The following list showcases 50 of the most groundbreaking and influential experimental films of all time, spanning various eras and styles.

There is so set order, just a bunch of ones I think everyone should check out.

  • Un Chien Andalou (1929) - Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí
  • Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) - Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid
  • Entr’acte (1924) - René Clair
  • Man with a Movie Camera (1929) - Dziga Vertov
  • L’Age d’Or (1930) - Luis Buñuel
  • A Movie (1958) - Bruce Conner
  • Wavelength (1967) - Michael Snow
  • Dog Star Man (1964) - Stan Brakhage
  • The Blood of a Poet (1930) - Jean Cocteau
  • Scorpio Rising (1963) - Kenneth Anger
  • Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954) - Kenneth Anger
  • Flaming Creatures (1963) - Jack Smith
  • Rose Hobart (1936) - Joseph Cornell
  • Mothlight (1963) - Stan Brakhage
  • La Jetée (1962) - Chris Marker
  • Fuses (1964) - Carolee Schneemann
  • The Dante Quartet (1987) - Stan Brakhage
  • Line Describing a Cone (1973) - Anthony McCall
  • Light Is Waiting (2007) - Michael Snow
  • The Flicker (1966) - Tony Conrad
  • Ballet Mécanique (1924) - Fernand Léger
  • The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928) - Germaine Dulac
  • Anemic Cinema (1926) - Marcel Duchamp
  • Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927) - Walter Ruttmann
  • Emak Bakia (1926) - Man Ray
  • Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946) - Maya Deren
  • At Land (1944) - Maya Deren
  • A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945) - Maya Deren
  • The Very Eye of Night (1958) - Maya Deren
  • Window Water Baby Moving (1959) - Stan Brakhage
  • Bridges-Go-Round (1958) - Shirley Clarke
  • Serene Velocity (1970) - Ernie Gehr
  • Zorns Lemma (1970) - Hollis Frampton
  • The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes (1971) - Stan Brakhage
  • The Girl Chewing Gum (1976) - John Smith
  • Report (1967) - Bruce Conner
  • Reassemblage (1982) - Trinh T. Minh-ha
  • Tongues Untied (1989) - Marlon Riggs
  • Handsworth Songs (1986) - Black Audio Film Collective
  • Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968) - William Greaves
  • The Clock (2010) - Christian Marclay
  • The Grand Bizarre (2018) - Jodie Mack
  • Leviathan (2012) - Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
  • Sans Soleil (1983) - Chris Marker
  • Decasia (2002) - Bill Morrison
  • Blue (1993) - Derek Jarman
  • Last Year at Marienbad (1961) - Alain Resnais
  • Persona (1966) - Ingmar Bergman
  • Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) - Shinya Tsukamoto
  • Eraserhead (1977) - David Lynch