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Plot Summary:
Régime sans pain, influenced by (Ruiz's) friend Jean Baudrillard (and calling) to mind grade-Z SF, grew out of a commission to direct a music video (featuring French cult rock duo of Angèle/Maimone). Ruiz offered a counterproposal that he direct several music videos rather than one; once this deal was made, he shot enough material to interconnect the various videos until he arrived at a feature.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Fantasy, Music, Musical
Country: France
Duration: 75 min
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Gory Gory Hallelujah (2003)
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Four actors compete for the role of Jesus - a black revolutionary, a bisexual hippie, a Jew, and a feminist. When all four are rejected, they hit the road on bad-ass motorcycles, bound for glory in New York City. But when a run-in with a gang of Elvises ends in murder, they find themselves taken prisoner in a little town called Jackville - where folk don't take kindly to blasphemers. The Jesuses fall prey to an evil conspiracy that can only lead to the Apocalypse.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, suspense, absurd, queer horror, slapstick comedy, cult film
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Population: 1 (1986)
Plot Summary:
A defense contractor who somehow becomes the sole survivor of a nuclear holocaust. In his solitude, he traces the history of U.S. civilization in the 20th century through musical numbers.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Fantasy, Music, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: mysterious
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Mammame (1986)
Plot Summary:
A Ruizian adaptation of Jean-Claude Gallotta's iconic wordless ballet choreography.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Fantasy, Music
Country: France
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: silent, silent film
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Dead Meadow Three Kings (2010)
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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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Me Two (2008)
Plot Summary:
80's pop icon Gilles Gabriel is about to make a comeback in the French music scene, until he accidentally hits Ranu, a slightly nutty accountant, when out driving one day. Both are horrified to realise that Gilles died in the crash, and that his spirit now lives in Ranu's head! The kooky accountant's life soon becomes chaos!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, absurd, surprise ending, independent film
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The Mystery of Dr Martinu (1993)
Plot Summary:
This biographical film of Czech composer Martinu is in two parts: the first part a recurring dream, the second a Freudian analysis of the dream.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags:
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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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Dark at Noon (1992)
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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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Bedtime Story: Live in Concert (2016)
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Genere: Fantasy, Music, Musical
Country: Germany
Duration: 52 min
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The Golden Boat (1990)
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Inspired in form by American police TV shows and soap operas, The Golden Boat is a madcap, surreal dash through the streets of New York city, telling the mysterious and often hilarious story of an aged street-person named Austin, a comically compulsive assassin, as he joins up with a young rock critic and philosophy student named Israel Williams. In the course of their adventures, Austin pursues his object of desire - a Mexican soap opera star - and along the way engages a host of TV characters and bit players, whose repartee range from gangsterish insults to the question of God's existence.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA, Belgium, Luxembourg, Hong Kong
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: black comedy, parody, independent film, telenovela
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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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Sweet Twenty (2017)
Plot Summary:
Adapted from Korean movie, Miss Granny, this movie tells a story of old woman that despise old-age that suddenly transform to a pretty girl with all her youth problems.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Music, Musical
Country: Indonesia, South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: funny, light, captivating, entertaining, sweet, fun
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Martyrs of Love (1967)
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This three-part ballad, which often uses music to stand in for dialogue, remains the most perfect embodiment of Nemec’s vision of a film world independent of reality. Mounting a defense of timid, inhibited, clumsy, and unsuccessful individuals, the three protagonists are a complete antithesis of the industrious heroes of socialist aesthetics. Martyrs of Love cemented Nemec’s reputation as the kind of unrestrained nonconformist the Communist establishment considered the most dangerous to their ideology.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: anthology, campy
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Love Torn in a Dream (2000)
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Raul Ruiz's Love Torn in a Dream is introduced with a fake newsreel, taking place in postwar France, in which the cast of the film meet with the producer, who explains the film's complex weave of nine narratives. A diagram in which each story is represented by a letter of the alphabet explicates the intertwining of the nine tales. As the producer explains each actor's role, the film begins. The stories, rooted in folklore, bump up against each other as the film leaps back and forth in time.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Portugal, Chile
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: semi serious, enigmatic, offbeat, humorous, avant garde, art house, baroque
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City of Pirates (1983)
Plot Summary:
A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a man with multiple personalities.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: surreal, rough, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Roe's Room (1997)
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Bound to a suffocating existence, a young man embarks on a marvelous journey of the imagination, transforming ordinary details of his room into fantastic images of natural beauty, where the cycles of life mysteriously play themselves out.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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A Journey into Bliss (2004)
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The film deals loosely with the adventures of the grizzled Gustav who captains a ship – a giant floating ‘snailboat’ – with a crew of talking animals and lumbering sailors in blackface. It unspools like a perverse children’s story book, all at once cuddly cute, grotesquely obscene and beyond absurd as normal narrative logic shatters, giving way to an episodic, free-associative structure that one critic likened to “cinematic memory association.” (joergbuttgereit.com).
