Avant garde movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant avant garde movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out avant garde, experimental, surreal, art house, disturbing and psychedelic films and TV shows about / with surrealism, female nudity, psychological drama, nudity, nude, male nudity, obsession, art, catastrophe and sex plots mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Sci-Fi genres shot in USA, France, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as avant garde: The Catcher in the Rye (2008), Destricted (2006), The Holy Mountain (1973), Woman in the Dunes (1964), The Big Departure (1972), Inland Empire (2006), Poison (1991), Mirror (1975), No. 12: Heaven and Earth Magic (1962), Venus in the Garden (2011).
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List of avant garde movies
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
This film consists of 75 minutes and 6 seconds of blue screen.
Style:
avant garde, experimental, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
abstract art, surrealism, minimalism, entrapment, absurdism, weirdo, eccentric, hypnotic, cult
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A compilation of erotic films intended to illuminate the points where art meets sexuality.
Style:
erotic, anthology, avant garde, serious, controversial ...
Plot:
exhibitionist, erection, sexual promiscuity, couple relations, coitus, sex scene, sexual abuse, sex, lifestyle, destructive relationship, society, sexual relations ...
Time:
70s
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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, atmospheric, mind bending ...
Plot:
satire, trippy, alchemist, enlightenment, surrealism, hermaphrodite, sex, spiritual journey, sex scene, absurdism, hippopotamus, lsd ...
Time:
year 1973, 70s, 20th century
Place:
mexico, south america, latin america, peru
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
An entomologist suffers extreme psychological and sexual torture after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village.
Style:
atmospheric, surreal, avant garde, psychological, philosophical ...
Plot:
existentialism, trapped, love affair, metaphor, escape attempt, surrealism, isolation, sun, insect, held captive, desert, male nudity ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
An experimental film from the painter and sculptor Martial Raysse.
Style:
avant garde, experimental, allegory, art film, absurd ...
Plot:
surrealism, symbolism, improv, journey, counterculture, raft, female nudity, artist, rescue, sexual abuse, sea voyage, innocence ...
Time:
70s
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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, avant garde, confusing, art house ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, nightmare, macabre, curse, danger, couples, violence, alternate reality, abusive husband, insanity, doppelganger, mysticism ...
Time:
year 2006, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
poland, los angeles, europe, california, usa ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Three intercut stories about outsiders, sex and violence. In "Hero," Richie, at age 7, kills his father and flies away. After the event, a documentary in cheesy lurid colors asks what Richie was like and what led up to the shooting. In the ...
Style:
disturbing, anthology, avant garde, surreal, independent film ...
Plot:
homosexual, lgbt, gay erotica, homoeroticism, gay teenager, prison, violent, surrealism, lgbtq, body horror, experiment, transgression ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 1940s
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A 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.
Style:
cerebral, atmospheric, surreal, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
childhood, surrealism, world war two, poetry, stream of consciousness, dream, winter, memory, coming of age, mirror, levitation, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1935, 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1975 ...
Place:
soviet union, russia, moscow russia, ussr, europe ...
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Genre: Animation, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
The first part depicts the heroine's toothache consequent to the loss of a very valuable watermelon, her dentistry and transportation to heaven. Next follows an elaborate exposition of the heavenly land, in terms of Israel and Montreal. The ...
Style:
avant garde, experimental, surreal, art house, spiritual ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
surrealism, stop motion, college, earth, beat generation, heaven, counterculture, spirituality, abstract art, alchemy, columbia university, cat ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Germany
Duration: 63 min.
Story:
Mid-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 called POUTANA. They fall in love, play with guns and talk about card games, money and ...
Style:
avant garde, unusual plot structure, sentimental, touching, melancholic ...
Plot:
male nudity, male pubic hair, homoeroticism, gay, gay interest, male objectification, gay couple, love and romance, nude, couples, lovers, gay love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, greece
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Homage to the cult classic “Mondo Hollywood”, a groovy mushrooms dealer and a man from the 5th dimension journey through Hollywood to find the meaning of “Mondo.”
Style:
psychedelic, avant garde, psychotronic, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
hollywood, drug dealer, magic mushroom, trip, psychedelia, drug use, narcotics, drug, drug dealing, travel, drug trade, surrealism ...
Place:
los angeles
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17K
Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
psychedelic, avant garde, surreal, experimental, art house ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
surrealism, female friendship, feminism, flapper, nihilism, feminist, absurd humor, female protagonist, female antagonist, teenage girl, women, satire ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s
Place:
czech republic, czechoslovakia, eastern europe, prague, europe
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
A mysterious young girl wanders a desolate, otherworldly landscape, carrying a large egg.
Style:
anime, gothic, avant garde, adult animation, surreal ...
Plot:
surrealism, girl, little girl, angel, flood, warrior, religion, very little dialogue, minimal dialogue, egg, mental disorder, post-apocalyptic future ...
Place:
europe, japan
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A resourceful boy creatively uses poetry to survive when his mother, a disturbed avant garde painter, locks him in a puppet box and builds an art installation around his imprisonment.
Style:
avant garde, neo noir, art film, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
poetry, mother son relationship, art exhibition, captivity, painter, life is a bitch, problem, captive, child protagonist, imagination, symbolism, mental illness ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A cross-country trip to sell drugs puts two hippie bikers on a collision course with small-town prejudices.
Style:
road movie, psychedelic, independent film, cult classic, avant garde ...
Plot:
road trip, hippie, on the road, existentialism, motorcycle, marijuana, rebelliousness, friendship, biker, self discovery, rock music, stoner ...
Time:
year 1969, 20th century, 60s, 70s
Place:
california, new mexico, alabama, arizona, louisiana ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
The life of revered the 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova (Vilen Galstyan). Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women, including his ...
