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366 Weird Movies

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Don't Look Now
Nicolas Roeg 1973 1h 50m 7.6

Don’t Look Now is a thriller starring Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland as a married couple who tragically loose their daughter and thereafter are confronted with only mysterious occurrences.

Silent Hill
Christophe Gans 2006 2h 5m 7.4

A girl has a bad case of sleep walking and while dreaming talks about a place called Silent Hill. Her parents take her to this place that she only mentions in dreams yet in an attempt to get there they crash their car and loose their daughter. They begin searching for her yet not knowing the dangers that lurk in Silent Hill.

Repulsion
Roman Polanski 1965 1h 45m 8.3

Carol is a young beauty parlor worker who falls into violent paranoia (including terrifying hallucinations) over a weekend. This classic psychological thriller by Roman Polanski still holds up today.

Ein Toter hing im Netz
Fritz Böttger 1960 1h 29m 5.0

A plane carrying a troupe of beautiful dancers crashes on a deserted island inhabited by radioactive spiders whose bite turns you into a murderous monster.

Les yeux sans visage
Georges Franju 1960 1h 24m 8.4

Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. Génessier, along with accomplice and laboratory assistant Louise, kidnaps young women and brings them to the Génessier mansion. After rendering his victims unconscious, Dr. Gé...

Ssa-i-bo-geu-ji-man-gwen-chan-a
Park Chan-wook 2006 1h 45m 8.2

Young-goon, mentally deranged and frequently electro-charging herself with a transistor radio, has been admitted into a mental institution. Firmly believing herself to be a cyborg, she refuses to consume like a human being. Il-soon is another patient, who catches the eye of Young-goon and soon becomes a close friend. Il-soon is now confronted wi...

El Topo
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El Topo

Alejandro Jodorowsky 1970 2h 5m 8.4

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.

Donnie Darko
Richard Kelly 2001 1h 54m 8.6

A troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes, after narrowly escaping a bizarre accident.

Help, Help, the Globolinks!
1969 1h 11m

The world’s only psychedelic children’s opera about an alien invasion.

Archangel
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Archangel

Guy Maddin 1991 1h 22m 5.0

A surrealistic film in which a strangely assorted group of people come together in the Russian Arctic at the height of the revolution and World War One.

Jacob's Ladder
Adrian Lyne 1990 1h 53m 7.8

A psychological suspense thriller film from director Adrian Lyne. An Vietnam veteran working as a mail man begins to see strange things and flashbacks from his times at war. A horror film about the psychologically damaged veterans and their last cry for help.

Tromeo and Juliet
Lloyd Kaufman 1996 1h 47m 8.5

Tromeo, a filmmaker, falls in love with Juliet, the daughter of a former partner who tried to steal his business from him.

Kung fu
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Kung fu

Stephen Chow 2004 1h 39m 7.7

Stephen Chow is Sing, a lovable and hapless ne'er do well. Determined to become a "tough gangster," he attempts to join the Axe Gang. He doesn't know that underneath his useless, bumbling exterior lies the heart of a true martial arts master...

Blood Diner
Jackie Kong 1987 1h 28m 5.0

Two cannibalistic brothers kill various young women to make their flesh part of their new special dish at their rundown restaurant while seeking blood sacrifices to awaken a dormant Egyptian goddess.

Steppenwolf
Fred Haines 1974 1h 47m 5.0

In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Haller, a solitary intellectual, has all his life feared his dual nature of being human and being a beast. He's decided to die on his 50th birthday, which is soon. He's rescued from his solipsism by the mysterious Hermine, who takes him dancing, intro...

Carnival of Souls
Herk Harvey 1962 1h 18m 7.3

After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.

Tideland
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Tideland

Terry Gilliam 2005 2h 7.1

Enter the magical world of Jeliza-Rose (Jodelle Ferland), an unusual child with an even more unusual story. Hers is a world where squirrels talk, where fireflies have names, and where the heads of dolls, long since separated from their bodies, are her closest friends.

Naked Lunch
David Cronenberg 1991 1h 55m 8.0

After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.

The Reflecting Skin
Philip Ridley 1990 1h 35m 7.0

A young boy tries to cope with rural life circa 1950s and his fantasies become a way to interpret events. After his father tells him stories of vampires, he becomes convinced that the widow up the road is a vampire, and tries to find ways of discouraging his brother from seeing her.

Gummo
20.

Gummo

Harmony Korine 1997 1h 29m 8.0

Solomon and Tummler are two teenagers killing time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.

The Wicker Man
Robin Hardy 1973 1h 33m 7.7

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.

Eraserhead
David Lynch 1977 1h 29m 8.2

Eraserhead is a confusing film from independent cult director David Lunch from 1977.

The Lair of the White Worm
Ken Russell 1989 1h 33m 6.3

In a remote corner of England's Peak District, a mysterious skull is unearthed. But even weirder is that Lady Sylvia steals the skull for use in worshiping - very erotically - her pagan god, The White Worm, who hungers for the taste of virginal flesh.

Begotten
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Begotten

E. Elias Merhige 1990 1h 12m 4.7

Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.

