grotesque

38 movies and shows

Mai-chan's Daily Life

Thu, 25 Feb 2016

Miyako starts a live-in maid job and quickly discovers that housecleaning is the least of her duties, as her employers use the maids in their twisted fantasies. Her co-worker Mai-chan, who can miraculously recover from any injury, becomes the focus of horrific, indulgent violence that Miyako is soon drawn into.

The Name of the Rose

Wed, 24 Sep 1986

14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is considerable.

Cemetery Man

Fri, 25 Mar 1994

Cemetery watchman, Francesco Dellamorte, is tasked with dispatching the recently deceased when they rise from their graves.

La Grande Bouffe

Wed, 16 May 1973

Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.

Registros Fatais 3: Apocalypse

Fri, 21 Dec 2012

The shocking finale of the titular trilogy, which features graphic footage of the macabre and grotesque as directed by Brazilian filmmaker Lázaro Hahn.

The Belly of an Architect

Wed, 23 Sep 1987

The American architect Kracklite arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibiton for a French architect, Boullée, famous for his oval structures. Tirelessly dedicated to the project, Kracklite's marriage quickly dissolves along with his health.

What?

Thu, 07 Dec 1972

A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems quite right.

August Underground's Penance

Fri, 30 Mar 2007

Has someone ever handed you a movie, not telling you one thing about it, only telling you to watch it. What if that tape was the personal home video of two sociopaths on a killing spree? This is their home movie, for their eyes-only. This is August Underground's Penance. The third and final film in the AU franchise directed by Fred Vogel and starring Cristie "Crusty" Whiles. Penance shows the dark decline of the two nameless killers from the previous films as they continue to videotape their madness on their path to destruction.

Boris: The Film

Fri, 01 Apr 2011

A director and his crew attempt to make the transition from the small to the big screen.

The Leech

Thu, 23 Jun 2022

A devout priest welcomes a struggling couple into his house at Christmas time. What begins as a simple act of kindness quickly becomes the ultimate test of faith once the sanctity of his home is jeopardized.

Vuja de

Sat, 28 May 2022

Forced by the parents to be married, a young couple in Paris discover things about themselves as they mature through their romance together.

Aimy in a Cage

Tue, 08 Sep 2015

A teenage orphan and delinquent rebels against her evil family during a global virus outbreak.

Midnight Hunger

Mon, 01 Aug 2022

Dario, a young electronics enthusiast, decides in the late evening to take a trip down the street to throw out the garbage to kill time - waiting for his "freeze-dried tart" to finish ...getting ready - but his return to home is hindered by many bizarre, violent and out of the ordinary characters who one after another involve him in their delusions, making him run far and wide.

Intent

Sun, 17 Feb 2019

A boy searching for answers to crucial issues finds himself in a strange place inhabited by Meanings, The Higher Tier, a superstructure above the world masterminding everything below. The guide he met there tends to get to some place called Wellspring to "readjust" or make it right for people below to end their suffering. On their way they meet various characters wandering around The Tier in their search for Meanings. The boy becomes an object of confrontation for struggling powers and gains knowledge about events the world is about to experience. In spite of haven’t been mentioned directly, this film is about Russia. It's about the abyss this meaningless, ideology deprived country goes down into, about the forthcoming catastrophe of Russian Federation and the last planetary project to be implemented upon its ruins, taking its turn instead of obsolete Communism and Liberalism.

Weightless Bird In A Falling Cage

Tue, 29 Aug 2017

A faceless protagonist witnesses the alienation of gentrification as his home is overtaken by development. the forces behind it are demanding him to leave, but also consequently push him further and further into his not-home.

Purgatorium

Mon, 19 Jun 2023

An average company employee is thrust into a delirious night after a mugging and faces a world of lost souls that he had not considered before.

All the Knowledge in the World

Fri, 31 Aug 2001

Weird characters, odd mishaps, fates that meet, skim and loose each other in an attempt to shed light on the “meaning of life”: a college student in love with her philosophy lecturer; a disabled man seeking recovery; a pop star meeting a spiritual guru. And above everybody stands a mysterious luminescent man, maybe real, maybe not.