychological, suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, philosophical, spiritual, dark
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The Gopher (1970)
Plot Summary:
El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man. El Topo (the mole) claims to be God, while dressed as a gunfighter in black, riding a horse through a spiritual, mystical landscape strewn with old Western movie, and ancient Eastern religious symbols. Bandits slaughtered a village on his path, so El Topo avenges the massacred, then forcibly takes their leader's woman Mara as his. El Topo's surreal way is bloody, sexual and self-reflective, musing of his own demons, as he tries to vanquish those he encounters.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: Mexico
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychedelic, disturbing, allegory, experimental, cult classic, controversial, bloody, art house, stylized
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Valhalla Rising (2009)
Plot Summary:
1000 AD, for years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are escape, beginning a journey into the heart of darkness. On their flight, One Eye and Are board a Viking vessel, but the ship is soon engulfed by an endless fog that clears only as the crew sights an unknown land. As the new world reveals its secrets and the Vikings confront their terrible and bloody fate, One Eye discovers his true self.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Denmark, UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surreal, bleak, atmospheric, art house, disturbing, brutal, mindfuck, psychological, epic, contemplative
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
Plot Summary:
A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 153000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: surreal, dark fantasy, fairy tale, offbeat, stylized, cerebral, enigmatic, absurd, atmospheric, psychedelic
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Holy Motors (2012)
Plot Summary:
We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes youthful, sometimes old. By turns murderer, beggar, company chairman, monstrous creature, worker, family man.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: surreal, art house, psychedelic, cerebral, mindfuck, enigmatic, disturbing, atmospheric, experimental, artsy
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Santa Sangre (1989)
Plot Summary:
A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the heretical church of Santa Sangre ("Holy Blood"), and then commit suicide. Back in the present, he escapes and rejoins his surviving and armless mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Italy
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, dark, atmospheric, psychological, art house, mindfuck, creepy, cult classic
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The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)
Plot Summary:
Set in pre- World War II era. A young man is on a strange train to see his dying father in a sanatorium. But the place is going to ruin and recalls a lot of memories from the past. He is beset by soldiers from the past, colonial black mercenaries, girls from his early life, and his parents. It is an interior adventure, with unusual atmospheric flair and extraordinary sets.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Poland
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, psychological, psychedelic, dark, mindfuck, disturbing, existential, philosophical, slasher
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Eraserhead (1977)
Plot Summary:
Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 125000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: surreal, avant garde, art house, psychological, disturbing, psychedelic, experimental, atmospheric, black and white, dark
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The Fall (2006)
Plot Summary:
In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 116000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, South Africa, India
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: surreal, offbeat, fairy tale, visual, visually stunning, touching, visually appealing, mind bending, light, psychological
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Enter the Void (2009)
Plot Summary:
This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta). When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past -- where he sees his parents before their deaths -- to the present -- where he witnesses his own autopsy -- and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan
Duration: 161 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, art house, visually stunning, philosophical, atmospheric, meditative, disturbing, surreal, cerebral, mindfuck
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The Holy Mountain (1973)
Plot Summary:
A Mexican master leads a Christ figure and other disciples to a mountain of immortal wise men. The scandal of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky's flood of sacrilegious imagery and existential symbolism in The Holy Mountain is a spiritual quest for enlightenment pitting illusion against truth. The Alchemist (Jodorowsky) assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychedelic, avant garde, disturbing, art house, mindfuck, mind bending, experimental, atmospheric, stylized
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Dead Man (1995)
Plot Summary:
On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 102000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Western
Country: USA, Germany, Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: bleak, atmospheric, black and white, gloomy, captivating, offbeat, art house, surreal, tense, melancholic
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The City of Lost Children (1995)
Plot Summary:
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, art house, stylized, gothic, disturbing, mindfuck, visual, visually stunning, mind bending