Experimental Filmmaking, a list by Riz

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76

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78

/6799/

4.3

/1090053/

84

/264/

87

/10340/

87

/38/

4.0

age 18+

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.

81

7.3

/161408/

69

/6210/

70

/2416/

3.9

/899395/

93

/357/

79

/114/

92

/59/

4.0

age 13+

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.

68

6.1

/40929/

60

/2428/

61

/652/

3.0

/252742/

88

/248/

52

/279/

77

/53/

3.5

age 15+

A couple and their children move into a seemingly normal suburban home. When strange events occur, they begin to believe there is something else in the house with them. The presence is about to disrupt their lives in unimaginable ways.

77

7.3

/223134/

72

/4653/

70

/3432/

3.8

/458178/

87

/212/

77

/4669/

81

/42/

3.5

age 18+

Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.

66

7.0

/253000/

70

/6405/

67

/2061/

3.7

/598709/

72

/172/

74

/51143/

64

/36/

1.5

age 11+

A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.

76

7.5

/230345/

75

/18056/

75

/4802/

3.6

/278075/

88

/190/

88

/1374/

67

/33/

3.0

age 17+

A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.

51

6.3

/26780/

Trakt

65

/1775/

65

/592/

3.0

/118617/

36

/188/

59

/586/

39

/41/

1.0

age 13+

An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.

70

7.6

/167888/

75

/3776/

75

/2845/

4.1

/377471/

69

/62/

87

/3626/

53

/21/

2.0

age 18+

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

76

6.8

/191182/

66

/3972/

67

/3260/

3.8

/268759/

86

/293/

60

/6428/

85

/50/

4.0

age 14+

The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

63

7.5

/316446/

75

/7939/

72

/4875/

3.8

/387318/

51

/71/

89

/20455/

41

/19/

1.0

age 18+

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 hotel room and fear legal repercussions. Duke begins to drive back to L.A., but after an odd run-in with a cop, he returns to Sin City and continues his wild drug binge.

63

6.5

/143653/

63

/3568/

66

/2746/

3.4

/230340/

53

/178/

55

/3624/

49

/34/

3.5

A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

72

7.2

/93600/

72

/2781/

73

/1922/

3.8

/229643/

73

/97/

72

/1374/

69

/19/

This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda. When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past -- where he sees his parents before their deaths -- to the present -- where he witnesses his own autopsy -- and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave.

71

7.3

/117153/

75

/3628/

74

/2160/

4.3

/392861/

66

/82/

78

/2157/

45

/29/

In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.

73

8.0

/167191/

76

/2962/

78

/2597/

4.2

/182728/

70

/164/

89

/3415/

61

/39/

2.0

A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.

72

6.7

/120438/

71

/6569/

67

/2329/

3.6

/159306/

72

/130/

79

/4076/

68

/25/

3.5

age 13+

A group of fledgling inventors discover a complex method to manipulate reality. At first, they successfully game the stock market with it, but the consequences of the invention start to catch up with them.

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6.9

/23224/

67

/1134/

66

/307/

4.0

/216463/

92

/213/

75

/123/

91

/49/

4.0

age 14+

Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.

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7.7

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75

/847/

74

/436/

4.1

/90245/

93

/27/

85

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83

/15/

4.0

Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews.

58

6.1

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60

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65

/3865/

3.1

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51

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51

/45/

2.5

age 18+

When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.

75

6.8

/68003/

69

/1517/

69

/1209/

3.9

/163344/

72

/117/

75

/4265/

73

/25/

4.0

age 17+

When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural forces.

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7.5

/44506/

73

/1051/

73

/682/

4.2

/72119/

87

/52/

88

/1191/

62

/23/

4.0

The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.

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8.3

/2614/

80

/574/

79

/359/

4.4

/115428/

100

/32/

92

/178/

90

/7/

Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche.

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6.8

/19870/

67

/1375/

68

/517/

3.8

/141074/

92

/92/

69

/112/

80

/14/

4.0

A figure known as "The Assassin" descends from the heavens into a nightmarish pit full of monsters, titans, and cruelty.

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6.4

/8719/

66

/143/

65

/132/

3.5

/15356/

45

/73/

57

/517/

53

/22/

2.0

In Paris, a young American who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin and her daughter, Shirley Temple.

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60

6.9

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74

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63

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3.7

/6687/

83

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76

/37/

A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose principal interest was the nature and limits of language. A series of sketches depict the unfolding of his life from boyhood, through the era of the first World War, to his eventual Cambridge professorship and association with Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes. The emphasis in these sketches is on the exposition of the ideas of Wittgenstein, a homosexual, and an intuitive, moody, proud, and perfectionistic thinker generally regarded as a genius.

80

65

7.0

/2168/

70

/49/

77

/47/

3.8

/2387/

100

/7/

88

/47/

Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a better room. No other students arrive and none leave for employment. Johannes is unhappy, imperious, and detached from the school's operation. Lisa is beautiful, at first tightly controlled, then on the verge of breakdown. There's a whiff of incest. Jakob is drawn to Lisa, and perhaps she to him. As winter sets in, she becomes catatonic. Things get worse; Johannes notes that all this has happened since Jakob came. Is there any cause and effect?

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6.5

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60

/149/

63

/125/

3.4

/6737/

72

/105/

61

/424/

63

/32/

4.0

Set against the backdrop of a decaying Midwestern town, a murder becomes the focal point of three people who work in a doll factory.

