Avant-garde / Experimental
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    Movies

    Lunacy (2006)

    In eighteenth-century France (albeit one full of deliberate anachronisms) a young man, Jean Berlot,...

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    Movies

    Les Favoris de la Lune (1984)

    Director Otar Iosseliani hit the nail on the head when describing Favorites of the Moon as "an...

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    The Holy Mountain

    "The Alchemist" is a man who assembles a group of people from all walks of life and renames them for...

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    Performance (1970)

    A Cockney mobster, fleeing his crime boss, goes underground in the townhouse of a reclusive...

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    Pound

    In a pound, 18 dogs wait to be adopted.

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    The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak (1985)

    Based on a popular French comic strip, this lavish and erotic adventure fantasy (said to be one of...

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    Movies

    War Requiem (1989)

    The experiences of poet Wilfred Owen during World War I set to the music of Benjamin Britten.

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    Snapshots

    In this experimental film, everyone enacts roles written from the player's lives; everyone plays...

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    A Hole In My Heart (2005)

    In a decript apartment, a young man watches as his father and a friend shoot an amateur porn film....

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    Trash (1970)

    Joe is a down-and-out junkie, living in New York's East Village, whose heroin addiction has rendered...

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    Movies

    In the Shadow of the Sun (1981)

    This experimental film by Derek Jarman features the multilayered, hypnotic non-linear effects of...

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    Vladimir et Rosa (1971)

    This is a somewhat experimental radical-chic film made by director Jean-Luc Godard and the...

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    Movies

    Naqoyqatsi (2002)

    Filmmaker Godfrey Reggio presents abstract images which reflect the proliferation of technology.

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    Movies

    The Tracker (2004)

    In 1922 an Aboriginal tracker (David Gulpilil) leads two mounted policemen (Gary Sweet, Damon...

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    Movies

    Cremaster 3 (2003)

    The third film of a five-part art-installation epic -- it's part-zombie movie, part-gangster film.

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    Container

    A poetic, experimental film. A heavy set man and a slim Asian woman stumble across rubbish dumps and...

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    Sebastiane (1978)

    The last few days in the life of the Catholic martyr, St. Sebastian, depicting his relationship with...

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    Tarnation (2004)

    Filmmaker Jonathan Caouette uses his home movies, video diaries and snapshots to chronicle growing...

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    Movies

    Our Music (2004)

    Divided into three "kingdoms" -- Enfer (Hell), Purgatoire (Purgatory) and Paradis (Paradise) --...

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    Movies

    Gummo (1997)

    Bored teens (Jacob Reynolds, Nick Sutton, Jacob Sewell) in an impoverished Ohio town kill time with...

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    Movies

    The Testament of Orpheus (1961)

    The Poet looks back over his life and work, recalling his inspirations and obsessions.

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    Movies

    Cowards Bend the Knee (2004)

    While at an abortion clinic, a man falls for a woman who is madly in love with her dead father.

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    Zazie (1960)

    A girl (Catherine Demongeot) causes chaos on the streets of Paris after she runs away from her...

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    Sans Soleil

    Based on letters from a globe-trotting cameraman, this is a literate, rueful and humorous meditation...

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    Careful (1993)

    Strange passions run amok in the alpine village of Tolzbad, whose residents live in obsessive...

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    Movies

    Last Year at Marienbad (1962)

    Man X (Giorgio Albertazzi) meets woman A (Delphine Seyrig) at a health spa and discusses their past,...

  • I Love You, I Love You picture
    Movies

    I Love You, I Love You

    A young man volunteers for a time-machine experiment and things go wrong when his past comes up in...

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    Imitation of Christ

    The medieval writings of Thomas a Kempis supposedly are the inspiration behind this Andy Warhol...

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    Movies

    Brand Upon the Brain! (2007)

    Whatever are young "Guy Maddin's" parents really up to in their lighthouse home/orphanage on a...

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    Movies

    Lonesome Cowboys (1969)

    Five lonesome cowboys get all hot & bothered at home en the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez...