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Other movies and directors in a similar style?


I would love to hear other's recommendations for other films, especially older stuff from the 60s and 70s and 80s.
Thank you!

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Eraserhead of course, and perhaps
Satyricon
Marvin Digs (Short)
Liquid Sky

And I also loved Tron lol

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The Holy Mountain is my favorite film. There is no film like it, but heres a couple that have a somewhat similar feel.

1.) IZO (2004) Takashi Mike

2.) Viva la Muerte (1970) Fernando Arrabal (Part of the panic movement with Jodorosky) also by Arrabal ....

3.) I will walk like a crazy horse (1973)

4.) Arbre de Guernica L' aka (The Tree of Guernica) (1975)

5.) Fantastic Planet (1973) (Really screwed up animated film by Roland Topar another friend of Jodorowsky)

6.) L Urlo (1970) (Really strange film by Tinto Brass director of Caligula)

7.) The Garden (1990) Derek Jarmon (Really trippy film about a gay couple crucified like Christ)

8.) L Age D Or (1930) Dali/Bunuel film

9.) Terror Firmer (1999) Lloyd Kaufman (Really disgusting bizarre Troma film about a killer on the set of a B-Movie)

10.) Sweet Movie (1973) Dusan Makavejev

11.) Greaser's Palace (1970) Robert Downy Sr. (semi El Topo parody and musical)

12.) The Baby of Macon (1993) Peter Greenaway

13.) The Mansion of Madness (Another film from one of Jodorowsky's friend)

14.) Alucarda (1977) (Same directer as above)

15.) The Devils (1970) Ken Russel (masterpiece!)

16.) Sedmikrasky (aka. Daisies) (1966) Vera Chytilova (Awesome psychedelic feminist Czech film)

17.) Fruit of Paradise (1969) Vera Chytilova (About the garden of eden)

18.) Birds Orphans and Fools (1969) Juraj Jakubisko

19.) Fellini Satyricon (1969) Fedirico Fellini

20.) The Ninth Configuration (1980) William Peter Blatty

21.) The Bed Sitting Room (1969) Richard Lester

22.) Kytice (2000) (Really Awesome surreal Czech film)

23.) The Silver Globe (1987) Andrej Zulawski

24.) Even Dwarves Started Small (1970) Werner Herzog

25.) Forbidden Zone (1980) (Really wierd surreal musical from Oingo Boingo)

26.) Dandy Dust (1998) (A lesbian cyberpunk experimental film; makes no sense)

27.) Liquid Sky (1983)

28.) Zbogum na dvadesetiot vek (aka. Goodbye 20th Century) (1998) (Lordy, Lordy! This is a strange surreal Macedonian film that reminds me of Jodorowsky. An awesome trip)

29.) The Institute Benjamenta (1995) The Quay Brothers

30.)Week end (1967) Godard

That's all I think of at the top of my head!
Most of these films you can find on Amazon or Ebay; but if not check these following websites....

These websites carry some of the strangest films out there!

www.superhappyfun.com (rare bootlegs)
www.xploitedcinema.com (rare DVD imports)
www.diabolikdvd.com (more rare dvd's)
www.revengeismydestiny.com
www.pimpadelicwonderland.com
www.hkflix.com

(If a DVD says region 2 or pal make sure you have a region free player before purchasing)

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Thank you very much for that list; I have nowhere near as authoritative or encyclopedic grasp of film. ONe film I've seen that comes to mind is Hour-Glass Sanitorium by Wojciech Has, from I think the same year as Holy Mountain (1973). Has is best known for Sargossa Manuscript, which is probably even more like Holy Mountain and much easier to locate. Anyone who gets a chance to view Hour-Glass ought to take it, especially on the big screen (actually... btw, who has watched this movie?); fantastic color, sets, at times truer to dream reality than anything I've seen.

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The short films of Bill Viola. You can view his stuff free on youtube. One of Peter Greenaway's favorite experimental filmmakers. Like Stan Brakhage and Matthew Barney. Truly creepy, abstract and dream like.

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you're the champ. thanks. :)

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I'd just say you should watch zabriskie point by antonioni.
Its not as crazy but it is good.

Also el topo by jodorowsky.

