Best Bizarre Movies

  • Being John Malkovich

    Being John Malkovich (R, 1999)

    John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich, Orson Bean
    Would you pay money to journey into the mind of the star of Con Air, The Killing Fields, and In The ... read moreLine of Fire? Puppeteer Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) is having money problems, so he takes a temporary job as a file clerk on the seventh-and-a-half floor of a large office building. One day, while rummaging behind a cabinet, he finds a small door that leads to the center of the mind of actor John Malkovich (played by, you guessed it, John Malkovich). Craig discovers that entering the portal allows him to become John Malkovich for a brief spell, and in time he and his beautiful but aloof co-worker Maxine (Catherine Keener) get the bright idea to charge admission for the privilege of spending 15 minutes inside the head of a well-known actor. Malkovich realizes that something strange is happening to him, but can do little to stop it, as strangers take over his mind for a quarter-hour at a time. Craig's wife, Lotte (Cameron Diaz), eventually takes a trip into Malkovich's psyche, and she soon finds herself in love with Maxine, with whom Malkovich has an affair; meanwhile, Maxine in time becomes infatuated with both Craig and Lotte, but only when they're inside Malkovich. Being John Malkovich marked the feature-length debut of director Spike Jonze, who previously made acclaimed music videos for Weezer, the Beastie Boys, and the Breeders, among others. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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      fb1238400257: . The movie is so far fetched and so bizarre at times yet it knows exactly what its supposed to be. Its not for everyone but I highly rec
      Reviewed 14 months days ago
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      fb511895794: A very bizarre film about a man who finds a portal into the actor John Malkovich. It has a great cast and h
      Reviewed 6 months days ago
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      fb100000114322293: Few words can be used to describe this movie and it certainly is beyond bizarre. As the story unfolds, new themes are continually introduced. As the end draws near one beco
      Reviewed 16 months days ago
  • The Fountain

    The Fountain (PG-13, 2006)

    Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn, Mark Margolis, Stephen McHattie
    Requiem for a Dream director Darren Aronofsky switches gears from drug-induced urban malaise to abst... read moreract science fiction with this time-tripping symbolic tale of a man's thousand-year quest to save the woman he loves. Moving between representational stories and images, this meditation on life and death focuses on the concept of the mythical Tree of Life that is said to bestow immortality to all who drink of its sap. In one of the film's allegorical timelines, a 16th century Spanish conquistador played by Hugh Jackman sets out to find the tree in order to save his queen (Rachel Weisz) from the Inquisition. Another conceptual story finds Jackman centuries later, struggling with mortality as a modern-day scientist desperately searching for the medical breakthrough that will save the life of his cancer-stricken wife, Izzi. The third and most abstract concept finds Jackman as a different incarnation of the same character-idea, this time questing for eternal life within the confines of a floating sphere transporting the aged Tree of Life through the depths of space. Even more avant-garde than his breakthrough film Pi, The Fountain finds Aronofsky almost completely abandoning conventional story structure in favor of something more cinematically abstract. Though the film was originally slapped with an R by the MPAA, Aronofsky and co. re-edited it to conform to a PG-13 rating. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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      fb100001651868821: A very bizarre art haus film pay close attention so you can follow it. phenomenal soundtrack
      Reviewed 11 months days ago
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      fb574631418: Bizarre story that is underwhelming if it doesn't grab you early on. Pretty to look at.
      Reviewed 15 months days ago
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      fb668522175: . The Fountain is a film that explores our own mortality and how we cope with this bizarre but universal theme. As with his previous deliveries, he offers distinctive cinematography,
      Reviewed 3 years days ago
  • American Psycho

    American Psycho (R, 2000)

    Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Reese Witherspoon, Samantha Mathis
    Bret Easton Ellis's dark and violent satire of America in the 1980s is brought to the screen in this... read more unsettling drama with blackly comic overtones. Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale), the son of a wealthy Wall Street financier, is pursuing his own lucrative career with his father's firm. Bateman is the prototypical yuppie, obsessed with success, fashion, and style. He is also a serial killer who murders, rapes, and mutilates both strangers and acquaintances without provocation or reason. Donald Kimble (Willem Dafoe), a police detective, questions Bateman about the disappearance of Paul Allen (Jared Leto), whom Patrick murdered several days earlier. As Kimble stays on Bateman's trail, Bateman's mask of studied, distant cool begins to fall apart. American Psycho also features Reese Witherspoon as Bateman's girlfriend, as well as Samantha Mathis, Chloe Sevigny, and Guinevere Turner; the latter also co-authored the screenplay. Controversy followed the production from the start, when speculation that Leonardo Di Caprio would play Bateman sparked concerns that he would lure preteens to an R-rated movie. Di Caprio soon bowed out of the project, and original leading man Bale was reinstated. Later, a group of Toronto residents attempted to block filming in that city after Canadian serial killer Paul Bernardo claimed that Ellis's novel inspired his murder spree. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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      fb100001751239879: This has to be one of the most ( if not the most) bizarre movies I've ever seen! Terrific performance by Christian bale as the psychotic Patrick Batem
      Reviewed 37 days days ago
    • CloudStrife84
      CloudStrife84: . Dark and often bizarre, yet also with a strange humorous quality in all the madness that springs from Bateman's hea
      Reviewed 12 months days ago
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      fb593374368: A bizarre, chilling, creepy, funny thriller/comedy with a comedic/creepy performance by Christian Bale
      Reviewed 2 years days ago
  • Eraserhead

    Eraserhead (R, 1977)

    Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Jeanne Bates, Allen Joseph, Judith Anna Roberts
    Filmed intermittently over the course of a five-year period, David Lynch's radical feature debut sta... read morers Jack Nance as Henry Spencer, a man living in an unnamed industrial wasteland. Upon learning that a past romance has resulted in an impending pregnancy, Henry agrees to wed mother-to-be Mary (Charlotte Stewart) and moves her into his tiny, squalid flat. Their baby is born hideously mutated, a strange, reptilian creature whose piercing cries never cease. Mary soon flees in horror and disgust, leaving Henry to fall prey to the seduction of the girl across the hall (Judith Anna Roberts). An intensely visceral nightmare, Eraserhead marches to the beat of its own slow, surreal rhythm: Henry's world is a cancerous dreamscape, a place where sins manifest themselves as bizarre creatures and worlds exist within worlds. Interpreting the film along the lines of Lynch's claims that it's the product of his own fears of fatherhood may make Eraserhead easier to digest on a narrative level, if need be. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi
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      fb1360704173: One of the most fascinating, bizarre and surreal film experiences I have ever had, brilliant brilliant film making !
      Reviewed 16 months days ago
    • anthonymorales1021
      anthonymorales1021: So bizarre and scary but at the same time very funny. David Lynch has a sick sense of humor and I love
      Reviewed 13 months days ago
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      fb100001961209899: This film is utterly bizarre. David Lynch may be a genius, but genius & madness go hand in hand & this is just madness. I
      Reviewed 9 months days ago
  • Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

    Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (R, 2006)

    Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Dustin Hoffman, Karoline Herfurth
    An obsessive French perfumer with a highly developed olfactory sense and an all-consuming drive to c... read moreapture the essence of love eventually resorts to murder in his unrepentant quest to find the key ingredient for his recipe in director Tom Tykwer's adaptation of author Patrick Suskind's best-selling 1985 novel. Born in a fetid fish market and raised in a dilapidated orphanage, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Ben Whishaw) toiled his childhood away in a rank tannery run by the thuggish Grimal (Sam Douglas). Subsequently obsessed by smell, Grenouille's keen olfactory sense becomes so finely tuned that it eventually overpowers such human qualities as love and compassion. Though he has indeed discovered the unmistakable scent of a woman, Grenouille finds it impossible to connect with the fairer sex on any sort of meaningful level. Roaming the streets of Paris late one night, Grenouille catches the scent of a young girl selling plums and impulsively strangles her, later sniffing her nude corpse in a twisted attempt to preserve the distinctive scent in his memory. After persuading legendary perfumer Giuseppe Baldini (Dustin Hoffman) to take him on as an apprentice, Grenouille travels to the town of Grasse in Southern France in order to learn the art of enfleurage at a firm run by the highly respected Mme. Arnulfi (Corinna Harfouch). It is there that Grenouille becomes dangerously drawn to the vestal aroma of the young and beautiful Laura (Rachel Hurd-Wood), the daughter of widower merchant Antione Richis (Alan Rickman). Soon driven to madness by such a pure scent, the spellbound Grenouille continues to claim the lives of the numerous young girls in a tragic attempt to bottle the impossibly elusive smell of virginal womanhood. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
    • evilbarbie1
      evilbarbie1: Bizarre film with a real dark sinister feel that you get from a Tim Burton film, I was surprised it
      Reviewed 22 months days ago
    • nysa00
      nysa00: One of the strangest movies ever made, and not a good strange, just a really bizarre strange.
      Reviewed 2 years days ago
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      fb100001894377575: . I love the cinematographical feast and the increasingly bizarre storyline. I wouldn't call this a thinker movie, it's more of a open mind ride.
      Reviewed 2 years days ago
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show

