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Top Surreal Films (#201-400)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
201 Paprika 2006 Satoshi Kon 933
202 Lost Highway 1997 David Lynch 940
203 Midsommar 2019 Ari Aster 943
204 El Topo 1970 Alejandro Jodorowsky 946
205 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992 David Lynch 963
206 Ghost World 2001 Terry Zwigoff 970
207 L'Âge d'or 1930 Luis Buñuel 989
208 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 Woody Allen 990
209 Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 Werner Herzog 992
210 The Servant 1963 Joseph Losey 1000
211 Pi 1998 Darren Aronofsky 1005
212 The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1007
213 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery 1997 Jay Roach 1008
214 The Devils 1971 Ken Russell 1010
215 The Brood 1979 David Cronenberg 1015
216 Pee-wee's Big Adventure 1985 Tim Burton 1017
217 Mary and Max 2009 Adam Elliot 1019
218 The Lighthouse 2019 Robert Eggers 1022
219 Ivan's Childhood 1962 Andrei Tarkovsky 1025
220 Laputa: Castle in the Sky 1986 Hayao Miyazaki 1039
221 The City of Lost Children 1995 Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet 1041
222 The Ring 2002 Gore Verbinski 1046
223 Enchanted 2007 Kevin Lima 1049
224 Adaptation. 2002 Spike Jonze 1050
225 25th Hour 2002 Spike Lee 1051
226 The Cabin in the Woods 2011 Drew Goddard 1052
227 Watchmen 2009 Zack Snyder 1054
228 The Lost Boys 1987 Joel Schumacher 1059
229 The Passenger 1975 Michelangelo Antonioni 1060
230 Dune 2021 Denis Villeneuve 1062
231 The Act of Killing 2012 Joshua Oppenheimer 1070
232 I Am Cuba 1964 Mikhail Kalatozov 1072
233 Synecdoche, New York 2008 Charlie Kaufman 1078
234 Heavenly Creatures 1994 Peter Jackson 1086
235 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000 Joel Coen 1090
236 Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022 Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert 1093
237 The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover 1989 Peter Greenaway 1102
238 Fahrenheit 451 1966 François Truffaut 1108
239 Alice in Wonderland 1951 Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske 1127
240 Soul 2020 Pete Docter 1130
241 Tron 1982 Steven Lisberger 1134
242 X-Men: Days of Future Past 2014 Bryan Singer 1136
243 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 2014 Alejandro G. Iñárritu 1140
244 Wild at Heart 1990 David Lynch 1152
245 The Secret of NIMH 1982 Don Bluth 1156
246 Perfect Blue 1997 Satoshi Kon 1162
247 Possession 1981 Andrzej Zulawski 1176
248 Candyman 1992 Bernard Rose 1182
249 X-Men 2000 Bryan Singer 1183
250 A Serious Man 2009 Ethan and Joel Coen 1203
251 Primer 2004 Shane Carruth 1222
252 High Plains Drifter 1973 Clint Eastwood 1231
253 The Trial 1962 Orson Welles 1244
254 Salò 1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini 1247
255 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985 Paul Schrader 1248
256 Onibaba 1964 Kaneto Shindô 1252
257 It 2017 Andy Muschietti 1264
258 Inland Empire 2006 David Lynch 1273
259 It's Such a Beautiful Day 2012 Don Hertzfeldt 1276
260 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 2012 Peter Jackson 1281
261 Despicable Me 2010 Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud 1285
262 Watership Down 1978 Martin Rosen 1287
263 Peter Pan 1953 Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske 1290
264 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023 Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson 1292
