What’s absurd to one viewer could just be mildly odd for the next. But if you love anything highly unusual, this list is a good start. Here are the best weird movies and shows to stream, from the avant-garde to the surreal.
Dir. James Sweeney
Twinless starts off something like one of those quirky indies in the 2010s about awkwardly navigating grief and sharing that…
Dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
From 1964-1985, Brazil was under a military dictatorship. If you’re looking for films about this period of time, you can…
From the creators of Scavengers Reign and Veep comes Common Side Effects, a show that’s at once quirkily funny and…
Dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
If it weren’t for the people involved, the English-language remake of the Korean sci-fi comedy Save the Green Planet might…
Dir. Coralie Fargeat
There is nothing quite like The Substance right now. It’s unsubtle, it’s provocative, and its satirical humor can be a…
During adolescence, teenagers get to learn and discover themselves and the world, but for most people, this means going through…
Some people can get totally desperate when it comes to their love life, but rarely does this desperation end up…
Dir. Josh Forbes
It’s easy to classify Destroy All Neighbors as B-movie schlock; it unabashedly pays tribute to the low-budget comedy horror movies…
That The Curse is squirm-inducingly awkward won’t be news to anyone who’s watched a Nathan Fielder show before, but TV’s…
Dir. Jennifer Reeder
There’s a degree of removal in Perpetrator which some viewers may find jarring: most visibly, in the performances, whose heightened…
Dir. Radu Jude
With a title like this, it was expected that Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World…
Dir. Ariane Louis-Seize
When vampires choose not to kill a human, it’s usually played up with so much drama, angst, and maybe a…
There are stories within stories in Fantasmas, which like most of Torres’ work, favors style, theme, and emotion over a…
Dir. Zia Anger
Aspiring writer-director Vita of My First Film is insufferable. When she starts out making her first feature, she’s pleasantly surprised…
Dir. Colin West
Strange things are happening in the sleepy cul-de-sac where Cameron Edwin (comic Jim Gaffigan) lives: cars are falling from the…
It’s difficult to describe Mrs. Davis without sounding a little bit insane. It is, after all, a sci-fi series that…
Dir. Hideaki Anno
With Marvel and DC monopolizing the superhero landscape with high budgets, big-name actors, and CGI graphics, Shin Kamen Rider feels…
Usually, when whisked away to a fantasy world, there’s usually some grand reason, like a prophecy or a destined quest…
Undead Unluck is such a strange anime with such a strange duo. Named after their respective powers, the undead Andy…
Dir. Mel Eslyn
There’s an elephant lurking in the room from the outset of Biosphere, in which two men are the last survivors…
With the show transporting us straight into its colorful alien world without context, The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy…
Starting the series off with an electric guitar scored wedding, The Buccaneers seems, at first, a vapid cousin to the…
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