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Hiroshi Teshigahara • Starring: Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida, Hiroko Ito
Avant-garde / Experimental • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Drama
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Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Anna Karina, Guylaine Schlumberger, Eric Schlumberger
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Ingmar Bergman • Starring: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margareta Krook
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Andrei Tarkovsky • Starring: Margarita Terekhova, Oleg Yankovskiy, Filipp Yankovsky
Avant-garde / Experimental • Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic
5
Darren Aronofsky • Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Home Invasion Film
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Jacques Rivette • Starring: Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier
Avant-garde / Experimental • Comedy • Fantasy Comedy
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Dimitri Kirsanoff • Starring: Nadia Sibirskaïa, Yolande Beaulieu, Guy Belmont
Avant-garde / Experimental • Comedy Drama • French Impressionist Film
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Luis Buñuel • Starring: Gaston Modot, Lya Lys
Avant-garde / Experimental • Comedy • Drama
9
Ralph Steiner
Avant-garde / Experimental • Short Film • Silent Film
10
Todd Haynes • Starring: Merrill Graves, Michael Edwards, Melissa Brown
Avant-garde / Experimental • Biography • Documentary
11
Chris Marker • Starring: Jean Négroni, Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich
Avant-garde / Experimental • Foreign Language Film • French New Wave
12
Yuriy Norshteyn • Starring: Aleksandr Kalyagin
Animation • Avant-garde / Experimental • Fairy Tales and Legends
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Mark Rappaport • Starring: Randy Danson, Marilyn Jones, Kevin Wade
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama
14
Otar Iosseliani • Starring: Katja Rupé, Alix de Montaigu, François Michel
Avant-garde / Experimental • Comedy • Foreign Language Film
15
Richard Linklater • Starring: Wiley Wiggins, Kim Krizan, Ethan Hawke
Animation • Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama
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Aleksandr Sokurov • Starring: Sergei Dontsov, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy
Avant-garde / Experimental • Foreign Language Film
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Vera Chytilová • Starring: Ivana Karbanová, Jitka Cerhová, Julius Albert
Avant-garde / Experimental • Black Comedy • Comedy Drama
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Nobuhiko Ôbayashi • Starring: Kimiko Ikegami, Kumiko Ohba, Yôko Minamida
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Gustav Machatý • Starring: Hedy Lamarr, Aribert Mog, Zvonimir Rogoz
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Erotic Drama
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Evelyn Lambert, Norman McLaren
Animation • Avant-garde / Experimental • Female-Directed Film
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Jacques Rivette, Suzanne Schiffman • Starring: Michèle Moretti, Hermine Karagheuz, Karen Puig
Avant-garde / Experimental • Comedy Drama • Drama
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Maya Deren • Starring: Maya Deren, John Cage, Alexander Hammid
Avant-garde / Experimental • Female-Directed Film • Short Film
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David Lynch • Starring: Sheryl Lee, Chris Isaak, Ray Wise
Avant-garde / Experimental • Based-on-Television • Mystery
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Dziga Vertov • Starring: Mikhail Kaufman
Avant-garde / Experimental • City Symphony film • Culture and Society
25
Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid • Starring: Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Avant-garde / Experimental • Fantasy • Female-Directed Film
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Walter Ruttmann
Avant-garde / Experimental • City Symphony film • Documentary
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Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani
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Dusan Makavejev • Starring: Eva Ras, Slobodan Aligrudic, Ruzica Sokic
Avant-garde / Experimental • Black Comedy • Drama
29
Jan Svankmajer • Starring: Kristyna Kohoutova
Adventure • Animation • Avant-garde / Experimental
30
René Clair • Starring: Jean Börlin, Inge Frïss, Francis Picabia
Avant-garde / Experimental • Foreign Language Film • Short Film
31
James Whitney
Avant-garde / Experimental
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David Lynch • Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, David Lynch, Naomi Watts
