“What are the best Surrealist Movies Of All-Time?” We looked at 297 of the top Surreal films and ranking them so we could answer that very question!

The top 42 films, all appearing on 3 or more “Best Surrealist” movie lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The remaining 250+ movies, as well as the sources we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.

Happy Scrolling!

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Top 42 Surrealist Movies Ever Made

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42 .) 8½ (1963) directed by Federico Fellini

Lists It Appears On:

• IMDB 2
• IMDB 3
• Rate Your Music

With 8½ Frederico Fellini leaves a self-portrait where dreams and reality are a mix. With help from a most excellent cast and unique scenery this self reflecting film is one of his master works.

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41 .) A Clockwork Orange (1971) directed by Stanley Kubrick

Lists It Appears On:

• Film Inquiry
• IMDB 2
• IMDB 3

Demonic gang-leader Alex goes on the spree of rape, mugging and murder with his pack of “droogs”. But he’s a boy who also likes Beethoven’s Ninth and a bit of “the old in-out, in-out”. He later finds himself at the mercy of the state and its brainwashing experiment designed to take violence off the streets.

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40 .) Alice (1988) directed by Jan Svankmajer

Lists It Appears On:

• Horror News
• IMDB 2
• List Challenges

A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit. She becomes surrounded by living inanimate objects and stuffed dead animals, and must find a way out of this nightmare- no matter how twisted or odd that way must be. A memorably bizarre screen version of Lewis Carroll’s novel ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’.

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39 .) Altered States (1980) directed by Ken Russell

Lists It Appears On:

• IMDB 2
• Ranker
• The Playlist

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.

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38 .) Enter the Void (2009) directed by Gaspar Noé

Lists It Appears On:

• Flick Chart
• IMDB 2
• Rate Your Music

This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda. When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past — where he sees his parents before their deaths — to the present — where he witnesses his own autopsy — and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave.

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37 .) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) directed by Terry Gilliam

Lists It Appears On:

• Film Inquiry
• IMDB 2
• Rate Your Music

Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their hotel room and fear legal repercussions. Duke begins to drive back to L.A., but after an odd run-in with a cop, he returns to Sin City and continues his wild drug binge.

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36 .) Gozu (2003) directed by Takashi Miike

Lists It Appears On:

• Amino Apps
• List Challenges
• MUBI

Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting Minami to conduct a search. While looking, he finds a mysterious isolated hotel where he decides to take a rest. Not only are the front desk clerks a bit strange, but even the ambiance feels unusual. Minami soon realizes he may have gotten more than he bargained for.

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35 .) Holy Motors (2012) directed by Leos Carax

Lists It Appears On:

• List Challenges
• Rate Your Music
• Taste Of Conema

We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes youthful, sometimes old. By turns murderer, beggar, company chairman, monstrous creature, worker, family man.

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34 .) Paprika (2006) directed by Satoshi Kon

Lists It Appears On:

• IMDB 3
• Rate Your Music
• The Playlist

When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient’s dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it: Paprika.

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33 .) Persona (1966) directed by Ingmar Bergman

Lists It Appears On:

• IMDB 2
• IMDB 3
• Philosophy In Film

A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer. Alma eventually confesses her secrets to a seemingly sympathetic Elisabeth and finds that her own personality is being submerged into Elisabeth’s persona.

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32 .) Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) directed by Shinya Tsukamoto

Lists It Appears On:

• Amino Apps
• List Challenges
• Rate Your Music

Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a 1989 Japanese cyberpunk film by cult-film director Shinya Tsukamoto produced by Japan Home Video. This, his third film, is an extremely graphic but also strikingly-filmed fantasy shot in the same low-budget, underground-production style as his first two films. Revolving around the transformation of people into grotesque hybrids of flesh and metal, Tetsuo is above all an overwhelming audiovisual experience, set to a brain-pounding score by Chu Ishikawa and complemented by suitably exaggerated sound effects.

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31 .) The Fountain (2006) directed by Darren Aronofsky

Lists It Appears On:

• IMDB 2
• MUBI
• Ranker

Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.

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30 .) The Phantom of Liberty (1974) directed by Luis Buñuel

Lists It Appears On:

• IMDB 2
• IMDB 3
• List Challenges

This Surrealist Spanish film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.