Style:
surreal, avant garde, poetic, atmospheric, psychedelic ...
Plot:
poet, surrealism, religion, poetry, trippy, writers, medieval, biopic, magic realism, art, metaphor, death ...
Time:
18th century, year 1969
Place:
soviet union, russia, caucasus, ussr, georgia ...
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20K
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A figure known as "The Assassin" descends from the heavens into a nightmarish pit full of monsters, titans, and cruelty.
Style:
adult animation, surreal, disturbing, avant garde, scary ...
Audience:
adult, horror for children
Plot:
stop motion, surrealism, post apocalypse, violence, monster, motorcycle, creature, dystopia, body horror, fantasy world, demolished city, exploitation ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Frank, an introspective astrophysics major, visits a remote lab to work with his mentor; doctor Roberts. After his arrival, he finds that Helen; a young woman seemingly from another world, a metaphysical realm, has been taken in by the doctor. The ...
Style:
spiritual, avant garde, psychotronic, underground film, mysterious ...
Plot:
supernatural, surrealism, supernatural power, spirituality, science, outer space, isolation, jealousy, forest, mysticism, haunting, cosmos ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
A young ballet dancer travels to a prestigious dance academy in Europe, only to discover it is a front for something far more sinister and supernatural amidst a series of increasingly grisly murders.
Style:
suspense, psychological horror, dark, sinister, avant garde ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
ritual sacrifice, dead woman, curse, witchcraft, secret, paranormal phenomena, mysterious event, corporal punishment, occult, good versus evil, spiritualism, witch ...
Time:
year 1977, year 1948, 70s, year 1943, post world war two
Place:
berlin germany, west berlin west germany, italy, ohio, east berlin
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair of scisors impaled through her heart, as she lay attached to the bedposts. Apparently, the ...
Style:
avant garde, surreal, queer horror, controversial, psychedelic ...
Plot:
surrealism, female pubic hair, lesbian, lesbianism, female nudity, nudity, priest, egg, accused of murder, fetish, parallel universe, young love ...
Time:
year 1974
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A mad farmer falls in love with his pig and has mutant piglets with it. When the "piglets" prefer their mother over him, he hangs them all and the sow kills herself.
Style:
disturbing, minimal cast, avant garde, controversial, surreal ...
Plot:
bestiality, zoophilia, suicide, piglet, surrealism, suicide by hanging, last man on earth, pig, mental disorder, violent, hardcore, extreme ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
belgium
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
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, sexy, experimental, psychological ...
Plot:
hotel, surrealism, memory, obsession, uncertainty, stream of consciousness, alternate reality, amnesia, haunted by the past, dishonesty, hopes, destiny ...
Time:
20th century, year 1961, 60s
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min.
TV show
Story:
Million Dollar Extreme Presents: World Peace, a satiric vision largely set in a post-apocalyptic world. The popular sketch group is comprised of Sam Hyde, Charls Carroll, and Nick Rochefort.
Style:
sketch comedy, absurd, surreal, avant garde, entertaining ...
Plot:
satire, surrealism, post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, dystopia, irreverent, dark humor, sketch, anti establishment, political satire, absurdism, social commentary ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A scientist obsessed with World War III hits the road with a woman so he can re-create scenes from history.
Style:
suspense, avant garde, rough, bleak, scary ...
Plot:
doctor, pleasure, insanity, patient, mental breakdown, hospital, graphic violence, catastrophe, nuclear war, erotica, disaster, atrocity ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A feverish collision of avant-garde aesthetics and grind-house shocks, Funeral Parade of Roses takes us on an electrifying journey into the nether-regions of the late-’60s Tokyo underworld. In Toshio Matsumoto’s controversial debut feature, ...
Style:
avant garde, disturbing, surreal, mind bending, art house ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
surrealism, lgbt, gay, gay incest, transvestite, lgbtq, prostitution, gay bar, drag queen, suicide, oedipus complex, hearse ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s
Place:
tokyo, japan
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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, experimental, road movie, surreal, disturbing ...
Plot:
satire, surrealism, violence, traffic jam, murder, anarchism, car crash, car accident, misanthropy, on the road, cannibalism, cruelty ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Five friends – a poet, an actor, a painter, an architect and a primitivist film director – are five red avant-garde artists who try to find the embodiment of their hopes and dreams in the young Soviet state. The Revolution is boiling up like a ...
Style:
avant garde, disturbing, psychological, captivating, experimental ...
Plot:
revolutionary, revolution, painter, arts and culture, social problems, counterculture, culture, friends, russian revolution, magic realism, symbolism, poetry ...
Time:
1910s
Place:
soviet union, siberia, ussr, russia
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Taking place in the fifth reality to be discovered by humanity, Into The Alternate follows an inhabitant and foreign visitor as they struggle to survive within a collapsing ecosystem.
Style:
avant garde, nature documentary, experimental, art house, surreal ...
Plot:
alternate reality, survival, unsettling, experimental narrative, adaptation, haunting, macabre, alienation, minimalism, intimate, parallel universe
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Warhol's strange interpretation of "A Clockwork Orange."
Style:
art house, avant garde, independent film, experimental, controversial ...
Plot:
underground, torture, sadism, counterculture, social commentary, betrayal, alienation, minimalism, adaptation, brainwashing, psychological experiment, juvenile delinquency ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
For this remarkable experimental film, the provocative avant-garde legend Stephen Dwoskin gathered together a group of strangers and filmed them as they explored their fantasies over a period of five days: a project that now sounds a little like ...
Style:
avant garde, experimental, art house, transgressive, surreal ...
Plot:
female nudity, erotica, orgy, performance art, intimacy, voyeurism, role playing, eroticism, social experiment, makeover, counterculture, ritual ...
Time:
70s
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