Experimental movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant experimental movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out experimental, surreal, avant garde, serious, psychedelic and weird films and TV shows about / with surrealism, death, trippy, blood, moving, underground, dream, murder, female nudity and sex plots mostly in Drama, Mystery and Horror genres shot in USA, France, Belgium and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as experimental: Tetsuo, the Iron Man (1989), Amer (2009), WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971), Inland Empire (2006), Begotten (1989), Black Moon (1975), No Rest for the Brave (2003), Wavelength (1967), The Gopher (1970), Cremaster 3 (2002).

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Tetsuo, the Iron Man (1989)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
Story: 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, ...
Style: psychedelic, psychotronic, surreal, experimental, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, surrealism, body horror, very little dialogue, metamorphosis, sex, hit and run, businessman, mutilation, apocalypse, transformation, distopia ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
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 6.1
 7K
Amer (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Searing memories and carnal desires rule the mind of Ana, a young woman in thrall to her own fantasies whose visions and obsessions draw her toward deeper eroticism -- and deeper danger, in this modern take on a Giallo.
Style: surreal, retro, experimental, slasher, psychological ...
Plot: danger, murder, haunted by the past, woman in danger, haunted house, estate, arthouse horror, macabre, moving, ghost, strong female lead, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, belgium
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WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Yugoslavia, West Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A dense film that cuts up footage of a primary plot of two young Yugoslavian girls, one a politico and the other a sexpot, and an affair with a visiting Russian skater. Mixing metaphors of Russia's relationship with Yugoslavia, intercut with ...
Style: avant garde, surreal, experimental, controversial, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: erection, sex, surrealism, communist, psychology, satire, trippy, communism, mature, badass, sexology, porn ...
Time: year 1971, 60s, 20th century
Place: former yugoslavia, europe
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 6.8
 62K
Inland Empire (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Poland, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: 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.
Style: surreal, psychological, mindfuck, experimental, psychedelic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: surrealism, macabre, filmmaking, danger, alternate reality, insanity, curse, murder, nightmare, actress, abusive husband, mysticism ...
Time: year 2006, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: poland, los angeles, usa, california, europe ...
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 5.6
 12K
Begotten (1989)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.
Style: surreal, avant garde, experimental, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Plot: macabre, surrealism, self mutilation, necrophilia, gory, violence, torture, spirituality, chaos, nihilism, extreme, brutality ...
Place: america
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 6.1
 6K
Black Moon (1975)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: There is a war in the world between the men and the women. A young girl tries to escape this reality and comes to a hidden place where a strange unicorn lives with a family: Sister, Brother, many children and an old woman that never leaves her bed ...
Style: surreal, mind bending, atmospheric, experimental, psychological ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: surrealism, breast feeding, absurdism, children, pig, death, old woman, misogyny, girl, brother sister relationship, female soldier, talking animal ...
Time: year 1975, future
Place: turkey
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No Rest for the Brave (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Austria
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A strange man is involved in a village massacre and drug dealing.
Style: experimental, surreal, humorous, realistic, serious ...
Plot: insomnia, drug dealer, gangster, losing-it hero, teenage life, love affair, youth, on the run, psychopath, dark humor, countryside, chase ...
Time: 21st century
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 5.4
 3K
Wavelength (1967)
Genre: Short, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 43 min.
Story: Wavelength consists of almost no action, and what action does occur is largely elided. If the film could be said to have a conventional plot, this would presumably refer to the three “character” scenes. Snow’s intent for the film was “a ...
Style: experimental, contemplative, underground film, surreal, avant garde ...
Plot: art, fetish, underground, dealing with death, introspection, human nature, estrangement, photograph, sea, presumed dead, warehouse, indoor ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york
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 7.2
 31K
The Gopher (1970)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Mexico
Duration: 125 min.
Story: 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, ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, disturbing, allegory, experimental ...