Nostalghia
Andrei Tarkovsky 1983 2h 4m 7.6

A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy researching the life of an 18th-century composer, and instead meet a ruminative madman who tells the poet how the world may be saved.

La voie lactée
Luis Buñuel 1969 1h 42m 8.3

Two tramps going on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, meet different christian heresies. They meet too the Marquis of Sade.

Synecdoche, New York
Charlie Kaufman 2008 2h 4m 7.5

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.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Jim Sharman 1975 1h 40m 8.3

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the sci-fi horror rock n roll musical satire about an alien transvestite named Frank n Furter who is creating a muscular boy-toy. This classic B-Movie has a huge cult following that make viewer participation an event to itself.

La cité des enfants perdus
Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet 1995 1h 52m 7.9

The City of the Lost Children is a fantasy science fiction film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet about a scientist who kidnaps children and steals their dreams.

A Clockwork Orange
Stanley Kubrick 1971 2h 17m 9.2

In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all perso...

Naisu no mori: The First Contact
Hajime Ishimine, Shunichiro Miki 2005 2h 30m 9.5

An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother.

Phantasm
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Phantasm

Don Coscarelli 1979 1h 29m 6.7

A young boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a mysterious arsenal of terrible weapons with him.

Evil Dead II
Sam Raimi 1987 1h 24m 7.9

Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from “The Book of the Dead.” As they play the recording an evil power is unleashed taking over Linda’s body.

Stalker
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Stalker

Andrei Tarkovsky 1979 2h 42m 8.9

Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, an alien place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers. Over his wife's numerous objections, a man rises in the dead of night: he's a stalker, one of a handful who have the mental gifts (and who risk imprisonment) to lead people into the Zone to the Room, a place where one's secret hopes come true.

Delicatessen
Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro 1991 1h 39m 8.3

This bizarre surrealistic black comedy takes place in a small fictitious post-apocalyptic town where food is scares and butcher Louison has the macabre business of using human flesh to feed his costumers. Yet when his daughter falls in love with his next slaughter victim things turn into chaos.

Pi
36.

Pi

Darren Aronofsky 1998 1h 24m 8.2

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

Time Bandits
Terry Gilliam 1981 1h 56m 7.4

Time Bandits is a fantasy comedy from Great Britain in which a young boy begins an adventurous travel in time where he meets prominent people from history. The film came from the production company, Handmade Films, that also produced Monty Python’s Life of Brian.

Malpertuis
Harry Kümel 1971 2h 5m 9.2

A young sailor finds himself trapped in the labyrinthine mansion of his occultist uncle, along with a number of eccentric and mysterious relatives who all seem to be harboring a dark secret.

Cowards Bend the Knee or The Blue Hands
Guy Maddin 2003 1h 4m

When he takes his girlfriend to a seedy abortion clinic in the back room of a combination hair salon / bordello, Guy Maddin meets the madam’s daughter and falls in love. But she won’t let any man touch her until her father’s murder has been avenged.

El laberinto del fauno
Guillermo del Toro 2006 1h 58m 8.4

Pans Labyrinth is the exquisitely produced fantasy film from Mexican director Guillermo del Toro who is actually famous for his works in science-fiction and horror. The film stars a little girl lost in a fantasy world. The film won three Academy Awards in 2007.

I Can See You
2008 1h 37m

Three young ad-men enter the woods for a photo shoot, but a girlfriend's mysterious disappearance sparks a harrowing descent into unreality.

Johnny Got His Gun
Dalton Trumbo 1971 1h 52m 8.6

A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life leading up to that point.

Ink
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Ink

Jamin Winans 2009 1h 46m 7.5

Invisible forces exert power over us in our sleep. A mercenary named Ink, on a literal nightmare mission, captures the spirit of 8-year-old Emma (Quinn Hunchar) in the dream world. To save her, the dream-givers marshall all their resources , focusing on saving the soul of Emma's tragically broken father

Greaser's Palace
1972 1h 31m

A parable based on the life of Christ. This ain't your father's Bible story, full of references about the destruction of the world through massive constipation and a New Mexican setting.

Waking Life
Richard Linklater 2001 1h 41m 6.9

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.

The Dark Backward
1991 1h 41m

A man pursues stand-up comedy encouraged by his fellow garbage man. Though his friend, who accompanies him on accordion, continues to tell him how great he is, he actually stinks. When the "comedian" grows a third arm out of his back, the friend uses this twist to get him signed up with a sleazy talent agent, and it begins to look like his caree...

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Michel Gondry 2004 1h 48m 8.8

What would happen if we could erase the worst experiences and relationships from our memory. Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry combined forces to answer this very question.

Inland Empire
David Lynch 2006 3h 7.6

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.

A Serious Man
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen 2009 1h 46m 7.3

Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern physics teacher, watches his life unravel over multiple sudden incidents. Despite seeking meaning and answers amidst his turmoils, he seems to keep sinking.

Gothic
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Gothic

Ken Russell 1986 1h 28m 6.0

In a villa by a Swiss lake, the English poets Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley meet with Dr. William Polidori and Mary Shelley. In a stormy night, while the tenants were telling ghost stories to each other, to two famous novels were born - Frankenstein and The Vampyre...

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