265 Russian Ark 2002 Aleksandr Sokurov 1300
266 Strange Days 1995 Kathryn Bigelow 1301
267 Zoolander 2001 Ben Stiller 1305
268 Army of Darkness 1992 Sam Raimi 1318
269 Dredd 2012 Pete Travis 1322
270 Scorpio Rising 1963 Kenneth Anger 1331
271 Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles 1994 Neil Jordan 1334
272 Natural Born Killers 1994 Oliver Stone 1344
273 The Holy Mountain 1973 Alejandro Jodorowsky 1352
274 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 1998 Terry Gilliam 1353
275 Hellboy II: The Golden Army 2008 Guillermo del Toro 1361
276 Underground 1995 Emir Kusturica 1365
277 X-Men: First Class 2011 Matthew Vaughn 1370
278 The Time Machine 1960 George Pal 1375
279 Black God and White Devil 1964 Glauber Rocha 1397
280 House 1977 Nobuhiko Ôbayashi 1398
281 End of Evangelion 1997 Hideaki Anno 1407
282 The Tenant 1976 Roman Polanski 1421
283 Hellboy 2004 Guillermo del Toro 1426
284 Sleepy Hollow 1999 Tim Burton 1441
285 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 2017 James Gunn 1447
286 A Scanner Darkly 2006 Richard Linklater 1449
287 Midnight in Paris 2011 Woody Allen 1452
288 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 2005 Andrew Adamson 1467
289 Nostalgia 1983 Andrei Tarkovsky 1478
290 Barbarella 1968 Roger Vadim 1491
291 Spider-Man: No Way Home 2021 Jon Watts 1494
292 Zero for Conduct 1933 Jean Vigo 1499
293 Flash Gordon 1980 Mike Hodges 1508
294 Waking Life 2001 Richard Linklater 1514
295 The Princess and the Frog 2009 Ron Clements and John Musker 1520
296 The Great Beauty 2013 Paolo Sorrentino 1521
297 Hercules 1997 Ron Clements and John Musker 1524
298 Antichrist 2009 Lars von Trier 1527
299 The Mummy 1999 Stephen Sommers 1529
300 The Lobster 2015 Yorgos Lanthimos 1534
301 Meek's Cutoff 2010 Kelly Reichardt 1536
302 Safe 1995 Todd Haynes 1547
303 Sorcerer 1977 William Friedkin 1550
304 Ant-Man 2015 Peyton Reed 1556
305 Week End 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 1563
306 Jumanji 1995 Joe Johnston 1567
307 Batman: Mask of the Phantasm 1993 Eric Radomski and Bruce W. Timm 1575
308 Incredibles 2 2018 Brad Bird 1582
309 The Last Temptation of Christ 1988 Martin Scorsese 1609
310 Melancholia 2011 Lars von Trier 1616
311 The Butterfly Effect 2004 Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber 1643
312 A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night 2014 Ana Lily Amirpour 1655
313 Corpse Bride 2005 Tim Burton and Mike Johnson 1665
314 Stardust 2007 Matthew Vaughn 1667
315 Tropical Malady 2004 Apichatpong Weerasethakul 1670
316 Highlander 1986 Russell Mulcahy 1671
317 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1684
318 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 2010 Apichatpong Weerasethakul 1686
319 The Invisible Man 2020 Leigh Whannell 1687
320 Pleasantville 1998 Gary Ross 1694
321 The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926 Lotte Reiniger 1696
322 The Matrix Reloaded 2003 Lana and Lilly Wachowski 1705
323 The Draughtsman's Contract 1982 Peter Greenaway 1707
324 Millennium Actress 2001 Satoshi Kon 1716
325 The Silence 1963 Ingmar Bergman 1718
326 The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 1988 Terry Gilliam 1726
327 Thor 2011 Kenneth Branagh 1732
328 Excalibur 1981 John Boorman 1736
329 The Mask 1994 Chuck Russell 1744
330 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 1965 Sergei Parajanov 1762
331 Space Jam 1996 Joe Pytka 1765
