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The Best Surrealist Films Of All-Time

“What are the best Surrealist Movies Of All-Time?” We looked at 297 of the top Surreal films and ranking them so we could answer that very question!

The top 42 films, all appearing on 3 or more “Best Surrealist” movie lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The remaining 250+ movies, as well as the sources we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.

Happy Scrolling!



Top 42 Surrealist Movies Ever Made



42 .) 8½ (1963) directed by Federico Fellini

8½ (1963)

Lists It Appears On:

  • IMDB 2
  • IMDB 3
  • Rate Your Music

With 8½ Frederico Fellini leaves a self-portrait where dreams and reality are a mix. With help from a most excellent cast and unique scenery this self reflecting film is one of his master works.



41 .) A Clockwork Orange (1971) directed by Stanley Kubrick

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Film Inquiry
  • IMDB 2
  • IMDB 3

Demonic gang-leader Alex goes on the spree of rape, mugging and murder with his pack of “droogs”. But he’s a boy who also likes Beethoven’s Ninth and a bit of “the old in-out, in-out”. He later finds himself at the mercy of the state and its brainwashing experiment designed to take violence off the streets.



40 .) Alice (1988) directed by Jan Svankmajer

Alice (1988)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Horror News
  • IMDB 2
  • List Challenges

A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit. She becomes surrounded by living inanimate objects and stuffed dead animals, and must find a way out of this nightmare- no matter how twisted or odd that way must be. A memorably bizarre screen version of Lewis Carroll’s novel ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’.



39 .) Altered States (1980) directed by Ken Russell

Altered States (1980)

Lists It Appears On:

  • IMDB 2
  • Ranker
  • The Playlist

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.



38 .) Enter the Void (2009) directed by Gaspar Noé

Enter the Void (2009)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Flick Chart
  • IMDB 2
  • Rate Your Music

This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda. When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past — where he sees his parents before their deaths — to the present — where he witnesses his own autopsy — and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave.



37 .) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) directed by Terry Gilliam

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Film Inquiry
  • IMDB 2
  • Rate Your Music

Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their hotel room and fear legal repercussions. Duke begins to drive back to L.A., but after an odd run-in with a cop, he returns to Sin City and continues his wild drug binge.



36 .) Gozu (2003) directed by Takashi Miike

Gozu (2003)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Amino Apps
  • List Challenges
  • MUBI

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.



35 .) Holy Motors (2012) directed by Leos Carax

Holy Motors (2012)

Lists It Appears On:

  • List Challenges
  • Rate Your Music
  • Taste Of Conema

We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes youthful, sometimes old. By turns murderer, beggar, company chairman, monstrous creature, worker, family man.



34 .) Paprika (2006) directed by Satoshi Kon

Paprika (2006)

Lists It Appears On:

  • IMDB 3
  • Rate Your Music
  • The Playlist

When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient’s dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it: Paprika.



33 .) Persona (1966) directed by Ingmar Bergman

Persona (1966)

Lists It Appears On:

  • IMDB 2
  • IMDB 3
  • Philosophy In Film

A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer. Alma eventually confesses her secrets to a seemingly sympathetic Elisabeth and finds that her own personality is being submerged into Elisabeth’s persona.



32 .) Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) directed by Shinya Tsukamoto

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Amino Apps
  • List Challenges
  • Rate Your Music

Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a 1989 Japanese cyberpunk film by cult-film director Shinya Tsukamoto produced by Japan Home Video. This, his third film, is an extremely graphic but also strikingly-filmed fantasy shot in the same low-budget, underground-production style as his first two films. Revolving around the transformation of people into grotesque hybrids of flesh and metal, Tetsuo is above all an overwhelming audiovisual experience, set to a brain-pounding score by Chu Ishikawa and complemented by suitably exaggerated sound effects.



31 .) The Fountain (2006) directed by Darren Aronofsky

The Fountain (2006)

Lists It Appears On:

  • IMDB 2
  • MUBI
  • Ranker

Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.



