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1	Lost Highway (1997) more movies like this directed by David Lynch featuring Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Robert Blake, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Robert Loggia Five years after the critical and commercial disappointment of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, director David Lynch returned to the big screen with this cryptic thriller about confused identities and erotic obsession. Fred (Bill Pullman) is an avant-garde jazz saxophonist who shares a luxurious but fashionably barren house with his wife Renee ... see all copies from £2.04! new only from £6.59!
2	Naked Lunch (1991) more movies like this directed by David Cronenberg featuring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider This cinematic/literary hybrid fuses motifs from Beat writer William S. Burroughs's novel of the same name with elements of the author's biography and plenty of the cerebral alienation and biomorphic special effects fans of creepy cult director David Cronenberg have come to expect. Bill Lee (Peter Weller) wants to write, but he exterminates bugs ... see all copies from £2.51! new only from £20.78!
3	Eraserhead (1977) more movies like this directed by David Lynch featuring Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Jeanne Bates, Allen Joseph, Judith Anna Roberts Filmed intermittently over the course of a five-year period, David Lynch's radical feature debut stars Jack Nance as Henry Spencer, a man living in an unnamed industrial wasteland. Upon learning that a past romance has resulted in an impending pregnancy, Henry agrees to wed mother-to-be Mary (Charlotte Stewart) and moves her into his tiny, squalid ... see all copies from £8.32! new only from £8.32!
4	My Dinner With Andre (1981) more movies like this directed by Louis Malle featuring Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory A extended conversation between two old friends over dinner proves an unexpectedly fascinating subject for a film in the critically acclaimed My Dinner with André. The talkers in question are André Gregory, a renowned experimental theater director, and playwright and actor Wallace Shawn, both of whom play themselves. The film is not a documentary, ... see all copies from £13.25!
5	El Topo (1971) more movies like this directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky featuring Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, Alfonso Arau, Jose Luis Fernandez, Gerardo Cepeda, Rene Barrera This violent and allegorical Mexican western attracted a cult following in its day. It is the story of El Topo, a gunslinger who sets out for revenge against the outlaws who slew his wife. He ends up getting his revenge and saving the life of a woman who is being terrorized by bandits. She leads El Topo (which means "the Mole" in English) on a ... see all copies from £12.87! new only from £12.87!
6	Twin Peaks (1989) more movies like this directed by David Lynch featuring Dana Ashbrook, James Marshall, Lara Flynn Boyle, Mädchen Amick, Michael Ontkean, Ray Wise, Sherilyn Fenn, Kyle MacLachlan Also known as "The Northwest Passage," the two-hour pilot episode of Twin Peaks originally aired April 8, 1990. The central plot of the series is set when Pete Martell (Jack Nance) finds the body of high school student Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) wrapped in plastic by the water at the Packard Sawmill dock. As the town slowly gets word of her murder, ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £55.68!
7	Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) more movies like this directed by David Lynch featuring Sheryl Lee, Chris Isaak, David Bowie, Ray Wise, Moira Kelly, Harry Dean Stanton, Kyle MacLachlan David Lynch's prequel to his cult television series "Twin Peaks" concerns the last seven days in the life of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee), whose plastic-wrapped corpse, found floating in a river, was the fulcrum for the television series. During the day in the town of Twin Peaks, Laura is a top honors student at the local high school. By night, she ... see all copies from £3.43! new only from £11.08!
8	Pi (1998) more movies like this directed by Darren Aronofsky featuring Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman, Pamela Hart, Stephen Pearlman Darren Aronofsky scripted and made his directorial debut with this experimental feature with mathematical plot threads hinting at science-fictional elements. In NYC's Chinatown, recluse math genius Max (Sean Gullette) believes "everything can be understood in terms of numbers," and he looks for a pattern in the system as he suffers headaches, ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £7.43!
9	Last Year at Marienbad (1961) more movies like this directed by Alain Resnais featuring Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoeff, Francoise Spira A cinematic puzzle, Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad is a radical exploration of the formal possibilities of film. Beautifully shot in Cinemascope by Sacha Vierny, the movie is a riddle of seduction, a mercurial enigma darting between a present and past which may not even exist, let alone converge. The film stars Giorgio Albertazzi as an ... see all copies from £11.78! new only from £11.78!