Absurd Comedy • Avant-garde / Experimental • Crime Drama
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Chantal Akerman • Starring: Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Henri Storck
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Female-Directed Film
34
Stan Brakhage • Starring: Jane Brakhage, Myrrenna Brakhage, Stan Brakhage
Avant-garde / Experimental • Documentary • Short Film
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Bruce Conner
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David Lynch • Starring: Jack Nance, Jeanne Bates, Judith Anna Roberts
Avant-garde / Experimental • Body Horror • Dystopian Film
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Dusan Makavejev • Starring: Dragoljub Aleksic, Bratoljub Gligorijevic, Vera Jovanovic
Avant-garde / Experimental • Comedy • Documentary
38
Glauber Rocha • Starring: Glauber Rocha, Joel Barcellos, Marina Montini
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Alain Robbe-Grillet • Starring: Daniel Mesguich, Cyrielle Clair, Daniel Emilfork
40
Teinosuke Kinugasa • Starring: Masuo Inoue, Yoshie Nakagawa, Ayako Iijima
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Psychological Drama
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Raoul Ruiz • Starring: Jean Rougeul, Chantal Paley, Jean Raynaud
42
Luis Buñuel • Starring: Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Luis Buñuel
Avant-garde / Experimental • Mindbender • Satire
43
Dusan Makavejev • Starring: Milena Dravic, Janez Vrhovec, Eva Ras
44
José Val del Omar
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David Lynch • Starring: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Mindbender
46
Peter Greenaway • Starring: Andréa Ferréol, Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon
47
Santiago Álvarez
Avant-garde / Experimental • Culture and Society • Documentary
48
Luis Buñuel • Starring: Adolfo Celi, Adriana Asti, Julien Bertheau
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Joan Braderman, Manuel De Landa • Starring: Joan Braderman
Avant-garde / Experimental • Documentary • Female-Directed Film
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Shinya Tsukamoto • Starring: Tomorowo Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoka
Avant-garde / Experimental • Body Horror • Cyberpunk / Tech Noir
51
Ken Jacobs
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Robert Florey, Slavko Vorkapich
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Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Myriem Roussel, Thierry Rode, Philippe Lacoste
54
Alain Resnais • Starring: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoeff
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Marco Ferreri • Starring: Michel Piccoli, Anita Pallenberg
Avant-garde / Experimental • Black Comedy • Comedy
56
Peter Brook • Starring: Patrick Magee, Ian Richardson, Glenda Jackson
Avant-garde / Experimental • Based-on-a-True-Story • Based-on-Theatre
57
David Lynch
Animation • Avant-garde / Experimental • Short Film
58
Orson Welles • Starring: Joseph Cotten, Richard Wilson, Orson Welles
Avant-garde / Experimental • Biography • Con Artist / Hustler
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Henri Chomette
60
Hollis Frampton • Starring: Rosemarie Castoro, Ginger Michels, Marcia Steinbrecher
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Man Ray • Starring: Kiki of Montparnasse
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Oskar Fischinger
Avant-garde / Experimental • Short Film
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Andrzej Zulawski • Starring: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Margit Carstensen
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Horror
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Peter Greenaway • Starring: Adam Leys
Avant-garde / Experimental • Mockumentary
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Michael Snow • Starring: Hollis Frampton, Lyne Grossman, Naoto Nakazawa
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Mikhail Kalatozov • Starring: Salvador Wood, Sergio Corrieri, José Gallardo
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Epic
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David Lynch • Starring: Harry Dean Stanton, Laura Dern, Justin Theroux
Avant-garde / Experimental • Ensemble Film • Mindbender
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Raoul Ruiz • Starring: Sylvain Thirolle, Roch Leibovici, Bénédicte Sire
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Fantasy
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Lars von Trier • Starring: John Hurt, Philip Baker Hall, Nicole Kidman
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Melodrama