30 .) The Phantom of Liberty (1974) directed by Luis Buñuel

The Phantom of Liberty (1974)

Lists It Appears On:

  • IMDB 2
  • IMDB 3
  • List Challenges

This Surrealist Spanish film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.



29 .) The Seventh Seal (1957) directed by Ingmar Bergman

The Seventh Seal (1957)

Lists It Appears On:

  • IMDB 2
  • IMDB 3
  • Short List

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.



28 .) The Taste of Tea (2004) directed by Katsuhito Ishii

The Taste of Tea (2004)

Lists It Appears On:

  • List Challenges
  • MUBI
  • Taste Of Conema

A spell of time in the life of a family living in rural Tochigi prefecture, north of Tokyo. Though her husband is busy working at an office, Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project at home. Uncle Ayano has recently arrived, looking to get his head together after living in Tokyo for several years. Meanwhile, Yoshiko’s daughter Sachiko is mainly concerned with why she seems to be followed around everywhere by a giant version of herself.



27 .) Un Chien Andalou (1929) directed by Luis Buñuel

Un Chien Andalou (1929)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Film Inquiry
  • IMDB 2
  • IMDB 3

Un Chien Andalou is a classic European avant-garde surrealist film from the cooperation of director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali. The film changed the way people made movies. Most famous is the scene of a woman’s eye being cut with a knife.



26 .) Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) directed by Jaromil Jireš

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Horror News
  • List Challenges
  • Rate Your Music

Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a different light, Valerie must endure her sexual awakening while attempting to discern reality from fantasy as she encounters lecherous priest Gracian, a vampire-like stranger and otherworldly carnival folk.



25 .) Waking Life (2001) directed by Richard Linklater

Waking Life (2001)

Lists It Appears On:

  • IMDB 3
  • MUBI
  • The Playlist

Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life.



24 .) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) directed by Stanley Kubrick

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Lists It Appears On:

  • IMDB 2
  • IMDB 3
  • MUBI
  • Ranker

Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world’s most advanced super computer.



23 .) Daisies (1966) directed by Vera Chytilová

Daisies (1966)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Another Elm
  • IMDB 2
  • List Challenges
  • Philosophy In Film

Two teenage girls, both named Marie, decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world about them. This freewheeling, madcap feminist farce was immediately banned by the government.



22 .) House (1977) directed by Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

House (1977)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Flick Chart
  • IMDB 2
  • Philosophy In Film
  • Rate Your Music

Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip to the country to visit her aunt at their ancestral house. She invites her six friends, Prof, Melody, Mac, Fantasy, Kung Fu, and Sweet, to join her. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.



21 .) L’Age d’Or (1930) directed by Luis Buñuel

L'Age d'Or (1930)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Film Inquiry
  • IMDB 2
  • MUBI
  • Scene 360

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.



20 .) Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) directed by Maya Deren

Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)

Lists It Appears On:

  • IMDB 2
  • Philosophy In Film
  • Rate Your Music
  • Scene 360

A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.



19 .) My Winnipeg (2007) directed by Guy Maddin

My Winnipeg (2007)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Flick Chart
  • List Challenges
  • Rate Your Music
  • Taste Of Conema

Fact, fantasy and memory are woven seamlessly together in a personal portrait of filmmaker Guy Maddin’s hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba.



18 .) Santa Sangre (1989) directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky

Santa Sangre (1989)

Lists It Appears On:

  • IMDB 3
  • List Challenges
  • Rate Your Music
  • Scene 360

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.



17 .) Synecdoche, New York (2008) directed by Charlie Kaufman

Synecdoche, New York (2008)

Lists It Appears On:

  • IMDB 2
  • MUBI
  • Rate Your Music
  • Scene 360

A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.



16 .) The Fall (2006) directed by Tarsem Singh

The Fall (2006)

Lists It Appears On:

  • MUBI
  • Rate Your Music
  • Scene 360
  • The Playlist

In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.



15 .) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) directed by Michel Gondry

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Film Inquiry
  • MUBI
  • Rate Your Music
  • Taste Of Conema
  • The Playlist

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.



