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Plot Summary:
Three generations of men, including a pervert that constantly seeks for new kinds of satisfaction, an obese speed eater and a passionate embalmer.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Hungary, Austria, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: disturbing, dark comedy, surreal, controversial, cult classic, offbeat, art house, humorous, semi serious, erotic
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Ex Drummer (2007)
Plot Summary:
Three handicapped losers who form a band ask famous writer Dries to be their drummer. He joins the band and starts manipulating them.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Music
Country: Belgium, France, Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: disturbing, offbeat, suspenseful, dark comedy, semi serious, controversial, erotic, psychedelic, surreal, art house
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Sweet Movie (1974)
Plot Summary:
The winner (Carole Laure) of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Canada, West Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, surreal, controversial, experimental, art house, erotic, sexy, mind bending, heartbreaking, psychotronic
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A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
Plot Summary:
Oliver Deuce, a successful doctor, is shattered when his wife is killed in a freak car accident involving a car being driven by Alba Bewick colliding with a very large rare bird. His twin brother Oswald is researching how carcasses decay at the local zoo. Alba survives the accident although she loses one leg, and her sinister physician eventually removes the other 'because it looked so sad all alone'. Oswald and Oliver become involved in a menage a trois with Alba, and uncover very dubious trafficking in zoo property. But ultimately their only goal is to try and understand their mortal condition.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: surreal, disturbing, dark comedy, mind bending, erotic, black comedy, clever, witty, talky, controversial
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Free Fall (2014)
Plot Summary:
An old woman flies past six floors after jumping from the roof of her apartment block. Six stories on the poor state of humanity, told with humour and rare imagination to the accompaniment of a pulsating soundtrack from Amon Tobin. A woeful burlesque set in the present by one of Europe’s most original contemporary filmmakers.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary, South Korea, France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: anthology, humorous, surreal, semi serious, suspense, intellectual, art house, offbeat, biting, experimental
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Trash Humpers (2009)
Plot Summary:
Follows the lives of a small group of sociopathic elderly people in Nashville, Tennessee.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: independent film, minimal cast, not serious, realistic, cynical, black comedy, disturbing, controversial, experimental, surreal
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Escape from Tomorrow (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a world of fake castles and anthropomorphic rodents, an epic battle begins when an unemployed father's sanity is challenged by a chance encounter with two underage girls on holiday.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, enigmatic, black and white, atmospheric, stylized, scary, underground film, horror comedy
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Careful (1992)
Plot Summary:
In the remote Alpine village of Tolzbad at the turn of the century, people talk quietly and restrain their movements lest avalanches come and kill them. This atmosphere lends itself to repressed emotions - shown through the parallel stories of butler student Johann lusting after his mother (an old flame of the mysterious Count Knotkers) and Klara's attraction to her father (who lusts after his other daughter), leading to duels and suicidal plunges galore. All this is shot in the style of an early German sound film, complete with intertitles, deliberately crackly soundtrack and 'hand-tinted' colour effects.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: surreal, cult classic, atmospheric, experimental, disturbing, stylized, mindfuck, avant garde, mind bending, psychedelic
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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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Cemetery Man (1994)
Plot Summary:
A cemetery man has the unusual problem of the dead rising from the grave. Himself and his assistant must end these creatures' lives again after they are reborn. Everything is going well until "She" comes along and stirs things up a bit.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: gothic, black comedy, dark comedy, surreal, disturbing, sexy, scary, atmospheric, horror comedy, cult classic
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Street Trash (1987)
Plot Summary:
A group of hobos begin melting into multicolored piles of goo after drinking sixty-year-old liquor. At the same time, the psychotic Vietnam War vet who rules the hobo camp snaps and begins killing at random. Two brothers set out to stop the liquor and the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: disturbing, horror comedy, scary, rough, humorous, cult horror, psychotronic, funny, bloody, slasher
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Basket Case (1982)
Plot Summary:
A young man carrying a big basket that contains his deformed Siamese-twin brother seeks vengeance on the doctors who separated them against their will.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bloody, psychotronic, cult classic, suspenseful, splatter, horror comedy, cult horror, disturbing
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Bad Boy Bubby (1993)
Plot Summary:
Bad Boy Bubby is just that: a bad boy. So bad, in fact, that his mother has kept him locked in their house for his entire thirty years, convincing him that the air outside is poisonous. After a visit from his estranged father, circumstances force Bubby into the waiting world, a place which is just as unusual to him as he is to the world.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia, Italy
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: disturbing, surreal, psychological, dark comedy, black comedy, art house, dark, cerebral, cult classic, mindfuck
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The Big Feast (1973)
Plot Summary:
A group of men hire some prostitutes and go to a villa in the countryside. There, they engage in group sex and resolve to eat themselves to death.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, art house, surreal, humorous, controversial, atmospheric, black comedy, dark comedy, sexual
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Man Bites Dog (1992)
Plot Summary:
The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his accomplices and active participants. Ben provides casual commentary on the nature of his work and arbitrary musings on topics of interest to him, such as music or the conditions of low-income housing, and even goes so far as to introduce the documentary crew to his family. But their reckless indulgences soon get the better of them.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, dark comedy, black comedy, disturbing, black and white, humorous, controversial, stylized, cult classic, atmospheric
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Gummo (1997)
Plot Summary:
Solomon and Tummler are two teenagers killing time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disturbing, surreal, dark comedy, experimental, independent film, art house, bleak, psychedelic, offbeat, erotic
