List of avant-garde films of the 1990s

This is a list of avant-garde and experimental films released in the 1990s.

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Subgenre/notes
1990
Archangel	Guy Maddin	Kyle McCulloch, Kathy Marykuca, Sarah Neville		[1]
Begotten	E. Elias Merhige	Brian Salzberg, Donna Dempsey, Stephen Charles Barry		Experimental horror
Singapore Sling	Nikos Nikolaidis	Meredyth Herold, Panos Thanassoulis, Michele Valley
Tenamonya Connection	Masashi Yamamoto	Reiko Arai		[2]
1991
Delicatessen	Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet	Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claude Dreyfus		Surrealist film[3]
Europa	Lars von Trier	Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Ernst-Hugo Järegård
Naked Lunch	David Cronenberg	Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm		[4]
Prospero's Books	Peter Greenaway	John Gielgud, Michael Clark, Michel Blanc		[5]
1992
Jidlo	Jan Švankmajer			[6]
1993
Blue	Derek Jarman	John Quentin, Nigel Terry, Derek Jarman		[7]
Careful	Guy Maddin	Kyle McCulloch, Gosia Dobrowolska, Sarah Neville		[8]
Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life	Peter Capaldi	Richard E. Grant		[9]
Smoking/No Smoking	Alain Resnais	Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi		[10]
Wittgenstein	Derek Jarman	Karl Johnson, Michael Gough, Tilda Swinton		[11]
1994
Black Ice	Stan Brakhage			[12]
Faust	Jan Švankmajer	Petr Cepek		[13]
Postcards from America	Elizabeth Gill, Chris Hoover, Steve McLean	James Lyons, Michael Tighe, Olmo Tighe		[14]
Roy Cohn/Jack Smith	Ron Vawter, Anita Thacher, Jill Godmilow	Coco McPherson, Ron Vawter		[15]
Vanya on 42nd Street	Louis Malle	Wallace Shawn, Larry Pine, Andre Gregory		[16]
1995
Cremaster 1	Matthew Barney			[17]
Lumière and Company	Various directors			[18]
Sonic Outlaws	Craig Baldwin			[19]
Tokyo Fist	Shinya Tsukamoto	Shinya Tsukamoto, Kaori Fujii, Kohji Tsukamoto		[20]
1996
Conspirators of Pleasure	Jan Švankmajer	Petr Meissel		[21]
For Ever Mozart	Jean-Luc Godard	Madeleine Assas, Bérangère Allaux		[22]
Hide and Seek	Su Friedrich			[23]
The Pillow Book	Peter Greenaway	Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor, Yoshi Oida		[24]
Village of Dreams	Yoichi Higashi	Mieko Harada, Kaneko Iwasaki, Hosei Komatsu		[25]
1997
Gummo	Harmony Korine	Jacob Reynolds, Nick Sutton, Jacob Sewell		[26]
Lost Highway	David Lynch	Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty		Surrealist film[27]
Mein Herz – niemandem!	Helma Sanders-Brahms	Lena Stolze, Thomas Ruffer, René Schubert		[28]
The Mirror	Jafar Panahi	Mina Mohammad Khani, Kadem Mojdehi		[29]
Scars	James Herbert	Carter Davis, Alexandra Rosetti		[30]
Uncut	John Greyson	Matthew Ferguson, Michael Achtman, Damon D'Oliveira		[31]
1998
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	Terry Gilliam	Johnny Depp, Benicio del Toro, Craig Bierko		[32]
Pi	Darren Aronofsky	Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman		[33]
Troika	Jennifer Montgomery	Jenny Bass, Lev Shekhtman, Marina Shterenberg		[34]
1999
Cremaster 5	Matthew Barney	Norman Mailer, Matthew Barney, Lauren Pine		[35]
Dancing with Hydra	Takuji Suzuki			[36]
Julien Donkey-Boy	Harmony Korine	Ewen Bremner, Chloë Sevigny, Werner Herzog		[37]
See You in Hell, My Darling	Nikos Nikolaidis	Vicky Harris, Valeria Christodoulidou, Paschalis Tsarouhas

Notes

1. Erickson, Hal. "Archangel". Allrovi. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
2. Crow, Jonathan. "Tenamonya Connection". Allrovi. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
3. Blaise, Judd. "Delicatessen". Allrovi. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
4. Dillard, Brian J. "Naked Lunch". Allrovi. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
5. Voorhees, John. "Prospero's Books". Allrovi. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
6. "Jidlo". Allrovi. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
7. Voorhees, John. "Blue". Allrovi. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
8. Erickson, Hal. "Careful". Allrovi. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
9. Deming, Mark. "Fran Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life". Allmovie. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
10. Fountain, Clarke. "Smoking/No Smoking". Allrovi. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
11. Brenner, Paul. "Wittgenstein". Allrovi. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
12. "Black Ice". Allrovi. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
13. Brennan, Sandra. "Faust". Allrovi. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
14. Brennan, Sandra. "Postcards from America". Allmovie. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
15. Brennan, Sandra. "Roy Cohn/Jack Smith". Allrovi. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
16. Deming, Mark. "Vanya on 42nd Street". Allrovi. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
17. Hastings, Michael. "Cremaster 1". Allrovi. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
18. Tobey, Matthew. "Lumière and Company". Allrovi. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
19. Brennan, Sandra. "Sonic Outlaws". Allrovi. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
20. Crow, Jonathan. "Tokyo Fist". Allrovi. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
21. Crow, Jonathan. "Conspirators of Pleasure". Allrovi. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
22. Schwartz, Louis. "For Ever Mozart". Allrovi. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
23. Ralske, Josh. "Hide and Seek". Allrovi. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
24. Deming, Mark. "The Pillow Book". Allrovi. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
25. Crow, Jonathan. "Village of Dreams". Allrovi. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
26. Dillard, Brian J. "Gummo". Allrovi. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
27. Deming, Mark. "Lost Highway". Allrovi. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
28. "My Heart Is Mine Alone (Sanders-Brahms)". Facets DVDs. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
29. Brennan, Sandra. "The Mirror". Allmovie. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
30. Stewart, Bhob. "Scars". Allrovi. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
31. Brennan, Sandra. "Uncut". Allrovi. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
32. Olthuis, Andrew. "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". Allrovi. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
33. Stewart, Bhob. "Pi". Allrovi. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
34. Betzold, Michael. "Troika". Allrovi. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
35. Olthuis, Andrew. "Cremaster 5". Allrovi. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
36. Crow, Jonathan. "Dancing with Hydra". Allrovi. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
37. Deming, Mark. "Julien Donkey-Boy". Allrovi. Retrieved July 2, 2011.