    The Rocky Horror Picture Show (R, 1975)

    Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien, Jonathan Adams
    This low-budget freak show/cult classic/cultural institution concerns the misadventures of Brad Majo... read morers (Barry Bostwick) and Janet Weiss (Susan Sarandon) inside a strange mansion that they come across on a rainy night. After the wholesome pair profess their love through an opening song, their car breaks down in the woods, and they seek refuge in a towering castle nearby. Greeting them at the door is a ghoulish butler named Riff Raff (Richard O'Brien), who introduces them to a bacchanalian collection of partygoers dressed in outfits from some sort of interplanetary thrift shop. The host of this gathering is a transvestite clad in lingerie, Dr. Frank N. Furter (Tim Curry), a mad scientist who claims to be from another planet. With assistants Columbia (Nell Campbell) and Magenta (Patricia Quinn) looking on, Frank unveils his latest creation -- a figure wrapped in gauze and submerged in a tank full of liquid. With the addition of colored dyes and some assistance from the weather, Frank brings to life a blonde young beefcake wearing nothing but skimpy shorts, who launches into song in his first minute of life. Just when Brad and Janet think things couldn't get any stranger, a biker (Meat Loaf) bursts onto the scene to reclaim Columbia, his ex-girlfriend. When Frank kills the biker, it's clear that Brad and Janet will be guests for the night, and that they may be next on Frank's list -- whether for murder or carnal delights is uncertain. And just what is that mystery meat they're eating for dinner, anyway? In addition to playing Riff Raff, O'Brien wrote the catchy songs, with John Barry and Richard Hartley composing the score. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi
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      fb516314239: . It was so bizarre I don't know how to describe it. But it's something everyone should see.
      Reviewed 4 months days ago
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      fb511895794: A super bizarre film. I'm glad to have finally watched this cult classic after hearing so many references to
      Reviewed 15 months days ago
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      fb727413932: 100% original, bizarre, funny and great music make this movie a great cult classic, without a doubt the best musica
      Reviewed 17 months days ago
  • Mulholland Drive

    Mulholland Drive (R, 2001)

    Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya
    David Lynch wrote and directed this look at two women who find themselves walking a fine line betwee... read moren truth and deception in the beautiful but dangerous netherworld of Hollywood. A beautiful woman (Laura Elena Harring) riding in a limousine along Los Angeles' Mulholland Drive is targeted by a would-be shooter, but before he can pull the trigger, she is injured when her limo is hit by another car. The woman stumbles from the wreck with a head wound, and in time makes her way into an apartment with no idea of where or who she is. As it turns out, the apartment is home to an elderly woman who is out of town, and is allowing her niece Betty (Naomi Watts) to stay there; Betty is a small-town girl from Canada who wants to be an actress, and her aunt was able to arrange an audition with a film director for her. Betty befriends the injured woman, who begins calling herself "Rita" after seeing a poster of Rita Hayworth. While Betty's audition impresses a casting agent, and she catches the eye of hotshot director Adam Kesher (Justin Theroux), Kesher's producers and moneymen insist with no small vehemence that he instead cast a woman named Camilla Rhodes. As Rita attempts to put the pieces of her life back together, she pulls the name Diane Selwyn from her memory; Rita thinks it could be her real name, but when she and Betty find a listing for Diane Selwyn and visit her apartment, they discover the latest victim of a mysterious killer who is eluding police detective Harry McKnight (Robert Forster). Rita's emotional identity soon takes a left turn, and it turns out that neither woman is quite who she once appeared to be. David Lynch originally conceived Mulholland Drive as the pilot film for a television series; after the ABC television network rejected the pilot and declined to air it, the French production film StudioCanal took over the project, and Lynch reshot and re-edited the material into a theatrical feature. The resulting version of Mulholland Drive premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where David Lynch shared Best Director honors with Joel Coen. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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      fb650139782: Mulholland Drive is a very bizarre and haunting, yet entrancing thriller which has a nostalgic feel to it, and features a power
      Reviewed 4 months days ago
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      fb1482994971: A staggering piece of work from the bizarre mind of David Lynch that is quite possibly his greatest work to date and certainly my favour
      Reviewed 13 months days ago
    • Ahnuv
      Ahnuv: This movie is the definition of "Bizarre" - I watched the entire film with an analytical eye, and I
      Reviewed 2 years days ago
  • Videodrome

