Surrealist Cinema

. Spellbound, by Hitchcock, has the famous sequence created by guess who? Salvador Dali.

. The Trip, directed by Roger Corman. It´s a drug movie.

. Easy Rider has the trip sequence, when they take something (LSD, I guess) at New Orleans. It´s more kind of a trippy thing than surrealism.

. City of Women, by Fellini. It´s a surrealistic film!
 
The Godfather
Citizen Kane
Gone With the Wind
Sideways
Boogie Nights
Raging Bull
Clerks
El Mariachi
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Lawrence Olivier's Hamlet
The Graduate
and
Alice in Wonderland

EDIT TO ADD, 2 YEARS LATER: Did I really think that was funny?
 
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How was naked lunch - been meaning to see that as of late after I saw Eraserhead.

Rented it from Netflix, but the DVD arrived cracked -

Was tempted to buy it, but for $40 I should probably rent it first - then again, hopefully netflix won't give me BS about the broken disc.

Mulholland Drive was pretty damn good - despite what some people say - the first 90 minutes comes off like a pretentious/cliche story with unlikeable characters in an almost soap opera story - BUT it's part of the schtick and all resolves itself in the end - you'll probably not like it like I did watching the first half, then the last 30-40 minutes just hit you and completely changes your perception.

At 12 bucks new at most stores, you can't go wrong.

It's far from crap as some people claim - after watching it has to be one of the most pensive and interactive movies out there.
 
also

if you're into short films...

David Lynch has a DVD with 6 shorts, entitled Short Films by David Lynch

and

try Cartoon Noir - 6 surreal/experimental film/animations.
 
Bunuel's films are boring as hell and are in no way engaging. Lynch and Cronenberg may not have been part of the Surrealist movement, but their films definitely have many surrealist elements and are much more interesting than Bunuel's.
 
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