Surreal Movies

A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed. One of the...

Bert Deling's surreal, button-pushing and hallucinogenic paean to the emerging possibilities of avant-garde and homemade filmmaking. Telling the tale...

Following a one-night stand, a young insomniac wakes up in a luxurious Manhattan apartment where things are not what they seem. Something about his...

An animated episode film made up of a series of 15-minute stories, each set in a different European country, and in each of which the mother, both...

In the wake of a traumatic incident at a funeral, an aging widow is faced with a bizarre, impossible choice.

Set in the future, the story follows a nurse who tries to bring her own style of relief to people condemned to die. Her identity is a mystery and she...

"Touring makes you crazy," Frank Zappa says, explaining that the idea for this film came to him while the Mothers of Invention were touring. The...

A shopping channel presenter begins to suspect she is trapped in an endless cycle of live television, but when a rival product demonstrator...

A photographer during the Soviet-Afghan war becomes obsessed with a mysterious figure that appears in his images every time the person photographed...

Wandering minstrel Ashik Kerib falls in love with a rich merchant's daughter, but is spurned by her father and forced to roam the world for a...

Soviet animation from Vladimir Tarasov.

A preacher without resources spends his days reciting Bible verses. One day he meets a young jobless girl who wanders on Hollywood Boulevard. An...

A happy little potter is approached by a huge hand which wants him to sculpt its statue. The potter refuses, wanting nothing more than to be left...

A young man has a conversation with his inner self

A bored insurance salesman quits his job to go into politics. He first starts preaching about how man is greater than he thinks and that man can live...

A slow-burning prairie grotesque. On the grounds of a rural sanitarium, three young women search for wellness, as a cult leader seeks to control...

Two co-workers at a derelict fast-food franchise accidentally discover a yonic meat portal to another realm — a “burger” world,...

A stubborn British man goes on a journey of self discovery during a walk with his girlfriend.

Alistair, a genetic researcher battling terminal cancer, makes a mysterious deal that saves his life— but the cost is locked behind his...

A father must face his dark past when his gifted daughter has visions of a young girl reborn from her deceased mother. This award-winning...