dorrk's Top 50 Favorite Avant-garde / Experimental Movies of All Time

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dorrk's Top 50 Favorite Avant-garde / Experimental Movies of All Time
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Movie Title Release
Year
Director MPAA
Rating
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Ranking
221 Woman in the Dunes 1964 Hiroshi Teshigahara NR -
560 Eraserhead 1977 David Lynch NR -
1832 I Am Cuba 1964 Mikhail Kalatozov NR -
402 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel NR -
550 Possession 1981 Andrzej Zulawski R -
4167 Vanya on 42nd Street 1994 Louis Malle PG -
802 Koyaanisqatsi 1982 Godfrey Reggio NR -
1473 Santa Sangre 1989 Alejandro Jodorowsky R -
5000 Powaqqatsi 1988 Godfrey Reggio G -
616 House 1977 Nobuhiko Ôbayashi NR -
2623 Mother! 2017 Darren Aronofsky R -
2767 Russian Ark 2002 Aleksandr Sokurov NR -
2029 Celine and Julie Go Boating 1974 Jacques Rivette NR -
2353 Dogville 2003 Lars von Trier R -
842 Mulholland Dr. 2001 David Lynch R -
6716 Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator 1967 Dusan Makavejev NR -
2525 Alice 1988 Jan Svankmajer NR -
8093 Marat/Sade 1967 Peter Brook NR -
451 Pierrot le fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard NR -
494 F for Fake 1973 Orson Welles NR -
42486 The Wolf House 2018 Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León NR -
5034 Ménilmontant 1926 Dimitri Kirsanoff NR -
481 Man with a Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov NR -
470 My Life to Live 1962 Jean-Luc Godard NR -
59 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman NR -
1723 Pi 1998 Darren Aronofsky R -
344 The Holy Mountain 1973 Alejandro Jodorowsky R -
2642 Tetsuo, the Iron Man 1989 Shinya Tsukamoto NR -
403 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais NR -
1818 Holy Motors 2012 Leos Carax NR -
332 The Mirror 1975 Andrei Tarkovsky NR -
9699 Innocence 2004 Lucile Hadzihalilovic R -
1664 Inland Empire 2006 David Lynch R -
1084 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992 David Lynch R -
4224 Tropical Malady 2004 Apichatpong Weerasethakul NR -
38359 Lumière and Company 1995 Various PG -
3794 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 2010 Apichatpong Weerasethakul NR -
54792 Skinamarink 2022 Kyle Edward Ball NR -
1626 Waltz with Bashir 2008 Ari Folman R -
12528 Mad God 2021 Phil Tippett NR -
12529 Knight of Cups 2015 Terrence Malick R -
5452 Palindromes 2004 Todd Solondz NR -
4004 Heart of Glass 1976 Werner Herzog NR -
4267 Zazie dans le métro 1960 Louis Malle NR -
2574 Performance 1970 Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg R -
6130 Manderlay 2005 Lars von Trier NR -
35894 Maidstone 1970 Norman Mailer NR -
1240 Naked Lunch 1991 David Cronenberg R -
14104 Rapture 1979 Iván Zulueta NR -
1773 Waking Life 2001 Richard Linklater R -

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