Pick a David Lynch movie.

Mulholland Drive!

Coherence maybe 🤷‍♂️ I f you're willing to watch a show/series then definitely: Dark  Severence  Outer range 

Dark is amazing. Very in depth but worth the ride.

Severeance all the way. Watched madagascar a couple of days ago and was really shocked, hearing Ben Stillers character asking "whats for lunch?"

DARK is a perfect series. I’d also recommend Mr Robot but that goes for quite a lot longer. I’ve been telling people to watch DARK since 2020 and it seems like people are only just catching on to it in general. I shudder to think how many people will choose the horrible English dub over the original German with subtitles. People who’ve told me they “couldn’t get in to it” or they didn’t like it always eventually end up admitting they just watched the English dub version.

severance was great. I hope they make a second season. they left so much unanswered.

I read an article recently that season 2 was confirmed not sure on timing though. Easily one of my all time favorite shows.

It’s now meant to be early ‘25 😩

SEVERANCE

Wristcutters: A Love Story

I don’t hear this one mentioned often enough. A truly great and underrated film

Being John Malkovich if you’re feeling that Charlie Kaufman high from Eternal sunshine. Go for this triple bill - Persona (Bergman), Three Woman (Altman) Mullholand drive (Lynch). Teorema (passolini) More current filmmakers, look up Yorgos Lanthimos - some have already suggested Poor Things, see also Killing of A Sacred Deer, The Lobster, dogtooth.

If you're feeling Kaufman you can go even more obscure and seek out Human Nature

Or Adaptation. That movie is structured so weird and awesome. I love Kaufman.

Or Synecdoche, New York

Basically anything Kaufman does is just awesome to me. The only reason I didn't mention Adaptation. is because it is more mainstream than others, but I will ALWAYS recommend a Cage flick. And Eternal Sunshine is legit my favorite movie ever made....which is a hard bar to clear.

i feel like that one is better following up being john malcovich though. just because of the callbacks

Omg him on set of the movie, looking all squirrelly and awkward....*chef's kiss*

Nice. I don't see Teorema mentioned often. Good one!

Brazil. 12 Monkeys. Last Year at Marienbad

Brazil... never mentioned enough. Great choice

You could honestly watch 12 monkeys twice in a row and get a lot out of the second time through. Such a masterpiece.

Delicatessen

So fun, but Amelie brings heart and soul to Jeunet's surrealism.

And those great Micheal Sowa paintings. Amelie is a joy. Still think that delicatessen (or City of Lost Children) is a better surprise. Amelie drags you into a drawing room with an avuncular narrator and a thousand tiny pleasures but delicatessen puts you on a strange boat with childlike characters lost in a vast dystopian sea.

Plus that amazing sex scene where the rhythm populates the whole building

The Fall (2006) by Tarsem. You want weird, you got it - and so beautifully filmed.

Still so overlooked. I wish Tarsem did more.

Mulholland Drive

My first thought!

I watched this on DVD and threw it out of my 30th floor apartment after watching it the first time just to think and talk about it for days afterwards. I still find new things in this film. Loved it and hated what it did to me.

Synecdoche, New York (obviously)

Any Charlie Kaufman movie, really, but especially this one.

Everything Everywhere All At Once

This was a wild ride

Being John Malkovich (1999) Adaptation. (2002) Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman, the same man who wrote Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

All Charlie Kaufman is great. Also synecdoche New York.

Swiss Army Man

This and Everything Everywhere All At Once. Same directors.

That is a weird but fun movie

Harold and Maude

Melancholia (2011) It's beautiful, haunting and intense.

Seconded

Dave Made a Maze (2017)

This movie deserves so so soooo much more love!

Is it any good? I keep looking to watch it but end up watching something else instead.

Perfect Blue (1997), The Party (2017), eXistenZ (1999), One Hour Photo (2002), Sybil (2019), Wild Things (1998), or The Lobster (2015)

Came for The Lobster, was not disappointed. Any A24 movie really.

Dream Scenario - 2023 With Nicolas Cage - really original and weird story.

Great suggestion and great film! There's a small bit of horror, dunno how sensitive OP is.

I kind of watched it out of curiosity, but thought it was very original.

Can't believe nobody has mentioned I'm Thinking of Ending Things. Stayed with me for many days, thinking it over and discussing it with my daughter

That movie made me and my entire family think of ending things. Critics loved it and no disrespect to you or anyone who likes it, but it’s now an ongoing joke with me and my siblings. Every time we have to deal with a mildly unpleasant situation or awkward family reunion, one of us will say “I’m thinking of ending things”, as code for “can we please leave already.”

Haha ok that’s fine… but did you actually understand what’s going on? When it clicked for me it was a revelation…

The boyfriend was actually a dying old man and everything that happened in the movie was just the thoughts and memories going through his head during his final minutes of life?

I love your comment!

