| Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory | 1971 | Simply the most magical film ever made. Sometimes psychedelic, Sometimes fever-dreamy, but always charming and warm-hearted. |
| Us | 2019 | The film's namesake, the doppelgangers which take over humanity, are somehow the least surprising aspect of this film's myriad of wild plot twists and intricate messages. |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | The ultimate postmodern film. A sometimes beautiful, sometimes chilling, sometimes surreal meditation on all of humanity from caveman to space explorer. Guaranteed to cause existential crisis. |
| Brazil | 1985 | Ex-Monty-Python Terry Gilliam shows us a bizarre and darkly hilarious vision of the future. |
| Monty Python's Life Of Brian | 1979 | |
| Birdman | 2014 | A single camera follows around a washed-up actor's chaotic daily life, while an eccentric jazz ensemble toodles away in the background. A curious, unexpectedly emotional, and deeply fun experience to watch. |
| Poor Things | 2023 | Damn. |
| The Menu | 2022 | Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy take you on a goddamn ride. Wonderfully disorienting, genuinely disorienting moments, and a conclusion that potentially could have felt contrived if it hadn't been done so damn well. |
| Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 1975 | Monty Python’s origins in sketch comedy help them here—every single scene is a sketch that could stand on its own, without a single spare second of film wasted in between. |
| Yellow Submarine | 1969 | A psychedelic trip back in time with more than enough curious material to entertain both children and adults. |
| This Is Spinal Tap | 1984 | The single best mockumentary ever made. Incredible attention to detail to all the little bits of stupidity that make these funny. |
| Help! | 1965 | When we evolve past the nascent stage of "movie just for the sake of featuring The Beatles" (i.e. A Hard Day's Night), and add some true creativity and genuinely absurd humor, and even a little character development, we get Help! |
| Christmas on Mars | 2008 | A dark and surreal examination of mortality, as the residents of a rudimentary Mars base celebrate Christmas to fight the horrors of complete isolation, all while trying to ensure a mystical baby survives birth. |
| Amélie | 2001 | Ostensibly just a vaguely cartoonish French romance, but with a certain lasting je ne sais quois that makes it somehow endlessly rewatchable. |
| Beyond the Black Rainbow | 2012 | In the vein of Space Odyssey before it, this curious and artistic look at a future with bioengineered humans is both visually stunning and thought-provoking. |