Ever watched a movie so strange, so surreal, that you weren’t sure whether to laugh, cry, or question your existence? Welcome to the wonderfully weird world of absurdist movies. These movies throw logic out the window, challenge narrative norms, and dive headfirst into the bizarre and unpredictable. From talking corpses to dinner parties that never begin, absurdist movies reflect the chaos and confusion of real life, but with a wild, often darkly funny twist. If you are ready to embrace the strange, here are some movies that will leave you amused, bewildered, and maybe even a little enlightened. 7 absurdist movies that blow your mind with twisted realities; on Amazon Prime Video, SonyLIV and more 1. Everything Everywhere All at Once – SonyLIV This Oscar-sweeping genre-bender is absurdist cinema at its most emotionally resonant and creatively unhinged. Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh), a weary laundromat owner, is suddenly pulled into a multiverse war where she must connect with alternate versions of herself – from a hibachi chef to a rock with googly eyes – to stop a chaos-spreading entity (who also happens to be her daughter). It’s packed with kung fu fights, existential questions, and deeply tender moments – all delivered in a way that’s as hilarious as it is heartbreaking. It's weird, wild, and utterly unforgettable. 2. Stranger than Fiction – Amazon Prime Video Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) is an IRS auditor living a monotonous, strictly timed life – until one day he begins to hear a narrator in his head. This voice (voiced by Emma Thompson) is narrating his life in real time... and casually mentions his imminent death. Rattled, Harold seeks help from a literature professor, Jules Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman), to determine whether he’s in a comedy or a tragedy, and whether he can change the ending. The movie is a wonderfully offbeat blend of comedy, drama, and metafiction, with Ferrell in one of his most understated and poignant roles. 3. The Killing of a Sacred Deer – Amazon Prime Video Steven Murphy (Colin Farrell) is a successful heart surgeon with a perfect family – his wife Anna (Nicole Kidman) and two children. His life takes a dark turn when he befriends a mysterious teenage boy, Martin (Barry Keoghan), whose behaviour becomes increasingly disturbing. Martin eventually issues a terrifying ultimatum that plunges the family into a nightmarish moral dilemma – one that echoes ancient Greek tragedy. This chilling and surreal psychological horror-thriller doesn’t rely on jump scares. Its terror stems from impossible choices, slow dread, and emotional detachment. 4. The Lobster – YouTube In a dystopian society, single people are sent to a hotel where they have 45 days to find a romantic partner, or else they are transformed into an animal of their choice. David (Colin Farrell), recently dumped by his wife, checks into this hotel and chooses to become a lobster if he fails. What follows is a bleakly hilarious and tragic exploration of conformity, desperation, and rebellion, especially when David flees to the forest to join a group of radical loners, who impose their own harsh rules. This is a one-of-a-kind film that blends absurdism, dystopia, dark comedy, and tragic romance. 5. Stranger Than Paradise – Amazon Prime Video The movie follows three disaffected characters: Willie (John Laurie), a New York slacker of Hungarian descent; Eva (Eszter Balint), his visiting teenage cousin from Budapest; and Eddie (Richard Edson), Willie’s equally aimless friend. They drift through New York, Cleveland, and Florida in a narrative where almost nothing ‘happens’ in a conventional sense, but their boredom, alienation, and odd connections become the story. Each scene is presented in a single long take with a black fadeout in between, emphasising the stillness and detachment. 6. Being John Malkovich – YouTube Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) is a down-and-out puppeteer who takes a filing job at the bizarre 7½th floor of an office building. Behind a hidden door, he discovers a portal into the mind of actor John Malkovich. For exactly 15 minutes, he (or anyone else) can experience life from Malkovich’s point of view. As Craig, his animal-obsessed wife Lotte (Cameron Diaz), and his cold, alluring coworker Maxine (Catherine Keener) discover the portal's powers, things spiral into a bizarre struggle over identity, desire, control and what it means to be human. 7. Kinds of Kindness – JioHotstar Director Yorgos Lanthimos returns to his signature absurdist, unsettling style after the whimsical surrealism of Poor Things. It's an anthology of three loosely connected stories, each exploring twisted power dynamics, control, and identity through Lanthimos’ uniquely deadpan, disorienting lens. The movie explores how control, cruelty, and obsession can masquerade as kindness – from employers dictating life choices to lovers demanding loyalty to cults offering ‘spiritual freedom’. It suggests that what we call kindness is often about power.