14 .) Last Year at Marienbad (1961) directed by Alain Resnais

Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

Lists It Appears On:

  • IMDB 2
  • List Challenges
  • Philosophy In Film
  • Scene 360
  • The Playlist

Takes place in a chateau, an ambiguous story of a man and a woman who may or may not have met last year at Marienbad.



13 .) Lost Highway (1997) directed by David Lynch

Lost Highway (1997)

Lists It Appears On:

  • IMDB 2
  • List Challenges
  • MUBI
  • Ranker
  • Rate Your Music

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgangers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.



12 .) Naked Lunch (1991) directed by David Cronenberg

Naked Lunch (1991)

Lists It Appears On:

  • IMDB 2
  • List Challenges
  • Philosophy In Film
  • Rate Your Music
  • The Playlist

Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill’s pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work — which he doesn’t remember writing.



11 .) Pi (1998) directed by Darren Aronofsky

Pi (1998)

Lists It Appears On:

  • IMDB 2
  • IMDB 3
  • List Challenges
  • Ranker
  • Rate Your Music

The debut film from Darren Aronofsky in which a mathematical genius Maximilian Cohen discovers a link in the connection between numbers and reality and thus believes he can predict the future.



10 .) The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) directed by Luis Buñuel

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

Lists It Appears On:

  • IMDB 2
  • List Challenges
  • MUBI
  • Ranker
  • Short List

In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.



9 .) Videodrome (1983) directed by David Cronenberg

Videodrome (1983)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Amino Apps
  • IMDB 2
  • List Challenges
  • MUBI
  • Short List

As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon “Videodrome,” a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.



8 .) Being John Malkovich (1999) directed by Spike Jonze

Being John Malkovich (1999)

Lists It Appears On:

  • IMDB 2
  • IMDB 3
  • List Challenges
  • MUBI
  • Rate Your Music
  • Short List

One day at work, unsuccessful puppeteer Craig finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who enters it’s mad and controlling world of overtaking another human body.



7 .) El Topo (1970) directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky

El Topo (1970)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Horror News
  • IMDB 2
  • List Challenges
  • MUBI
  • Ranker
  • Rate Your Music

El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man. El Topo (the mole) claims to be God, while dressed as a gunfighter in black, riding a horse through a spiritual, mystical landscape strewn with old Western movie, and ancient Eastern religious symbols. Bandits slaughtered a village on his path, so El Topo avenges the massacred, then forcibly takes their leader’s woman Mara as his. El Topo’s surreal way is bloody, sexual and self-reflective, musing of his own demons, as he tries to vanquish those he encounters.



6 .) The Exterminating Angel (1962) directed by Luis Buñuel

The Exterminating Angel (1962)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Another Elm
  • IMDB 2
  • List Challenges
  • MUBI
  • Ranker
  • The Culture Trip

After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room.



5 .) Brazil (1985) directed by Terry Gilliam

Brazil (1985)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Film Inquiry
  • IMDB 2
  • List Challenges
  • MUBI
  • Ranker
  • Rate Your Music
  • The Playlist

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.



4 .) Inland Empire (2006) directed by David Lynch

Inland Empire (2006)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Film Inquiry
  • IMDB 2
  • MUBI
  • Philosophy In Film
  • Ranker
  • Rate Your Music
  • Taste Of Conema

An actress’s perception of reality becomes increasingly distorted as she finds herself falling for her co-star in a remake of an unfinished Polish production that was supposedly cursed.



3 .) The Holy Mountain (1973) directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky

The Holy Mountain (1973)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Another Elm
  • IMDB 2
  • List Challenges
  • MUBI
  • Philosophy In Film
  • Ranker
  • The Culture Trip

A Mexican master leads a Christ figure and other disciples to a mountain of immortal wise men. The scandal of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s flood of sacrilegious imagery and existential symbolism in The Holy Mountain is a spiritual quest for enlightenment pitting illusion against truth. The Alchemist (Jodorowsky) assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept’s intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.



2 .) Mulholland Drive (2001) directed by David Lynch

Mulholland Drive (2001)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Film Inquiry
  • IMDB 2
  • IMDB 3
  • List Challenges
  • Ranker
  • Rate Your Music
  • Taste Of Conema
  • The Playlist

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman’s identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.



