Recommend some "Weird" Movies

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Randall_Oelerich thread inspired me to make a list.
For the past year or so I've found myself watching alot of weird movies and I want some more. I want to take advantage of my Netflix and really get some weird movies in my queue. I’ve already got some from reading a few threads on the boards.

I would appreciate any recommendations you guys may have, specifically some Indie films. I actually don't rent anything mainstream on Netflix... I figured I can always catch some Hollywood movies on cable... so help me with the list.

I don't mean, Bad Weird like story sucks, I'm talking about some good "Weird" movies... I'll start the list of some recent weird ones I've seen.

1. Irreversible
2. Perfume(The Story of a Murderer)
3. Donny Darko
4. I stand Alone

I find myself renting alot of Foreing films, it seems like they have some of the weirdest films, I don't mind subtitles.

Currently I have Teeth, Funny Games(US) in my queue.
 
Bride of Frankenstein is pretty far up on the weirdness scale. That reminds me, also get Andy Warhol's Frankenstein. It's got weird out the wazzoo.

Also, if you haven't seen it, Barbarella has some good weirdness about it.
 
Being John Malkovich
Adaptation
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
I Heart Huckabees
The Fountain

Anything Michael Heneke
Anything David Cronenberg
Anything David Lynch
Anything Matthew Barney

Pusher 1 2 and 3
Taxidermia
The Holy Mountain
O Fantasma
 
Basket Case
Eraser Head-VERY ODD, any David Lynch Movie
Blue Velvet
Revolver-I still don't get this
Gumo
Hancock-what kind of film is this. I have no clue : /
 
Pi was kinda mind-bending.

The Machinist was kinda weird.

Both had the "decent into madness" thing going on.

:beer:
 
The Loved One is very weird, and hilarious. James Coburn, Jonathon Winters, George C. Scott, Milton Berle, John Gielgud, Rod Steiger, Roddy Mcdowell, and Liberace. Now how can you beat a cast like that! Not to mention it is adapted by Terry Southern from an Evelyn Waugh novel.
 
Jim Klatt said:
The Loved One is very weird, and hilarious. James Coburn, Jonathon Winters, George C. Scott, Milton Berle, John Gielgud, Rod Steiger, Roddy Mcdowell, and Liberace. Now how can you beat a cast like that! Not to mention it is adapted by Terry Southern from an Evelyn Waugh novel.
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also not to mention shot by Haskell Wexler, edited by Hal Ashby, and directed by Tony Richardson. Very fun movie.
 
"Cite des enfants perdus, La" or "The City of Lost Children"(US title). Also, "Delicatessen". They're both French, and both written and directed by Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Both quite good, unique, and a decent bit surreal.

My favorite movie trailer of all time is the one for "The City of Lost Children", watch it HERE.

I also quite highly reccomend "Dark City". One of my favorites.
 
Wow! Some great recommendations, I'm gonna start checking some of these out. Alot of them I saw, like Pi... yeah that was a bit trippy... Usually I try to see what a director who’s done a strange movie… like what else he has done, usually I find more weird stuff.

Some great suggestions here, I’m surprise at myself being the film enthusiast that I am, haven’t seen a majority of these weird titles.

But I have seen these mentioned.

Being John Malkovich- Very weird
Adaptation- Weird and very enjoyable and unique
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind- Weird in a John Malkovich way
The Fountain- Again Darren Aronofsky, he likes to be wieird, I like him
Basket Case- LOL Classic
The Machinist- Yes, weird indeed, didn’t really get it though…
 
any film by Jean Luc Godard, Renoir, Bresson, Bazin

Pretty much and french film.

I find them weird in what they suggest about the cinema.
 
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