Surreal Movies

During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by...

Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark...

An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a ceremonial ring (that, of course, won't come...

In 1950s rural Idaho, a young boy watches helplessly as his friends and brother fall under the spell of a mysterious widow living up the road and...

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...

On Halloween 1997, two estranged teen skaters embark on a surreal journey through their memories, dreams and fears.

The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his...

Suburban soccer moms find themselves constantly competing against each other in their personal lives as their kids settle their differences on the...

Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In...

This bizarre retro comedy, shot entirely on VHS and Beta, takes us back to when 12-year-old Ralph, over one formative week, mistakenly records home...

An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.

A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film...

In a southern Mexico village, young deaf students are taking on an unusual challenge: to make a movie out of their dreams. While Eric and his friends...

After a catastrophic global war, a young filmmaker awakens in the carnage and seeks refuge in the only other survivor: an eccentric, ideologically...

Two robots embark on a quest to become human.

A child, a cat, a starry night but, in this world of innocence, dream and magic, obscure forces of evil awaken. This animated short revolves around...

Ethan and Sophie are a married couple on the brink of separation when, at the urging of their therapist, they decide to salvage their relationship by...

In this dark comedy of manners, soccer moms Jill and Lisa seek the approval of their "friends" – at all costs. Set in a surreal world, Greener...

Jorge and Alberto are two wizards in Buenos Aires. One works as an assistant in a courthouse, while another is pining for his magical glory days....

A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless, cult leader mother, and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name.