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Sergei Paradjanov has a similar style but a wholly different feel! "Ashik Kerib", "Legend of Suram Fortress" etc... definitely comes closer to the look and sound of "The Holy Mountain" than many of the suggestions above, methinks.

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Other films that have a somewhat similar feel to Jodorowsky

The films of Czech animator Jan Svankmajer

Alice (aka. Neco Z Alenky) (1988)

Faust (1994)

Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)

Little Otik (2000)


The Coffin Joe Films

This night I'll possess your corpse (1967)

Awakening of the Beast (1970)

Jacob's Ladder (1990)

The favor, the watch and the very big fish (1992)

Can Hieronymous Merkin ever forget Merci Humppe and find true happiness? (1969)
(If you find a copy)

The Passion of Darkly Noon (1995)

Malpertuis (1971)

Underground (1995) Emir Kusterica

Un Chien Andalou (1929) Dali/Bunuel masterpiece

Careful (1992) Guy Madden

The Saddest music in the world (2003) Guy Madden

Perdita Durango (1997) Alex de la Inglesia

Accion Mutante (1993) Alex de la Inglesia

Day of the Beast (1995) Alex de la Inglesia

Desecration (1999) (Has a real low budget, but some creepy religious images)

The Beast (aka. La Bete) (1975) (Really screwed up adult Beauty and the Beast)

Zardoz (1974) John Boorman

Any of the short films from the Brothers Quay (Like Svakmajer, but slightly wierder)

Reflections of Evil (2002)

Tromeo & Juliet (1996) (Troma's take on the clasic story; given a punk rock twist to it)

Throw away your books, rally in the streets (1971) Shuji Terayama

Lisztomania (1975) (Another Ken Russel masterpiece)

It couldn't happen here (1987) (Really trippy musical from the pet shop boys)

Happiness of the Katikuris (2001) Takeshi Miike(Awesome Japanese Horror musical)

The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb (Crazy stop motion movie)

The Cremaster Cycle

Almost any film by Peter Greenaway

A Zed & two noughts (1985)

Drowning by Numbers (1988)

The Cook the thief his wife and her lover (1989)

The Pillowbook (1996)

The Tulse Luper Suitcases (2003)

Prospero's Books (1991)

Firecracker (2004)(Similar to Santa Sangre and Twin Peaks)

A Journey into Bliss (2004)

What is it? (2005) Crispen Glover

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Firecracker (2004)(Similar to Santa Sangre
Blasphemy!

I suppose you can be forgiven though, considering your efforts in the rest of the thread. Lots of interesting titles in your lists.

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My apologies. I thought the bright color of the film had a similar style to Santa Sangre. Of course, it was probably bad to compare.

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Well, I guess I didn't think it was as bad as some people seem to, but it was kind of a let down after such a long wait. I actually did wonder at first if they were going for a SS feel, with the he carnival atmosphere and bright colors (especially the red dress). The rest seemed more like Lynch than anything Jodo to me though.

Btw, I meant to ask, do you think I'd like any of Arrabal's other stuff if I didn't like Viva la Muerte?

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Um, it's hard to say. "I will walk like a crazy horse" is similar but more disturbing. It has many bizarre and mesmorizing images though. "The Tree of Guernica" like "Viva la Muerte" deals with the Spanish Civil War. It's the least gruesome. I would say if you didn't like "Viva la Muerte" you still may enjoy "L Arbre de Guernica". "Firecracker" was good, but not a masterpiece like "Santa Sangre". On further note, I probably was off the deep end recommending some Troma films. (There wierd but more of b-movie guilty pleasures of mine)

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To Nates Wonderful list(s) I'd also add:

Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
Performance, (Nicholas Roeg, 1970)
Altered States (Ken Russel, 1979)

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HELLO!?!
Has anyone heard of the film called
Meetings With Remarkable Men?
It is a Gurdjieff adaptation that I feel
was a post current of this amazing work.

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I gotta chime in Kenneth Anger Lucifer Rising

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i don't have any films to add that ToxiePunk2002 hasn't already mentioned except: Valerie a tyden divu - Valerie and her week of wonders - 1970
absolutely gorgeous.

hey toxie, how did you get your hands on the cremaster cycle??