10	City of Women (1980) more movies like this directed by Federico Fellini featuring Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Prucnal, Bernice Stegers, Donatella Damiani, Jole Silvani In this dream-sequence film, renowned Italian director Federico Fellini expounds at length on the nature, complexities, attitudes, and hang-ups of women and how this all relates to men "hunting" sexual conquests. Snaporaz (Marcello Mastroianni) is traveling in a compartment on a train when he lapses into sleep and dreams the ensuing story. He ... see all copies from £11.78! new only from £25.39!
11 view cover	Possession (1981) more movies like this directed by Andrzej Zulawski featuring Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Heinz Bennent, Margit Carstensen, Michael Hogben Usually misattributed to the horror genre, this challenging and highly unusual drama stars Isabelle Adjani as a young woman who forsakes her husband (Sam Neill) and her lover (Heinz Bennent) for a bizarre, tentacled creature that she keeps in a run-down Berlin apartment. In the beginning, her husband knows nothing about the monster and sincerely ... see all copies from £24.22!
12 view cover	Delicatessen (1991) more movies like this directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro featuring Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Karin Viard, Ticky Holgado, Pascal Benezech A post-apocalyptic future becomes the setting for pitch black humor in this visually intricate French comedy. The action takes place within a single apartment complex, which is owned by the same man that operates the downstairs butcher shop. It's a particularly popular place to live, thanks to the butcher's uncanny ability to find excellent cuts ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £10.40!
13 view cover	The Phantom of Liberty (1974) more movies like this directed by Luis Buñuel featuring Jean-Claude Brialy, Monica Vitti, Paul Frankeur, Paul Le Person, François Maistre, Claude Piéplu, Jean Rochefort, Marie-France Pisier, Bernard Verley, Milena Vukotic, Adriana Asti, Julien Bertheau, Michel Piccoli One of Luis Buñuel's most episodic films, The Phantom of Liberty focuses on no one particular narrative. In the beginning, a man sells postcards of French tourist attractions, calling them "pornographic." A sniper in Montparnasse is hailed as a hero for killing passersby. A "missing" child helps the police fill out the report on her. A group of ... see all copies from £5.19! new only from £16.53!
14 view cover	L'Âge d'Or (1930) more movies like this directed by Luis Buñuel featuring Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Max Ernst, Lionel Salem, Pierre Prevert, Jose Artigas L'Âge d'Or begins as a documentary about the habits of scorpions, utilizing library footage and silent-style intertitles. Amid the rocks of an inlet, archbishops are seen chanting by a beggar-soldier (Max Ernst), who then makes a long journey back to his hideout. He informs his fellow beggar-soldiers that the "Mallorcans" have arrived and it is ... see all copies from £4.16! new only from £12.86!
15 view cover	Begotten (1991) more movies like this directed by E. Elias Merhige featuring Brian Salzberg, Donna Dempsey, Stephen Charles Barry A "metaphysical splatter film" that was praised by Susan Sontag as "one of the 10 most important films of modern times," Begotten is a very grainy, often powerful work of experimental cinema which seems to land somewhere between David Lynch's surreal Eraserhead and James Broughton's heavily symbolic Dreamwood. The film opens with God Killing ... see all copies from £14.55! new only from £21.48!
16 view cover	Conspirators of Pleasure (1996) more movies like this directed by Jan Svankmajer featuring Petr Meissel Czech animator Jan Svankmajer gained acclaim and notoriety for his eerie, nightmarish stop-motion animated pieces fashioned out of discarded dolls, battered marionettes, and pieces of junk. His films such as Alice and Faust delved headlong into the subconscious and dredged up images that were imbued not only with a woozy sense of dread but with a ... see all copies from £6.23! new only from £15.23!
17 view cover	Southlander: Diary of a Desperate Musician (2001) more movies like this directed by Steven Hanft featuring Rory Cochrane, Rossie Harris, Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, Beck, Beth Orton Music video director Steven Hanft makes his feature debut with the digital video project Southlander, an absurd independent film starring various beloved indie pop musicians. Rory Cochrane stars as Chance, a musician who loses his extremely rare magical synthesizer which takes the form of a white 1969 Moletron keyboard. He looks for it by ... see all copies from £4.61! new only from £4.61!
