Topic: Surrealism

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

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...

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...

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,"...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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:...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...