The Phantom of Liberty (1974), Le fantôme de la liberté (1974), Tristana (1970), L'Age d'Or (1930), Gummo (1997), Bachelor Party (1984), Negatives (1968), Rubber (2010) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Anti-conventional movies.
Storyline: Chance encounters lead to a man who sells postcards, to a sniper, to monks playing poker and to guests at a dinner party.
Plot Keywords: surrealism, black comedy, social satire, absurdity, french cinema, 1970s, dream logic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This surrealist film consists of a series of only vaguely related episodes, most famously the dinner party scene in which people sit on lavatories round a dinner table, occasionally retiring to a small room to eat.
Plot Keywords: surrealism, black comedy, absurdity, french cinema, 1970s, nonlinear narrative, social satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When the young woman Tristana's mother dies, she is entrusted to the guardianship of the well-respected though old Don Lope. Don Lope is well-liked and well-known because of his honorable nature, despite his socialistic views about business and religion. But Don Lope's one weakness is women, and he falls for the innocent girl in his charge, seduces her, makes her his lover, though all the while explaining to her that she is as free as he. But when she acts on this freedom, Don Lope must deal with the consequences of his world-view.—Gary Dickerson <slug@mail.utexas.edu>
Plot Keywords: drama, adaptation, literary adaptation, social critique, female protagonist, moral dilemma, black comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bunuel's first feature has more of a plot than Un Chien Andalou (1929), but it's still a pure Surrealist film, so this is only a vague outline. A man and a woman are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.
Plot Keywords: surrealism, french cinema, black comedy, social criticism, taboo, absurdism, avant-garde ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Constructing this film through random scenes, director Harmony Korine abruptly jettisoned any sort of narrative plot, so here we go: Solomon and Tummler are two bored teenage boys who live in Xenia, Ohio. A few years ago, a tornado swept through it, destroying more than half the town and killing the same amount, including Solomon's father. The film, from there, chronicles the anti-social adventures these two boys have. These include sniffing glue, killing cats, having sex, riding dirtbikes, listening to black metal, and meeting a cavalcade of quirky, bizarre, and scary people. These include a man who pimps his mentally ill wife to our anti-heroes, three sisters who play with their cat and practice becoming strippers, a black midget fending off the sexual advances of a troubled man (played by the director Harmony Korine), a 12-year-old gay transvestite who is also a cat killer, Solomon's mother who seems to be the only glimpse of sanity, two foul-mouthed six-year olds, and most ...
Plot Keywords: independent film, experimental film, realism, american film, teenagers, poverty, suburban life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rick Gassko is about to marry Debbie Thompson. Her parents hate him. Her old boyfriend hates him. They all have money and he gets a cut of the crap games on the Catholic school bus that he drives. His friends decide to give him the bachelor party of all bachelor parties in an expensive hotel with booze, adult movies and hookers. As the players catch wind of the elements of the party, each adds a little monkey wrench so that one set of hookers ends up giving demos at the bride's shower, the brides friends end up dressed as hookers in a room with a number of non English speaking Japanese businessmen, and so on, as things get out of hand.
Plot Keywords: comedy, party, pranks, sexual humor, 1980s, american film, youth ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Theo, a used-furniture dealer, and his lover, Vivien, like to enhance their love-making through dressing-up and role-playing. He pretends he's notorious murderer Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen; she pretends she's either Crippen's wife, Belle Elmore, or Crippen's mistress, Ethel Le Neve. When they're not having sex, Theo and Vivien engage in a lot of bickering, but continue to live together above Theo's London shop. Entering their lives one day is Reingard, a female German photographer who's been observing the couple, whom she finds intriguing. Reingard moves into one of the rooms above the shop; under her influence, Theo begins to shed his Crippen persona in favor of that of another notorious figure, German flying ace Baron von Richthofen, a development which threatens to impact Theo's relationship with Vivien.—Eugene Kim <genekim@concentric.net>
Plot Keywords: experimental film, short film, 1960s, american film, underground film, black and white film, silent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: As film spectators watch, a killer car tire comes to life in a desert dump site. Flexing its... rubber... and ready to roll, it soon discovers its telekinetic ability to make small animals and people's heads explode. Lt. Chad hopes to end this movie by fatally poisoning every last spectators, but failing that, the show must go on, and the tire goes on a three-day rampage. With few left alive, a lure is constructed to draw the tire from its motel room, where hopes are to end it and this movie once and for all.
Plot Keywords: surreal, black comedy, metafilm, absurd, horror, comedy, cult ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In San Francisco, we follow Johnny, a man who has a girlfriend, Lisa, and also his best friend, Mark. Lisa has been cheating on Johnny with Mark and Johnny doesn't know! Will Johnny ever find out? Will Mark still be Johnny's best friend?
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, independent film, absurd, black comedy, low budget, controversial ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Playing on the instructional video format, "The Boys and Girls Guide to Getting Down" tells you everything you need to know to have a successful night of partying in Los Angeles. Taking place over the course of a single night, the film stars a cast of unknown actors and offers part-satirical, part-serious advice on how to attract sex partners, get into the hottest clubs, get free drinks and score drugs. For non-partying viewers, it provides an intriguing glimpse into the LA clubbing scene.
Plot Keywords: youth, comedy, sex education, urban life, romance, alcohol, nightlife ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Phil Piedmonstein (Paul Campbell) is the best bag boy at his local grocery store, but that doesn't stop a rival bag boy (Robert Hoffman) and his boss (Larry Miller) from a nearby supermarket from taunting Phil. Encouraged by his friends and fellow supermarket workers (Josh Dean, Nick Lashaway, Wesley Jonathan), Phil decides to enter the international competitive bagging championship. With the help of his boss (Dennis Farina), Phil might just have a chance at winning.
Plot Keywords: comedy, crime, black comedy, independent film, new york, underclass life, social outcasts ...
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