18 view cover	A Zed & Two Noughts (1987) more movies like this directed by Peter Greenaway featuring Andréa Ferréol, Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon, Frances Barber, Joss Ackland This twisted black comedy is obsessed in turn with swans, twins, and decay. Alba Bewick (Andréa Ferréol) is involved in a swan-related car accident near the zoo. The accident kills two other women, the wives of two twin zoologists, Oliver and Oswald Deuce (Brian and Eric Deacon). Alba is lucky enough to escape with one leg. Eventually her doctor ... see all copies from £3.82! new only from £13.96!
19 view cover	Un Chien Andalou (1928) more movies like this directed by Luis Buñuel featuring Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dali Fledging director Luis Buñuel and painter Salvador Dali create this ultimate surrealist film, which is essentially a barrage of striking and irrational images designed to shock and provoke. During the course of the film, we witness a close-up of a woman's eye being slashed open with a razor; a man dragging a piano, two bishops, and a pair of ... see all copies from £9.64! new only from £9.64!
20 view cover	Alice (1988) more movies like this directed by Jan Svankmajer featuring Kristina Kohoutova Czech surrealist filmmaker Jan Svankmajer, who gained a reputation for his short subjects, makes his feature-film debut with Neco z Alenky, a grotesque look into the darkest, wildest recesses of a child's mind. A surreal adaptation of Lewis Carroll's children's classic Alice in Wonderland, the film stars Kristyna Kohoutová as Alice, the only human ... see all copies from £13.77! new only from £16.29!
21 view cover	Un Chant d'amour (1950) more movies like this directed by Jean Genet Jean Genet, the novelist, playwright, political activist and gadfly who became a (literal) outlaw literary hero in France, directed his first and only film in this notorious silent short subject. Set in a French prison, Un Chant D'amour explores the crushing loneliness and thwarted desires of men behind bars, as well as the sadistic impulses of ... see all copies from £13.51! new only from £14.94!
22 view cover	The Holy Mountain (1973) more movies like this directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky featuring Alejandro Jodorowsky A film that screams "product of its time," The Holy Mountain was Alejandro Jodorowsky's dizzying elegy to the sex, drugs and spiritual awakening of the late 1960s and early 1970s -- a suitably bizarre follow-up to his El Topo (1971). Fascinating although it only fitfully makes sense, The Holy Mountain is beautifully shot and designed, and it ... see all copies from £12.87! new only from £12.87!
23 view cover	Lunacy (2005) more movies like this directed by Jan Svankmajer featuring Pavel Liska, Jan Triska, Anna Geislerová, Jaroslav Dusek, Martin Huba A man who fears he's edging into madness gets a fresh perspective on what insanity really means in this frantic, visually inventive black comedy from Czech auteur Jan Svankmajer. Jean (Pavel Liska) is a deeply troubled man who has been haunted by violent hallucinations since the death of his mother, who was committed to a mental institution when ... see all copies from £13.37! new only from £13.96!
24 view cover	La Belle Captive (1983) more movies like this directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet featuring Daniel Mesguich, Gabrielle Lazure, Cyrielle Claire, Daniel Emilfork, Roland Dubillard This French film has a plot that sounds like an expansion of an urban legend. Walter (Daniel Mesguich) and Sara (Cyrielle Claire) are a married couple who have just moved into a new home together. Everything seems to be going well, despite Walter's fascination with a mysterious woman named Marie-Ange (Gabrielle Lazure) in a nightclub. Then one ... see all copies from £11.78! new only from £11.78!
25 view cover	Little Otik (2001) more movies like this directed by Jan Svankmajer featuring Veronika Zilkova, Jan Hartl, Jaroslava Kretschmerova, Pavel Nový Acclaimed animator Jan Svankmajer combines cartoon and live-action imagery to bring to life a bizarre story based on an old Czech folk tale. Karel (Jan Hartl) and Bozena (Veronika Zilkova) are a married couple who desperately want a child, but have been unable to conceive; Alzbetka (Kristina Adamcova), an only child who lives next door, has long ... see all copies from £6.86! new only from £13.96!

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