Weird Movies

A follow-up of to the “Trilogy of Cinematic Weirdness” (published last year), this list focuses on the movies shot during the period 2007-2017, as the title clearly suggests. It excludes the features from the previous articles, but includes a couple of short films which, simply put, has to be seen to be believed, and even […]

Part III of the cinematic weirdness shifts focus in favor of the Japanese films which occupy one quarter of the list. However, there is still enough variety to accommodate different tastes, from avant-garde through animation and all the way to postmodernism.   1. Silence Has No Wings (Kazuo Kuroki, 1966) – Japan Weirdness of the […]

Ready for the additional dose of eclectic cinematic weirdness? If your answer is affirmative, then have a look at another twenty films, which fit this category and originate from many corners of the world. The criteria are the same as the last time, meaning you’ll find titles that belong not only to different countries, but […]

Whether it’s accidental or intentional, meaningful or just there for its own sake, weirdness is one of the reasons that make certain movies taste sweet, pleasantly sour, exotic, lasting or never-to-be-forgotten. Sergei Parajanov, David Lynch, Guy Maddin, Terry Gilliam, Andrzej Żuławski, Takashi Miike, Mamoru Oshii and Shinya Tsukamoto, amongst the others, could be certified as […]

Weird means ‘very strange’ or ‘bizarre’ in dictionaries. Its synonyms include words like outlandish, quirky, eccentric, idiosyncratic, surreal, peculiar, odd, zany, madcap, freakish and crazy among other things. So it’s a given that ‘weird’ will mean different things to different people. For the sake of this list, let’s go towards the more outlandish and bizarre […]

Cinema could be grouped into two very general categories – art cinema and mainstream cinema. Of course, there are many films that don’t really fit into either one of those groupings, as well as movies that could be considered both mainstream and art house. However, art films do generally tend to be weirder and more […]