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How could I forget about "Valerie and her week of Wonders". That's a film that everyone should Czech out! I've only scene the 3rd Cremaster Cycle film, and it was only one 30 minute segment. I've had trouble tracking any of them down. Palm pictures is supposed to release a box set. But I wonder when?

Here's a couple more films I forgot.

Songs from the second Floor (bizarre Swedish film) Roy Anderson

Subconscious Cruelty (1999) (If you can stomach it... really disturbing)

David Lynch's The Grandmother (1970)
(Short film that's even stranger than Eraserhead)

Naked Lunch (I might of listed this allready)

Pasolini's Arabian Nights (1974)

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Yeah, the grandmother is frickin strange!!!!

ISCREAM22 HAS SPOKEN!!

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I just remembered more films with a similar style to Jodorowsky. The list could go on forever.

The Fourth Man (1983) Paul Verhoeven
(A surreal dutch film from the director of Robocop and Basic Instinct)

Nowhere (1997) Greg Araki
(Trippy teen angst with more style than substance, but a guilty pleasure)

Persona (1966) Ingmar Bergman (A classic)

The Blood of a Poet (1930) Jean Cocteau
(An artist enters a mirror which takes him to an alternate reality)

Alphaville (1967) (A Godard Classic)

Leolo (1992)
(Really odd coming of age French Canadian movie. Just your average story of a young boy convinced that his mother was impregnated by a semen covered Tomato imported from Italy)(No honest to God, I'm not making this up!)

Bad Boy Bubby (1993) (A hilarious cult classic from down under)

Goto: Island of Love (1968) (This one is a must see)

Desperate Living (1977) John Waters (One of John Water's sickest and funniest)

Save the Green Planet (2003) (Wackey Korean end of the world satire)

Bara no Soretsu (1969) (aka. Funeral Parade of Roses)
(Japanese Drag Queens, one of Stanly Kubric's favorites)

Spalovac Mtrvol (1968) (aka. The Cremator) (Czech New Wave Horror/Dark Comedy

Jigoku (1960) (aka. Hell/The sinners)
(A Japanese movie about hell. Really freaky)

Tetsuo: the Iron man (1988) (I'm an idiot. How could I forget tetsuo?)

Blueberry (aka Renegades) (2004) (Really strange western with Juliet Lewis)

Green Snake (1993) Tsui Hark
(from the director of Black Mask with Jet Li; One of Jodorowsky's recent favorite directors)

Mago (2002) (Really messed up but beautiful Korean arthouse film

The Rapture (1991)
(This movie with Mimi Rogers starts out normal; It's about a swinger who finds Jesus, but then it becomes very surreal)

Dreams that money can buy (1947)

Pink Floyds The Wall (1983) (But of course....)

Mr. Freedom (1969)

There are many more, but I am getting a brain fart. Stay tuned for more recommendations!

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The Colour of Pomegranates-
60's surreal art film. It's basically all wide completely still shots of the most beautiful scenes you can think of. Like Fellini doing installation art on film.

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Thanks for recommending Pomegranates. I'll have to see that. Also thanks to the guy who started the post for recommending The Hourglass Sanitorium. I can't wait to see both.

I apologize, because some of my recommendations are hard to track down.
I know netflix carries stuff from

Peter Greenaway

Takeshi Miike

Fernando Arrabal

Federico Fellini

Shinya Tsukamoto

Jan Svankmajer

Guy Maddin

Luis Bunuel

and I think they carry the Coffin Joe films?

I haven't had Netflix in a while?

Other films I forgot to mention

Begotten (1991) (Not a huge favorite of mine, but it's extremely bizarre)

Also, When it comes to strange cinema Japan is where it's at...........

Kwaidan (1964)
(Beautiful Japanese Horror film. Very boring at times, only recommended for
very patient viewers)

Uzumaki (2000) (Insane Japanese horror film about spirals, a must see)

Pistol Opera (2001) (Highly surreal follow up to "Branded to Kill")

Go Go Second Time Virgin (1969) (Not to be confused with Go Go Power Rangers!)

Suicide Circle (aka. Suicide Club) (2002)
(It starts out your regular horror film where Japanese school girls in a hypnotic trance throw themselves ritualistically in front of a train. Then it gets stranger)

The 5000 fingers of Dr. T (1953)
(Really wackey Dr. Seuss film; fun for the whole family)

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I found a bootleg copy of THE CREMASTER CYCLE at a Horror Convention.