1 .) Eraserhead (1977) directed by David Lynch

Eraserhead (1977)

Lists It Appears On:

  • Amino Apps
  • Film Inquiry
  • Horror News
  • IMDB 2
  • List Challenges
  • MUBI
  • Ranker
  • Rate Your Music
  • Short List

Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.




The 250+ Additional Best Surreal Movies



 

# Movies Directors Lists
43 3 Women (1977)  
Rate Your Music
The Playlist
44 A Field in England (2013)   Scene 360
Taste Of Conema
45 A Page of Madness (1926)  
List Challenges
Rate Your Music
46 Antichrist (2009) Lars von Trier 1428elm
IMDB 2
47 Barton Fink (1991)   MUBI
Rate Your Music
48 Belle de Jour (1967) Luis Buñuel IMDB 2
List Challenges
49 Black Moon (1975) Louis Malle IMDB 2
Scene 360
50 Blue Velvet (1986) David Lynch IMDB 2
IMDB 3
51 Brand Upon the Brain! (2006) Guy Maddin IMDB 2
Rate Your Music
52 Delicatessen (1991) Marc Caro IMDB 2
Ranker
53
DEMENTIA (aka – DAUGHTER OF HORROR)
  Flick Chart
Horror News
54 Donnie Darko (2001) Richard Kelly IMDB 2
Rate Your Music
55 Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Stanley Kubrick IMDB 3
MUBI
56
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995)
  Flick Chart
Rate Your Music
57 Melancholia (2011) Lars von Trier
Culture Vultures
IMDB 2
58 Pastoral: To Die in the Country (1974)  
List Challenges
Rate Your Music
59 Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982) Alan Parker IMDB 2
IMDB 3
60 Possession (1981) Andrzej Zulawski IMDB 3
Rate Your Music
61 Simon of the Desert (1965) Luis Buñuel IMDB 2
List Challenges
62 Stalker (1979) Andrei Tarkovsky IMDB 2
IMDB 3
63 Suspiria   Film Inquiry
Ranker
64 That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)  
List Challenges
Ranker
65 The City of Lost Children   MUBI
Short List
66 The Eve of Ivan Kupalo   Flick Chart
Rate Your Music
67 The Science of Sleep   MUBI
The Playlist
68 The Shining   MUBI
Ranker
69 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me   Ranker
Scene 360
70 Yellow Submarine (1968)   Ranker
Rate Your Music
71 2046 (2004) Kar-Wai Wong IMDB 2
72 A Nightmare on Elm Street   Film Inquiry
73
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
  1428elm
74 A Scanner Darkly   MUBI
75 A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)  
Rate Your Music
76 Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) Werner Herzog IMDB 2
77 Akira (1988) Katsuhiro Ôtomo IMDB 2
78 Alice in Wonderland (1951) Clyde Geronimi IMDB 2
79 Alice in Wonderland (1966)  
Rate Your Music
80 Amarcord  
Philosophy In Film
81 Amélie   MUBI
82 Amores Perros (2002)  
The Culture Trip
83 An Andalusian Dog   Ranker
84 An Eater   Flick Chart
85 Angel’s Egg  
Rate Your Music
86 Angelus (2001)  
List Challenges
87 Apocalypse Now (1979) Francis Ford Coppola IMDB 2
88 Arrebato [Rapture] (1980)  
Rate Your Music
89 Asudem   Ranker
90 Audition  
Rate Your Music
91 Balance (1989)  
Rate Your Music
92 Beauty and the Beast (1946) Jean Cocteau IMDB 2
93 Begotten   Amino Apps
94 Berberian Sound Studio (2012) Peter Strickland IMDB 2
95 Blood Tea and Red String (2006)  
Taste Of Conema
96 Borgman (2013)  
Taste Of Conema
97
Brand Upon the Brain! A Remembrance in 12 Chapters (2006)
  Medium
98
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
 