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Kenneth Anger • Starring: Samson De Brier, Marjorie Cameron, Anaïs Nin
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Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth
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Jan Lenica
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Mannus Franken, Joris Ivens
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Stan Brakhage
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Short Film
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul • Starring: Sakda Kaewbuadee, Banlop Lomnoi
Adventure Drama • Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama
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Sergei Parajanov • Starring: Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Aleksanyan, Vilen Galstyan
Avant-garde / Experimental • Foreign Language Film • Period Film
78
Vera Chytilová • Starring: Jitka Novákova, Karel Novak, Jan Schmid
Avant-garde / Experimental • Czechoslovak New Wave • Female-Directed Film
79
Luis Buñuel • Starring: Fernando Rey, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Stéphane Audran
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Leos Carax • Starring: Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Kylie Minogue
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Henri d' Ursel • Starring: Georges Hugnet, Kissa Kouprine, Renee Savoye
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Jordan Belson
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Joseph Cornell
85
Alfred Clark • Starring: Robert Thomae
Avant-garde / Experimental • Historical Film • Short Film
86
Luis Buñuel • Starring: Laurent Terzieff, Alain Cuny, Delphine Seyrig
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Alejandro Jodorowsky • Starring: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alfonso Arau, Brontis Jodorowsky
Adventure • Avant-garde / Experimental • Foreign Language Film
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Alain Resnais • Starring: Claude Rich, Olga Georges-Picot, Anouk Ferjac
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Charles Klein • Starring: Otto Matieson
Avant-garde / Experimental • Based-on-19th-Century-Literature • Gothic Film
90
Terrence Malick • Starring: Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Olga Kurylenko
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Marriage Drama
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Chantal Akerman • Starring: Chantal Akerman
Avant-garde / Experimental • City Symphony film • Drama
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Adrien Merigeau • Starring: Nadia Moussa, Georgia Cusack, Jina Djemba
93
Jean Mitry
Avant-garde / Experimental • Music • Short Film
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Vsevolod Pudovkin • Starring: Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolai Batalov, Aleksandr Chistyakov
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul • Starring: Sakda Kaewbuadee, Jenjira Pongpas, Thanapat Saisaymar
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Werner Herzog • Starring: Lotte Eisner, Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg, Eugen Des Montagnes
Avant-garde / Experimental • Documentary • Foreign Language Film
99
Bradley Eros
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Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto, Jean-Luc Godard
101
Mario Peixoto • Starring: Olga Breno, Tatiana Rey, Raul Schnoor
Avant-garde / Experimental • Foreign Language Film • Silent Film
102
George Kuchar • Starring: Donna Kerness, George Kuchar, Stella Kuchar
103
Jim McBride • Starring: L.M. Kit Carson, Eileen Dietz, Lorenzo Mans
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Raoul Ruiz • Starring: Hugues Quester, Anne Alvaro, Melvil Poupaud
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Avant-garde / Experimental
105
Abbas Kiarostami
Avant-garde / Experimental • Foreign Language Film • Iranian New Wave
106
G.W. Bitzer
107
Chris Marker • Starring: Florence Delay, Arielle Dombasle, Riyoko Ikeda
108
Christopher Maclaine
109
Raoul Ruiz • Starring: Eva Simonet, Robert Darmel, Silke Humel
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Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein • Starring: Marfa Lapkina, M. Ivanin, Konstantin Vasilyev
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Norman Mclaren
113
Ari Folman • Starring: Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ari Folman
Animation • Anti-War Film • Avant-garde / Experimental
114
Aleksandr Dovzhenko • Starring: Semyon Svashenko, Amvrosi Buchma, Georgi Khorkov
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Godfrey Reggio
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Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Yves Afonso