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29 .) The Seventh Seal (1957) directed by Ingmar Bergman

Lists It Appears On:

• IMDB 2
• IMDB 3
• Short List

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.

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28 .) The Taste of Tea (2004) directed by Katsuhito Ishii

Lists It Appears On:

• List Challenges
• MUBI
• Taste Of Conema

A spell of time in the life of a family living in rural Tochigi prefecture, north of Tokyo. Though her husband is busy working at an office, Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project at home. Uncle Ayano has recently arrived, looking to get his head together after living in Tokyo for several years. Meanwhile, Yoshiko’s daughter Sachiko is mainly concerned with why she seems to be followed around everywhere by a giant version of herself.

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27 .) Un Chien Andalou (1929) directed by Luis Buñuel

Lists It Appears On:

• Film Inquiry
• IMDB 2
• IMDB 3

Un Chien Andalou is a classic European avant-garde surrealist film from the cooperation of director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali. The film changed the way people made movies. Most famous is the scene of a woman’s eye being cut with a knife.

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26 .) Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) directed by Jaromil Jireš

Lists It Appears On:

• Horror News
• List Challenges
• Rate Your Music

Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a different light, Valerie must endure her sexual awakening while attempting to discern reality from fantasy as she encounters lecherous priest Gracian, a vampire-like stranger and otherworldly carnival folk.

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25 .) Waking Life (2001) directed by Richard Linklater

Lists It Appears On:

• IMDB 3
• MUBI
• The Playlist

Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life.

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24 .) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) directed by Stanley Kubrick

Lists It Appears On:

• IMDB 2
• IMDB 3
• MUBI
• Ranker

Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world’s most advanced super computer.

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23 .) Daisies (1966) directed by Vera Chytilová

Lists It Appears On:

• Another Elm
• IMDB 2
• List Challenges
• Philosophy In Film

Two teenage girls, both named Marie, decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world about them. This freewheeling, madcap feminist farce was immediately banned by the government.

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22 .) House (1977) directed by Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Lists It Appears On:

• Flick Chart
• IMDB 2
• Philosophy In Film
• Rate Your Music

Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip to the country to visit her aunt at their ancestral house. She invites her six friends, Prof, Melody, Mac, Fantasy, Kung Fu, and Sweet, to join her. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.

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21 .) L’Age d’Or (1930) directed by Luis Buñuel

Lists It Appears On:

• Film Inquiry
• IMDB 2
• MUBI
• Scene 360

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.

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20 .) Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) directed by Maya Deren

Lists It Appears On:

• IMDB 2
• Philosophy In Film
• Rate Your Music
• Scene 360

A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.

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19 .) My Winnipeg (2007) directed by Guy Maddin

Lists It Appears On:

• Flick Chart
• List Challenges
• Rate Your Music
• Taste Of Conema

Fact, fantasy and memory are woven seamlessly together in a personal portrait of filmmaker Guy Maddin’s hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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18 .) Santa Sangre (1989) directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky

Lists It Appears On:

• IMDB 3
• List Challenges
• Rate Your Music
• Scene 360

A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the heretical church of Santa Sangre (“Holy Blood”), and then commit suicide. Back in the present, he escapes and rejoins his surviving and armless mother.

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17 .) Synecdoche, New York (2008) directed by Charlie Kaufman

Lists It Appears On:

• IMDB 2
• MUBI
• Rate Your Music
• Scene 360

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 part of his new play.

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16 .) The Fall (2006) directed by Tarsem Singh

Lists It Appears On:

• MUBI
• Rate Your Music
• Scene 360
• The Playlist

In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.

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15 .) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) directed by Michel Gondry

Lists It Appears On:

• Film Inquiry
• MUBI
• Rate Your Music
• Taste Of Conema
• The Playlist

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.

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14 .) Last Year at Marienbad (1961) directed by Alain Resnais

Lists It Appears On:

• IMDB 2
• List Challenges
• Philosophy In Film
• Scene 360
• The Playlist

Takes place in a chateau, an ambiguous story of a man and a woman who may or may not have met last year at Marienbad.