332 The Secret of Kells 2009 Tomm Moore 1769
333 Whisper of the Heart 1995 Yoshifumi Kondô 1775
334 Duck Amuck 1953 Chuck Jones 1783
335 Nope 2022 Jordan Peele 1789
336 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 1963 Stanley Kramer 1806
337 Doctor Strange 2016 Scott Derrickson 1810
338 The Color of Pomegranates 1969 Sergei Parajanov 1815
339 Pale Rider 1985 Clint Eastwood 1825
340 From Dusk Till Dawn 1996 Robert Rodriguez 1828
341 The Blood of a Poet 1932 Jean Cocteau 1831
342 A Tale of Two Sisters 2003 Kim Jee-woon 1842
343 That Obscure Object of Desire 1977 Luis Buñuel 1848
344 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 1968 Ken Hughes 1853
345 Captain Marvel 2019 Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck 1871
346 Where the Wild Things Are 2009 Spike Jonze 1880
347 The Shooting 1966 Monte Hellman 1887
348 Cannibal Holocaust 1980 Ruggero Deodato 1888
349 The Witches 1990 Nicolas Roeg 1890
350 Porco Rosso 1992 Hayao Miyazaki 1902
351 Bridge to Terabithia 2007 Gabor Csupo 1905
352 Tarzan 1999 Chris Buck and Kevin Lima 1911
353 Palm Springs 2020 Max Barbakow 1922
354 Quadrophenia 1979 Franc Roddam 1924
355 The Black Cat 1934 Edgar G. Ulmer 1930
356 Iron Man 3 2013 Shane Black 1934
357 The Favourite 2018 Yorgos Lanthimos 1946
358 Enter the Void 2009 Gaspar Noé 1953
359 James and the Giant Peach 1996 Henry Selick 1955
360 Sorry to Bother You 2018 Boots Riley 1975
361 Songs from the Second Floor 2000 Roy Andersson 1976
362 Branded to Kill 1967 Seijun Suzuki 1987
363 Time of the Gypsies 1988 Emir Kusturica 1989
364 The Dead Zone 1983 David Cronenberg 1990
365 The Fall 2006 Tarsem Singh 1996
366 Open Your Eyes 1997 Alejandro Amenábar 2008
367 The World's End 2013 Edgar Wright 2021
368 Scanners 1981 David Cronenberg 2024
369 The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh 1977 John Lounsbery and Wolfgang Reitherman 2027
370 Tristana 1970 Luis Buñuel 2040
371 The Beyond 1981 Lucio Fulci 2046
372 L.A. Story 1991 Mick Jackson 2051
373 Funeral Parade of Roses 1969 Toshio Matsumoto 2053
374 Altered States 1980 Ken Russell 2064
375 Tokyo Godfathers 2003 Shôgo Furuya and Satoshi Kon 2070
376 Pink Floyd the Wall 1982 Alan Parker 2081
377 Mars Attacks! 1996 Tim Burton 2083
378 Hour of the Wolf 1968 Ingmar Bergman 2086
379 Fantastic Voyage 1966 Richard Fleischer 2090
380 The Suicide Squad 2021 James Gunn 2093
381 Spellbound 1945 Alfred Hitchcock 2099
382 The Dark Crystal 1982 Jim Henson and Frank Oz 2100
383 Encanto 2021 Jared Bush and Byron Howard 2102
384 The Land before Time 1988 Don Bluth 2136
385 The Nutty Professor 1963 Jerry Lewis 2138
386 Lessons of Darkness 1992 Werner Herzog 2145
387 Catch-22 1970 Mike Nichols 2152
388 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1996 Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise 2153
389 The Fountain 2006 Darren Aronofsky 2155
390 Juliet of the Spirits 1965 Federico Fellini 2161
391 Midnight Express 1978 Alan Parker 2171
392 Un chant d'amour 1950 Jean Genet 2173
393 Poison 1991 Todd Haynes 2217
394 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948 Charles Barton 2220
395 Naked Lunch 1991 David Cronenberg 2227
396 Land without Bread 1933 Luis Buñuel 2236
397 Anomalisa 2015 Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman 2247
398 The Craft 1996 Andrew Fleming 2256
399 3 Women 1977 Robert Altman 2269
400 I'm Not There. 2007 Todd Haynes 2282
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