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- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsColin FarrellRachel WeiszJessica BardenIn a dystopian near future, according to the laws of The City, single people are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in 45 days or they're transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsMargarita TerekhovaFilipp YankovskiyIgnat DaniltsevA dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.
- DirectorGore VerbinskiStarsDane DeHaanJason IsaacsMia GothAn ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps, but soon suspects that the spa's treatments are not what they seem.
- DirectorBill WattersonStarsMeera Rohit KumbhaniNick ThuneAdam BuschDave, an artist who has yet to complete anything significant in his career, builds a fort in his living room out of pure frustration, only to wind up trapped by the fantastical pitfalls, booby traps, and critters of his own creation.
- DirectorAlan J. PakulaStarsWarren BeattyPaula PrentissWilliam DanielsAn ambitious reporter gets in way-over-his-head trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.
- DirectorDave McKeanStarsStephanie LeonidasJason BarryRob BrydonIn a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a fifteen-year-old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsBarry G. BernsonHerb CaillouetBill CampSteven, a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart, when the behavior of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister.
- DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsAdan JodorowskyBrontis JodorowskyLeandro TaubSurrealist filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky tells the story of himself as a young man becoming a poet in Chile, befriending other artists, and freeing himself from the limits of his youth.
- DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsAlejandro JodorowskyBrontis JodorowskyJosé LegarretaA mysterious black-clad gunfighter wanders a mystical Western landscape encountering multiple bizarre characters.
- DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsAlejandro JodorowskyHoracio SalinasZamira SaundersIn a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist leads a messianic character and seven materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsOleg YankovskiyErland JosephsonDomiziana GiordanoA Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy researching the life of an 18th-century composer, and instead meet a ruminative madman who tells the poet how the world may be saved.
- DirectorDarren AronofskyStarsHugh JackmanRachel WeiszSean Patrick ThomasAs a modern-day scientist, Tommy is struggling with mortality, desperately searching for the medical breakthrough that will save the life of his cancer-stricken wife, Izzi.
- DirectorMarçal ForésStarsOriol PlaAugustus PrewDimitri LeonidasPol is a teenager with a seemingly calm life. He lives with his brother, and is still in high school. However, Pol has a secret: Deerhoof, a cuddly teddy bear who thinks, moves around, and with whom he shares his best moments. Life goes on as normal until the arrival of Ikari, an enigmatic student who seems to be hiding something. Pol is fascinated by his new classmate and attracted to the dark side he harbors. An inexplicable death and a series of strange events will transform the meek student's routine into a fantastic adventure, which will take over their lives.
- DirectorJonathan GlazerStarsScarlett JohanssonJeremy McWilliamsLynsey Taylor MackayA mysterious young woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland. However, events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery.
- CreatorBrian McGreevyLee ShipmanStarsFamke JanssenBill SkarsgårdLandon LiboironSecrets are just part of daily life in the small Pennsylvania town of Hemlock Grove, where the darkest evils hide in plain sight.
- DirectorPanos CosmatosStarsNicolas CageAndrea RiseboroughLinus RoacheThe enchanted lives of a couple in a secluded forest are brutally shattered by a nightmarish hippie cult and their demon-biker henchmen, propelling a man into a spiraling, surreal rampage of vengeance.
- DirectorArmando IannucciStarsSteve BuscemiSimon Russell BealeJeffrey TamborMoscow, 1953. After being in power for nearly 30 years, Soviet dictator, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, takes ill and quickly dies. Now the members of the Council of Ministers scramble for power.
- DirectorMichel GondryStarsJim CarreyKate WinsletTom WilkinsonWhen their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories forever.
- DirectorGuillermo del ToroStarsIvana BaqueroAriadna GilSergi LópezIn the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
- DirectorGaspar NoéStarsSofia BoutellaRomain GuillermicSouheila YacoubFrench dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with LSD.
- DirectorDaniel SousaStarsElsie McKendryBrett TobaskyA wild boy is found in the woods by a solitary hunter and brought back to civilization. Alienated by a strange new environment, the boy tries to adapt by using the same strategies that kept him safe in the forest.
- DirectorEmiliano Rocha MinterStarsNoé HernándezMaría EvoliDiego GamalielAfter wandering a ruined city for years in search of food and shelter, two siblings find their way into one of the last remaining buildings. Inside, they find a man who will make them a dangerous offer to survive the outside world.
