The IMDb includes "surrealism" as one of the keywords for the following films.
Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
1 | 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick | 1 |
2 | Apocalypse Now | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola | 13 |
3 | Vertigo | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock | 14 |
4 | A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick | 23 |
5 | Metropolis | 1927 | Fritz Lang | 38 |
6 | The Shining | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick | 46 |
7 | The Wild Bunch | 1969 | Sam Peckinpah | 53 |
8 | 8 1/2 | 1963 | Federico Fellini | 66 |
9 | Fight Club | 1999 | David Fincher | 68 |
10 | Blue Velvet | 1986 | David Lynch | 72 |
11 | Brazil | 1985 | Terry Gilliam | 76 |
12 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | Michel Gondry | 79 |
13 | Nosferatu | 1922 | F.W. Murnau | 89 |
14 | Groundhog Day | 1993 | Harold Ramis | 98 |
15 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 1975 | Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones | 99 |
16 | La Dolce Vita | 1960 | Federico Fellini | 100 |
17 | The Big Lebowski | 1998 | Joel Coen | 105 |
18 | The Seventh Seal | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | 116 |
19 | Amélie | 2001 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 117 |
20 | Gladiator | 2000 | Ridley Scott | 133 |
21 | Persona | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman | 136 |
22 | Easy Rider | 1969 | Dennis Hopper | 139 |
23 | Life of Brian | 1979 | Terry Jones | 141 |
24 | Trainspotting | 1996 | Danny Boyle | 142 |
25 | Donnie Darko | 2001 | Richard Kelly | 146 |
26 | Don't Look Now | 1973 | Nicolas Roeg | 150 |
27 | Aguirre: The Wrath of God | 1972 | Werner Herzog | 151 |
28 | Mulholland Dr. | 2001 | David Lynch | 156 |
29 | Airplane! | 1980 | Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker | 158 |
30 | L'Atalante | 1934 | Jean Vigo | 165 |
31 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 1920 | Robert Wiene | 168 |
32 | The Man with the Movie Camera | 1929 | Dziga Vertov | 174 |
33 | Wild Strawberries | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman | 182 |
34 | Eraserhead | 1977 | David Lynch | 192 |
35 | Edward Scissorhands | 1990 | Tim Burton | 196 |
36 | Wings of Desire | 1987 | Wim Wenders | 197 |
37 | A Hard Day's Night | 1964 | Richard Lester | 199 |
38 | Stairway to Heaven | 1946 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 200 |
39 | Beauty and the Beast | 1946 | Jean Cocteau | 202 |
40 | Moulin Rouge! | 2001 | Baz Luhrmann | 203 |
41 | The Conformist | 1970 | Bernardo Bertolucci | 205 |
42 | Fanny and Alexander | 1982 | Ingmar Bergman | 212 |
43 | Pan's Labyrinth | 2006 | Guillermo del Toro | 216 |
44 | Beauty and the Beast | 1991 | Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise | 218 |
45 | Sherlock, Jr. | 1924 | Buster Keaton | 229 |
46 | Solaris | 1972 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 236 |
47 | Fantasia | 1940 | James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield | 239 |
48 | Three Colors: Red | 1994 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 246 |
49 | Blow-Up | 1966 | Michelangelo Antonioni | 247 |
50 | Being John Malkovich | 1999 | Spike Jonze | 255 |
51 | Un chien andalou | 1929 | Luis Buñuel | 259 |
52 | Akira | 1988 | Katsuhiro Ôtomo | 261 |
53 | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | 1972 | Luis Buñuel | 267 |
54 | Freaks | 1932 | Tod Browning | 270 |
55 | Hiroshima mon amour | 1959 | Alain Resnais | 279 |
56 | Belle de Jour | 1967 | Luis Buñuel | 289 |
57 | Viridiana | 1961 | Luis Buñuel | 291 |
58 | Three Colors: Blue | 1993 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 294 |
59 | Playtime | 1967 | Jacques Tati | 300 |
60 | Suspiria | 1977 | Dario Argento | 310 |
61 | Amarcord | 1973 | Federico Fellini | 318 |
62 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | 1988 | Robert Zemeckis | 321 |
63 | Last Year at Marienbad | 1961 | Alain Resnais | 328 |
64 | Come and See | 1985 | Elem Klimov | 332 |
65 | A Nightmare on Elm Street | 1984 | Wes Craven | 336 |
66 | Twelve Monkeys | 1995 | Terry Gilliam | 337 |
67 | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory | 1971 | Mel Stuart | 348 |
68 | Repulsion | 1965 | Roman Polanski | 350 |
69 | Stalker | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 354 |
70 | The Rocky Horror Picture Show | 1975 | Jim Sharman | 359 |
71 | Forbidden Planet | 1956 | Fred M. Wilcox | 368 |
72 | La Jetée | 1962 | Chris Marker | 370 |
73 | Paris, Texas | 1984 | Wim Wenders | 379 |
74 | The Elephant Man | 1980 | David Lynch | 385 |
75 | Eyes without a Face | 1960 | Georges Franju | 389 |
76 | Evil Dead II | 1987 | Sam Raimi | 391 |
77 | Videodrome | 1983 | David Cronenberg | 410 |
78 | Inception | 2010 | Christopher Nolan | 425 |
79 | Performance | 1970 | Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg | 448 |
80 | Pink Flamingos | 1972 | John Waters | 453 |
81 | Chungking Express | 1994 | Kar-Wai Wong | 464 |
82 | If.... | 1968 | Lindsay Anderson | 465 |
83 | Cries and Whispers | 1972 | Ingmar Bergman | 468 |
84 | Ghost in the Shell | 1995 | Mamoru Oshii | 475 |
85 | Pierrot le Fou | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 480 |
86 | Grave of the Fireflies | 1988 | Isao Takahata | 482 |
87 | The Last Laugh | 1924 | F.W. Murnau | 485 |
88 | The Audition | 1999 | Takashi Miike | 504 |
89 | Raising Arizona | 1987 | Joel Coen | 511 |
90 | The Exterminating Angel | 1962 | Luis Buñuel | 515 |
91 | Throne of Blood | 1957 | Akira Kurosawa | 530 |
92 | The Triplets of Belleville | 2003 | Sylvain Chomet | 532 |
93 | L'Âge d'or | 1930 | Luis Buñuel | 538 |
94 | Three Colors: White | 1994 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 548 |
95 | Sans soleil | 1983 | Chris Marker | 550 |
96 | Alphaville | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | 551 |
97 | Vampyr | 1932 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | 554 |
98 | Delicatessen | 1991 | Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 555 |
99 | Koyaanisqatsi | 1982 | Godfrey Reggio | 564 |
100 | Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery | 1997 | Jay Roach | 567 |