"I'll sleep when I'm dead." R.W. Fassbinder

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Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees (1975)

Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things (1971)

Mauvais Sang (1986) Leos Carax

Planet of the Vampires (1966) Mario Bava

Don't Play with Fire (1980) Tsui Hark

Black Tight Killers (1966)

Sex and Zen (1992) Michael Mak

Naked Killer (1992)

The Seventh Curse (1986)

Rampo Noir (2005)

Lady in White (1988)

Paperhouse (1988)

Philosophy of a Knife (2008)

Ascension (2002) Karim Hussain

The Beautiful Beast (2006) Karim Hussain

School in the Crosshairs (1981) Nobuhi Kobayashi

Ikarie XB 1 (1963) (Czech new wave Sci-fi that had an influence on Kubrick's 2001)

The Strange Case of Senor Computer (2000)

Angel's Egg (1985)

Zheng gu wang (aka. Tricky Business) (1995)

The Guatemalan Handshake (2006)

More to come soon!







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Here's some more surreal movie recommendations.

WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971) Dusan Makavejev
(Part documentary, Part political surrealist sex comedy)

Pig (1998) Rozz Williams & Nico B.
(For some reason, this really odd short film is not listed on imdb. They have it on Amazon. It's really disturbing like Fando & Lis meets I Stand Alone with S&M)(Out of print and hard to find) (view at your own risk)

The Tenant (1976) Roman Polanski (Another must see)

Ice from the Sun (1999) Eric Stanze
(Really cheezy B-movie with Amazing Tetsuo and Natural Born Killers style images) (A shameful guilty pleasure)

Natural Born Killers (1994) Oliver Stone
(Not many people realize this, but the guy who plays Axon in the Holy Mountain, with his infamous chamber of 1000 testes went on to produce many Oliver Stone movies including co-writing the screenplay for Natural Born Killers) (It's a small world!)

So I married a strange person (1997) Bill Plympton
(Bill Plympton used to do strange cartoons for liquid television on MTV) (This has to be one of the strangest animated films I have ever seen)

Simon of the Desert (1965) Luis Bunuel
(Another great short film from Bunuel, similar to El Topo) (Why hasn't Criterion released this yet?)

Machines of Love and Hate (2003) Joseph Parda
(Low budget, but interesting. Very similar to David Lynch)

Yume (aka. Kurosawa's Dreams) (1990)
(Simply amazing and colorful, Kurosawa puts seven of his dreams into film)

Return to Light: A spiritual Oddesy (2004) Gregory Pearce
(For some reason this film is not listed on imdb)You can get a copy at
www.cinemaseekers.com

Possession (1981) Andrzej Zulawski (Like Lost Highway meets The Brood)

Space is the Place (1974) Sun Ra
(Ever wonder what it would be like if Jodorowsky were to of made a blaxploitation sci-fi film with acid jazz?)

Stay tuned for more recommendations!

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ToxiePunk2002, Where did you or where can i find a copy of L'urlo? thanks.

If you cut off my head, what would I say? Me and my head, or me and my body?

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I found my copy of L'urlo at www.pimpadelicwonderland.com; it's a great website with tons of rare movies. Only problem is, sometimes it takes more than a month to recieve your order.

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ok Thanks and thanks again for all the excellent films listed above

If you cut off my head, what would I say? Me and my head, or me and my body?

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Let's keep this post going as long as possible. There are so many bizarre movies; I'm sure I forgot many. I dug through my DVD collection and here's some more bizarre films I forgot to mention. I can't wait for the Criterion release of El Topo and The Holy Mountain! Are you guys as excited as me? Although El Topo has decent DVD releases, The Region 2 DVD of the Holy Mountain from raro video hardly does the film justice.