- DirectorEmiliano Rocha MinterStarsBruno FuentesInma IranzoRaúl NavarroTwo friends doggedly build a mysterious artifact in the forest, the function of which remains unclear until the very end.
- DirectorIzù TroinStarsMélanie Baxter-JonesLoïc BurckhardtLuc FévryA young corporate executive is kidnapped from his apartment. He wakes up in the middle of a forest only to be stalked by a mysterious hunter.
- DirectorSrdjan SpasojevicStarsSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicSergej TrifunovicJelena GavrilovicAn aging porn star agrees to participate in an "art film" in order to make a clean break from the business, only to discover that he has been drafted into making a pedophilia and necrophilia themed snuff film.
- DirectorÉric FalardeauStarsKayden RoseDavyd TousignantÉmile BeaudryA Hellenic word referring to the visible signs of an organism's decomposition caused by death. One day, a young and beautiful girl wakes up and finds her flesh rotting.
- DirectorDustin MillsStarsDave ParkerAllison EganHaley MadisonExperimental b&w anthology film with no dialogue consisting of four gruesome psychosexual stories featuring a masked cast. A woman hates her family. An elderly person is abused. A woman hates her dad. A nut abducts his female co-worker.
- DirectorTyler CornackStarsTyler RiceTyler CornackShelby DashDetective Fox loves work and alcohol. After going to AA, his sponsor, Chip, becomes the main suspect in his investigation of a missing kid. Fox also starts to believe that people are disappearing up Chip's butt.
- DirectorTerry GilliamStarsJohn NevilleEric IdleSarah PolleyAn account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences across late 18th-century Europe with his band of misfits.
- DirectorGem DegerStarsAustin ChunnGem DegerIssy StewartWhen a teenager finds himself caught in a glitchy-glitzy reality with his onscreen male idol, he does all he can to be possessed by this man and ignore the violent clues of how he got there.
- DirectorVincent GibaudThe psychedelic, violent and liberating experience of a young man who takes a drug at a party.
- DirectorSimon AudleyStarsPaul RichardsA hotel inspector on his regular duties enters a picturesque Kent hotel. He is met with horrifying visions. Are they real, or part of one man's forgotten psyche?
- DirectorShûji TerayamaStarsKeiko NiitakaYoko RanSueshi SasadaA collection of surrealist scenes featuring nails. The last ten minutes of the film are interactive, giving the audience themselves a chance to hammer some nails into the screen.
- DirectorPaul ChartStarsBelinda BalaskiTim BlackwellCali DiCapoMild-mannered Archie Glass receives a midnight call warning him of an imminent home invasion. If Archie is to survive, he's to do everything the caller suggests - no matter how strange or abhorrent to his gentle nature .
- DirectorJames BellStarsAmanda BellJames BellZach HillSet in a surreal future where everyone is on drugs and doctors are giving them out in return for body parts. The plot follows a couple (James and Mae Bell) with a deformed drug addicted baby as they go out and slaughter people to get drugs.
- DirectorPaul HumfressDerek JarmanStarsLeonardo TreviglioBarney JamesNeil KennedyReassigned to a lowly outpost, a Roman guard's Christian beliefs clash with his gay commander's desire for closeness. Being tortured becomes pleasurable.
- DirectorJim SharmanStarsTim CurrySusan SarandonBarry BostwickA newly-engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must seek shelter at the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-n-Furter.
- DirectorJohn WatersStarsDivineDavid LocharyMary Vivian PearceNotorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".
- DirectorJim HensonStarsDavid BowieJennifer ConnellyToby FroudSixteen-year-old Sarah must solve a labyrinth to rescue her baby brother when he is taken by the Goblin King.
- DirectorAriel GutierrezStarsRafael CovarrubiasHéctor HoltenDiana MagallónClarissa is a young woman with family problems. The sudden appearance of a mysterious man immerses her in a new world - that of pornography- where she tries to look for fame to realize her dream of becoming an actress. The disappointment that the experience brings triggers a cathartic process in her, and within her family.
- DirectorGuy ÉdoinStarsPascale BussièresGabriel MailléLuc PicardOn a dairy farm in the Eastern Townships, in the middle of a drought and while the land is parching, a drama will disrupt the life of the Santerre family. Confronted to each other they will have to learn to forgive.
- DirectorMike FiggisStarsJulian SandsSaffron BurrowsStefano DionisiNic's life in glimpses at ages 5, 12, 16 and later film director and husband/dad.
- DirectorÁrpád SchillingStarsGergely BánkiEszter CsákányiJózsef GyabronkaAbsurd sketches based on contemporary news.