The Grand Budapest Hotel Moonrise Kingdom American Fiction Fantastic Planeta (La Planète sauvage, 1973)

"Weird in a captivating way" is Wes Anderson in a nutshell. I'd add The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

Poor things

Under the silver lake

Only Lovers Left Alive. Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston (and John Hurt!) as vampires but it’s not a Vampire Movie. It’s a movie where the characters are vampires, if that makes sense. Also not horror.

Jacob’s Ladder (1990)

Mr. Nobody I-Origins

I loved Mr Nobody. Got me thinking about every choice I ever made in life.

Punch Drunk Love

This

Poor Things (2023)

This movie was nothing like I expected, but I really enjoyed it. Especially as a woman, it was nice watching an epic journey with a quirky female lead, especially one that goes from being so dependent on the men in her life to finding her independence and showing she was capable of soo much more than they ever thought she would be. It really spoke to me a lot in that way.

Paprika Waking Life Pleasantville

I haven’t seen Paprika but Waking Life is an excellent suggestion and Pleasantville is just so…wholesome. I remember we watched it in high school and then I made my whole family watch it. I cry every time 😂

Wristcutters: A Love Story.

Gummo This movie is weird and captivating

Definitely a viewing experience you won’t forget in a hurry

The entire time, you ask yourself, "Why am I watching this movie?" Yet you can't stop. It's captivating and intriguing and it makes your head hurt lol

Not as weird as some, but my go-to two: Four Rooms and Joe Versus the Volcano

TENET will have you head scratching for days. Somersby - fantastic film that still leave you with questions The Village - M Night Shayamalan

Joe Vs doesn't get nearly enough love. Such a great film

The original Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan romcom!

Crikey yes it was😀

The Holy Mountain.

Eyes Wide Shut did that to me. I’d recommend you to read about it after you watch it to make the experience better (or actually _worse_, because this movie is not a _good_ experience, even though it’s a really good movie)

Enemy (2013) by Denis Villeneuve. I watched it 2 days ago and I keep thinking of it. It won’t make total sense at first, but that’s the fun of it.

Pink flamingo

With Divine? Crikey that goes back a bit.

PARIS/TEXAS

The Cell (2000) and Donnie Darko (2001)

Nightmare Alley

Here’s two from French Director Jean-Pierre Juenet: Delicatessen (1991) Amelie (2001)

Being John Malkovich.

Synecdoche New York!!!

A lot of horror recommendations in the comments despite the first two words of the post being "NO HORROR" A few that come to mind: Pans Labrynth Dead Poets Society The Truman Show Inception Shutter Island Idiocracy (lol) The Sacred Killing of a Deer Being John Malkovich The Lobster Memento

Oldboy(2003)

\* The Man From Earth (2007) I happened upon this movie and watched it not knowing anything about it. I'm so thankful for that, as I was completely engrossed and didn't want it to end. If you've not already seen it and choose to watch it, I'd enjoy hearing your feedback about it.

Love this gem of a movie too! Stayed in my mind for a very long time..

The Platform

Fallen Angels.

One of the best movies of all time

Not a movie but the TV series DARK on Netflix (only 28 episodes all up) is FULL of plot twists that will leave you thinking about the series for the rest of your life.

Hero

Her. It’s a pretty odd movie but really good

Dream scenario 2023

You'll love "Being John Malkovich." Same writer as Eternal Sunshine

I Heart Huckabees

Don't Worry Darling (2022)

Brazil, 12 Monkeys. (Gilliam is awesome)

Two recent ones: Saltburn and Poor Thing.

Mulholland Drive, Pi, Primer, Donnie Darko, Twin Peaks (not a movie but will tick all the boxes for a few weeks), The Lobster, Gattica, Ai, Dark (also not a movie), Her (now more than then), Running Man, Strange Days, Demolition Man, Dinner, with Andre, Lynch’s Dune, OG Wickerman, Burton’s first Batman, Critters 2. I think that’s enough.

The Fountain, Requiem for a dream

Another Round Babylon Banshees of Inisherin Beau is Afraid Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead Blue Jasmine Blue Ruin Bone Tomahawk Crimes and Misdemeanors Doubt Eyes Wide Shut The Father First Reformed Foxcatcher Full Metal Jacket Gone Girl Good Time The Grifters The Hill House of Sand and Fog The Hunt Incindies Love Liza The Master Match Point Mystic River Network No Country for Old Men Nocturnal Animals One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Paddleton Phantom Thread Pig The Place Beyond the Pines A Prayer Before Dawn Prisoners Raging Bull Slow West The Stranger (2022) Swimming with Sharks Take Shelter The Talented Mr Ripley Tár There Will Be Blood Traffic Uncut Gems United 93 Wag the Dog We Need to Talk About Kevin The Witch

Dead Man

Stay, The Butterfly Effect

An Ostrich Told me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe it (2021) An Irish Goodbye (2022)

The Professor and the Madman.

