| # | Rank ▲ | Film | Year | Director | Country | Genre | Keywords | Votes | IMDb |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 74 | Vampyr | 1932 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | France | Vampire | Supernatural, Gothic, Psychological Horror, Surrealism, Experimental, Slow Cinema, Mystery | 149 | IMDb ↗ |
| 2 | 77 | Eraserhead | 1977 | David Lynch | USA | Psychological | Surrealism, Psychological Horror, Body Horror, Experimental, Absurdist Comedy, Dystopian, Family Drama, Black Comedy, Slow Cinema, Gothic, Chamber Film | 171 | IMDb ↗ |
| 3 | 133 | Hausu | 1977 | Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Japan | Supernatural | Haunted House, Absurdist Comedy, Surrealism, Horror Comedy, Teen Movie, Black Comedy, Cutout Animation, Experimental, Slapstick | 126 | IMDb ↗ |
| 4 | 166 | Tetsuo | 1989 | Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Japan | Body Horror | Surrealism, Cyberpunk, Experimental, Techno-Horror, Pixilation, Psychological Horror | 96 | IMDb ↗ |
| 5 | 333 | Ganja & Hess | 1973 | Bill Gunn | USA | Vampire | Psychological Drama, Psychological Horror, Surrealism, Experimental | 41 | IMDb ↗ |
| 6 | 498 | Un chien andalou | 1929 | Luis Buñuel | France | Experimental | Surrealist Movement, Dada | 22 | IMDb ↗ |
| 7 | 510 | Kurutta ippêji | 1926 | Teinosuke Kinugasa | Japan | Experimental | Surrealism, Psychological Drama, Psychological Horror, Prison Film, Family Drama, German Expressionism | 26 | IMDb ↗ |
| 8 | 518 | Irréversible | 2002 | Gaspar Noé | France | Psychological | New French Extremity, Crime, Drama, Psychological Horror, Rape and Revenge, Experimental, Thriller, Postmodernism, Sadistic Horror | 41 | IMDb ↗ |
| 9 | 626 | Dementia | 1955 | John Parker | USA | Psychological | Surrealism, Film Noir, Psychological Horror, Experimental, Psychological Thriller, Melodrama | 16 | IMDb ↗ |
| 10 | 700 | Climax | 2018 | Gaspar Noé | France | Psychological | Dance Film, Psychological Horror, Chamber Film, New French Extremity, Drugsploitation, Music, Experimental, LGBTQ | 40 | IMDb ↗ |
| 11 | 751 | Skinamarink | 2022 | Kyle Edward Ball | USA | Experimental | Analog Horror, Supernatural, Psychological Horror, Surrealism, Structural Film, Slow Cinema, Haunted House, Chamber Film | 33 | IMDb ↗ |
| 12 | 774 | Begotten | 1989 | E. Elias Merhige | USA | Experimental | Surrealism, Sadistic Horror, Slow Cinema, Religious Film, Splatter, Gothic | 24 | IMDb ↗ |
| 13 | 864 | Inland Empire | 2006 | David Lynch | USA | Psychological | Surrealism, Psychological Horror, Mystery, Psychological Thriller, Experimental, Postmodernism, Psychological Drama, Hyperlink Cinema, Analog Horror, Supernatural | 32 | IMDb ↗ |
| 14 | 919 | Amer | 2009 | Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani | Belgium | Psychological | Psychological Thriller, Surrealism, Psychological Horror, Erotic Thriller, Experimental, Giallo, Psychological Drama | 32 | IMDb ↗ |
| 15 | 929 | Nadja | 1994 | Michael Almereyda | USA | Vampire | Drama, Experimental | 24 | IMDb ↗ |
| 16 | 1208 | Aphex Twin: Come to Daddy | 1997 | Chris Cunningham | UK | Music Video | Experimental, Surrealism | 11 | IMDb ↗ |
| 17 | 1249 | La casa lobo | 2018 | Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña | Chile | Experimental | Stop-Motion, Surrealism, Psychological Horror, Psychological Drama, Fairy Tale, Body Horror, Folk Horror, Family Drama, Period Drama | 16 | IMDb ↗ |
| 18 | 1271 | Bijitâ Q | 2001 | Takashi Miike | Japan | Comedy | Black Comedy, Satire, Family Drama, Sexploitation, Absurdist Comedy, Mockumentary, Exploitation, Experimental, Gross-Out Comedy | 15 | IMDb ↗ |
| 19 | 1305 | The House That Jack Built | 2018 | Lars von Trier | Denmark | Psychological | Crime, Psychological Drama, Postmodernism, Black Comedy, Sadistic Horror, Essay Film, Psychological Horror, Low Fantasy, Experimental | 21 | IMDb ↗ |
| 20 | 1388 | The Fall of the House of Usher | 1928 | James Sibley Watson, Melville Webber | USA | Gothic | Surrealism, Experimental, Psychological Horror, Surrealist Movement, German Expressionism | 12 | IMDb ↗ |
| 21 | 1559 | The Outwaters | 2022 | Robbie Banfitch | USA | Found Footage | Surrealism, Cosmic Horror, Experimental, Abstract Film, Body Horror, Splatter, Psychological Horror, Time Loop | 10 | IMDb ↗ |
| 22 | 1799 | L’étrange couleur des larmes de ton corps | 2013 | Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani | Belgium | Experimental | Surrealism, Giallo, Psychological Thriller | 7 | IMDb ↗ |