Avant-garde / Experimental • Black Comedy • Cannibal Film
117
Peter Kubelka
118
Alejandro Jodorowsky • Starring: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Horacio Salinas, Zamira Saunders
Adventure • Avant-garde / Experimental • Media Satire
119
Mamoru Oshii • Starring: Mako Hyôdô, Jinpachi Nezu, Kei'ichi Noda
Animation • Anime • Avant-garde / Experimental
120
James Benning • Starring: Elion Sucher, Rhonda Bell
Americana • Avant-garde / Experimental • Crime
121
Jay Leyda
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Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg • Starring: James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg
Avant-garde / Experimental • Crime Drama • Crime
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Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay • Starring: Feliks Stawinski
125
Avant-garde / Experimental • Documentary
126
Hollis Frampton
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Werner Herzog • Starring: Josef Bierbichler, Stefan Güttler, Clemens Scheitz
128
Marguerite Duras • Starring: Marguerite Duras, Gérard Depardieu
Avant-garde / Experimental • Female-Directed Film • Foreign Language Film
129
Avant-garde / Experimental • Silent Film
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Derek Jarman • Starring: Peter Bull, Heathcote Williams, David Meyer
Avant-garde / Experimental • Based-on-Shakespeare • Drama
131
Guy Maddin • Starring: Leslie Bais, Caelum Vatnsdal, Shaun Balbar
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Bruce Baillie
133
Harry Smith
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Kenneth Anger • Starring: Ernie Allo, Bruce Byron, Frank Carifi
Avant-garde / Experimental • Biker Film • Gay and Lesbian Film
136
Ousmane Sembène • Starring: Tabata Ndiaye, Moustapha Yade, Ismaila Diagne
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Scott Bartlett
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Leslie Thornton
140
George Kuchar • Starring: George Kuchar, Barbara Lapsley
141
Peter Greenaway • Starring: Colin Cantlie
Avant-garde / Experimental • Comedy • Mockumentary
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Kenneth Anger • Starring: André Soubeyran, Claude Revenant, Nadine Valence
145
Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy • Starring: Fernand Leger, Dudley Murphy, Katherine Murphy
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Joseph Cornell • Starring: Charles Bickford, Rose Hobart, Noble Johnson
148
Man Ray • Starring: Alice Prin, André de la Rivière, Robert Desnos
149
Marie Menken
150
Louis Malle • Starring: Therese Giehse, Alexandra Stewart, Joe Dallesandro
Avant-garde / Experimental • Coming-of-Age • Fantasy
151
Charles Sheeler, Paul Strand
152
William Greaves • Starring: William Greaves, Patricia Ree Gilbert, Don Fellows
Avant-garde / Experimental • Docudrama • Documentary
153
Maya Deren • Starring: Rita Christiani, Maya Deren, Anaïs Nin
Avant-garde / Experimental • Dance Film • Fantasy
154
Dusan Makavejev • Starring: Milena Dravic, Ivica Vidovic, Jagoda Kaloper
Avant-garde / Experimental • Comedy • Culture and Society
155
Robert Breer
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Alexander Hammid
Animal Picture • Avant-garde / Experimental • Documentary
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Jonas Mekas • Starring: Andy Warhol, Judith Malina, Norman Mailer
160
James Sibley Watson, Melville Webber • Starring: Herbert Stern, Hildegarde Watson, Melville Webber
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Germaine Dulac • Starring: Alex Allin, Genica Athanasiou, Lucien Bataille
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Charles Dekeukeleire • Starring: Yvonne Selma
171
Hans Richter • Starring: Werner Graeff, Walter Gronostay, Paul Hindemith
172
Georges Méliès • Starring: Georges Melies
Avant-garde / Experimental • Fantasy • Short Film
173
William K.L. Dickson, William Heise
Actuality Film • Avant-garde / Experimental • Documentary
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Stan Brakhage • Starring: Stan Brakahge, Jane Brakhage
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Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince • Starring: Harriet Hartley, Adolphe Le Prince, Joseph Whitley
Actuality Film • Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama
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178
Stan Brakhage • Starring: Jane Brakhage, Stan Brakhage
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Robert Downey Sr. • Starring: Robert Downey Sr., Alan Abel, Lawrence Wolf
Avant-garde / Experimental • Comedy
182
David Lynch • Starring: Catherine E. Coulson, David Lynch
183
Marcel Duchamp
184
Kenneth Anger • Starring: Carmilla Salvatorelli
185
Kenneth Anger • Starring: Yvonne Marquis
186
