Recommend an unusual movie please

JustDave said:
David Lynch may be the most enigmatic director in Hollywood. I've had to look up explanations for Mulholland Drive. I was driving myself nuts trying to make sense out of the film, and even the expert critics write they are only speculating, because Lynch refuses to explain his own works. But even not understanding the film, the scenes keep my attention. He is the epitome of "unusual."
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I watched Mulholland a couple times. The first time was most enjoyable because you're hoping that there is a resolution that'll make it all make sense. The second time there is no hope so you just have to take it at face value and be left wondering.
The same is true of Eraserhead. But Eraserhead is dark and unpleasant to experience not to mention pretty boring.
I don't know if what I believe is accurate, but I think I read somewhere that Eraserhead was a school project that he later released.
 

Memento, starring Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano.

An insurance investigator, suffers from anterograde amnesia and uses notes and tattoos to hunt for the man he thinks killed his wife, which is the last thing he remembers. One story line moves forward in time while the other tells the story backwards revealing more each time.

 
Bella said:
Memento, starring Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano.

An insurance investigator, suffers from anterograde amnesia and uses notes and tattoos to hunt for the man he thinks killed his wife, which is the last thing he remembers. One story line moves forward in time while the other tells the story backwards revealing more each time.

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There have been some very good nominations for "unusual" in this thread and Memento qualifies. I was so taken I watched it three times trying to put all the parts together. This was back in the VCR days, so finally I watched the whole film in reverse, because the story is told backwards. And when you watch it backwards it makes perfect sense. The plot is incredibly simple backwards.
 

A trio of films from the brilliant story teller, writer, director, Guillermo del Toro.

Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

In 1944 Falangist Spain, a girl, fascinated with fairy-tales, is sent along with her pregnant mother to live with her new stepfather, a ruthless captain of the Spanish army. During the night, she meets a fairy who takes her to an old faun in the center of the labyrinth. He tells her she's a princess, but must prove her royalty by surviving three gruesome tasks. If she fails, she will never prove herself to be the true princess and will never see her real father, the king, again.


The Shape Of Water (2017), Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director. Starring Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, and Octavia Spencer.

An otherworldly fable set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda (Octavia Spencer) discover a secret classified experiment.


Pinocchio (2022) - The production of this picture began in 2008, with a release date of 2013, but it ran into development issues, and there was no further word about it for years. In August 2017, Patrick McHale was hired to co-write the script with del Toro. Later that year, at the 74th Venice International Film Festival, del Toro told Indie Wire that the project would require a $35 million budget increase or be cancelled. On November 8, 2017, he announced that the project would not proceed because no studios were willing to finance it. It was relaunched the next year after being acquired by Netflix. This stop-motion animated film is a meticulously crafted, visually stunning work of art.

Voice cast - Ron Perlman, Tilda Swinton, Ewan McGregor, Christoph Waltz, Cate Blanchett, Tim Blake Nelson, Finn Wolfhard, John Turturro and Burn Gorman.

 
Before I could suggest an unusual film, I would need to know what genre of films you prefer. Things that I consider to be great you might not like.

The latest film I've added to my collection was The Bee Keeper. It's a Jason Statham action film, but for him it was different, So if different adds up to unusual, and you like action films, try that.
 
I searched for the Lobster movie on Amazon Prime, but it wasn't available for free so I skipped it. But, one of the movies that were recommended as watched by the same people who watched the Lobster was Four Lions and it was free on Prime, so I watched that one. Seemed pretty weird to me, but entertaining enough that I watched the whole thing, though in spite of being really funny it left me feeling horrified.

 
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