Plot: desert, surrealism, murder, boy, revenge, rape, religion, suicide, church, violence, russian roulette, gunfighter ...
Time: year 1970
Place: latin america, mexico
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 6.9
 2K
Cremaster 3 (2002)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 182 min.
Story: CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner, antagonistic forces at play for access to the process of (spiritual) transcendence. These factions ...
Style: surreal, mind bending, stylized, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: surrealism, supernatural, good versus evil, danger, imaginary, punk, rivalry, artists and showbiz, curses spells and rituals, apprentice, zombie, graphic violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 6.0
 6K
Sweet Movie (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Canada, West Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The winner (Carole Laure) of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.
Style: experimental, disturbing, controversial, surreal, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: decadence, erotica, orgy, extreme, male nudity, surrealism, dead children, virginity, virgin, male pubic hair, woman in a bikini, breast feeding ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: amsterdam, balkan, paris france, france, europe ...
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Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 202 min.
Story: A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.
Style: slow cinema, experimental, sentimental, realistic, serious ...
Plot: loneliness, housewife, minimalism, widow, feminism, prostitute, prostitution, female protagonist, feminist, sex worker, chores, mother son relationship ...
Time: 70s, year 1975
Place: europe, belgium, france, brussels belgium
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 7.6
 152K
Lost Highway (1997)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgangers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
Style: surreal, neo noir, mind bending, atmospheric, confusing ...
Plot: insanity, surrealism, murder, doppelganger, parallel universe, transformation, graphic violence, hallucination, dream, time loop, erotica, art ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1997, near future
Place: los angeles, persia, north america
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The Holy Mountain (1973)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 114 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, avant garde, disturbing, art house ...
Plot: alchemist, enlightenment, male nudity, hermaphrodite, trippy, surrealism, crucifix, symbolism, bird, mountain, spiritual journey, castration ...
Time: year 1973, 20th century, 70s
Place: mexico, latin america, peru
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 6.6
 38K
Gummo (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Solomon and Tummler are two teenagers killing time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.
Style: disturbing, surreal, dark comedy, experimental, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: sexual abuse, white trash, youth, redneck, adolescence, unsettling, coming of age, gay slur, abuse, violence, sister sister relationship, teenager ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: ohio, usa, america
Is relevant ?
 7.5
 205K
Upgrade (2018)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that ...
Style: futuristic, surprise ending, thought provoking, tech noir, neo noir ...
Audience: date night
Plot: cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, murder, surgery, microchip, revenge, nanotechnology, cyborgs, technology, super computer, dystopia, distopia ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s
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The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A woman vanishes. Her husband inquires into the strange circumstances of her disappearance. Did she leave him? Is she dead? As he goes along searching, he plunges into a world of nightmare and violence...
Style: surreal, stylized, experimental, serious, postmodern ...
Plot: male nudity, investigation, disappearance, danger, violence, uncover truth, whodunit, spouse in danger, obsession, violent content, nudity, arthouse horror ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, brussels
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story: 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.
Style: futuristic, philosophical, psychedelic, mind bending, cerebral ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, adult
Plot: space travel, astronaut, outer space, space, artificial intelligence, moon, scientist, computer, trippy, space opera, human versus computer, space station ...
Time: future, year 2001, 20th century, stone age, year 1968 ...
Place: persia
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 7.7
 67K
Waking Life (2001)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: philosophical, spiritual, psychedelic, surreal, stylized ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: philosophy, existentialism, dream, trippy, surrealism, alternate reality, consciousness, bohemian life, meaning of life, life philosophy, psychology, imagination ...
Time: year 2001, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: texas, tibet
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 6.5
 35K
Upstream Color (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 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.
Style: surreal, psychological, art house, tense, atmospheric ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: hypnosis, brainwashing, parasite, love affair, existentialism, drugged, tragic love, memory loss, identity crisis, haunted by the past, parallel universe, trippy ...
Time: year 2013, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.9
 16K
Weekend (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
Style: black comedy, road movie, surreal, disturbing, experimental ...