Here's some more films! ( I love cinema, when I'm not working my night shift job as a janitor; I enjoy bizarre surrealist films that help me to escape from a boring reality)

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) (You got to love Russ Meyer)

Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988) Guy Maddin (Eraserhead meets ER)

Akumulator 1 (1994) (Bizarre Czech film about an alternate TV reality)

Erendira (1983) (Felliniesque style magic realism from Mexico)

Fah talai jone (aka. Tears of the Black Tiger) (2000) (Amazing Thai western)

Head (1968) Bob Rafelson (Psychadelic musical comedy with the Monkees)

Ha Kochav Hakachol (aka. Planet Blue) (1995) (Israili stoner comedy)

Hugo Pool (1997) Robert Downey Sr.

Motorama (1991)

The Trip (1967) Roger Corman

Hausu (1977) (Really wierd, and I mean wierd Japanese haunted house movie)

Arizona Dream (1993) Emir Kusturica
(Johnny Depp, Jerry Lewis, Vincent Gallo, Faye Dunaway; an all star cast in a wackey surreal comedy from the Yugoslavian director of Underground)

Who are you Polly Magoo? (1966) William Klien

Lost Highway (1997) David Lynch (This film grew on me after a second viewing)

Hiroku the Goblen (1990) Shinya Tsukamoto

Tokyo Fist (1995) Shinya Tsukamoto

The Seventh Seal (1957) Ingmar Bergman

Freaks (1932) Todd Browning (One of Jodorowsky's favorite films)

Vera (2003) Francisco Athie

Sexmission (1987) (Hilarious Polish Sci-fi)

Poison (1991) Todd Haynes

Paroxismus (aka. Jess Franco's Venus in Furs) (1969)

Lemonade Joe (1964) Oldrich Lipsky (Czech musical western)

Dinner for Adele (1977) Oldrich Lipsky

The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) Martin Scorsese

Emporer Tomato Ketchup (1971) Shuji Terayama

Kusa-Meikyu (aka. Grass Labrynth) (1983) Shuji Terayama

Our Lady of the Turks (1968) Carmelo Bene

Salome (1972) Carmelo Bene
(This movie is really wacked out. Like Fellini Satyricon cut into pieces by Jodorowsky and spliced back together)

Post Coitum (2004) Juraj Jakubisko (Really fun Fellini like sex Czech comedy)

To Prosopo tis Mudusas (1966) Nikos Koundouros

The Reflecting Skin (1990) Philip Ridley (How could I forget this creepy coming of age cult favorite)

La Rose de Fer (1973) Jean Rollins

Sitcom (1998) Francois Ozon

Static (1985) Mark Romanek
(From the director of NIN closer video and One Hour Photo)

Suspiria (1977) Dario Argento

Inferno (1980) Dario Argento

2001: A Space Oddesy (1968) Stanley Kubrick (How could I forget this?)

Stalker (1979) Andrei Tarkovsky

Who wants to kill Jesse? (1966)

Rashomon (1950) Akira Kurosawa

Johnny got his gun (1971)

Dust (2001) Milcho Manchevski (Really interesting Macedonian western)

Last Year at Marienbad (1960) Alain Resnais (Peter Greenaway's favorite film)

Angel De Fuego (1992)

Putney Swope (1969) Robert Downey Sr.

Throne of Blood (1957) Kurosawa

Repulsion (1965) Roman Polanski

Also check out Roman Polanski's short films on the Criterion DVD of Knife in Water!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jubilee (1977) Derek Jarmon

Black Narcissus (1947) (Not strange, but very bright and colorful. Beautiful technicolor landscapes. Nuns back stab each other and have doubts about their profession. What's not to love?)

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The Adventures of God (2000)

Bad Lieutenant (1992) Abel Ferrara
(Harvey Kietel is amazing, plus some really disturbing religious images)

The Nine Lives of Thomas Katz (2000)

The Wizard of Speed and Time (1989) Mike Jittlov (Fun trippy kids movie)

La Jetee (1962) Chris Marker

Sans Soleil (1983) Chris Marker

Donnie Darko (2001) (worth mentioning)

Twelve Monkeys (1995)

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Since march, I have been following ToxiePunk2002's list, and try to get my hands on each movie mentioned. Its been a pretty difficult journey, but I've watched some incredible films.

You mentioned Shuji Terayama. That man is a god. Did you list,

"Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets - Shuji Terayama"

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Yes, that is one of my favorite films. I listed it very early. Unfortunetly the onlt english subtitled print, is faded. You can also get a good copy without subtitles at www.superhappyfun.com; sometime in the future www.japanesenewwave.com/ will be releasing a better print with subtitles.

