Surreal Movies

Seeking quite in the park, a young songwriter runs into three familiar strangers with some bad news.

Adam is a factory worker. He falls in love with Chris, a slightly older man. Instead of strengthening his own identity, Adam is unable to cope with...

"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...

An obsessive artist gets too wrapped up in his painting.

Wandering minstrel Ashik Kerib falls in love with a rich merchant's daughter, but is spurned by her father and forced to roam the world for a...

An animated short film from 1987 that deals with the incarceration of a man in a dark cell from where there is no escape.

A short film by Walerian Borowczyk. Ostensibly a film of a concert given by the round, unassuming Monsieur Kabal and his spiky, terrifying wife, it's...

An alien decides to find out how much humans actually know about extra-terrestrials. The directorial debut of Mykhailo Titov, a master of chimerical...

Constantly interrupted by the ringing of a telephone, a man is desperate to poke his eye out. Can he succeed?

A loose interpretation of the poem of the same name by Dutch poet M. Vasalis, "Time" follows a grieving man who is plagued by a strange and prophetic...

Youtuber Patrick Frey lives with his mother at a transport hub in Zurich. Suddenly, nothing is the same anymore when his account is blocked by an...

After a pineapple shows up at her front door, Lia returns to her childhood home in search of her father, who hasn’t been seen in months.

A professional wrestler struggles to reconcile his onstage and offstage personas.

After an accident leaves his face entirely bandaged, a neurotic office worker undergoes an identity crisis.

A dream of three television shows and the narrator’s identity suspended between them in a loop is keeping the protagonist awake.

Pablo, an introverted child, has the ability to enter his mother's paintings, this takes him on a surreal and bizarre journey that dissolves the...

Kneading the back of an elderly man, Evie, the new masseuse at the Russian & Turkish bathhouse, finds her mind drifting from the steam room’s...

A weary hitman— who must bash his own head with a hammer in order to enter a murderous state of parasomnia— is promised freedom from...

When viewed from far away, life on Earth can seem meaningless. But when a star inhabits a dying girl, they experience the tragic beauty found at the...

This is not a musical. Milton Jones is tone deaf and has no sense of rhythm, but at least he doesn’t make a song and dance about it. He has...