Topic: Surrealism
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The Midnight Gospel (TV Series)
2020 · Series · 22 min. · United States
Direction Pendleton Ward · Duncan Trussell
Plot TV Series (2020). 8 Episodes. Clancy, a spacecaster with a malfunctioning multiverse simulator, leaves the comfort of his home to interview beings living in dying worlds
7.4
2K votes
7.4
2K votes
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (S)
1992 · Movie · 20 min. · Russia
Direction Aleksandr Petrov
Plot It chronicles the experiences of a man that decided that there was nothing to live for in the world, and therefore was determined to commit suicide. A chance encounter with...
7.4
2K votes
7.4
2K votes
Tale of Tales
1979 · Movie · 30 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Yuriy Norshteyn
Plot Tale of Tales, like Tarkovsky's Mirror, attempts to structure itself like a human memory. Memories are not recalled in neat chronological order; instead, they are recalled by the association of...
7.4
1K votes
7.4
1K votes
Meshes of the Afternoon (S)
1943 · Movie · 14 min. · United States
Direction Maya Deren · Alexander Hammid
Cast Maya Deren · Alexander Hammid
Plot Meshes of the Afternoon is one of the most influential works in American experimental cinema. A non-narrative work, it has been identified as a key example of the "trance film,"...
7.4
3K votes
7.4
3K votes
Zorns Lemma
1970 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
Direction Hollis Frampton
Cast Twyla Tharp · Joyce Wieland
Plot Hollis Frampton (1936-1984) was an American avant-garde film-maker. Among his films was "Zorn's Lemma", a structural film based on transformations of alphabetic sets, inspired by the mathematical theorem named after...
7.4
123 votes
7.4
123 votes
Last Year at Marienbad
1961 · Movie · 91 min. · France
Direction Alain Resnais
Cast Delphine Seyrig · Giorgio Albertazzi · Sacha Pitoeff · Françoise Bertin
Plot A cinematic puzzle, Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad is a radical exploration of the formal possibilities of film. Beautifully shot in Cinemascope by Sacha Vierny, the movie is a...
7.4
5K votes
7.4
5K votes
Lost Highway
1997 · Movie · 134 min. · United States
Direction David Lynch
Cast Bill Pullman · Balthazar Getty · Patricia Arquette · Robert Loggia
Plot Saxophonist Fred Madison and his wife Renee are troubled by a series of videotapes left at their door that show someone entering their house and filming them while they sleep....
7.4
31K votes
7.4
31K votes
An Andalusian Dog (S)
1929 · Movie · 21 min. · France
Direction Luis Buñuel
Cast Pierre Batcheff · Simone Mareuil · Salvador Dalí
Plot Un Chien Andalou is Bunuel's first film and collaboration with Salvador Dali, a surreal exploration of desire and passion. L'Age D'or is another collaboration with Dali, a surrealist dissection of...
7.4
27K votes
7.4
27K votes
Hour of the Wolf
1968 · Movie · 88 min. · Sweden
Direction Ingmar Bergman
Cast Max von Sydow · Liv Ullmann · Erland Josephson · Gertrud Fridh
Plot This surreal Gothic drama by Swedish master Ingmar Bergman stars Max von Sydow as Johan, a troubled artist who is literally haunted by demons from his past, and Liv Ullmann...
7.4
6K votes
7.4
6K votes
Funeral Parade of Roses
1969 · Movie · 107 min. · Japan
Direction Toshio Matsumoto
Cast Osamu Ogasawara · Shotari Akiyama · Kiyoshi Awazu · Emiko Azuma
Plot A gay son kills his mother and sleeps with his father in this Japanese version of the Oedipus legend.
7.4
498 votes
7.4
498 votes
Paranoia agent (TV Series)
2004 · Series · 316 min. · Japan
Direction Satoshi Kon · Takuji Endo · Hiroshi Hamazaki · Takayuki Hirao
Plot TV series (2004). 1 season. 13 episodes. An elementary school boy on rollerblades dubbed Lil' Slugger (Shounen Bat) is said to be responsible for a series of mysterious hit-and-run assaults...
7.4
6K votes
7.4
6K votes
The Amazing Digital Circus
2023 · Movie · 25 min. · Australia
Direction Gooseworx
Plot A woman becomes trapped in a crazy virtual world along with five other humans and they are now subject to the whims of a crazy AI and their own personal...
7.3
55 votes
7.3
55 votes
Duck Amuck (S)
1953 · Movie · 7 min. · United States
Direction Chuck Jones
Plot The short-tempered Daffy Duck must improvise madly as the backgrounds, his costumes, the soundtrack, even his physical form, shifts and changes at the whim of the animator.
7.3
3K votes
7.3
3K votes
Dimensions of Dialogue (S)
1982 · Movie · 12 min. · Czechoslovakia
Direction Jan Švankmajer
Plot A three-part depiction of various forms of communication. 'Factual Discussion' depicts three heads (made up of fruit, kitchen utensils and writing implements respectively) endlessly devouring and regurgitating each other. 'Passionate...
7.3
2K votes
7.3
2K votes
Belladonna of Sadness
1973 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan
Direction Eiichi Yamamoto
Plot The third and last of the Mushi Pro Animerama films, The Belladonna of Sadness is an adaptation of French historian Jules Michelet`s novel of the story of Joan of Arc:...
7.3
697 votes
7.3
697 votes
The Phantom of Liberty
1974 · Movie · 104 min. · France
Direction Luis Buñuel
Cast Michel Piccoli · Jean Rochefort · Michael Lonsdale · Monica Vitti
Plot One of Luis Bunuel's most free-form and purely Surrealist films, consisting of a series of only vaguely related episodes - most famously, the dinner party scene where people sit on...
7.3
3K votes
7.3
3K votes
Open Your Eyes
1997 · Movie · 117 min. · Spain
Direction Alejandro Amenábar
Cast Eduardo Noriega · Penélope Cruz · Chete Lera · Fele Martínez
Plot A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.
7.3
69K votes
7.3
69K votes
Celine and Julie Go Boating
1974 · Movie · 193 min. · France
Direction Jacques Rivette
Cast Juliet Berto · Dominique Labourier · Barbet Schroeder · Bulle Ogier
Plot Through a series of chance meetings, Céline, a shy librarian, and Julie, a cabaret performer and magician, strike up a friendship. Julie moves into Céline’s apartment and recounts a strange...
7.3
734 votes
7.3
734 votes
The Dark Side of the Heart
1992 · Movie · 127 min. · Argentina
Direction Eliseo Subiela
Cast Darío Grandinetti · Sandra Ballesteros · Nacha Guevara · Mario Benedetti
Plot Oliverio is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sale his ideas to an advertising agencie to make a living or exchange his poems for...
7.3
8K votes
7.3
8K votes
The Cremator
1969 · Movie · 95 min. · Czechoslovakia
Direction Juraj Herz
Cast Vlasta Chramostová · Rudolf Hrusínsky · Jiří Menzel · Ilja Prachar
Plot Karl works at a crematorium in Prague. Obsessed with his duties, he believes he is not just cremating the dead, but liberating the souls of the departed. With Nazi forces...
7.3
2K votes
7.3
2K votes