- DirectorPierre ClémentiStarsBarbara GirardPierre ClémentiÉtienne O'LearyShot in 1967 but not released until 1976, actor Pierre Clémenti's acid-infused experimental whirlwind of color and music featuring a who's who of the French 60s underground.
- DirectorGemma FerratéStarsMarc Garcia CotéOriol PlaJan CornetA contemporary evocation of Judas Iscariot escapes from his own guilt after betraying his best friend Jesus. He wanders into a forest and, lost, meets a mysterious young man. This is the story of the last three days of a repentant.
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsRamsey NasrF. Murray AbrahamHendrik AertsHendrik Goltzius, a late-16th-century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints, seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books.
- DirectorTavinho TeixeiraStarsMariah TeixeiraTavinho TeixeiraMauro SoaresWhile the country is under the yoke of a military junta and corrupt priests preach the apocalypse, a lawless, eccentric couple trek through the Brazilian interior with their son and daughter.
- DirectorMaéva RanaïvojaonaStarsCécile ChoumiloffXavier StentzBehind the closed doors of his apartment, a man faces troubling phenomena, straddling the thin line between fantasy world and mental psychosis. The place changes, incrementally invaded by strange drawings. Painfully, the man regurgitates a creature as black as the graffiti that preceded her... A new union is coming. Waiting for it, the creature starts to explore her new surroundings, a place she will eventually make her own...
- DirectorDrew HarwoodStarsRebecca FraiserDrew HarwoodGareth KoorzenA Stranger finds himself injured and being cared for, by a Man and Woman, who are not your everyday people, in a secluded home that time has somehow forgotten.
- DirectorJonatan SchwenkAfter a flood, some fishes got stuck in old trees. In danger of drying-out they scream sharply. Woken up by the noise, the inhabitants of a nearby cave don't feel happy about the unintended gathering...
- DirectorRene EllerStarsAimé ClaeysTijmen GovaertsPauline CasteleynEight teens - four guys and four girls - are the best of friends. One summer, out of boredom they experiment with all manner of new means to entertain themselves. This degenerates into some extreme behaviour and will lead to tragedy.
- DirectorDiego Gonzalez-DurneyStarsDaniel GalloLía MaldonadoFernanda MarquesRaúl es un amante de la naturaleza que está viviendo en una aislada localidad del sur cordillerano, con la intención de realizar un documental de la fauna salvaje. A través de sus constantes paseos por el bosque, Raúl comienza a ser testigo de situaciones y secretos que se vuelven cada vez más peligrosos, dejando al descubierto una siniestra faceta de los habitantes del lugar.
- DirectorMatthew HolnessStarsSean HarrisAlun ArmstrongAndy BlitheAfter returning to his childhood home, a disgraced children's puppeteer is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured his entire life.
- DirectorWakefield PooleStarsBo WhiteCaprice CouselleGeorgina SpelvinA softcore, adult-oriented version of the tales from the Bible.
- DirectorDerek JarmanStarsPeter BullDavid MeyerNeil CunninghamBanished to a forsaken island, the Right Duke of Milan and Sorcerer Prospero gets the chance to take his revenge on the King of Naples with the assistance of his airy spirit-servant, Ariel.
- DirectorDomiziano CristopharoStarsClaudio ZanelliRoberta GemmaAndrea AutulloHenry Chagall is a disgruntled scientist who suffers from impotence. His unfortunate situation leads him, and crippled assistant Hans, to explore unusual methods, including experimentation on fresh corpses. Henry finally succeeds in reanimating a deceased man's reproductive organs by injecting a volatile fluid. Although it will take a decade to safely use on living subjects, Chagall decides to test the serum on himself.
- DirectorHans NeuenfelsStarsStefan WielandCarlo RolaMark GläserAn imaginary biography of Jean Genet, poet and high priest of evil. "Revolt is something I allow myself", said Jean Genet in 1975. Born in Paris in 1910, raised and humiliated in an approved school, a pederast and thief who has been to prison 14 times and expelled from five European countries. His novels are ballads of poisonous beauty, his plays are murky rituals of oppression where each person acts out the role imposed upon him by the others.
- DirectorUlrike OttingerStarsMagdalena MontezumaDelphine SeyrigAlbert HeinsIn the form of a "small theater of the world", a history of the world from its beginnings to our day, including the errors, the incompetence, the thirst for power, the fear, the madness, the cruelty and the commonplace, in a story of five episodes.