The Culture Trip
99 Byt [The Flat] (1968)  
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100 Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970)  
List Challenges
101 Cat Soup  
Rate Your Music
102 Celine and Julie Go Boating   Flick Chart
103
Céline et Julie vont en bateau: Phantom Ladies Over Paris [Céline and Julie Go Boating] (1974)
 
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104 Come and See (1985) Elem Klimov IMDB 2
105 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind   MUBI
106 Cosmos  
Another Elm
107 Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)  
Taste Of Conema
108 Cremator (1969) Juraj Herz IMDB 2
109 Cries & Whispers (1972) Ingmar Bergman IMDB 2
110 Cronos (1993) Guillermo del Toro IMDB 2
111 Curse of the Demon (1957) Jacques Tourneur IMDB 2
112 Dark City (1998) Alex Proyas IMDB 2
113 Darkness Light Darkness (1989) Jan Svankmajer IMDB 2
114 Day of Wrath (1943) Carl Theodor Dreyer IMDB 2
115 Decasia (2002)  
List Challenges
116 Destino   Film Inquiry
117 Die Weibchen   Flick Chart
118 Dimensions of Dialogue (1983) Jan Svankmajer IMDB 2
119 Dogtooth (2009) Yorgos Lanthimos IMDB 2
120 Double Suicide (1969) Masahiro Shinoda IMDB 2
121 Drawing Restraint 9 (2005) Matthew Barney IMDB 3
122 Dreams (1990) Akira Kurosawa IMDB 2
123 Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947)  
List Challenges
124 Du levande [You, the Living] (2007)  
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125
Duelle (une quarantaine) [Twilight (A Quarantine)] (1976)
 
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126
El ángel exterminador [The Exterminating Angel] (1962)
 
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127 Europa (1991) Lars von Trier IMDB 2
128 Everything Will Be OK (2006)  
Rate Your Music
129 Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn   1428elm
130 Eyes Without a Face (1960) Georges Franju IMDB 2
131 Fanny and Alexander (1982) Ingmar Bergman IMDB 2
132 Fantasia   Ranker
133 Fantastic Planet (1973) René Laloux IMDB 2
134 Fehérlófia [Son of the White Mare] (1981)  
Rate Your Music
135 Fellini Satyricon (1969) Federico Fellini IMDB 2
136 Fight Club (1999) David Fincher IMDB 2
137 Fitzcarraldo (1982) Werner Herzog IMDB 2
138 Forbidden Zone   Flick Chart
139 Freaks (1932) Tod Browning IMDB 2
140 Funky Forest   MUBI
141 Funny Games (1997) Michael Haneke IMDB 2
142 Ghost in the Shell (1995) Mamoru Oshii IMDB 2
143
Giulietta degli spiriti [Juliet of the Spirits] (1965)
 
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144 Grass Labyrinth  
Rate Your Music
145 Greedy Guts (2000) Jan Svankmajer IMDB 2
146 Groundhog Day   The Playlist
147 Härlig är jorden [World of Glory] (1991)  
Rate Your Music
148 Häxan (1922) Benjamin Christensen IMDB 2
149 Head   Short List
150 Hercules   Film Inquiry
151 Hiroshima Mon Amour  
Philosophy In Film
152 Hour of the Wolf (1968) Ingmar Bergman IMDB 2
153 HOUSE (HAUSU)  
Horror News
154 How Far, How Near (1972)  
List Challenges
155 Human Nature   MUBI
156 Inception (2010)  
List Challenges
157
Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted (1990)
 
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158
Jak działa jamniczek [How a Sausage Dog Works] (1971)
 
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159 Japon (2002)  
The Culture Trip
160 Jídlo [Food] (1992)  
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161 Kuroneko (1968) Kaneto Shindô IMDB 2
162 L’ âge d’or [The Golden Age] (1930)  
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163 L’ ange [The Angel] (1982)  
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164
L’ année dernière à Marienbad [Last Year at Marienbad] (1961)
 
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165
La femme qui se poudre [The Woman Who Powders Herself] (1972)
 
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166 La Jetée (1962) Chris Marker IMDB 2
167
La montaña sagrada [The Holy Mountain] (1973)
 