    Videodrome (R, 1983)

    James Woods, Sonja Smits, Deborah Harry, Peter Dvorsky, Les Carlson
    Hardcore pornography, sadomasochism, mind control, and living televisions all play crucial roles in ... read moreVideodrome, one of director David Cronenberg's explorations of dangerous sexuality and technological obsession. The morally questionable hero of the tale is one Max Renn (James Woods), a television executive searching for an intense new program for his sex-oriented network. He ultimately discovers an underground program called "Videodrome," which appears to broadcast pornographic snuff films of actual murders. Horrified but perversely intrigued, Renn sets out to find the truth behind the program. During his search, he meets alluring femme fatale Nicki (Blondie lead singer Debbie Harry), technology cult leader Bianca O'Blivion, and other mysterious figures. Things become even more disturbing for Renn as his addiction grows, and the program begins to infect the outside world -- or perhaps merely destroy own his sanity. Cronenberg mingles his cerebral concerns about the nature of reality in the video age with enough visceral gore (courtesy of Rick Baker) to satisfy the film's intended horror audience. ~ Judd Blaise, Rovi
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      fb811690967: Chilling, unique and irresistibly bizarre; this 1984 body chiller is an indisputable David Cronenberg classic. Enigmatic characters an
      Reviewed 5 months days ago
    • MustardMenendez
      MustardMenendez: A cable TV executive begins having bizarre hallucinations after viewing a video tape of sexual torture and apparent murder. The lines
      Reviewed 4 years days ago
    • caffeinatedalex
      caffeinatedalex: . It's fascinatingly original and supremely bizarre in its plot and execution. His effects are top notch, and the grotesque and completely nigh
      Reviewed 4 years days ago
  • Antichrist

    Antichrist (Unrated, 2009)

    Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg
    This enormously controversial psychodrama-cum-horror film from Danish enfant terrible Lars von Trier... read more charts the degeneration of a marriage into apocalyptic violence, chaos, and insanity following an unthinkable domestic tragedy. The film opens with a prologue. While they make love in their apartment on a snowy winter afternoon, a husband and wife known only as "He" and "She" (Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) fail to keep an eye on their young toddler. In a horrific turn of events, the child wanders over to an open window, entranced by the snow cascading down, and falls two stories to his death. Von Trier then divides the remainder of the film into four chapters, beginning with "Grief." In that segment, the woman finishes a month's hospitalization, and accuses her husband of apathy over the child's death, but proceeds to take responsibility for it herself; he calmly and rationally guides her through this process. In the second segment, "Pain," she confesses to him that she's most terrified of their property in the forest, because she spent time with her son there over the preceding summer; as a form of therapy, he takes her to that locale on a wilderness retreat. She appears to grow more calm and rational over their first days in that milieu. Yet the recovery, it seems, was only illusory, and the subsequent two chapters, "Despair (Gynocide)" and "The Three Beggars," depict the woman's shocking and abrupt regression into unbridled insanity, culminating with grotesque sexual violence against herself, gruesome acts of destruction against her husband, and an apocalyptic climax. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
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      fb526676639: This was an excellent dark film from the bizarre Lars Von Trier.
      There are amazing performances from Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg, w
      Reviewed 22 months days ago
    • Rickinator69
      Rickinator69: . Maybe just B....for bizarre.
      Reviewed 2 years days ago
    • mulletrock
      mulletrock: on the movie - the story is a complete failure and doesn't even seem to make any sense but for some bizarre reason this seems to be unnoticed by its audience whilst watching it unfold. This movie is d
      Reviewed 3 years days ago

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