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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 Apiary (2002)
Plot Summary:
Fairy-tale thriller, from the 'parallel cinema'. Real characters from Russian folklore come to life in the half-fantastic, half-idiotic atmosphere of a provincial town.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, satirical, surreal, art house, semi serious, underground film, independent film, minimal cast
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The Plains of Heaven (1982)
Plot Summary:
Two scientists at a remote satellite station begin to have hallucinations because of the facility's isolation. Or are they hallucinations... ?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: experimental, independent film
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Delirium (2013)
Plot Summary:
An ordinary funeral procession moves along its path from church to cemetery. Observing, you slip from reality into a place where time has lost its linearity, looping through the odd images thrown off by a distorted reality. Images of non-existence, of varying reflections of death issuing from both past and future, concrete yet abstract, horrible yet desirable. A family asks a young psychiatrist to be their guest for a while to untangle the circumstances of their father's illness. He's developed a suicidal fixation for ropes and knots among other things. While deeply involved in analyzing the patient's delirium, the doctor begins to lose track of what is taking place. The task of "how to help" is twisted into "who am I? Doctor or patient? Chance guest, member of this suffering family, or a catholic priest who has dreamed this all up?" In order to get a handle on it all, it's best to start from the beginning, but why do things keep shifting, changing?.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Ukraine, Czech Republic
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: art house, neo noir, non-linear, psychedelic, surreal, independent film
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Nuts (2016)
Plot Summary:
Jenny was made for love and Lana for gambling. In this old-fashioned country, Lebanon, women have no say. Defying everyone and everything they will fight for their freedom whatever the cost.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Lebanon
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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The Perfect Nonsense (2016)
Plot Summary:
Jaythan Rubin, an awkward and socially anxious twenty-something meets Bethany "G-Code" Jones, a hardcore gangsta rapper. Together they wander an absurd landscape.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: surreal, bizarre
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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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Crucial Years (1967)
Plot Summary:
Juraj, a Slovak artist living in Prague, takes stock in hus life, realizing that his days pass without purpose. He lives a carefree life. But now he has to choose between two women, between the city and the country, and between creative work and craftsmanship. He has a passion for art but he also has to make a living. Through his relationships with close people, he grows aware of his position and this knowledge helps him to live a more fulfilling and better life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: freeze frame
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Desierto en tu mente (2017)
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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Hotel Room (1998)
Plot Summary:
The coincidence cross fates of five characters in a hotel room in New York. A newlyweds couples discussing, a touring magician requesting the services of a prostitute, a voyeur photographer that is silent witness to the fight of a couple on the street and a journalist who is going to kill himself because he made public his penchant for crossdressing.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: underground film, independent film, amateur film, cult film
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Turtle (1994)
Plot Summary:
A story about friendship between a boy and his turtle.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Cameroon
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Praying with Anger (1992)
Plot Summary:
An alienated, Americanized teenager of East Indian heritage is sent back to India where he discovers not only his roots but a lot about himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: underground film, independent film
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Nexxt - Frau Plastic Chicken Show (2001)
Plot Summary:
In the 20th live broadcast of Frau Plastic Chicken’s TV show entitled Nexxt, the first guest comes from the sixties: it is the hero of Burgess’s novel A Clockwork Orange, the notorious murderer Alexander Grushkin, that is, Little Alex. With the help of Egodoki, Frau PC has the Ludovico Technique applied on him, and beside the broken Alex she has Rex Madison, the protagonist of American Psycho brought in, with handcuffs on. The self-assured gigolo breaks down at the appearance of Maggie, his first love, and it is he who wins the confessional show led by Mrs Cardinal Paula Aquarius, which incurs pardon to be given. Rex, freed from his shackles, shoots the majority of those present, rapes PC and leaves together with Alex by helicopter. The show continues on the moon.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags:
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Las Meninas (2008)
Plot Summary:
This film is about what the routine of everyday life can do to the human mind and psyche. It also reflects on the importance of the choices we make and how limited these choices are in the first place. The plot evolves around a family of four. They live in the suburbs, in a strange villa that appears, through a complex game of mirrors, to be more like a piece of installation art than a real house. The main character, who hardly appears on screen, is the son, a man in his thirties. Suffering from asthma and eczema since childhood, he uses his condition to manipulate his parents and his sister. Thus the existence of the terrorized family turns into an endless ritual of attempting to satisfy his whims, and always on the alert for yet another one of his “health crises”. Las Meninas resembles the scattered pieces of a puzzle. It is up to the viewer to assemble them in order to form his very own picture – something that makes the film itself personal and unique.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: surreal, neo noir, non-linear, independent film, psychedelic, art house
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Tusk (1980)
Plot Summary:
An English girl and an Indian elephant, born on the same day, share a common destiny.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, 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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Judy & Punch (2019)