| 23 | 2695 | Rubber Johnny | 2005 | Chris Cunningham | UK | Body Horror | Music, Experimental, Surrealism, Dance Film, Black Comedy | 5 | IMDb ↗ |
| 24 | 2781 | Enys Men | 2022 | Mark Jenkin | UK | Psychological | Psychological Horror, Folk Horror, Experimental, Analog Horror, Surrealism | 4 | IMDb ↗ |
| 25 | 3881 | 964 Pinocchio | 1991 | Shozin Fukui | Japan | Body Horror | Cyberpunk, Surrealism, Experimental, Psychological Horror, Absurdist Comedy, Sadistic Horror, Black Comedy, J-Splatter | 3 | IMDb ↗ |
| 26 | 4155 | Ursula | 1961 | Lloyd Michael Williams | USA | Experimental | — | 2 | IMDb ↗ |
| 27 | 4213 | Papa, umer Ded Moroz | 1991 | Yevgeny Yufit | Russia | Experimental | — | 2 | IMDb ↗ |
| 28 | 4225 | Visions of Suffering | 2006 | Andrey Iskanov | Russia | Experimental | — | 2 | IMDb ↗ |
| 29 | 4457 | Vase de noces | 1974 | Thierry Zéno | Belgium | Experimental | — | 2 | IMDb ↗ |
| 30 | 4674 | Forbrydelsens element | 1984 | Lars von Trier | Denmark | Experimental | — | 2 | IMDb ↗ |
| 31 | 4968 | L’année dernière à Marienbad | 1961 | Alain Resnais | France | Experimental | — | 2 | IMDb ↗ |
| 32 | 5207 | Outer Space | 1999 | Peter Tscherkassky | Austria | Experimental | — | 2 | IMDb ↗ |
| 33 | 5580 | L’inhumaine | 1924 | Marcel L'Herbier | France | Experimental | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 34 | 5764 | Spook Sport | 1940 | Mary Ellen Bute, Norman McLaren | USA | Experimental | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 35 | 5797 | The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes | 1971 | Stan Brakhage | USA | Experimental | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 36 | 5957 | The Zone of Interest | 2023 | Jonathan Glazer | USA | War | Period Drama, Slice of Life, Postmodernism, Family Drama, Psychological Drama, Experimental, Psychological Horror, Biopic | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 37 | 6042 | The Peanut Vendor | 1933 | Dave Fleischer | USA | Experimental | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 38 | 6059 | Tomato Kecchappu Kôtei | 1971 | Shûji Terayama | Japan | Experimental | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 39 | 6775 | The Other Side of the Underneath | 1972 | Jane Arden | UK | Experimental | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 40 | 7006 | Heck | 2020 | Kyle Edward Ball | Canada | Experimental | Psychological Horror, Analog Horror, Supernatural, Found Footage, Surrealism, Structural Film, Slow Cinema | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 41 | 7016 | Cremaster 3 | 2002 | Matthew Barney | USA | Experimental | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 42 | 8554 | Divided Into Zero | 1999 | Mitch Davis | Canada | Experimental | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 43 | 8564 | Le bunker de la dernière rafale | 1993 | Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet | France | Science Fiction | War, Dystopian, Experimental, Chamber Film | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 44 | 8578 | Pig | 1998 | Nico B., Rozz Williams | USA | Experimental | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 45 | 8718 | Teenage Babylon | 1989 | Graeme Wood | Australia | Experimental | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 46 | 8756 | SXXX-80 | 1980 | Monte Cazazza, Tana Emmolo Smith | USA | Experimental | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 47 | 8779 | First Transmission | 1982 | — | UK | Experimental | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 48 | 8829 | Book of Dead | 1978 | Victor Faccinto | USA | Experimental | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 49 | 8847 | Une nuit sur le mont chauve | 1938 | Alexander Alexeieff, Claire Parker | France | Experimental | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 50 | 8901 | À propos de Nice | 1930 | Jean Vigo, Boris Kaufman | France | Experimental | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 51 | 8931 | The Last of England | 1987 | Derek Jarman | UK | Experimental | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 52 | 9129 | Oj! Nie moge sie zatrzymac! | 1984 | Zbigniew Rybczynski | Poland | Experimental | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 53 | 9402 | Timecode | 2000 | Mike Figgis | USA | Experimental | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
| 54 | 9505 | Black Ice | 1994 | Stan Brakhage | USA | Experimental | — | 1 | IMDb ↗ |
Keyword data is still being added, so some films have incomplete or missing keywords.