The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), Alice (1989), The Exterminating Angel (1962), Fashionista (2016), Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), The Fairy (2011), Allegro non Troppo (1976), Arizona Dream (1992) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Surrealism movies.
Storyline: In an allegory of life after Gen. Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War, life in a remote village in the 1940s is calm and uneventful. Two little girls see a "Frankenstein" movie, and one of them starts wandering the countryside in search of this kind creature.
Plot Keywords: spanish cinema, child's perspective, symbolism, rural life, loneliness, classic film, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Czech director Jan Svankmajer's surreal adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic children's book, Alice (Kristyna Kohoutova) follows her stuffed rabbit through a portal inside her dresser to be whisked away to Wonderland. While the White Rabbit, Mad Hatter and Cheshire Cat are still present, the familiar magical world and bizarre characters have undergone an unsettling transformation in the director's vision through the stop-motion animation of dead animals, puppets and other assorted objects.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, adventure, dark, surreal, dreamlike, horror, gothic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Edmundo Nobile (Enrique Rambal) invites friends over for an opulent dinner party. While the guests enjoy their food, the servants disappear one by one. Afterward, the visitors retire to the salon for an evening of music and conversation -- but in the morning, they are mysteriously incapable of leaving the room. As days go by and they run out of food and water, panic and madness set in. The army and the police arrive, but fail in their attempts to enter the house as conditions inside deteriorate.
Plot Keywords: surrealism, black comedy, social satire, upper class, absurdity, psychological horror, fate ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When a woman discovers her husband is having an affair, she throws caution to the wind and has an affair herself with a mysterious pick-up from a bar. The man, in true thriller fashion, turns out to be way more dangerous than she ever bargained for.
Plot Keywords: fashion, drama, thriller, psychological, obsession, addiction, mental breakdown ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A teacher and three schoolgirls at Appleyard College disappear in 1900.
Plot Keywords: mystery, drama, psychological thriller, historical, literary adaptation, female perspective, surrealism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A hotel clerk (Dominique Abel) falls in love with a woman (Fiona Gordon) who walks up to his front desk and offers to grant him three wishes.
Plot Keywords: comedy, fantasy, romance, french cinema, independent film, surrealism, humour ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Italy's response to the Disney classical music/animation hybrid "Fantasia," this film features a series of cartoon shorts set to the likes of Claude Debussy, Joseph-Maurice Ravel and Antonio Vivaldi. The animated segments feature both the humorous and fantastical: an aged satyr attempts to regain its lost youth, a bee is interrupted mid-meal by two lovers, the myth of Adam and Eve is retold and more. In between cartoons, a filmmaker (Maurizio Nichetti) struggles to complete the film.
Plot Keywords: animation, fantasy, music, comedy, satire, surrealism, italian cinema ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Called to Arizona by his Cadillac-dealer uncle (Jerry Lewis), a fish-and-game warden (Johnny Depp) meets a kooky widow (Faye Dunaway) and an heiress.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, comedy, romance, surrealism, coming of age, american film, 1990s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this ballet version of Bram Stoker's classic vampire tale, Dracula (Zhang Wei-Qiang) arrives in London and performs a dance of seduction with the virgin Lucy (Tara Birtwhistle), whom he turns into a ravenous monster. Lucy's three suitors vow revenge even as Dracula stalks his next victim. When the trio's efforts prove counterproductive, professional vampire hunter Van Helsing (David Moroni) enters the picture and meets Dracula in a climactic battle.
Plot Keywords: vampire, ballet, silent film, gothic, horror, adaptation, canadian film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young woman (Isabelle Adjani) forsakes her husband (Sam Neill) and her lover for a tentacled creature.
Plot Keywords: horror, psychological thriller, supernatural, marital crisis, demonic possession, body horror, mental breakdown ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a seedy, plague-ridden corner of turn-of-the-century Mexico, a pious priest, Nazarín (Francisco Rabal), takes in mentally ill Beatriz (Marga López) and her prostitute sister, Andara (Rita Macedo). At odds with the other members of his clergy, he decides to go on a religious journey with the two women, but manages to accidentally alienate or ruin almost everyone he meets. As Nazarín attempts to bring goodwill and faith to a decaying society, he's met with scorn, suspicion and persecution.
Plot Keywords: religion, morality, poverty, redemption, faith, humanity, social criticism ...
Movie Details Click Here !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: Jumpei Niki, a Tokyo based entomologist and educator, is in a poor seaside village collecting specimens of sand insects. As it is late in the day and as he has missed the last bus back to the city, some of the local villagers suggest that he spend the night there, they offering to find him a place to stay. That place is the home of a young woman, whose house is located at the bottom of a sand pit accessible only by ladder. He later learns that the woman's husband and child died in a sandstorm, their undiscovered bodies buried somewhere near the house. The next morning as he tries to leave, he finds that the ladder is gone - he realizing that the ladder he climbed down was a rope ladder which is anchored above the pit - meaning that he is trapped with the young woman as the walls of the pit are sand with no grip. He also realizes that this entrapment was the villagers and the young woman's plan for him to stay there permanently to be her helper in the never-ending task of digging out ...
Plot Keywords: existentialism, psychological thriller, surrealism, absurdism, isolation, human nature, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It is the height of the war in Vietnam, and U.S. Army Captain Willard is sent by Colonel Lucas and a General to carry out a mission that, officially, 'does not exist - nor will it ever exist'. The mission: To seek out a mysterious Green Beret Colonel, Walter Kurtz, whose army has crossed the border into Cambodia and is conducting hit-and-run missions against the Viet Cong and NVA. The army believes Kurtz has gone completely insane and Willard's job is to eliminate him. Willard, sent up the Nung River on a U.S. Navy patrol boat, discovers that his target is one of the most decorated officers in the U.S. Army. His crew meets up with surfer-type Lt-Colonel Kilgore, head of a U.S Army helicopter cavalry group which eliminates a Viet Cong outpost to provide an entry point into the Nung River. After some hair-raising encounters, in which some of his crew are killed, Willard, Lance and Chef reach Colonel Kurtz's outpost, beyond the Do Lung Bridge. Now, after becoming prisoners of Kurtz, will...
Plot Keywords: war, vietnam war, psychological thriller, madness, existentialism, moral ambiguity, jungle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Protagonist Alex DeLarge is an "ultraviolent" youth in futuristic Britain. As with all luck, his eventually runs out and he's arrested and convicted of murder and rape. While in prison, Alex learns of an experimental program in which convicts are programmed to detest violence. If he goes through the program, his sentence will be reduced and he will be back on the streets sooner than expected. But Alex's ordeals are far from over once he hits the mean streets of Britain that he had a hand in creating.
Plot Keywords: violence, dystopia, crime, psychology, brainwashing, classical music, morality ...
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