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: dark, fairy tale, splatter, independent film
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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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The Sword and the Rose (2010)
Plot Summary:
Manuel bids farewell to his routine and boards a 15th century vessel under pirate law. Treason on board triggers a series of terrible events our protagonist overcomes while keeping his moral principles intact.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: humorous, surreal, contemplative, semi serious, offbeat
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Treasure Island (1986)
Plot Summary:
Take a son and make sure he dreams; wake him up and start telling him a story. Rock him with your most beautiful voice, lower and lower, until he goes back to sleep but still listening, subliminally. Now, he must be dreaming, but completing the story you were whispering. When the son wakes up, he must feel like the story chose him and not the opposite. Immortal story, was the title of an Orson Welles' film (who also acted in a previous version of Stevenson's Treaure Island); but every story is immortal, is what any Raoul Ruiz's film tells us.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: surreal, independent film
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The Wizard of Oz On Ice (1996)
Plot Summary:
An ice-skating television adaptation of the 1939 musical film based on Lyman Frank Baum's 1900 fairy tale novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz".
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration:
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Alice at the Palace (1982)
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Meryl Streep stars as Alice in this production of Elizabeth Swados' musical, which was adapted from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. Based on the acclaimed New York Shakespeare Festival production by Joseph Papp, Alice at the Palace follows Alice's surreal adventures with The Mad Hatter, The March Hare, The Queen of Hearts, and The Cheshire Cat, among many others.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Family, Musical, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: avant garde, fable
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Jack and the Beanstalk (1970)
Plot Summary:
Retelling of the classic fairy tale, but from a decidedly 1960s point of view, complete with "groovy" dialogue.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychotronic, independent film
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The Inner Scar (1972)
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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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Alice Through the Looking Glass (1966)
Plot Summary:
Alice Through the Looking Glass TV Movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
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The Adventures of God (2000)
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It tells the story of a man and a woman trapped inside what appears to be a dream set in the labyrinthine hallways, mysterious rooms of a large hotel in the 30's, facing the sea.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: art house, captivating, surreal, absurd, experimental
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Saturday Church (2017)
Plot Summary:
A 14 year old boy, struggling with gender identity and religion, begins to use fantasy to escape his life in the inner city and find his passion in the process.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, psychological, light, sincere, sexy, independent film, queer cinema, weird
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Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Chrimbus Special (2010)
Plot Summary:
Join Messers Heidecker and Wareheim for an exciting winter holiday that's taking the world by storm with the Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Chrimbus Special.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 919
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, surreal, stylized, parody, offbeat, spoof, sketch comedy, live comedy, post modern
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Lazare (2020)
Plot Summary:
A team of French-Brazilian actors goes to Bucharest in Romania to shoot a film at a lower cost. But the Romanian technical team secretly shoot their own film.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: avant garde, psychotronic, contemplative, stylized, experimental, independent film, sensual, queer cinema, cult film
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Another Trip to the Moon (2015)
Plot Summary:
The magical surrealist journey of Asa, daughter of a shaman, who confronts her own mother, fighting for her own life and freedom.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, surreal, disturbing, psychedelic