20 Amazing Surrealist Movies
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After the invention of cinema in the late 19th century, in the late 1910s and early 1920s, directors who emerged from French Impressionist Cinema, German Expressionist Cinema, Soviet Montage, Dada Cinema, Surrealist Cinema and Japanese Humanism Cinema all tried to explore the possibility of this new-born art form, and cinema reached its first golden age in history.
Surrealist cinema is a modernist approach to film theory, criticism, and production with origins in Paris in the 1920s. Related to Dada cinema, Surrealist cinema is characterized by juxtapositions, the rejection of dramatic psychology, and a frequent use of shocking imagery. Surrealism was the first literary and artistic movement to become seriously associated with cinema,though it has also been a movement largely neglected by film critics and historians.
Film surrealist like Luis Bunuel, Jean Cocteau, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jan Svankmajer and David Lynch broke all the rules and cinema conventions, they made divided movies that both challenge and entertain us. In order to keep a balance, we only selected at most 2 movies from each of these greatest surrealists.
Some of the movies on the list are not strictly surrealist cinema, you can argue they belong to the genre of sci-fi or fantasy, but the line is thin and they surely have some surrealist element in them, that’s the reason they got chosen. If you are looking for a list full of strange movies, then this is it.
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Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie
1972 — a.k.a. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, in 21 top lists Check -
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La montaña sagrada
1973 — a.k.a. The Holy Mountain, in 9 top lists Check -
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Naked Lunch
1991, in 4 top lists Check -
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L'année dernière à Marienbad
1961 — a.k.a. Last Year at Marienbad, in 23 top lists Check -
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Le sang d'un poète
1932 — a.k.a. The Blood of a Poet, in 9 top lists Check -
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La jetée
1962 — a.k.a. La Jetée, in 19 top lists Check -
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Suna no onna
1964 — a.k.a. Woman in the Dunes, in 22 top lists Check -
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Sayat Nova
1969 — a.k.a. The Color of Pomegranates, in 12 top lists Check -
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La città delle donne
1980 — a.k.a. City of Women, in 2 top lists Check -
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Week End
1967 — a.k.a. Weekend, in 14 top lists Check -
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Sedmikrásky
1966 — a.k.a. Daisies, in 19 top lists Check -
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Barton Fink
1991, in 8 top lists Check -
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Underground
1995, in 9 top lists Check -
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Holy Motors
2012, in 11 top lists Check
Last updated on Oct 2, 2013; source