Plot: satire, surrealism, cannibalism, murder, violence, traffic jam, anarchism, road trip, nihilism, cruelty, car accident, car crash ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place: france
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Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: 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.
Style: surreal, mind bending, psychological, atmospheric, philosophical ...
Plot: hotel, surrealism, obsession, memory, amnesia, stream of consciousness, uncertainty, alternate reality, haunted by the past, hopes, dishonesty, love affair ...
Time: 20th century, year 1961, 60s
Place: france, europe
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The Tree of Life (2011)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his ...
Style: philosophical, surreal, artsy, atmospheric, visually stunning ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: philosophy, childhood, grief, coming of age, spirituality, father son relationship, parenthood, existentialism, family relations, domineering father, hopes, religion ...
Time: 1950s, 2010s, year 2011, prehistory, 20th century ...
Place: texas, america, usa, china
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 7.3
 33K
House (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A girl invites her six friends to spend summer vacation with her at her aunt’s house in the countryside. However, the girls don’t know the aunt’s secret......
Style: surreal, experimental, psychedelic, horror comedy, slasher ...
Audience: adult
Plot: ghost, cat, surrealism, haunted house, possession, house, piano, skeleton, evil wins, characters murdered one by one, white cat, coming of age ...
Time: year 1977, 70s, 20th century, 1940s
Place: japan, east asia, asia
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Blood Of The Beast (2003)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: In the year 2012, the 3rd great war comes to an end. The war claims no victors, but both sides succeed in executing their chemical warfare campaigns. The result is over 3 billion deaths. Over ninety-eight percent of the male survivors are rendered ...
Style: experimental, avant garde, surreal, bleak, suspense ...
Plot: zombie, paranoia, violence, mass destruction, death, camping, blood, surrealism, forest, cloning, world war three, group of friends ...
Time: 2030s, 2010s, future
Place: usa
Is relevant ?
 4.1
 775
The Oregonian (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A girl gets in a car accident and wanders through the woods, encountering all kinds of nightmarish things.
Style: experimental, atmospheric, surreal, scary, realistic ...
Plot: woods, danger, strong female presence, haunted by the past, memory loss, fear, graphic violence, human relationship, mental disorder, nightmare, lost in the woods, lost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: oregon, usa
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Sleep Has Her House (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The shadows of screams climb beyond the hills. It has happened before. But this will be the last time. The last few sense it, withdrawing deep into the forest. They cry out into the black, as the shadows pass away, into the ground.
Style: experimental, slow cinema, enigmatic, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: darkness, poem, nature, forces of nature, spirit, supernatural, mysticism, night, stoner, macabre, romanticism, death ...
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 3.2
 3K
King Cobra (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 30 feet of pure terror is the result of an experimental drug used in a biochemical lab and this mutated nightmare is pure evil! Half-African cobra and half-diamondback, he's 30 feet long with a giant appetite for terror.
Style: serious, tense, experimental, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: giant snake, laboratory, snake, dangerous animal, mad scientist, experiment gone awry, escapades, small town, martial arts, animal attack, science runs amok, shark ...
Time: 90s
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 7.0
 49K
Holy Motors (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story: 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, ...
Style: surreal, art house, psychedelic, cerebral, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: surrealism, existentialism, life & death, creativity, obsession, multiple storylines, trippy, hidden identity, double life, power relations, unfulfillment, lifestyle change ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: paris france, france
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The Legend of Kaspar Hauser (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Arriving on a deserted beach in the Mediterranean sea, in a time and a place unspecified, Kaspar Hauser is forced to confront the evil of a Grand Duchess who feels threatened by the power she exercises over the community.
Style: surreal, experimental, atmospheric, stylized, serious ...
Plot: good versus evil, island, techno music, rivalry, beach, dishonesty, defiant, stoner, underground, chess, motorcycle, sea ...
Place: europe, italy
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