62

6.0

/20539/

61

/346/

60

/339/

3.4

/20201/

61

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60

/797/

54

/31/

3.0

Two friends named Gerry become lost in the desert after taking a wrong turn. Their attempts to find their way home only lead them into further trouble.

63

6.7

/8217/

66

/121/

69

/117/

3.8

/22778/

29

/38/

71

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54

/23/

3.0

Undiagnosed, untreated and generally untethered schizophrenic Julien lives with his pregnant younger sister Pearl, anorexic would-be wrestler brother Chris, sympathetic grandmother, and severely depressed German father.

53

51

6.4

/22900/

60

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60

/262/

3.1

/11456/

21

/112/

60

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45

/27/

age 17+

In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although she seems to have it all, Edie cannot have the love she craves from Andy, and she has an affair with a charismatic musician, who pushes her to seek independence from the artist and the milieu.

57

6.6

/41377/

68

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66

/682/

3.6

/151780/

39

/61/

73

/1892/

19

/15/

Solomon and Tummler are two teenagers killing time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.

72

6.6

/32723/

63

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65

/578/

3.6

/44524/

76

/122/

65

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84

/27/

3.5

age 16+

A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a brutal death in a skate park called "Paranoid Park".

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69

7.1

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71

/261/

69

/93/

3.9

/16182/

100

/40/

57

/22/

83

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age 14+

Martin Ward is a cove fisherman, without a boat. His brother Steven has repurposed their father’s vessel as a tourist tripper, driving a wedge between the brothers. With their childhood home now a getaway for London money, Martin is displaced to the estate above the picturesque harbour. As his struggle to restore the family to their traditional place creates increasing friction with tourists and locals alike, a tragedy at the heart of the family changes his world.

74

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7.1

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60

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72

/36/

3.9

/2627/

80

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83

/47/

The exploration of the effects of an unexpected catastrophe, known as VUE (violent unknown event) through the bios of 92 survivors.

66

53

6.3

/1832/

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54

/52/

3.4

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64

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68

/8/

At the height of the October Revolution during the 1919 allied intervention in Arkhangelsk, the exploits of one-legged Canadian soldier Lt. John Boles are told, after he is taken in from the cold by a dysfunctional Russian family and mistakes a local woman for his presumed dead lover.

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7.0

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66

/28/

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3.7

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88

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When he takes his girlfriend to a seedy abortion clinic in the back room of a combination hair salon / bordello, Guy Maddin meets the madam’s daughter and falls in love. But she won’t let any man touch her until her father’s murder has been avenged.

73

60

6.9

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69

/71/

71

/44/

3.7

/3819/

73

/11/

87

/77/

On their wedding night, Grant begins experiencing strange, supernatural powers and his bride Keri can't cope. Whenever Grant thinks of something, it becomes reality, yet he doesn't know where this magic came from. Things become more complicated when a megalomaniac CEO sends the military to capture Grant in order to weaponize his abilities.

61

6.0

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58

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55

/95/

3.2

/3815/

69

/81/

48

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65

/31/

3.0

A production company begins casting for its next feature, and an up-and-coming actress named Rose tries to manipulate her filmmaker boyfriend, Alex, into giving her a screen test. Alex's wife, Emma, knows about the affair and is considering divorce, while Rose's girlfriend secretly spies on her and attempts to sabotage the relationship. The four storylines in the film were each shot in one take and are shown simultaneously, each taking up a quarter of the screen.

78

7.3

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67

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65

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3.9

/4538/

91

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88

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79

/15/

3.5

After returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.

60

53

6.0

/3443/

55

/104/

53

/49/

3.6

/1960/

65

/31/

57

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62

/18/

Just moments before his third wedding, Zahedi relates with utter sincerity and astonishing candor his obsession with prostitutes. He retraces his romantic and sexual history, including his ideological commitment to open relationships, that led to two disastrous marriages and several very pissed off ex-girlfriends.

74

6.8

/2490/

71

/96/

66

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3.8

/8835/

92

/53/

50

/5/

4.0

A collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minutes films inspired by still images, including paintings and photographs. An experimental project made by filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in the last three years of his life.

75

7.0

/6547/

70

/99/

67

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3.8

/6377/

79

/100/

79

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78

/33/

3.5

In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the world, offering a grand prize of $25,000.

67

54

6.4

/2997/

66

/70/

66

/67/

3.3

/2343/

73

/92/

Love presents many challenges to couples...but none so daunting as the one Justin faces with his girlfriend April...

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71

7.3

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77

/108/

70

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4.2

/15882/

100

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87

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Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman's experiences with AIDS, both literally and allegorically, together with an exploration of the meanings associated with the colour blue.

71

6.8

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70

/88/

67

/100/

3.7

/4978/

62

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82

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3.0

An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.

75

69

7.2

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72

/144/

70

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3.9

/12952/

78

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85

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Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.

68

65

6.0

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60

/251/

58

/129/

3.5

/17020/

93

/30/

70

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66

/7/

An alien creature invades New York's punk subculture in its search for an opiate released by the brain during an orgasm.

67

62

6.7

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63

/170/

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3.7

/6574/

60

/5/

73

/343/

Two robots embark on a quest to become human.

69

6.6

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72

/158/

62

/45/

3.4

/1355/

62

/13/

83

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