Fledging director Luis Buñuel and painter Salvador Dali create this ultimate surrealist film, which is essentially a barrage of striking and irrational images designed to shock and provoke.

Confederate army reject Johnnie Gray (Keaton) sets out to single-handedly win the war and the heart of his beloved with the help of his cherished locomotive. Considered one of the most cleverly choreographed comedies ever recorded on celluloid.

This non-linear autobiographical film of director Andrei Tarkovsky is considered by many Russian-speakers to be his best film and is his most personal meditation on time, history and the Russian countryside.

The Sacrifice, director Andrei Tarkovsky’s final film, begins in Bergmanesque fashion on a small, remote island, where friends and family gather for drama critic Alexander’s birthday celebration. The revelry is interrupted by a radio announcement: World War III has begun…

Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai directs the strange, intimate drama Cheun Gwong Tsa Sit (Happy Together). Australian cinematographer Christopher Doyle employed multiple film speeds and different color film stock during the shooting.

The final, deliriously surreal, provocative, and blasphemous collaboration between Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. In this classic experimental film, l’amour fou is thwarted by a politically, socially, and morally repressive society, and the only solution is to revolt!

Expanding on the latter’s style, themes, and mood, Fallen Angels is set in the surreal milieu of urban, nighttime Hong Kong; This visually stylish and unabashedly effusive work is considered by some critics to be the quintessential Wong film.

Secluded in the French countryside, a brilliant, obsessive doctor attempts a radical plastic surgery to restore the beauty of his daughter’s disfigured face—but at a horrifying price. At once ghastly lyrical, Eyes Without a Face is a true rarity of horror cinema and has influenced countless films.

A rare look at World War II from the Soviet side, Come and See is based on the real-life experiences of Ales Adamovich, who fought with Russian partisans in Belarus in 1943, when the Nazis systematically torched over 600 villages and slaughtered their inhabitants.

In the remote Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father—a man they only know through a single photograph—resurfaces.

In Kaneto Shindo’s chilling folktale, a mother and her daughter-in-law eke out a desperate existence in the lonely marshes of war-torn medieval Japan; when a neighbor returns from the skirmishes, lust, jealousy and rage—and a horrifying fate at the hands of an ominous, ill-gotten demon mask—ensue.

At a station between heaven and earth, guides help the newly dead search through their memories and find the defining moment of their lives. A warm, imaginative film about what matters in the world beyond, from acclaimed director Hirokazu Kore-eda (Nobody Knows).

In Herk Harvey’s macabre masterpiece, Mary Henry survives a drag race in a rural Kansas town, then takes a job as a church organist in Salt Lake City. En route, she becomes haunted by a bizarre apparition that compels her to an abandoned lakeside pavilion.

Something magical is in the air. Times are happy and love is uncomplicated for forest warden Keng and country boy Tong. Then Tong disappears. Local legends say a human can somehow be transformed into a tiger. From Thailand’s leading filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

The story of an elderly guide and Goldi hunter, who, at the turn of the century, agrees to shepherd a Russian explorer and a troop of soldiers through the most treacherous passages of the Far East. The guide is “one” with the land, and is thus able to save his party from perishing.

Immanuel Rath, an old bachelor, is a professor at the town’s university. When he discovers that some of his pupils often go into a speakeasy, The Blue Angel, to visit a dancer, Lola Lola, he comes there to confront them.

A surreal breakfast, lunch and dinner. Who knows what one eats? What can you expect from the person in front of you at the table?

A story of deep and tender affection between a dying mother and her son. Alexander Sokurov (“Russian Ark”) starts his trilogy about family bonds and memory. Amidst a vast green landscape, Sokurov’s images look like paintings, provoking an awakening of the senses to the world of nature, and death.

Legendary animator Jań Švankmajer brings to life the story of Faust, who is solicited by the devil at a Prague subway exit and sells his soul in exchange for 24 pleasure-filled years. An unusual and surreal adaptation of Goethe’s, Grabbe’s and Marlowe’s classics.