Thanks for reading my list!

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For some reason user nain roux's list was deleted. He had a good list. Let me mention the films he listed. I need help making the ultimate list of strange films. I can't do it on my own. I'm starting to run out of titles! (yipes)

Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) Werner Herzog

Solyaris (1972)

Cite des en fants perdus (aka. City of lost Children) (1995)

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)

Brazil (1985) Terry Gilliam

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) Terry Gilliam

Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)

Barton Fink (1991) Joel and Ethan Coen

The Big Labowski (1998) Another Coen Brothers classic
(For the dream sequence with the bowling pin girls)

Allegro non Tropo (1977) (Awesome Italian take on fantasia)

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

Metropolis (1927) Fritz Lang

Solyaris (1972)

Delicatessen (1991)

Kraftverk 3714 (2005) (Bizarre no budget Swedish film)

Black Moon (1975) Louis Malle

Waking Life (2001) Richard Linklater (another trippy animated film)

A Clockwork Orange (1971) (must love Kubrick)

Freedom Deep (1998)
(kind of cheesy but visually interesting aussie experimental film)

Irreversible (2002) (More distrurbing than anything)

I Stand Alone (1998) (another Casper Noe masterpiece)

Clean Shaven (1994) (Takes you in the mind of a schizo)

Visual Training (1969)

The Descreet Charm of the Borgeoisie (1972) Luis Bunuel

The Element of Crime (1984) Lars Van Trier

Dancer in the Dark (2000) Lars Van Trier

The Freakmaker (1974)

Female Trouble (1974) John Waters

The Lickerish Quartet (1970) Radley Metzger

Dr. Caligari (1989)
(Has nothing to do with the silent classic, but an interesting film)

Vargtimmen (aka. Hour of the Wolf) (1968)

Gothic (1986) Ken Russel

Bread and Circus (2003)

Any short film by Kenneth Anger (director of Scorpio Rising)

Wreckmister Harmonies (2000)

Altered States (1980)

Zu Warriors of the Magic Mountain (1983)

Boxer's Omen (1983)

Wild at Heart (1990)

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with me (1992) (Or anything by David Lynch)

Fellini's City of Women

Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) Maya Deren

Tuvalu (1999)

OK. that's all for today! My brain is tired!

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Hi, sorry for the deleted post. It must be one of my family members. So for some strange films check the stuff of Frank Zappa (He's himself a Really Really strange person).I Know that 200 Motels has been mentionned but look for Baby Snakes. It has some pretty weird long (but not long enough to me) animation scene. Most of the time it's show sequence that are truly entertaining (but not surreal). Yellow submarine and Magical Mystery Tour have some scene that are surreal (see the spaghetti dream scene in Magical Mystery Tour and you'll know what i mean). Even if almost everybody knows that already, the Monty Python crew are very surreal especially in the movie Monty Python And the Holy Grail(The best surreal comedy in my opinion). From the films that i've mentionned in my deleted post that ToxiePunk didn't re-write, there was:

° Le Fantôme De La Liberté (Luis Bunuel)

° La Voie Lactée (Again Luis Bunuel)

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Other Surreal/Strange Films

° Decasia: The State of Decay (A documentary by Bill Morrison) Because English isn't my first language, i won't try to describe this strange documentary. So from amazon.com: A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score.

° Liquid Sky (Slava Tsukerman)(Might have been mentionned already. Sorry)

° Playtime (Jacques Tati)

° Buffet Froid (Bertrand Blier)

° Rokugatsu no hebi (a.k.a. A Snake Of June)(Shinya Tsukamoto)

° Even Dwarfs Started Small (Werner Herzog)(A cast composed entirely of dwarfs.)(A Must See)

° Fooly Cooly (Kazuya Tsurumaki)

° Pigeon Within (Emily Hubley)

° Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer)

°Dead Leaves (2004) (Hiroyuki Imaishi)



Every Face is Unique And Last A Lifetime.

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Brian De Palma's "Phantom of the Paradise"

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Someone mentioned MALPERTUIS.

Another must-see surreal Belgian film from the same director is
DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS. And Harry Kumel's earlier films if you can find them!