Plot Summary:
In the anarchic town of Seaside, nowhere near the sea, puppeteers Judy and Punch are trying to resurrect their marionette show. The show is a hit due to Judy's superior puppeteering but Punch's driving ambition and penchant for whisky lead to a inevitable tragedy that Judy must avenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: avant garde, rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, tricky, psychological, brutal, costume drama, black comedy
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Franklin: A Symphony of Pain (2015)
Plot Summary:
The mind is a terrible thing to waste.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, serious, suspense, bleak, dark, mind bending
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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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Destruction Babies (2016)
Plot Summary:
Taira is a disaffected youth from a seaside town reveling in violence. Enamored by his strength, Yuya joins his crusade in attacking strangers. Meanwhile, Taira's brother looks for him.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 945
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Keyhole (2011)
Plot Summary:
Gangster and deadbeat dad, Ulysses Pick, embarks on an unusual journey through his home.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: surreal, serious, stylized, atmospheric, realistic, black and white, mind bending, sexy, psychedelic, art house
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Mary My Dearest (1981)
Plot Summary:
A very fantastic story about a robber (Hector) and a magitian (Maria). Once they were lovers, but he left her. One fine day they reenccount and become lovers again. She takes him appart from the 'bad road' and they then work as child party's magitians. One day, while she was away in a bussines trip, her car cracks up in the middle of the highway, during a storm. She is picked up by an mental hospital's bus that takes her there. Now she cannot get out because everyone thinks she is mental sick.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags:
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Illusions (1992)
Plot Summary:
Greg Sanderson is helping his wife, Jan, to recover from a nervous breakdown and revive their strained marriage. Their privacy is interrupted by the arrival of Greg's stunning and mysterious sister, Laura. Jan's paranoia deepens as she suspects that Greg's and her sister's relationship is too close. In her desperation, she confides her fears to the landlord but his weird reaction only creates more confusion.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, exciting, enigmatic, erotic
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Johnnie Waterman (1993)
Plot Summary:
On the road wandering minstrel finds a mare, which, upholstered and sickly, is dying. He buries mare and casts a curse in the village where the animal was tortured. In the village lives Jańcio, a philosopher, a man loving life and his young wife, Weronka. Jańcio lives in harmony with God and is not expecting that he will be put to the test by him. He is convinced he has the power to make miracles. He leaves his pregnant wife, and goes to see the world, promising to return before the due date.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 634
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
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The Acid Eaters (1967)
Plot Summary:
A group of office workers go every Friday afternoon to the White Pyramid, a 50-foot tower of LSD.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychedelic, surreal, independent film, spoof, parody, cult film
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Static (1985)
Plot Summary:
Ernie Blick has just lost his job at a crucifix factory. Luckily, for Ernie, this allows him more time to devote to his invention. Yes, Ernie is an inventor -- and he's come up with something big. So big, in fact, Ernie's convinced it will change the way people look at life and death. With the support of his drummer friend Julia and his ex-Green Beret-evangelist cousin, Ernie unveils it to the world. But even he isn't prepared for the public's reaction.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 724
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surreal, philosophical, mind bending, psychedelic, depressing, avant garde, esoteric, independent film, atmospheric, humorous
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Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988)
Plot Summary:
While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Ainar the lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofrieder in a Gimli of old.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: surreal, black and white, avant garde, mind bending, psychedelic, suspense, dark, experimental, controversial, deep
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Nowhere (2023)
Plot Summary:
A young pregnant woman named Mia escapes from a country at war by hiding in a maritime container aboard a cargo ship. After a violent storm, Mia gives birth to the child while lost at sea, where she must fight to survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: suspense thriller
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Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
Plot Summary:
A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. A story about our need for love, our confusion, greatness and smallness and, most of all, our vulnerability. It is a story with many characters, among them a father and his mistress, his youngest son and his girlfriend. It is a film about big lies, abandonment and the eternal longing for companionship and confirmation.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France, Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, black comedy, philosophical, art house, disturbing, talky, depressing, melancholic, meditative
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Bliss (1985)
Plot Summary:
An advertising executive dies and goes to hell... except nothing changes. Well, his daughter is buying drugs with sexual favours from her brother, and the number of cancer-causing products is on the increase. But the notes he writes to himself to prove he hasn't gone insane are getting more disjointed, and he runs off with an ex-prostitute called Honey Barbera.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, surreal, retro, mind bending, psychedelic, art house, cult classic, offbeat, humorous, realistic
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Barton Fink (1991)
Plot Summary:
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 127000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, surreal, neo noir, dark comedy, cerebral, philosophical, atmospheric, black comedy, enigmatic, mind bending