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The Acid House (1998)
Plot Summary:
THE ACID HOUSE is a surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of the chemical generation, casting a dark and unholy light into the hidden corners of the human psyche. Directed by Paul McGuigan, the film dramatises three stories from the book: 1- The Granton Star Cause, 2- A Soft Touch & 3- The Acid House.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychedelic, mind bending, dark comedy, disturbing, humorous, absurd, independent film, clever, controversial
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Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)
Plot Summary:
Six outwardly average individuals have elaborate fetishes they indulge with surreptitious care. A mousy letter carrier makes dough balls she grotesquely ingests before bed. A shop clerk fixates on a TV news reader while he builds a machine to massage and masturbate him. One of his customers makes an elaborate chicken costume for a voodoo-like scene with a doll resembling his plump neighbor. She, in turn, has a doll that resembles him, which she whips and dominates in an abandoned church. The TV news reader has her own fantasy involving carp. Her husband, who is indifferent to her, steals materials to fashion elaborate artifacts that he rubs, scrapes and rolls across his body.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: surreal, experimental, sexy, dark comedy, psychedelic, psychotronic, sex comedy, erotic, mind bending, gothic
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The Idiots (1998)
Plot Summary:
With his first Dogma-95 film director Lars von Trier opens up a completely new film platform. With a mix of home-video and documentary styles the film tells the story of a group of young people who have decided to get to know their “inner-idiots” and thus not only facing and breaking their outer appearance but also their inner.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, France, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Italy
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: art house, surreal, disturbing, controversial, experimental, sexy, erotic, satirical, dark comedy, psychological
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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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Antichrist (2009)
Plot Summary:
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 134000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Poland
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, scary, atmospheric, psychological thriller, bleak, art house, minimal cast, sexy, dark
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Excision (2012)
Plot Summary:
Alienated teen Pauline struggles with the pressures of fitting into high school, pleasing her mother and a burning desire to lose her virginity. With a grotesque curiosity for the darker side of life, Pauline is considered a social outcast by everyone around her. Enticed by flesh, she retreats into her own fantasies and hopes to become a great surgeon - that is, if she doesn't go insane first.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, surreal, scary, tense, dark comedy, erotic, funny, slasher, controversial
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Visitor Q (2001)
Plot Summary:
A father who is a failed former television reporter tries to mount a documentary about violence and sex among youths. He proceeds to have sex with his daughter who is now a prostitute, and films his son being humiliated and hit by classmates. "Q", a perfect stranger, somehow gets involved and enters the bizarre family whose son beats his mom, who in turn is also a prostitute and a heroin addict.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, surreal, controversial, tense, dark comedy, disturbing, bloody, cult classic, atmospheric, rough
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Gozu (2003)
Plot Summary:
Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting Minami to conduct a search. While looking, he finds a mysterious isolated hotel where he decides to take a rest. Not only are the front desk clerks a bit strange, but even the ambiance feels unusual. Minami soon realizes he may have gotten more than he bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: surreal, disturbing, atmospheric, enigmatic, psychedelic, dark comedy, mindfuck, serious, suspenseful, mind bending
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Audition (1999)
Plot Summary:
Seven years after the death of his wife, company executive Aoyama is invited to sit in on auditions for an actress. Leafing through the resumés in advance, his eye is caught by Yamazaki Asami, a striking young woman with ballet training.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 88000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, scary, disturbing, tense, dark, bloody, surreal, controversial, suspenseful, suspense
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The Ordeal (2004)
Plot Summary:
A few days before Christmas, traveling entertainer Marc Stevens is stuck at nightfall in a remote wood in the swampy Hautes Fagnes region of Liège, his van conked out. An odd chap who's looking for a lost dog leads Marc to a shuttered inn.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: disturbing, surreal, psychological, christmas horror, atmospheric, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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Possession (1981)
Plot Summary:
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, psychological, disturbing, mind bending, art house, scary, creepy, grindhouse, controversial
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In My Skin (2002)
Plot Summary:
Esther, a self-conscious young woman who works for a public relations firm. One night at a party with her friend Sandrine, Esther wanders into the backyard and stumbles, scratching her leg on a piece of scrap metal. She goes back to the party, and later realizes that her injury is much more severe than she had thought. There's a huge, ugly gouge all the way up her shin, and she's bleeding profusely. She goes to a doctor, who patches her up and tells her she might need a skin graft. But Esther becomes obsessed with the wound. She won't let it heal, sneaking away during work to cut herself. As her leg becomes an ugly scarred mass, she begins to notice a problem with her arm. Before long, she's alienated Vincent and jeopardized her job with her compulsive, self-destructive behavior. But she continues on her grotesque downward spiral.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, scary, rough, suspenseful, sexy, heartbreaking, bloody, suspense, sentimental
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Happiness (1998)
Plot Summary:
The lives of many individuals connected by the desire for happiness, often from sources usually considered dark or evil.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: black comedy, cynical, independent film, dark comedy, depressing, bleak, art house, disturbing, psychological, psychedelic
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Dumplings (2004)
Plot Summary:
A rich woman, Mrs. Li, is losing her attractiveness and longs for passion with her husband, who is having an affair with his younger and more attractive masseuse. In order to boost her image, she seeks out the help of Aunt Mei, a local chef. Mei cooks her some special dumplings which she claims to be effective for rejuvenation, but these dumplings hide a terrible secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, suspense, dark, surreal, atmospheric, bloody, controversial, intense, creepy