- DirectorMiguel LlansóStarsDaniel TadesseQuino PiñeroSelam TesfayieOur figurine sized supermen hero embarks on an epic surreal journey that will take him across the Ethiopian post apocalyptic landscape in search of a way to get on the hovering spacecraft that for years has become a landmark in the skies.
- DirectorJames Sibley WatsonMelville WebberStarsFriedrich HaakHildegarde WatsonDorthea HouseLot in Sodom is a sensual depiction of the Sodom and Gomorrah story filled with sinewy and semi-clad bodies, delirious bacchanales devoted to physical pleasure, and a searing, cataclysmic finale depicting the fall of a city devoted to sins of the flesh. Digitally mastered from excellent 35mm elements. Lot In Sodom has its original experimental soundtrack by Alec Wilder.
- DirectorGeorge EnglundStarsJohn RubinsteinPatricia QuinnDon JohnsonTwo gunfighters separate and experience surreal visions on their journey through the west.
- DirectorRosa von PraunheimStarsAngie StardustJayne CountyJudith FlexA film about the teeming flip side of life in Berlin centered on eccentric characters of almost every imaginable sexual orientation, or disorientation.
- DirectorFernando ArrabalStarsGerard BorlantJean ChalonFrançois ChateletRunning away from the police, Aden goes to the desert where he meets an uncivilized man who has a special link with Mother-Earth. He ends up by convincing the hermit to come along with him into another desert... the big town!
- DirectorNicolas RoegStarsJohn HurtA short and informative public service announcement that deals with the A.I.D.S. epidemic back in the 1980s destined to British audiences. Directed by Nicolas Roeg and with the voice of Sir John Hurt narrating facts about the disease, this short raised awareness to the public about A.I.D.S., and how to avoid it back in a time when anything related to the disease was considered a death sentence.
- DirectorSteve McLeanStarsHarris DickinsonJonah Hauer-KingAlessandro CimadamoreA stylish, sexy film about a young man's journey into an unusual form of escort work, set in an imaginary vision of London's Soho.
- DirectorJuan Mora CatlettStarsRodrigo PueblaRafael CortesJosé ChávezA very hard drought devastates an ancient Mexican empire. Warriors and priests fight for power while people are dying. A group of priests return to Aztlan, the mythological place where Mexican culture was born, to pray to the goddess Coatlicue and stop the drought.
- DirectorPetter VennerødSvend WamStarsSvein Sturla HungnesKnut HusebøJorunn KjellsbyA harrowing and ironic story about the first big and well educated generation born after WW2, living without any major concerns between 1965 and 1975. We follow shrink and doctor Atle and his good theater working friend Eigil.
- DirectorKenneth AngerStarsKenneth AngerBobby BeausoleilDonald CammellEgyptian gods summons the angel Lucifer - in order to usher in a new occult age.
- DirectorTelémachos AlexiouStarsAthina MathiouAlexandros VardaxoglouStavros SvigosMid-summer heatwave. Nikos and Alain, two male prostitutes and a female pimp, Monica, get tangled in a peculiar relationship after meeting in a dark street. They fall in love, play with guns and talk about card games, money and theatre castings. Is this a game of role playing the three of them have invented to pass their time in a remote, empty summer house? Have they been reading Jean Genet? Whether a mirror image of the characters' reality or an elliptic depiction of their distorted, dream-like perception of it, I Afroditi Stin Avli, by juxtaposing disparate literary and art references, leads its isolated characters towards dissolution. And yet, in its strange language, it presents this dissolution as a triumph.
- DirectorDannon LacerdaStarsFernanda BoechatHigor CampagnaroGabriel CanellaTaná lives with his wife in Rio de Janeiro. He works at a building supplies store and she is an opera singer. The couple is going about their usual life routine, until the transvestite Kika is suprisingly brought into their lives.
- DirectorKent HugoStarsThomas DohertyThere is nothing like the first time.
- DirectorMike KucharStarsMarc ArthurBe careful when you go out into the surf in a skimpy thong . . . the current can be treacherous and turbulent as is the human heart!Mike Kuchar
- DirectorTomi GrgicevicStarsZoran DzeverdanovicSonja Miklauzic
- DirectorAik KarapetianStarsMaija DoveikaKaspars ZnotinsDainis GrubeThe peaceful life of a middle aged architect Francis turns upside down after the street attack.
- DirectorYann GonzalezStarsSarah-Megan AllouchMathilde MennetrierAlphonse MaîtrepierreCharacters wander through an erotic maze of love and desire.
