Movies: Absurdist

A comedic retelling of Macbeth as an absurd fantasy. Three witches tell the Scottish general Macbeth that he will be King of Scotland....

Isaki Lacuesta presents a social satire in which five common or garden citizens, from a country pretty much identical to our own, see their lives ripped apart by the economic crisis. With nothing more to lose, they come up with a crazy plan to save t...

In this zany Czechoslovakian comedy, a scientist invents a machine that projects a sleeping person's dream on a screen; disaster soon follows when the machine malfunctions and the cartoon-like dream characters become very real!...

Rachel Crow stars as the woman whose lover has been secretly using penis-enlargement cream. It has an unusual side effect that ultimately leads to an abomination. Erin Brown (also known as Misty Mundae) supports her boyfriend, Dick (played by Bill ...

Milo, an unemployed and whiny anarchist, finds out he is adopted. After learning his real name is "Milo Wormwood" and being forced to get a job by his older brother, Milo decides to use his opportunity to find his new identity. However, he finds hims...

A would-be publican decides to set up shop on a remote island with a flat-pack DIY pub, but encounters more competition than he bargained for....

A documentary of absurdist humor that delves into the immaturity of Witold Gombrowicz, the controversial Polish writer who lived in Argentina and wrote the first existentialist novel....

A surreal music video where a pop-up world of greed, rebellion, and revolution unfolds as cherubs, a devil, and a modern-day Jesus clash in a satirical battle for justice....

Unsure of how to navigate a recent breakup, Penelope turns to a local community group for support. She soon discovers, however, that this eclectic mix is anything but normal, and everyone grieves in their own way....

The animated film is based on the comic book "Cerebus the Aardvark", considered by many to have started the indie alternative comic field. It started in 1977 and ran for 300 issues and holds the Guinness World Record for "Most consecutive issues of a...

A man is haunted successively by seven women who have lost their keys. He reacts to the request that he be allowed to use the toilet with increasing helplessness and despair, which is discharged in violence....

A man's car somehow becomes completely autonomous and takes the powerless driver, to a scrap yard, or a 'cemetery for cars', where several more vehicles are waiting to be crushed by powerful reducing machines, their passengers still inside....

The night takes a strange turn in Dhaka as a ride-sharing motorcyclist tries to reach his next passenger in time....

A 2008 short film from filmmaker Andrew Edison...

Decades after a nuclear war, a group of wastelanders live in a run-down shack they call "Bailey Manor". When one of them winds up dead, foul play is suspected and the evening descends into a cacophony of violence, psychological warfare, and fancy din...

An isolated introverted man who lives an airstream talks to himself before going on a date with a pessimistic extraverted woman and has trouble communicating his thoughts. Meanwhile, he escapes to a fantasy where he has no problem connecting with her...

Katelyn discovers she is a character in a film after fighting back against 'The Narrator' that controls her life....

A prequel to the critically acclaimed series featuring Jerri Blank, a 46 year old ex-junkie, ex-con who returns to high school in a bid to start her life over....

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5 drug addicts who failed to pay their dues to a ruthless mob boss are forced to participate in a deadly game....