Surreal movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant surreal movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out surreal, weird, mind bending, visually appealing, cerebral and thought provoking films and TV shows about / with surrealism, storytelling, existentialism, imagination, dialogue, loneliness, creativity, artistic, trippy and alternate reality plots mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Sci-Fi genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as surreal: Under the Skin (2013), The Fall (2006), Vivarium (2019), Mulholland Drive (2001), The Fountain (2006), The Lobster (2015), Paprika (2006), Being John Malkovich (1999), The Bothersome Man (2006), The Science of Sleep (2006).
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List of surreal movies
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Switzerland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A seductive alien prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, disturbing, bleak, art film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
alien, femme fatale, human prey, disguise, extraterrestrial, female nudity, desire, very little dialogue, seduction, nightclub, eroticism, deformity ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
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114K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, South Africa, India
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, ...
Style:
surreal, mind bending, visually appealing, touching, fairy tale ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
hospital, surrealism, suicide attempt, imagination, escape from reality, suicide, imaginary kingdom, friendship, stuntman, magic realism, child, desert ...
Time:
1920s, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, india, istanbul turkey, taj mahal
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62K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Ireland, Belgium, Denmark
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young woman and her fiancé are in search of the perfect starter home. After following a mysterious real estate agent to a new housing development, the couple finds themselves trapped in a maze of identical houses and forced to raise an ...
Style:
surreal, suspenseful, disturbing, absurd, allegory ...
Plot:
trapped, suspense, paradox, psychological torture, maze, human experiment, suburbs, young couple, evil child, evil wins, foster child, buying a house ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Style:
psychological, surreal, neo noir, atmospheric, art house ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
surrealism, twists and turns, amnesia, lesbian, hallucination, hollywood, alternate reality, obsession, nightmare, doppelganger, lesbian sex, filmmaking ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
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242K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
surreal, melancholic, philosophical, thought provoking, artsy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
metaphysics, death, spirituality, afterlife, surrealism, cancer, buddhism, immortality, loneliness, obsession, love, love story ...
Time:
future, 16th century, 21st century
Place:
spain, europe, latin america, guatemala, central america
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265K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, Greece, France, Netherlands, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
Style:
surreal, art house, absurd, allegory, ironic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
distopia, society, love, absurdism, solitude, blindness, manhunt, hotel, animals, suicide attempt, human becoming an animal, relationships ...
Time:
near future, 2010s, future
Place:
ireland, canada, hellas, greece
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86K
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it: Paprika.
Style:
surreal, psychological, anime, psychedelic, philosophical ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
twists and turns, surveillance, hallucination, virtual reality, lucid dream, dream, surrealism, dreams, villain, deception, scientist, mental illness ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Spike Jonze’s debut feature film is a love story mix of comedy and fantasy. The story is about an unsuccessful puppeteer named Craig, who one day at work finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, cerebral, thought provoking, disturbing ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
puppeteer, subconscious, psychology, twists and turns, surrealism, existentialism, portal, insanity, body swapping, mind control, manipulation, philosophy ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Norway, Iceland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment - even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, enigmatic, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
parallel universe, exile, suicide attempt, accountant, nightmare, alone in the world, emotionless, new job, isolation, confined, captivity, confusion ...
Time:
future
Place:
argentina
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.
Style:
surreal, psychological, psychedelic, mind bending, philosophical ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
love, dreams, surrealism, dream, magic, daydreamer, artist, escape from reality, insanity, existentialism, melancholy, imagination ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, mexico, france, latin america, europe ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.
Style:
surreal, dark fantasy, stylized, absurd, enigmatic ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
imaginary kingdom, deal with the devil, surrealism, mysterious character, magic, imagination, transformation, destiny, steampunk, insanity, immortality, eccentricity ...
Place:
london
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237K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium, Germany, Canada, France, UK, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, surreal, philosophical, mind bending ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
destiny, time, philosophy, alternate reality, surrealism, depression, butterfly effect, utopia, multiple outcomes, life changing experience, twists and turns, bittersweet ...
Time:
future, year 1975, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
canada
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204K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent ...
Style:
surreal, thought provoking, futuristic, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
distopia, fighting the system, surrealism, dream, cyberpunk, christmas, bureaucracy, hallucination, twists and turns, dystopic future, mistaken identity, surveillance ...
Time:
future, year 1984
Place:
england, brazil, canada, london, britain ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, melancholic, mind bending, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
memory, surrealism, amnesia, love, existentialism, memory loss, love story, relationships, alternate reality, couples, loneliness, introspection ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real ...