- DirectorCody ClarkeStarsCody ClarkeChloe PelletierIn this zany, dry, tongue-in-cheek sci-fi horror comedy, a giant blurry finger comes down from outer space and terrorizes Chloe, a young woman, interrupting her lonely night at home.
- DirectorNikos KoundourosStarsFanis HinasPhilippo VlachosAlexis MannOn a deserted Greek island a number of men are leaded by an attractive female who, like a medusa or spider, devours any male without inhibition.
- DirectorCarolee SchneemannStarsCarolee SchneemannJames TenneyAn experimental short in which a couple engaged in lovemaking is superimposed over ocean and beach scenes.
- DirectorSteven ArnoldStarsPandoraSteve SolbergRonald FarrellThe Procuress leads two young men through a surreal peepshow of fantastic, bizarre, androgynous, mystical, spiritual, and sexual vignettes.
- DirectorBarbara RubinFor all intents and purposes, "Christmas on Earth" is a performance art film about genital worship. At twenty-nine minutes, Barbara Rubin has created the ultimate study on the celebratory and erotic nature of free love. The film is tinted in various colors (hence the title), and finds various people engaging in sexual activity. Men with women, men with men, women with women, and several orgies throughout.
- DirectorAndrzej ZulawskiStarsAndrzej SewerynJerzy TrelaGrazyna DylagA team of astronauts land on an inhabitable planet and form a society. Many years later, a single astronaut is sent to the planet and becomes a messiah.
- DirectorFernando BirriStarsTerence HillLidija JuracikIsaac Twen ObuExplores the complex relationship between the spirit, body, and mind. The film is a nightmare with closed eyes because it counts among the most terrible moments of my life, my second exile, which lasted a very long time. Inspired by an ancient Hindu legend.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsMax von SydowGunnar BjörnstrandBengt EkerotA knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.
- DirectorAlbert SerraStarsHelmut BergerMarc SusiniIliana ZabethMadame de Dumeval, the Duke de Tesis and the Duke de Wand, libertines expelled from the court of Louis XVI, seek the support of the Duc de Walchen, German seducer and freethinker, lonely in a country where hypocrisy and false virtue reign.
- DirectorJirí BartaStarsOldrich KaiserJirí LábusMichal PavlícekThe story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin with a twist.
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsRichard BurtonPeter FirthColin BlakelyA psychiatrist attempts to uncover a troubled stable boy's disturbing obsession with horses.
- DirectorApichatpong WeerasethakulStarsTilda SwintonAgnes BrekkeDaniel Giménez CachoA woman from Scotland, while traveling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Soon she begins to think about their appearance.
- DirectorDouglas SoaresStarsLuciano CarneiroMarcos CarusoJulio Fernandes"The innocents, definitely innocents, ignore everything, but the sand is hot, and there is a soft oil that they use to rub their back, and they forget." The voyeuristic path in Alair Gomes' homoerotic work.
- DirectorDonald RichieA cat's inquisitive look interferes with the pleasurable sensations of a boy while masturbating.
- DirectorJohn ConeyStarsSun RaRaymond JohnsonChristopher BrooksIn an effort to bring unity and equality to African-Americans, an interstellar traveler and musician lands on earth and duels with an evil overlord for the souls of people.
- DirectorKote MikaberidzeStarsAleksandre TakaishviliBella ChernovaEvgeniy OvanovThe protagonist, a lazy pen-pusher, gets the sack for his bureaucratic idleness, and learns that the way back into the job market depends on getting a letter of recommendation from a "grandmother".
- DirectorJean CocteauStarsJean MaraisFrançois PérierMaría CasaresA poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.
- DirectorJean CocteauStarsEnrique RiveroElizabeth Lee MillerPauline CartonTold in four episodes - an unnamed artist is transported through a mirror into another dimension, where he travels through various bizarre scenarios.
- DirectorRodrigo CarneiroGustavo VinagreStarsMarcelo DiorioMajeca AngelucciMarcos PomarIn his apartment in São Paulo, between making coffee and gay hook-ups, Marcelo casually and sincerely discussed his longings and beliefs.
- DirectorHarry SmithA sequence of surreal cutout animation imagery, largely without a discernible narrative.
- DirectorRené LalouxStarsGlenn CloseChristopher PlummerPierre-Marie EscourrouAn evil force begins to destroy the idyllic paradise of Gandahar, where the citizens are in perfect harmony with nature.