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13 .) Lost Highway (1997) directed by David Lynch

Lists It Appears On:

• IMDB 2
• List Challenges
• MUBI
• Ranker
• Rate Your Music

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgangers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

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12 .) Naked Lunch (1991) directed by David Cronenberg

Lists It Appears On:

• IMDB 2
• List Challenges
• Philosophy In Film
• Rate Your Music
• The Playlist

Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill’s pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work — which he doesn’t remember writing.

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11 .) Pi (1998) directed by Darren Aronofsky

Lists It Appears On:

• IMDB 2
• IMDB 3
• List Challenges
• Ranker
• Rate Your Music

The debut film from Darren Aronofsky in which a mathematical genius Maximilian Cohen discovers a link in the connection between numbers and reality and thus believes he can predict the future.

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10 .) The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) directed by Luis Buñuel

Lists It Appears On:

• IMDB 2
• List Challenges
• MUBI
• Ranker
• Short List

In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.

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9 .) Videodrome (1983) directed by David Cronenberg

Lists It Appears On:

• Amino Apps
• IMDB 2
• List Challenges
• MUBI
• Short List

As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon “Videodrome,” a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.

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8 .) Being John Malkovich (1999) directed by Spike Jonze

Lists It Appears On:

• IMDB 2
• IMDB 3
• List Challenges
• MUBI
• Rate Your Music
• Short List

One day at work, unsuccessful puppeteer Craig finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who enters it’s mad and controlling world of overtaking another human body.

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7 .) El Topo (1970) directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky

Lists It Appears On:

• Horror News
• IMDB 2
• List Challenges
• MUBI
• Ranker
• Rate Your Music

El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man. El Topo (the mole) claims to be God, while dressed as a gunfighter in black, riding a horse through a spiritual, mystical landscape strewn with old Western movie, and ancient Eastern religious symbols. Bandits slaughtered a village on his path, so El Topo avenges the massacred, then forcibly takes their leader’s woman Mara as his. El Topo’s surreal way is bloody, sexual and self-reflective, musing of his own demons, as he tries to vanquish those he encounters.

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6 .) The Exterminating Angel (1962) directed by Luis Buñuel

Lists It Appears On:

• Another Elm
• IMDB 2
• List Challenges
• MUBI
• Ranker
• The Culture Trip

After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room.

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5 .) Brazil (1985) directed by Terry Gilliam

Lists It Appears On:

• Film Inquiry
• IMDB 2
• List Challenges
• MUBI
• Ranker
• Rate Your Music
• The Playlist

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.

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4 .) Inland Empire (2006) directed by David Lynch

Lists It Appears On:

• Film Inquiry
• IMDB 2
• MUBI
• Philosophy In Film
• Ranker
• Rate Your Music
• Taste Of Conema

An actress’s perception of reality becomes increasingly distorted as she finds herself falling for her co-star in a remake of an unfinished Polish production that was supposedly cursed.

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3 .) The Holy Mountain (1973) directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky

Lists It Appears On:

• Another Elm
• IMDB 2
• List Challenges
• MUBI
• Philosophy In Film
• Ranker
• The Culture Trip

A Mexican master leads a Christ figure and other disciples to a mountain of immortal wise men. The scandal of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s flood of sacrilegious imagery and existential symbolism in The Holy Mountain is a spiritual quest for enlightenment pitting illusion against truth. The Alchemist (Jodorowsky) assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept’s intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.

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2 .) Mulholland Drive (2001) directed by David Lynch

Lists It Appears On:

• Film Inquiry
• IMDB 2
• IMDB 3
• List Challenges
• Ranker
• Rate Your Music
• Taste Of Conema
• The Playlist

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman’s identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.

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1 .) Eraserhead (1977) directed by David Lynch

Lists It Appears On:

• Amino Apps
• Film Inquiry
• Horror News
• IMDB 2
• List Challenges
• MUBI
• Ranker
• Rate Your Music
• Short List

Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

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The 250+ Additional Best Surreal Movies