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"The Phantom of the Paradise" rules!
(Like Rocky Horror Picture Show but better!

Here's some more films I forgot!

Que Viva Mexico (1979) Sergei Esenstein
(Had a significant influence on Jodorowsky and Arrabal)

Baxter (1991) Jerome Boivin (Dark comedy about the thoughts of a dog)

The American Astronaut (2001)

Bye Bye Brazil (1980) Carlos Diegues

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) Jacques Demy
(Not bizarre, but super bright colors in this musical where every word is sung. There's not a single spoken word that's not sung.)

Donkey Skin (1970) Jacques Demy (Another great Demy musical)

No rest for the brave (2003)
(Very slow but intersting film about a kid who doesn't know if he's awake or dreaming)

Mon Oncle (1958) Jacques Tati

Gozu (2003) Takashi Miike

Repo Man (1984) Alex Cox

Palindromes (2004) Todd Solondz (8 actresses play the same character)

Apocalypse Now (1979) Francis Ford Coppola

The Temptation of a Monk (aka.You Seng) (1993) Clara Law

Requiem for a Dream (2000)

Battle Royale (2000)

Troma's War (1988)
(This may not belong on the list, but it's a favorite guilty pleasure of mine. Troma's parody of overly patriotic 80's war movies)

Siesta (1987)

Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987) Norman Mailer

Macunaima (1969) (Like a Brazilian El Topo; really hard to find)

The Shout (1978) Jerzy Skolimowski

Funny Man (1994) Simon Sprackling

Horror (2002)

Habit (1997)

Videodrome (1983) David Cronenberg (Must love Cronenberg)

The Decameron (1971) Pier Paolo Pasolini

Roadkill (1989) Bruce Mcdonald

HERE'S 2 BRAZILIAN WESTERNS THAT HAD A HUGE INFLUENCE ON EL TOPO!

Black God White Devil (1964) Glauber Rocha

Anonio Das Mortes (1969) Glauber Rocha (The follow up to Black God White Devil)

Gummo (1997) Harmony Korine

Julien Donkey Boy (1999) Harmony Korine

ALREADY MENTIONED BUT WORTH MENTIONING AGAIN!

The Hourglass Sanitorium (1973)

Valerie and her week of Wonders (1970)

Meet the Feebles (1989) Pete Jackson

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More Weird Movies (in no particular order):

PERFORMANCE (directed Donald Cammell/Nic Roeg) Like a heterosexual Kenneth Anger film packed with references to Crowley, Borges, drugs, mysticism etc.) Cammell's other films like WHITE OF THE EYE are worth a look too.

MOONCHILD - not based on the Crowley novel but a really bizarre independent American film with the late great Victor Buono.

WALKABOUT and other Nic Roeg films, and Corman's MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH which Roeg photographed.

Orson Welles' CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT and his DON QUIXOTE film ('reconstructed' by Jesus Franco!)

Terry Gilliam's THE TIME BANDITS.

SOPHIE'S WORLD - philosophical kids' film based on Danish bestseller.

Kurosawa's THE HIDDEN FORTRESS (which influenced STAR WARS.)

Louis Malle's ZAZIE DANS LE METRO based on Raymond Queneau's surrealist novel.

THE SARAGOSSO MANUSCRIPT - epic Polish fantasy with Cybulski as a wandering 18th century mercenary encountering demons, magicians and succubi.

Two features from American Conrad Rooks - Chappaqua (1966) and Siddhartha (1972) are very similar in mystical questing spirit to Jodorowsky.

Any short films by Ed Emshwiller, especially his classic 1966 38-minute RELATIVITY: 'Emshwiller made this film on a Ford Foundation grant, and in his original proposal to the Ford Foundation, he outlined the film as "something that deals with subjective reality, the emotional sense of what one's perception of the total environment is -- sexual, physical, social, time, space, life, death."'

Michael Powells's A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, A CANTERBURY TALE, LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP, THE RED SHOES, PEEPING TOM and others.

Thanks ToxiePunk for your great lists!...My personal Wants List has grown by about a 100 titles as a result.



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Yesterday, i saw at the FANTASIA festival, (in Montreal, Canada) the complete work of Robert morgan (4 short films) and it's pretty dark/weird in a Svankmajer way.