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168
La planète sauvage [Fantastic Planet] (1973)
 
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169 La ville des pirates [City of Pirates] (1983)  
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170 La voie lactée [The Milky Way] (1969)  
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171 Lady Blue Shanghai (2010)  
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172
Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie [The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie] (1972)
 
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173
Le fantôme de la liberté [The Phantom of Liberty] (1974)
 
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174
Le sang d’un poète [The Blood of a Poet] (1932)
 
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175
Le testament d’Orphée ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi [Testament of Orpheus] (1960)
 
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176 Lekce Faust [Faust] (1994)  
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177
LEMORA: A CHILD’S TALE OF THE SUPERNATURAL
 
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178
Les trois couronnes du matelot [The Three Crowns of the Sailor] (1983)
 
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179 Lesson Faust (1994) Jan Svankmajer IMDB 2
180 Let’s Go with Pancho Villa (1936)  
The Culture Trip
181 Like Water for Chocolate (1992)  
The Culture Trip
182 LISA AND THE DEVIL  
Horror News
183 Little Otik (2000)  
Taste Of Conema
184 Love Exposure (2008)   Medium
185 Lunacy (2005)   Medium
186 Macario (1960)  
The Culture Trip
187 Mandy   Flick Chart
188 Memento (2000) Christopher Nolan IMDB 2
189 Millennium Actress  
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190 Mind Game  
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191 Miraculous Virgin   Flick Chart
192 Mirrormask (2005)   Medium
193 Miss Bala (2011)  
The Culture Trip
194 Mother!   Flick Chart
195
Možnosti dialogu [Dimensions of Dialogue] (1982)
 
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196 Mr. Nobody (2009) Jaco Van Dormael IMDB 2
197 Něco z Alenky [Alice] (1988)  
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198 Necromentia   1428elm
199 Neighbours (1952) Norman McLaren IMDB 2
200
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
 
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201 Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) Werner Herzog IMDB 2
202 O Lucky Man! (1973)  
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203 Oldboy (2003) Chan-wook Park IMDB 2
204 Orphée [Orpheus] (1950)  
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205 PAPERHOUSE  
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206 Perfect Blue  
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207 PHANTASM  
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208 Porky in Wackyland (1938)  
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209 Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead   1428elm
210 Providence (1977)  
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211 Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies   Flick Chart
212
Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie [The Saragossa Manuscript] (1965)
 
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213 Renaissance   Flick Chart
214 Requiem for a Dream   MUBI
215 Roma (1972)  
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216 Romeo + Juliet   Film Inquiry
217
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
 
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218 Run Lola Run (1998) Tom Tykwer IMDB 2
219 Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) Pier Paolo Pasolini IMDB 2
220 Salto [Jump] (1965)  
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221
Sanatorium pod klepsydrą [The Hour-Glass Sanatorium] (1973)
 
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222
Sånger från andra våningen [Songs From the Second Floor] (2000)
 
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223 Sedmikrásky [Daisies] (1966)  
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224 Seven Servants   Ranker
225 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors  
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226 Šílení [Lunacy] (2005)  
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227
Simón del desierto [Simon of the Desert] (1965)
 
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228 Six Men Getting Sick   Film Inquiry
229 Slack Bay  
Another Elm
230 Solaris (1971) Andrei Tarkovsky IMDB 2
231 Songs From the Second Floor (2000)  
List Challenges
232 Spellbound   Short List
233
Spiklenci slasti [Conspirators of Pleasure] (1996)
 