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#	Movies	Directors	Lists
43	3 Women (1977)		Rate Your Music
–	–	–	The Playlist
44	A Field in England (2013)		Scene 360
–	–	–	Taste Of Conema
45	A Page of Madness (1926)		List Challenges
–	–	–	Rate Your Music
46	Antichrist (2009)	Lars von Trier	1428elm
–	–	–	IMDB 2
47	Barton Fink (1991)		MUBI
–	–	–	Rate Your Music
48	Belle de Jour (1967)	Luis Buñuel	IMDB 2
–	–	–	List Challenges
49	Black Moon (1975)	Louis Malle	IMDB 2
–	–	–	Scene 360
50	Blue Velvet (1986)	David Lynch	IMDB 2
–	–	–	IMDB 3
51	Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)	Guy Maddin	IMDB 2
–	–	–	Rate Your Music
52	Delicatessen (1991)	Marc Caro	IMDB 2
–	–	–	Ranker
53	DEMENTIA (aka – DAUGHTER OF HORROR)		Flick Chart
–	–	–	Horror News
54	Donnie Darko (2001)	Richard Kelly	IMDB 2
–	–	–	Rate Your Music
55	Eyes Wide Shut (1999)	Stanley Kubrick	IMDB 3
–	–	–	MUBI
56	Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995)		Flick Chart
–	–	–	Rate Your Music
57	Melancholia (2011)	Lars von Trier	Culture Vultures
–	–	–	IMDB 2
58	Pastoral: To Die in the Country (1974)		List Challenges
–	–	–	Rate Your Music
59	Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)	Alan Parker	IMDB 2
–	–	–	IMDB 3
60	Possession (1981)	Andrzej Zulawski	IMDB 3
–	–	–	Rate Your Music
61	Simon of the Desert (1965)	Luis Buñuel	IMDB 2
–	–	–	List Challenges
62	Stalker (1979)	Andrei Tarkovsky	IMDB 2
–	–	–	IMDB 3
63	Suspiria		Film Inquiry
–	–	–	Ranker
64	That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)		List Challenges
–	–	–	Ranker
65	The City of Lost Children		MUBI
–	–	–	Short List
66	The Eve of Ivan Kupalo		Flick Chart
–	–	–	Rate Your Music
67	The Science of Sleep		MUBI
–	–	–	The Playlist
68	The Shining		MUBI
–	–	–	Ranker
69	Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me		Ranker
–	–	–	Scene 360
70	Yellow Submarine (1968)		Ranker
–	–	–	Rate Your Music
71	2046 (2004)	Kar-Wai Wong	IMDB 2
72	A Nightmare on Elm Street		Film Inquiry
73	A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors		1428elm
74	A Scanner Darkly		MUBI
75	A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)		Rate Your Music
76	Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)	Werner Herzog	IMDB 2
77	Akira (1988)	Katsuhiro Ôtomo	IMDB 2
78	Alice in Wonderland (1951)	Clyde Geronimi	IMDB 2
79	Alice in Wonderland (1966)		Rate Your Music
80	Amarcord		Philosophy In Film
81	Amélie		MUBI
82	Amores Perros (2002)		The Culture Trip
83	An Andalusian Dog		Ranker
84	An Eater		Flick Chart
85	Angel’s Egg		Rate Your Music
86	Angelus (2001)		List Challenges
87	Apocalypse Now (1979)	Francis Ford Coppola	IMDB 2
88	Arrebato [Rapture] (1980)		Rate Your Music
89	Asudem		Ranker
90	Audition		Rate Your Music
91	Balance (1989)		Rate Your Music
92	Beauty and the Beast (1946)	Jean Cocteau	IMDB 2
93	Begotten		Amino Apps
94	Berberian Sound Studio (2012)	Peter Strickland	IMDB 2
95	Blood Tea and Red String (2006)		Taste Of Conema
96	Borgman (2013)		Taste Of Conema
97	Brand Upon the Brain! A Remembrance in 12 Chapters (2006)		Medium
98	Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)		The Culture Trip
99	Byt [The Flat] (1968)		Rate Your Music
100	Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970)		List Challenges
101	Cat Soup		Rate Your Music
102	Celine and Julie Go Boating		Flick Chart
103	Céline et Julie vont en bateau: Phantom Ladies Over Paris [Céline and Julie Go Boating] (1974)		Rate Your Music
104	Come and See (1985)	Elem Klimov	IMDB 2
105	Confessions of a Dangerous Mind		MUBI
106	Cosmos		Another Elm
107	Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)		Taste Of Conema
108	Cremator (1969)	Juraj Herz	IMDB 2
109	Cries & Whispers (1972)	Ingmar Bergman	IMDB 2
110	Cronos (1993)	Guillermo del Toro	IMDB 2
111	Curse of the Demon (1957)	Jacques Tourneur	IMDB 2
112	Dark City (1998)	Alex Proyas	IMDB 2
113	Darkness Light Darkness (1989)	Jan Svankmajer	IMDB 2
114	Day of Wrath (1943)	Carl Theodor Dreyer	IMDB 2
115	Decasia (2002)		List Challenges
116	Destino		Film Inquiry
117	Die Weibchen		Flick Chart
118	Dimensions of Dialogue (1983)	Jan Svankmajer	IMDB 2
119	Dogtooth (2009)	Yorgos Lanthimos	IMDB 2
120	Double Suicide (1969)	Masahiro Shinoda	IMDB 2
121	Drawing Restraint 9 (2005)	Matthew Barney	IMDB 3
122	Dreams (1990)	Akira Kurosawa	IMDB 2
123	Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947)		List Challenges