Here are his shorts:

° The Man in the Lower-Left Hand Corner of the Photograph (1999)

° The Cat with Hands (2001) http://www.bordergatewayprotocol.net/jon/media/video/Cat-With-Hands.mov

° The Separation (2003)

° Monsters (2004)

After the presentation of that, we had the chance to see a short of Vaclav Svankmajer (Yes the son of Jan!) in North American première.

° The Torchbearer (2005)

Other strange short films:

° Perpetual Motion in the Land of Milk and Honey (2006) (A really surreal/weird 6min. short film. One of my favorite)

° Le Baiser (2005)

° Rubber Johnny (2005)

° The Eel (2005)

° Get The Rabbit Back (2005)

I have seen all of the above at the Fantasia festival (a festival of fantastic, horror, animation, surreal, strange movies.). If you're interested by this type of cinema and you're near montreal, you got to make the trip. It's one of the biggest festival of this kind in North America. www.fantasiafest.com for more information.

° Rupture (Jean Detheux)(2005)(3)

° Mes quatre dernières volontés (1998)

° Dahucapra rupidahu (2004)

° Oïo (2003)


sorry for my mistakes...


How can i go forward when i don't know which way i'm facing ?

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This list will never end!!!! I thought of more films!!!!!

Blowup (1966) Michelangelo Antonioni

Demonlover (2002) (Starts out fairly normal and then goes crazy)

The Adventures of Baron Munchausan (1988) Terry Gilliam

Track 29 (1986) Nicolas Roeg

Girl Slaves of Morgana le Fay (1971) Bruno Gantillon

Ghost World (2001) Terry Zwigoff
(I know this shouldn't be on the list; One of my personal favorites)

Betty Blue (1986) Jean-Jacques Beineix
(A 3 hour slapstick romantic decent into madness with sexy Beatrice Dalle)

The Quiet Earth (1985)

Being John Malkovich (1999)
(Mainstream or not, this film is a hell of a lot of fun)

Crazy Love (1987) (Very sweet and sympathetic necromantic film from Belgium)

Phenomena (1985) Dario Argento
(Not to be confused with the crappy John Travolta movie)

Orpheus (1950) Jean Cocteau

Zbehovia a Putnici (aka. The Deserter and the Nomads) (1968) Juraj Jakubisko
(Unfortunatly tracking down a copy of this film is damn near impossible)

An Ambiguous Report about the end of the World (1997) Juraj Jakubisko

Koyaanisqatsi (1983) (Holy cow, I think I forgot to mention this masterpiece)

Powaqqatsi (1988)

Fast Cheap & Out of Control (1997) Errol Morris
(This is one of the wierdest documentaries I've ever seen)

Supervixens (1975) Russ Meyer (Lots of fun!)

Wind from Wyoming (1994)

That's all for today, stay tuned for more films!




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Yasuzo Masumura's Blind Beast (1969)

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This is the best thread i've ever seen on Imdb, well done. They may have been mentioned but i want to add:

1. derek jarman's - blue
2. anything from the Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1894-1941 (1910)DVD
3. The films of stan brakhage
4. Argento's - Deep Red
5. Lot in Sodom
6. Godards - 1+1 (Sometimes known as Sympathy for the Devil)
7. Man With a Movie Camera

Lets keep this post going!

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I've been on a Russ Meyer kick lately. People call him an exploitation director, but I beg to differ. He's an artist! Here's some more of my favorite Russ Meyer flicks. The best of the breast! These have a very surreal feeling to them.

The Immoral Mr. Teas (1959)

Lorna (1964)

Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)

Up! (1976) (One of Russ Meyer's wierdest and raunchiest)

Early Jess Franco has a very surreal feel to it, before he went all sleazy.

Necronomicon-Getraumte Suden (aka. Succubus) (1968) Jess Franco

Singapore Sling (1990)
(A Greek film noir murder mystery. Like Peter Greenaway meets John Waters)

A Paty Jezdec je Strach (aka. The fifth rider is fear) (1964)

Kingsajz (1988)

Jancio Wodnik (1993)

Szegenylegenyek (aka. The Round-Up) Miklos Jancso (1965)

Meg Ker a Nep (aka. Red Psalm) Miklos Jancso (1972)

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