Surreal Movies

A young woman, institutionalized by her abusive stepfather, retreats into a vivid fantasy world where she envisions a plan to escape. Gathering a...

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

Winnipeg Film Group. Deep in the winter of 1986. Guy Maddin is in the process of filming Tales from the Gimli Hospital and needs to rub a dead...

The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention...

In 1972, a Hollywood producer's swinging party takes a strange turn when an uninvited guest comes for more than sex and drugs.

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...

To escape neglect and abuse from his parents, a young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.

In the wake of a high school student's mysterious disappearance, a collective awakening seems to overcome the town's teenage girls, gathering in...

A folktale in Los Angeles.

Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment - even a wife. But...

Every time a Soviet apparatchik presses a button, something explodes.

Marcus is not having a good day. He never seems to have a good day. He has to smash in his rear window just to get out of his Volkswagen Beetle,...

A man stays alone with his children in a half demolished house in the middle of a desolate field. His wife has just been killed by a grenade in a...

The film is a parody of Disney's Fantasia, though possibly more of a challenge to Fantasia than parody status would imply. In the context of this...

A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry...

Ever since Margaret was six years old, she has been haunted by the memory of watching her sister drown during an explosive fight between her parents....

As Erin packs her old life into boxes, she overhears a violent attack in the apartment above that derails her night.

"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...

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...

Stuck on the side of the road on their way to a social distance party, two contact-starved millennials try not to connect on an intimate level in...