124	Du levande [You, the Living] (2007)		Rate Your Music
125	Duelle (une quarantaine) [Twilight (A Quarantine)] (1976)		Rate Your Music
126	El ángel exterminador [The Exterminating Angel] (1962)		Rate Your Music
127	Europa (1991)	Lars von Trier	IMDB 2
128	Everything Will Be OK (2006)		Rate Your Music
129	Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn		1428elm
130	Eyes Without a Face (1960)	Georges Franju	IMDB 2
131	Fanny and Alexander (1982)	Ingmar Bergman	IMDB 2
132	Fantasia		Ranker
133	Fantastic Planet (1973)	René Laloux	IMDB 2
134	Fehérlófia [Son of the White Mare] (1981)		Rate Your Music
135	Fellini Satyricon (1969)	Federico Fellini	IMDB 2
136	Fight Club (1999)	David Fincher	IMDB 2
137	Fitzcarraldo (1982)	Werner Herzog	IMDB 2
138	Forbidden Zone		Flick Chart
139	Freaks (1932)	Tod Browning	IMDB 2
140	Funky Forest		MUBI
141	Funny Games (1997)	Michael Haneke	IMDB 2
142	Ghost in the Shell (1995)	Mamoru Oshii	IMDB 2
143	Giulietta degli spiriti [Juliet of the Spirits] (1965)		Rate Your Music
144	Grass Labyrinth		Rate Your Music
145	Greedy Guts (2000)	Jan Svankmajer	IMDB 2
146	Groundhog Day		The Playlist
147	Härlig är jorden [World of Glory] (1991)		Rate Your Music
148	Häxan (1922)	Benjamin Christensen	IMDB 2
149	Head		Short List
150	Hercules		Film Inquiry
151	Hiroshima Mon Amour		Philosophy In Film
152	Hour of the Wolf (1968)	Ingmar Bergman	IMDB 2
153	HOUSE (HAUSU)		Horror News
154	How Far, How Near (1972)		List Challenges
155	Human Nature		MUBI
156	Inception (2010)		List Challenges
157	Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted (1990)		List Challenges
158	Jak działa jamniczek [How a Sausage Dog Works] (1971)		Rate Your Music
159	Japon (2002)		The Culture Trip
160	Jídlo [Food] (1992)		Rate Your Music
161	Kuroneko (1968)	Kaneto Shindô	IMDB 2
162	L’ âge d’or [The Golden Age] (1930)		Rate Your Music
163	L’ ange [The Angel] (1982)		Rate Your Music
164	L’ année dernière à Marienbad [Last Year at Marienbad] (1961)		Rate Your Music
165	La femme qui se poudre [The Woman Who Powders Herself] (1972)		Rate Your Music
166	La Jetée (1962)	Chris Marker	IMDB 2
167	La montaña sagrada [The Holy Mountain] (1973)		Rate Your Music
168	La planète sauvage [Fantastic Planet] (1973)		Rate Your Music
169	La ville des pirates [City of Pirates] (1983)		Rate Your Music
170	La voie lactée [The Milky Way] (1969)		Rate Your Music
171	Lady Blue Shanghai (2010)		Culture Vultures
172	Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie [The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie] (1972)		Rate Your Music
173	Le fantôme de la liberté [The Phantom of Liberty] (1974)		Rate Your Music
174	Le sang d’un poète [The Blood of a Poet] (1932)		Rate Your Music
175	Le testament d’Orphée ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi [Testament of Orpheus] (1960)		Rate Your Music
176	Lekce Faust [Faust] (1994)		Rate Your Music
177	LEMORA: A CHILD’S TALE OF THE SUPERNATURAL		Horror News
178	Les trois couronnes du matelot [The Three Crowns of the Sailor] (1983)		Rate Your Music
179	Lesson Faust (1994)	Jan Svankmajer	IMDB 2
180	Let’s Go with Pancho Villa (1936)		The Culture Trip
181	Like Water for Chocolate (1992)		The Culture Trip
182	LISA AND THE DEVIL		Horror News
183	Little Otik (2000)		Taste Of Conema
184	Love Exposure (2008)		Medium
185	Lunacy (2005)		Medium
186	Macario (1960)		The Culture Trip
187	Mandy		Flick Chart
188	Memento (2000)	Christopher Nolan	IMDB 2
189	Millennium Actress		Rate Your Music
190	Mind Game		Rate Your Music
191	Miraculous Virgin		Flick Chart
192	Mirrormask (2005)		Medium
193	Miss Bala (2011)		The Culture Trip
194	Mother!		Flick Chart
195	Možnosti dialogu [Dimensions of Dialogue] (1982)		Rate Your Music
196	Mr. Nobody (2009)	Jaco Van Dormael	IMDB 2
197	Něco z Alenky [Alice] (1988)		Rate Your Music
198	Necromentia		1428elm
199	Neighbours (1952)	Norman McLaren	IMDB 2
200	Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion		Rate Your Music
201	Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)	Werner Herzog	IMDB 2
202	O Lucky Man! (1973)		List Challenges
203	Oldboy (2003)	Chan-wook Park	IMDB 2
204	Orphée [Orpheus] (1950)		Rate Your Music
205	PAPERHOUSE		Horror News
206	Perfect Blue		Rate Your Music
207	PHANTASM		Horror News
208	Porky in Wackyland (1938)		Rate Your Music
