surrealist film

Surrealist film is cinema that draws on the surrealist art movement, emphasizing dreamlike imagery, irrational sequences, and the unconscious mind over conventional narrative.

The genre emerged in 1920s France with works like Buñuel and Dalí's Un Chien Andalou.

Later filmmakers like David Lynch are often called surrealist for their unsettling, logic-defying imagery, though the term now applies loosely to any film that feels dreamlike or deliberately strange.