Surreal films

List of the best surreal films according to the audience: Jacob's Ladder, Nightmares, Point Blank, Crimewave, Drawing Restraint 9, Human Nature, Synchronicity, One Point O, Tusk, Badlands.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrehorror, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:53

A traumatized Vietnam war veteran finds out that his post-war life isn't what he believes it to be when he's attacked by horned creatures in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him...

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, fantastic
CountryUSA
Duration01:39

A collection of short stories. In one a woman who leaves her house late at night to drive to the store while a killer is loose encounters some problems. In the second an arcade whiz kid's obsession with a game leads to deadly consequences. In the third a small town priest loses his faith and decides to leave town, but in the desert is stalked by a mysterious black pick-up truck. In the final story, a family's problem with a rat is larger than they think.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:32

After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:19

Fed up of his business partner, Ernest Trend hires the services of two exterminators. When things go drastically wrong and they murder the wrong man, the race is on to frame an innocent video surveillance man.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrefantasy
CountryUSA, Japan

The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryFrance, USA
Duration01:36

A philosophical burlesque, Human Nature follows the ups and downs of an obsessive scientist, a female naturalist, and the man they discover, born and raised in the wild. As scientist Nathan trains the wild man, Puff, in the ways of the world - starting with table manners - Nathan's lover Lila fights to preserve the man's simian past, which represents a freedom enviable to most.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrefantastic, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:21

In this mind-bending 'Sci-Fi Noir' a daring physicist folds time to travel into the past, trying to stop a mysterious woman from stealing his invention. But once there, he uncovers a surprising truth about the machine, the woman, and his own fractured reality.

Markimdb: 6
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Romania, Iceland
Duration01:32

Paranoid computer programmer Simon wakes up to find a package in his room one day. Despite attempts at securing his apartment, the packages keep arriving. While cameras watch Simon's every move, he struggles to find the answers to the mysterious forces taking over his life.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:42

When his best friend and podcast co-host goes missing in the backwoods of Canada, a young guy joins forces with his friend's girlfriend to search for him.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genreaction, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

Dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950s, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.

Markimdb: 3.6
Genrethriller
CountryUSA

Charlie Rankin, recently released from prison, seeks vengeance for his jail-house mentor William "The Buddha" Pettigrew. Along the way, he meets the ethereal, yet streetwise, Florence Jane. They embark on a unlikely road trip, careening towards an unlikely redemption and uncertain resolution.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy, musical, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:49

From his hospital bed, a writer suffering from a skin disease hallucinates musical numbers and paranoid plots.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrethriller, comedy, drama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom

Seven (or six - depending on the version) short stories of conquest, desperation and the will to overcome.

Markimdb: 5
Genrehorror
CountryUSA
Duration01:16

A disturbing portrait of contemporary youth culture where the lines between reality and fiction are blurred with often frightening results.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:34

A hard-luck limo driver struggling to go straight and pay off a debt to his bookie takes on a job with a crazed passenger whose sought-after ledger implicates some seriously dangerous criminals.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryCanada, USA
Duration01:36

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.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama, documentary
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:35

A documentary shot by filmmakers all over the world that serves as a time capsule to show future generations what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:48

A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:36

A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genremelodrama, drama, musical, music, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:03

Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrehorror, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:59

Chic socialite Melanie Daniels enjoys a passing flirtation with an eligible attorney in a San Francisco pet shop and, on an impulse, follows him to his hometown bearing a gift of lovebirds. But upon her arrival, the bird population runs amok. Suddenly, the townsfolk face a massive avian onslaught, with the feathered fiends inexplicably attacking people all over Bodega Bay.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrefantasy, comedy, musical, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:50

In this surrealistic and free-form follow-up to the Monkees' television show, the band frolic their way through a series of musical set pieces and vignettes containing humor and anti-establishment social commentary.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure, family
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration02:10

The prospects for continuing life on Earth in the year 2058 are grim. So the Robinsons are launched into space to colonize Alpha Prime, the only other inhabitable planet in the galaxy. But when a stowaway sabotages the mission, the Robinsons find themselves hurtling through uncharted space.

Markimdb: 6
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:25

After his wife leaves him, a disillusioned director dives into the drug scene, trying anything his friend suggests.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration01:33

On the set of a playwright's new project, a love triangle forms between his wife, her ex-lover, and the call girl-turned-actress cast in the production.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, family
CountryAustralia, USA
Duration01:37

Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:29

Claire is under the grip of a mysterious new cult called Faults. Desperate to be reunited with their daughter, Claire's parents recruit one of the world's foremost experts on mind control, Ansel Roth.

Markimdb: 7
Genredocumentary, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:13

Locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Angulo brothers learn about the outside world through the films that they watch. Nicknamed ‘The Wolfpack’, the brothers spend their childhood reenacting their favorite films using elaborate home-made props and costumes. Their world is shaken up when one of the brothers escapes and everything changes.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrehorror
CountryBelgium, France, West Germany, USA, Canada

A newlywed couple are passing through a vacation resort. Their paths cross with a mysterious, strikingly beautiful countess and her aide.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:00

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of criminals who have kidnapped her child.

Markimdb: 8.8
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration02:28

    Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama, music
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:58

    Almost a decade has elapsed since Bowiesque glam-rock superstar Brian Slade escaped the spotlight of the London scene. Now, investigative journalist Arthur Stuart is on assignment to uncover the truth behind the enigmatic Slade. Stuart, himself forged by the music of the 1970s, explores the larger-than-life stars who were once his idols and what has become of them since the turn of the new decade.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrecomedy, western
    CountryUSA, Mexico
    Duration01:21

    Scheming of a way to save their father's ranch, the Alvarez brothers find themselves in a war with Mexico's most feared drug lord.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:15

    In downtown Manhattan, a twenty-something boy whose Father is not around and whose Mother is institutionalized, is a big Charlie Parker fan. He almost subconsciously searches for more meaning in his life and meets a few characters along the way.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, comedy
    CountryJapan, USA

    A Beverly Hills teen (Billy Warlock) discovers his parents are part of a gruesome orgy cult for the social elite.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Republic of Ireland, USA
    Duration01:52

    In Paris, a young American who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin and her daughter, Shirley Temple.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:37

    After losing her job and learning that her husband has been unfaithful, a woman hits the road with her profane, hard-drinking grandmother.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:02

    A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, New Zealand
    Duration01:53

    Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife, Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in hades for the small chance that he will be able to bring her back to heaven.

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