209	Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead		1428elm
210	Providence (1977)		Rate Your Music
211	Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies		Flick Chart
212	Rękopis znaleziony w Saragossie [The Saragossa Manuscript] (1965)		Rate Your Music
213	Renaissance		Flick Chart
214	Requiem for a Dream		MUBI
215	Roma (1972)		Rate Your Music
216	Romeo + Juliet		Film Inquiry
217	Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)		Rate Your Music
218	Run Lola Run (1998)	Tom Tykwer	IMDB 2
219	Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)	Pier Paolo Pasolini	IMDB 2
220	Salto [Jump] (1965)		Rate Your Music
221	Sanatorium pod klepsydrą [The Hour-Glass Sanatorium] (1973)		Rate Your Music
222	Sånger från andra våningen [Songs From the Second Floor] (2000)		Rate Your Music
223	Sedmikrásky [Daisies] (1966)		Rate Your Music
224	Seven Servants		Ranker
225	Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors		Rate Your Music
226	Šílení [Lunacy] (2005)		Rate Your Music
227	Simón del desierto [Simon of the Desert] (1965)		Rate Your Music
228	Six Men Getting Sick		Film Inquiry
229	Slack Bay		Another Elm
230	Solaris (1971)	Andrei Tarkovsky	IMDB 2
231	Songs From the Second Floor (2000)		List Challenges
232	Spellbound		Short List
233	Spiklenci slasti [Conspirators of Pleasure] (1996)		Rate Your Music
234	Spirited Away (2001)	Hayao Miyazaki	IMDB 2
235	Stardust Memories (1980)		Rate Your Music
236	Storage 24		1428elm
237	Strange Stranger		Ranker
238	Street of Crocodiles (1986)		Rate Your Music
239	Survive Style 5+ (2004)		List Challenges
240	Surviving Life (2010)		Culture Vultures
241	Szindbád [Sinbad] (1971)		Rate Your Music
242	Tale of Tales		Rate Your Music
243	Tales From The Darkside: The Movie		1428elm
244	Tarzan		Film Inquiry
245	Taxidermia (2006)		Taste Of Conema
246	Testament of Orpheus		Flick Chart
247	The Act of Killing (2012)		Taste Of Conema
248	The American Astronaut (2001)	Cory McAbee	IMDB 2
249	The Big Lebowski		Film Inquiry
250	The Cabin in the Woods (2011)	Drew Goddard	IMDB 2
251	The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)	Robert Wiene	IMDB 2
252	The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer		Flick Chart
253	The Cell		The Playlist
254	The Colour of Pomegranates		Another Elm
255	The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)	Peter Greenaway	IMDB 2
256	The Dance of Reality (2013)		Taste Of Conema
257	The Devils (1971)		Rate Your Music
258	The Evil Dead (1981)	Sam Raimi	IMDB 2
259	The Face of Another (1966)	Hiroshi Teshigahara	IMDB 2
260	The Game		The Playlist
261	The Games of Angels		Flick Chart
262	The Grandmother (1970)	David Lynch	IMDB 2
263	The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)		List Challenges
264	The Kingdom (1994–1997)	Ernst-Hugo Järegård	IMDB 2
265	The Magician (1958)	Ingmar Bergman	IMDB 2
266	The Man Who Sleeps (1974)		List Challenges
267	The Man Who Wasn’t There		MUBI
268	The Matrix		The Playlist
269	The Mirror (1975)	Andrei Tarkovsky	IMDB 3
270	The Obscure Object Of Desire		The Playlist
271	The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)	Jim Sharman	IMDB 2
272	The Saddest Music in the World (2003)		Medium
273	The Saragossa Manuscript		Flick Chart
274	The Seashell and the Clergyman		Scene 360
275	The Short Films of David Lynch		Ranker
276	The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)	Víctor Erice	IMDB 2
277	The Swimmer (1968)		Rate Your Music
278	The Tree of Life (2011)	Terrence Malick	IMDB 2
279	The Trial (1962)	Orson Welles	IMDB 2
280	The Ugly Story		Flick Chart
281	The Wizard of Oz		The Playlist
282	Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets		Rate Your Music
283	Time (2006)		Medium
284	Tma, světlo, tma [Darkness, Light, Darkness] (1989)		Rate Your Music
285	Tokyo Tribe (2014)		Culture Vultures
286	Trainspotting		MUBI
287	Tropical Malady		Rate Your Music
288	Un chien andalou [An Andalusian Dog] (1929)		Rate Your Music
289	Vargtimmen [Hour of the Wolf] (1968)		Rate Your Music
290	Vtáčkovia, siroty a blázni [Birds, Orphans and Fools] (1969)		Rate Your Music
291	Where the Wild Things Are		MUBI
292	Wild at Heart		MUBI
293	Wild Strawberries (1957)	Ingmar Bergman	IMDB 2
294	Y tu Mama Tambien (2001)		The Culture Trip
295	You, the Living (2007)		Taste Of Conema
296	Zero City		Rate Your Music
297	Zombeavers		1428elm

