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Avant-garde Films

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  • Enter the Void (2009)

    1. Enter the Void

    20092h 41mNot Rated69Metascore
    7.2 (92K)
    An American drug dealer living in Tokyo is betrayed by his best friend and killed in a drug deal. His soul, observing the repercussions of his death, seeks resurrection.
    DirectorGaspar NoéStarsNathaniel BrownPaz de la HuertaCyril Roy
  • Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

    2. Punch-Drunk Love

    20021h 35mR78Metascore
    7.3 (188K)
    Socially frustrated Barry Egan calls a phone-sex line to curb his loneliness. Little does he know it will land him in deep trouble and will jeopardize his burgeoning romance with the mysterious Lena.
    DirectorPaul Thomas AndersonStarsAdam SandlerEmily WatsonPhilip Seymour Hoffman
  • James Woods and Debbie Harry in Videodrome (1983)

    3. Videodrome

    19831h 27mR58Metascore
    7.2 (110K)
    A programmer at a Toronto TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast.
    DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJames WoodsDebbie HarrySonja Smits
  • Holy Motors (2012)

    4. Holy Motors

    20121h 55mNot Rated85Metascore
    7.0 (50K)
    A man boards a limousine to be driven to his day's work: nine mysterious "appointments."
    DirectorLeos CaraxStarsDenis LavantEdith ScobEva Mendes
  • Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

    5. The Rocky Horror Picture Show

    19751h 40mR65Metascore
    7.4 (176K)
    A newly-engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must seek shelter at the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-n-Furter.
    DirectorJim SharmanStarsTim CurrySusan SarandonBarry Bostwick
  • Laura Dern in Inland Empire (2006)

    6. Inland Empire

    20063hR73Metascore
    6.8 (67K)
    As an actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.
    DirectorDavid LynchStarsKarolina GruszkaKrzysztof MajchrzakGrace Zabriskie
  • Synecdoche, New York (2008)

    7. Synecdoche, New York

    20082h 4mR67Metascore
    7.5 (102K)
    A theater director struggles with his work and the women in his life as he creates a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
    DirectorCharlie KaufmanStarsPhilip Seymour HoffmanSamantha MortonMichelle Williams
  • John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, and Catherine Keener in Being John Malkovich (1999)

    8. Being John Malkovich

    19991h 53mR90Metascore
    7.7 (364K)
    A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.
    DirectorSpike JonzeStarsJohn CusackCameron DiazCatherine Keener
  • Naked Lunch (1991)

    9. Naked Lunch

    19911h 55mR67Metascore
    6.9 (59K)
    After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.
    DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsPeter WellerJudy DavisIan Holm
  • The Holy Mountain (1973)

    10. The Holy Mountain

    19731h 54mR76Metascore
    7.7 (51K)
    In a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist leads a messianic character and seven materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment.
    DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsAlejandro JodorowskyHoracio SalinasZamira Saunders
  • Rubber (2010)

    11. Rubber

    20101h 22mR59Metascore
    5.7 (42K)
    A homicidal car tire, discovering it has destructive psionic power, sets its sights on a desert town once a mysterious woman becomes its obsession.
    DirectorQuentin DupieuxStarsStephen SpinellaRoxane MesquidaWings Hauser
  • Divine in Pink Flamingos (1972)

    12. Pink Flamingos

    19721h 33mNC-1747Metascore
    6.0 (30K)
    Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".
    DirectorJohn WatersStarsDivineDavid LocharyMary Vivian Pearce
  • Johnny Depp in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

    13. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

    19981h 58mR41Metascore
    7.5 (312K)
    An oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychedelic escapades.
    DirectorTerry GilliamStarsJohnny DeppBenicio Del ToroTobey Maguire
  • Brazil (1985)

    14. Brazil

    19852h 12mR84Metascore
    7.8 (218K)
    A bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams.
    DirectorTerry GilliamStarsJonathan PryceKim GreistRobert De Niro
  • Jack Nance in Eraserhead (1977)

    15. Eraserhead

    19771h 29mNot Rated87Metascore
    7.3 (139K)
    Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newborn mutant child.
    DirectorDavid LynchStarsJack NanceCharlotte StewartAllen Joseph
  • House (1977)

    16. House

    19771h 28mNot Rated75Metascore
    7.2 (37K)
    A schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted.
    DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsKimiko IkegamiMiki JinboKumiko Ôba
  • Visitor Q (2001)

    17. Visitor Q

    20011h 24mR
    6.5 (18K)
    A troubled and perverted family find their lives intruded by a mysterious stranger who seems to help find a balance in their disturbing natures.
    DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsKen'ichi EndôShungiku UchidaKazushi Watanabe
  • Alejandro Jodorowsky and Brontis Jodorowsky in El Topo (1970)

    18. El Topo

    19702h 5mNot Rated65Metascore
    7.2 (33K)
    A mysterious black-clad gunfighter wanders a mystical Western landscape encountering multiple bizarre characters.
    DirectorAlejandro JodorowskyStarsAlejandro JodorowskyBrontis JodorowskyJosé Legarreta
  • Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed in The Devils (1971)

    19. The Devils

    19711h 51mR49Metascore
    7.7 (20K)
    In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier's protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun's accusation of witchcraft.
    DirectorKen RussellStarsVanessa RedgraveOliver ReedDudley Sutton
  • Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)

    20. Tetsuo: The Iron Man

    19891h 7mNot Rated
    6.9 (28K)
    A businessman accidentally kills The Metal Fetishist, who gets his revenge by slowly turning the man into a grotesque hybrid of flesh and rusty metal.
    DirectorShin'ya TsukamotoStarsTomorô TaguchiKei FujiwaraNobu Kanaoka
  • Society (1989)

    21. Society

    19891h 39mR50Metascore
    6.5 (24K)
    An ordinary teenage boy discovers his family is part of a gruesome orgy cult for the social elite.
    DirectorBrian YuznaStarsBilly WarlockConcetta D'AgneseBen Slack
  • Stéphane Audran, Paul Frankeur, Fernando Rey, and Delphine Seyrig in The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

    22. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

    19721h 42mPG93Metascore
    7.7 (49K)
    A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.
    DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsFernando ReyDelphine SeyrigPaul Frankeur
  • L'Age d'Or (1930)

    23. L'Age d'Or

    19301h 3mNot Rated
    7.2 (15K)
    A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.
    DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsGaston ModotLya LysCaridad de Laberdesque
  • Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoëff, and Delphine Seyrig in Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

    24. Last Year at Marienbad

    19611h 34mNot Rated
    7.6 (26K)
    In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.
    DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsDelphine SeyrigGiorgio AlbertazziSacha Pitoëff
  • The Exterminating Angel (1962)

    25. The Exterminating Angel

    19621h 35mNot Rated
    8.0 (37K)
    The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave.
    DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsSilvia PinalJacqueline AndereEnrique Rambal

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