Style:
fairy tale, atmospheric, dark fantasy, surreal, gothic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
monster, mythology, fantasy world, maze, legends and myths, cruelty, creature, good versus evil, macabre, alternate reality, young heroes, fairy ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place:
spain, canada, europe
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13K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, UK, West Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit. She becomes surrounded by living inanimate objects and stuffed dead animals, and must find a way out of this nightmare- no ...
Style:
surreal, disturbing, fairy tale, art house, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
surrealism, rabbit, wonderland, fantasy world, stop motion, trippy, youth, children, coming of age, nightmare, adaptation, pig ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 1860s, 19th century
Place:
australia, central europe
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.
Style:
road movie, surreal, witty, enigmatic, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
road trip, dream girl, self discovery, life philosophy, alternate reality, choice, wish come true, self fulfillment, on the road, hopes, alternate dimension, twists and turns ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
new jersey
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446K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true ...
Style:
surreal, sentimental, feel good, touching, fairy tale ...
Audience:
date night, kids, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
fish, magic realism, father son relationship, surrealism, fantasy world, journey, loneliness, mermaid, death, magic, witch, childhood ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 20th century, 1940s, 80s ...
Place:
texas, usa, alabama, paris france, miami ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Spain, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
Style:
surreal, psychological, twist ending, intense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
doppelganger, infidelity, symbolism, paranoia, mental illness, nightmare, suspense, surrealism, obsession, spider, disturbed individual, twists and turns ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
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146K
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, time loop, doppelganger, hallucination, transformation, graphic violence, erotica, macabre, psychology, art ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
los angeles, plymouth
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105K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.
Style:
psychological, surreal, psychedelic, scary, mind bending ...
Plot:
serial killer, surrealism, race against time, coma, psychiatrist, virtual reality, psychopath, macabre, mind game, fbi, suspense, investigation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
surreal, philosophical, touching, inspirational, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
afterlife, heaven and hell, life philosophy, life & death, redemption, love, death, destiny, metaphysics, true love, spirituality, husband wife reunion ...
Time:
90s
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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, enigmatic, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
surrealism, existentialism, limousine, creativity, life & death, obsession, multiple storylines, hidden identity, double life, unfulfillment, power relations, lifestyle change ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, tokyo
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Style:
psychological, mind bending, surreal, atmospheric, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult, teen drama
Plot:
mental illness, psychology, insanity, time travel, imaginary friend, surrealism, parallel universe, hallucination, suspense, time loop, suburbs, schizophrenia ...
Time:
80s, future, 20th century, year 1988
Place:
virginia, los angeles, usa
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Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Fantastic Planet tells the story of “Oms”, human-like creatures, kept as domesticated pets by an alien race of blue giants called “Draags”. The story takes place on the Draags’ planet Ygam, where we follow our narrator, an Om called Terr, ...
Style:
surreal, adult animation, psychedelic, atmospheric, art house ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
distopia, trippy, surrealism, giant, alien, alien life-form, baby, slave, meditation, alien species, existentialism, planet ...
Time:
future
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
Style:
gothic, surreal, fairy tale, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, kids, date night, chick flick, family outing
Plot:
loneliness, goth, love, surrealism, freak, social misfits, christmas, love and romance, inventor, fall in love, love story, castle ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 90s, 50s
Place:
usa, florida
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142K
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Luxembourg
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their ...
Style:
surreal, adult animation, suspenseful, serious, futuristic ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
post apocalypse, apocalypse, steampunk, survival, technology gone awry, distopia, fate of humanity, life is a bitch, save the world, vestiges of humanity, heroes, parallel world ...
Time:
future, 1940s
Place:
canada
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120K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
Style:
surreal, art house, experimental, psychological, avant garde ...
Plot:
surrealism, nightmare, insanity, existentialism, baby, cult, psychology, art, loneliness, eccentricity, psychosis, factory ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Romania, France, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him.
Style:
surreal, thought provoking, cerebral, philosophical, meditative ...
Plot:
computers and web, cyberpunk, computer system, computer genius, computer, distopia, loneliness, escape from reality, society, hacker, existentialism, uncover truth ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their ...
Style:
surreal, psychedelic, atmospheric, road movie, disturbing ...
Plot:
drugs, road trip, hallucination, lsd, drug abuse, journalism, addiction, american dream, surrealism, marijuana, trippy, psychedelia ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1965, year 1971
Place:
las vegas, usa
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