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20 Best Surreal And Absurdist Film Sources/Lists

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Source	Article
1428elm	Eight Fantastic, Surreal Animal Moments from Horror Movies
Amino Apps	Top 5 Surreal Horror Movies
Another Elm	Five Fantastic Surrealist Films To Watch Now
Culture Vultures	4 Essential Surrealist Movies From the Last Decade
Film Inquiry	Surrealist Cinema: 100 Years Of Psychedelia
Flick Chart	The Best Surrealist Films of All Time
Horror News	Top 10 Dream-like Surreal Films To Experience At Least Once
IMDB 2	Surreal, Psychedelic & Mind-Bending films
IMDB 3	The Best Surrealist Films Of All Time
List Challenges	The Best Surreal Movies of All Time
Medium	Best Surreal Films of 2000s
MUBI	Best Surreal Films
Philosophy In Film	10 Surrealist Films for Philosophy Students
Ranker	Surrealism Movies | List of the Best Surrealism Films
Rate Your Music	The 100 highest rated surrealist film on RYM
Scene 360	Surrealist Cinema: Ten Films That Mess With Your Head
Short List	Surreal Moments On Film
Taste Of Conema	The 15 Best Surrealist Movies of The 21st Century
The Culture Trip	Revolution, Discovery, And Surrealist Fantasy: The Best Of Mexican
The Playlist	Pre-‘Inception’: The Best Surreal, Alternate Reality, Mindbending Films