Happiness (1998), Man on the Moon (1999), Arizona Dream (1993), Our Mother's House (1967), Submarine (2010), Drowning by Numbers (1988), Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989), The Lobster (2015) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Unconventional Storytelling movies.
Storyline: A woman breaks up with her boyfriend, he thinks it's because he's fat. A man is unable to tell her next door neighbor he finds her sexually attractive. An old couple wants to split up, but they don't want to get a divorce. A therapist masturbates to teen magazines. An 11 year old kid is insecure about the fact that he hasn't cum yet. Office workers try to recall the face of a coworker who recently died. A woman is sure she has everything she could ever want. The lives of these individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.
Plot Keywords: black comedy, psychological thriller, family tragedy, social satire, moral dilemma, sexual repression, loneliness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A biographical film on the late comedian Andy Kaufman. Kaufman, along with his role on Taxi (1978), was famous for being the self-declared Intergender Wrestling Champion of the world. After beating women time and time again, Jerry Lawler (who plays himself in the movie), a professional wrestler, got tired of seeing all of this and decided to challenge Kaufman to a match. In most of the matches the two had, Lawler prevailed with the piledriver, which is a move by spiking an opponent head-first into the mat. One of the most famous moments in this feud was in the early 80s when Kaufman threw coffee on Lawler on Late Night with David Letterman (1982), got into fisticuffs with Lawler, and proceeded to sue NBC.
Plot Keywords: biography, comedy, drama, jim carrey, based on a true story, actor's life, performance art ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An Innuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film, in real and imaginary form. Meanwhile, Axel tags fish in New York as a naturalist's gofer. He's happy there, but a messenger arrives to bring him to Arizona for his uncle's wedding. It's a ruse to get Axel into the family business. In Arizona, Axel meets two odd women: vivacious, needy, and plagued by neuroses and familial discord. He gets romantically involved with one, while the other, rich but depressed, plays accordion tunes to a gaggle of pet turtles.
Plot Keywords: surrealism, black comedy, coming of age, dreams, absurdity, american dream, alienation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When their deeply religious mother dies, the seven Hook children bury her in the garden and continue life as normal. Then their absent father, Charlie, reappears...—Allen Dace
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, family secrets, child's perspective, british film, 1960s, film noir, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Precocious Oliver struggles with being popular in school but when a dark-haired beauty takes interest in him, he's determined to become the best boyfriend in the world. Meanwhile, his parents' already rocky relationship is threatened when his mother's ex-boyfriend moves in next door. Oliver makes some unorthodox plans to ensure that his parents stay together and that Jordana still likes him.
Plot Keywords: coming of age, dark comedy, romance, first love, family dynamics, self-discovery, melancholy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tired of her husband's philandering ways, the mother of two daughters drowns her husband. With the reluctant help of the local coroner, the murder is covered up. Her daughters are having similar problems with relationships, and tend to follow their mother's example, and the coroner becomes reluctantly involved in their murders as well. As the plot progresses, visual and spoken numbers appear in the scenes, counting from one to one hundred.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
Plot Keywords: black comedy, absurdist, murder, symbolism, british humor, surreal, family secrets ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Leningrad Cowboys, a fictional Russian rock band, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, trying to get to a wedding in Mexico, they are followed by the village idiot, who wishes to join the band.—vukovarfilmfestival
Plot Keywords: musical comedy, road movie, cultural clash, indie film, mockumentary, satire, low budget ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A love story set in a dystopian near future where single people are arrested and transferred to a creepy hotel. There they are obliged to find a matching mate in 45 days. If they fail, they are transformed into an animal and released into the woods.
Plot Keywords: dystopian, black comedy, romance, science fiction, absurdist, social satire, existential ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ruth Stoops is a poor indigent drug-user (a huffer - inhaling glue and paint for a high) whose down and out existence is complicated once more by becoming pregnant (she has had and lost four children already). When a judge orders that she gets an abortion or face a felony charge, she is befriended by Gail Stoney, a pro-lifer whose husband is president of the local "Babysavers" group. Suddenly Ruth is thrust into the middle of the pro-choice/pro-life struggle, with each side wanting her to take their side as a "message" to others - and the situation escalates...—Gary Dickerson <slug@mail.utexas.edu>
Plot Keywords: comedy, satire, independent film, social issues, female protagonist, political satire, black comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this pitch black comedy the rivalry between two neighbors escalates into an all out war. Through a maintenance error on a tractor they both end up, paralyzed, in a wheelchair. It seems they are doomed to stay together. They no longer focus their rage on each other but on the manufacturer of the tractor, in Helsinki. So get ready for a hilarious wheelchair road movie.—Cult Films
Plot Keywords: black comedy, road movie, belgian film, independent film, revenge, absurd, social satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Arlo Guthrie's song is converted into a motion picture. Arlo goes to see Alice for Thanksgivng and as a favor takes her trash to the dump. When the dump is closed, he drops it on top of another pile of garbage at the bottom of a ravine. When the local sheriff finds out a major manhunt begins. Arlo manages to survive the courtroom experience but it haunts him when he is to be inducted into the army via the draft. The movie follows the song with Arlo's voice over as both music and narration.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: counterculture, road movie, black comedy, social satire, anti-war, musical, based on true events ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Eighteen-year-old mothers' son Harry (he lives with his overprotective mother Kate) shows his cruel side at one occasion and is hired as hitman/enforcer by the Jewish mob.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: crime, black comedy, gangster, psychological thriller, violence, family conflict, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tracey Berkowitz, 15, a self-described normal girl, loses her 9-year old brother, Sonny. In flashbacks and fragments, we meet her overbearing parents and the sweet, clueless Sonny. We watch Tracey navigate high school, friendless, picked on and teased. She develops a thing for Billy Zero, a new student, imagining he's her boyfriend. We see the day she loses Sonny and we watch her try to find him. In bits and pieces, we see what leads up to her riding in the back of a city bus wrapped in a shower curtain. Coming of age, or just surviving?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, independent film, nonlinear narrative, coming of age, mental breakdown, stream of consciousness, loneliness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Irascible Irving Zisman (Johnny Knoxville) and his young and impressionable grandson, Billy (Jackson Nicoll), set out on a road trip across America. Hidden cameras capture their insane and shocking encounters with a diverse set of unsuspecting citizens, including male strippers, disgruntled contestants (and their mothers) from a children's beauty pageant, mourners at a funeral home, patrons at a biker bar and more. Based on the "Jackass" TV series.
Plot Keywords: comedy, prank, mockumentary, adult humor, vulgar, road movie, absurd ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The obnoxious, cynical and sarcastic web designer Owen lives with his girlfriend Isabelle. Owen has analysis with his psychiatrist Florence since he feels guilty for the fire that killed his parents and deformed his sister Pearl. When Isabelle discloses that she is pregnant, she asks Owen to make up with his only family composed by his estranged grandmother Violet and Pearl. Owen warns Isabelle that Violet is a nasty woman, but they travel to his hometown. Isabelle realizes that Owen has told the truth about Violet, but they stay for a couple of days more because of Pearl with tragic consequences.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, black comedy, family conflict, psychological thriller, indie film, american movie ...
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