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234 Spirited Away (2001) Hayao Miyazaki IMDB 2
235 Stardust Memories (1980)  
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236 Storage 24   1428elm
237 Strange Stranger   Ranker
238 Street of Crocodiles (1986)  
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239 Survive Style 5+ (2004)  
List Challenges
240 Surviving Life (2010)  
Culture Vultures
241 Szindbád [Sinbad] (1971)  
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242 Tale of Tales  
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243 Tales From The Darkside: The Movie   1428elm
244 Tarzan   Film Inquiry
245 Taxidermia (2006)  
Taste Of Conema
246 Testament of Orpheus   Flick Chart
247 The Act of Killing (2012)  
Taste Of Conema
248 The American Astronaut (2001) Cory McAbee IMDB 2
249 The Big Lebowski   Film Inquiry
250 The Cabin in the Woods (2011) Drew Goddard IMDB 2
251 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) Robert Wiene IMDB 2
252 The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer   Flick Chart
253 The Cell   The Playlist
254 The Colour of Pomegranates  
Another Elm
255 The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) Peter Greenaway IMDB 2
256 The Dance of Reality (2013)  
Taste Of Conema
257 The Devils (1971)  
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258 The Evil Dead (1981) Sam Raimi IMDB 2
259 The Face of Another (1966) Hiroshi Teshigahara IMDB 2
260 The Game   The Playlist
261 The Games of Angels   Flick Chart
262 The Grandmother (1970) David Lynch IMDB 2
263 The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)  
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264 The Kingdom (1994–1997) Ernst-Hugo Järegård IMDB 2
265 The Magician (1958) Ingmar Bergman IMDB 2
266 The Man Who Sleeps (1974)  
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267 The Man Who Wasn’t There   MUBI
268 The Matrix   The Playlist
269 The Mirror (1975) Andrei Tarkovsky IMDB 3
270 The Obscure Object Of Desire   The Playlist
271 The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) Jim Sharman IMDB 2
272 The Saddest Music in the World (2003)   Medium
273 The Saragossa Manuscript   Flick Chart
274 The Seashell and the Clergyman   Scene 360
275 The Short Films of David Lynch   Ranker
276 The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) Víctor Erice IMDB 2
277 The Swimmer (1968)  
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278 The Tree of Life (2011) Terrence Malick IMDB 2
279 The Trial (1962) Orson Welles IMDB 2
280 The Ugly Story   Flick Chart
281 The Wizard of Oz   The Playlist
282
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
 
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283 Time (2006)   Medium
284
Tma, světlo, tma [Darkness, Light, Darkness] (1989)
 
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285 Tokyo Tribe (2014)  
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286 Trainspotting   MUBI
287 Tropical Malady  
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288
Un chien andalou [An Andalusian Dog] (1929)
 
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289 Vargtimmen [Hour of the Wolf] (1968)  
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290
Vtáčkovia, siroty a blázni [Birds, Orphans and Fools] (1969)
 
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291 Where the Wild Things Are   MUBI
292 Wild at Heart   MUBI
293 Wild Strawberries (1957) Ingmar Bergman IMDB 2
294 Y tu Mama Tambien (2001)  
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295 You, the Living (2007)  
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296 Zero City  
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297 Zombeavers   1428elm

 


20 Best Surreal And Absurdist Film Sources/Lists



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1428elm Eight Fantastic, Surreal Animal Moments from Horror Movies
Amino Apps Top 5 Surreal Horror Movies
Another Elm Five Fantastic Surrealist Films To Watch Now
Culture Vultures 4 Essential Surrealist Movies From the Last Decade
Film Inquiry Surrealist Cinema: 100 Years Of Psychedelia
Flick Chart The Best Surrealist Films of All Time
Horror News Top 10 Dream-like Surreal Films To Experience At Least Once
IMDB 2 Surreal, Psychedelic & Mind-Bending films
IMDB 3 The Best Surrealist Films Of All Time
List Challenges The Best Surreal Movies of All Time
Medium Best Surreal Films of 2000s
MUBI Best Surreal Films
Philosophy In Film 10 Surrealist Films for Philosophy Students
Ranker Surrealism Movies | List of the Best Surrealism Films
Rate Your Music The 100 highest rated surrealist film on RYM
Scene 360 Surrealist Cinema: Ten Films That Mess With Your Head
Short List Surreal Moments On Film
Taste Of Conema The 15 Best Surrealist Movies of The 21st Century
The Culture Trip Revolution, Discovery, And Surrealist Fantasy: The Best Of Mexican
The Playlist Pre-‘Inception’: The Best Surreal, Alternate Reality, Mindbending Films