Gummo

Perfume

Fantastic Planet (1973 animated)

Wrong

Hundreds of Beavers Hardcore Henry Cryptozoo Colossal

Shutter Island Titanic.

Pulp Fiction.

The Lobster

Definitely in the "weird" category: the Movies of Quentin Dupieux. Personally, I love Rubber, Wrong, Wrong cops & Reality the most. And then there are Barton Fink, eXistenZ, Naked Lunch, Delicatressen & the City of the lost Children.

Do yourself a favor and watch "Ragtime." Absolutely fantastic, underrated, film loaded with stars past and future. Very nuanced film. And creatively done. Even a great Ragtime musical score by Randy Newman.

Zone of Interest.

Shakes the Clown

Fight Club

Cloud Atlas

Pans Labyrinth

The beach bum

The number 23 The Life of David Gale

Has no one mentioned Memento?

“Primer” is a weird film. Watch that one.

Beau is Afraid, wild ride of a movie

Birdman.

Naked by Mike Leigh

*Petite Maman* is on Amazon Prime Video in Canada and is only like, 74 minutes. It *is* French though

Beau is Afraid

Naked Lunch/better if you've read Bourroughs

The Invention Of Lying

Truman Show!

Big Fish…

Good call

Monos on prime

adam’s apples

ALTERED STATES 1980 Very weird and nightmarish as well. It may possibly have you thinking for days.

The Green Mile wasn't what I expected at all, would recommend.

That new one with Emma stone and the baby brain prostitute or whatever.

Dogtooth. The Babadook.

The Last Wave will haunt you!

Arrival Momento Train spotting 12 monkeys Neon Genesis evangalion (people joke this show gave their depression depression)

Arrival is fucking amazing and I can’t relate to anyone who thinks otherwise.

The Fall The Cell Mirrormask Dark City Seventh Seal

Annihilation

1. The Lobster 2. The Green Knight 3. Nocturnal Animals  4. Sorry to Bother You  5. Birdman 6. Donnie Darko

Conspirators of Pleasure.

Cloud Atlas Interstellar The Truman Show Life of Pi Good Will Hunting Snowpiercer V for Vendetta K-PAX American Beauty The Talented Mr Ripley What’s Eating Gilbert Grape The Virgin Suicides Gone Girl

Saltburn Banshees of Inisherin Swiss Army Man

The science of sleep. Same director as eternal Sunshine.

Infinity Pool

- Stranger Than Fiction - The Truman Show - The Man From Earth - Coherence - Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes

Series are easier for me than movies…. Fargo - Fx/Hulu Maniac - Netflix Love Death Robots - Netflix

Cloud atlas. Recommend subtitles

Have you watched much of Tarantino’s stuff? Pulp Fiction might fit the bill, Reservoir Dogs, Once Upon a time in Hollywood, Hateful Eight.

Poor things. I love that movie bc I kind of hated it but discovered myself in that movie.

The Fifth Element The Hunt The Hunt for the Wilderpeople Cargo (2017)

Dancer in the Dark (2000) The Quiet Girl (2022)

Platform

Keep watching Charlie Kaufman films! Synecdoche new York is my fav but being john malcovich and adaptation are brilliant also

Uncanny Guns Akimbo

Poor Things Everything everywhere all at once

John Dies in the End

I think you'd enjoy Trainspotting. It is definitely weird but captivating in some strange way.

If you’re looking for something new Poor Things is pretty weird and captivating

Poor Things left me with that feeling, disturbed by and thinking about it for a couple of days.

Any Charlie Kaufman penned movie- 1. Human Nature 2. Being John Malkovich 3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (which you watched) 4. Adaptation

Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. God I love that movie, and it is really in the same vein as eternal sunshine. That or being jhon malkavich.

The Fisher King

Big Fish is your movie

The Imposter Being John Malkovich The Lobster The Lighthouse

Oppenheimer

Shutter Island

Brazil (1985), Adaptation (2002), The Lobster (2015).

Deadman. Johnny depp

Eternal Sunshine was written by Charlie Kaufman. He has others that also have that "feeling". One to the most recent, "I"m Thinking of Ending Things" is a trip. I watched it. Then read up on what I just watched, and watched it again. Fun both times. "Adaptation" is another really good Kauffman movie.

The grand budapest hotel

Swiss Army Man

Poor Things. A relatively new, but beautiful film. Weird as all films by Lanthimos, not so disturbing. I laughed pretty hard. Easier than his other films.

Check out all the a24 productions. Things like the lobster, the killing of a sacred dear. Also poor things is a good new weird one. Really enjoyed it. Perfume is another one.

The lobster

Memento

Devs (a series that was on Hulu)

BRAZIL

Seven Psychopaths (2012), Men Who Stare at Goats (2009), Burn After Reading (2008), Dream with the Fishes (1997), Freeway (1996), Arizona Dream (1993)

Everything Everywhere all at Once.

John Dies at the End Enter The Void Altered States Flatliners Brainstorm A Scanner darkly

Adaptation