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[nenjin]

Just rewatched Carnivale and realized, these are really the only kinds of TV I get into.

So I'd like some suggestions for TV/movies like....

Twin Peaks
Carnivale
The Lost Room
Pi
Donnie Darko
The Golem
The Strange Cabinet of Dr. Calligari
The 9th Gate
The Serpent & The Rainbow
The Quest (aka Frog Dreaming)
True Detective
Event Horizon
Shutter Island
Session 9
The Prisoner
Lord of Illusions
The Prestige
A Field In England
John Dies At The End
The Keep
The Church
Forbidden Planet
Kill List

But not so much like....

Supernatural
Devil's Advocate
End of Days
Charmed
Constantine
ect...

[Vector]

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[Frumple]

I... I don't actually remember terribly much about it. Nor if it would fit criteria, because I can't remember anything of the very few on that list I've seen any of. And also I don't exactly watch much in the way of TV. Or movies. But.

Lexx? I remember it being fairly odd as sci-fi shows go. Just... don't ask me why. It's been years, and I never saw terribly much of it.

[nenjin]

That was more of a space thriller/comedy with more than its fair share of innuendo, IIRC.

-Edit-

Primer looks right up my alley.

Got a link for The Village? All I'm getting is The Village By BBCOne.

[Vector]

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[nenjin]

My track record might suggest otherwise, but I've had to sit through several years of derision about Lost having never watched it. So, I dunno, I might be a little too prejudiced.

The Prisoner, yeah, have had that suggested before. I should probably watch the originals.

[Hubris Incalculable]

Life on Mars (UK)

[Biowraith]

American Gothic, maybe. (the tv series)

[Gunner-Chan]

Six string samurai maybe?

[Biowraith]

The Booth at the End
And possibly The Returned (aka Les Revenants)
(apparently there's more than one "The Returned", so to clarify: this one)

[Skyrunner]

Mr Nobody is a very strange movie. Like Inception but less straight forward. I had a great time watching it at school with my friends.

[Gatleos]

Being John Malkovich.

I've never been made to feel so uncomfortable yet so enthralled by a movie. It's got a lot of character drama in it, but the core of the story is... I guess it could be loosely compared to a high-concept sci-fi premise. It's fucking weird is what I'm saying.

[Il Palazzo]

Here are some of my favourite, not-yet-mentioned head-scratchers:

Aronofsky's The Fountain. You liked his Pi, you'll probably like these too. It's mystical, brooding, convoluted and visually stunning.

Linklater's Waking Life and Scanner Darkly. Waking Life is confused and sesquipedalian like a teenager with too much brains for his own good. Scanner Darkly is P.K.Dick done right, and that says a lot.

The guy who made Primer, semi-recently made another film called Upstream Colour. It's probably the only film I've ever seen that I couldn't figure out what it's supposed to be about. But then again, I haven't seen Holy Mountain.

Primer is not the only film that can aspire to having done time travel right. There's also Triangle(the one made by Chris Smith). One of the signs of it being on the same level is that you might need to draw/find a graph with all the timelines to understand what's going on.

David Lynch seems right up your alley, considering you liked Twin Peaks. Check out The Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive, or just browse his filmography. I don't think he's ever made a straightforward film(Dune might be the closest he ever got).

Recent A field in England has got 17th century alchemists, magic mushrooms, and the power of friendship.

edit: I mixed Aronofsky and Linklater, and nobody noticed.

[Gatleos]

I don't think he's ever made a straightforward film(Dune might be the closest he ever got).

The Straight Story

I still think the title is a subtle joke by Lynch.

[Cheeetar]

I'd recommend Hannibal, the TV series. It plays very heavily with audience perception- I found it very tonally different from what little exposure I have to the rest of the Hannibal stuff (movies etc.) in a good way. It's also quite surreal, like many of the things you mentioned liking (in particular, True Detective, which I also liked.)