Alejandro Jodorowsky • Starring: Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell
187
Derek Jarman
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Jean Cocteau • Starring: Jean Cocteau, Edouard Dermithe, Maria Casarés
Avant-garde / Experimental • Foreign Language Film • Surrealist Film
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Man Ray • Starring: Kiki of Montparnasse, Jacques Rigaut
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Frank Stauffacher • Starring: Vincent Price
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Hollis Frampton • Starring: Michael Snow
199
Robert Enrico • Starring: Roger Jacquet, Anne Cornaly, Stéphane Fey
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Period Film
200
Osamu Tezuka
Animation • Avant-garde / Experimental • Comedy
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Just Jaeckin • Starring: Tawny Kitaen, Brent Huff, Zabou Breitman
Adventure • Adventure Comedy • Avant-garde / Experimental
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Darren Aronofsky • Starring: Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman
Avant-garde / Experimental • Mindbender • Psychological Thriller
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William K.L. Dickson, William Heise • Starring: Giuseppe Sacco Albanese
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Peter Greenaway • Starring: Colin Cantlie, Hannah Greenaway, Peter Greenaway
206
Viking Eggeling
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Kenneth Anger • Starring: Bobby Beausoleil, Anton LaVey, Kenneth Anger
Avant-garde / Experimental • Horror • Short Film
210
Oskar Messter
211
Kenneth Anger • Starring: Kenneth Anger, Gordon Gray, Bill Seltzer
Avant-garde / Experimental • Coming-of-Age • Drama
212
Paul Leni
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Kenneth Anger • Starring: Kenneth Anger, Jimmy Page, Marianne Faithfull
Avant-garde / Experimental • Fantasy • Gay and Lesbian Film
215
Derek Jarman • Starring: 'Spring' Mark Adley, Gay Gaynor, Matthew Hawkins
216
Chick Strand
217
Nagisa Ôshima • Starring: Akiko Koyama, Kazuyoshi Kushida, Ichiro Araki
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219
Lars Von Trier • Starring: Lars von Trier, Inger Hvidtfeldt, Karen Oksbjerg
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221
Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Woody Allen, Peter Sellars, Leos Carax
222
Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Anne Wiazemsky, Juliet Berto
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Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie Valera, Jean-Pierre Mocky
Avant-garde / Experimental • Comedy Drama • Crime Comedy
224
Martin Scorsese • Starring: Peter Bernuth
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Jean Cocteau • Starring: Enrique Rivero, Elizabeth Lee Miller, Pauline Carton
Avant-garde / Experimental • Fantasy • Foreign Language Film
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Derek Jarman, Paul Humfress • Starring: Barney James, Neil Kennedy, Leonardo Treviglio
Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama • Gay and Lesbian Film
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Alejandro Jodorowsky • Starring: Sergio Kleiner, Diana Mariscal, María Teresa Rivas
Adventure • Avant-garde / Experimental • Fantasy Adventure
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Larry Jordan
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Paul Morrissey • Starring: Joe Dallesandro, Holly Woodlawn, Geri Miller
Addiction Drama • Avant-garde / Experimental • Drama
235
Raoul Ruiz • Starring: Jean-Claude Gallotta, Christophe Delachaux, Eric Alfieri
Avant-garde / Experimental • Comedy • Dance Film
236
Jean Genet • Starring: Java, Coco le Martiniquais, Lucien Sénémaud
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William Vance, Orson Welles • Starring: Orson Welles, Virginia Nicholson, William Vance
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Louis Malle • Starring: Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret, Hubert Deschamps
Absurd Comedy • Avant-garde / Experimental • Comedy
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Piotr Kamler
243
Hollis Frampton • Starring: Frank Albetta, Barbara DiBenedetto
244
Barbara Hammer
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Damon Packard • Starring: Robert Myers, Simon Prescott, Patrick Thomas
Avant-garde / Experimental • Fantasy • Science Fiction
247
Stan Brakhage • Starring: Bearthm Brakhage, Crystal Brakhage, Jane Brakhage
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249
Animation • Avant-garde / Experimental
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Norman Mailer • Starring: Norman Mailer, Rip Torn
Avant-garde / Experimental • Political Satire • Satire
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