# 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 | Notes |
| 1990 |||||
| Absurd | John Maybury | | United Kingdom | |
| Archangel | Guy Maddin | Kyle McCulloch, Kathy Marykuca, Sarah Neville | Canada | |
| Babylon Series #2 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | Part of the Babylon Series |
| Babylon Series #3 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | Part of the Babylon Series |
| Bilokacija | Marina Gržinić, Aina Šmid | | Yugoslavia | |
| City Streaming | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Close-Up (1990 film) | Abbas Kiarostami | | Iran | |
| The Comb | Brothers Quay | | United Kingdom | |
| The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia | Jan Švankmajer | | Czech Republic | |
| The Garden | Derek Jarman | Mark Adley, Spencer Leigh, Tilda Swinton | United Kingdom | |
| Geography | Breda Beban, Hrvoje Horvatić | | Yugoslavia | |
| Glaze of Cathexis | Stan Brakhage | | United States | Part of the Three Hand-Painted Films |
| How to Live in the German Federal Republic | Harun Farocki | | West Germany | |
| Moscow Portraits | Marina Gržinić, Aina Šmid | | Yugoslavia | |
| Passage Through: A Ritual | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Singapore Sling | Nikos Nikolaidis | Meredyth Herold, Panos Thanassoulis, Michele Valley | Greece | |
| Tenamonya Connection | Masashi Yamamoto | Reiko Arai | Japan Hong Kong | |
| The Thatch of Night | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Vision of the Fire Tree | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave | Stan Brakhage | | United States | Part of the Visions in Meditation Cycle |
| Visions in Meditation #4: D.H. Lawrence | Stan Brakhage | | United States | Part of the Visions in Meditation Cycle |
| You Be Mother | Sarah Pucill | | United Kingdom | |
| 1991 |||||
| Agnus Dei Kinder Synapse | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| A Child's Garden and the Serious Sea | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Christ Mass Sex Dance | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Delicatessen | Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claude Dreyfus | France | Surrealist film |
| Edward II | Derek Jarman | Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry, Andrew Tiernan, Steven Waddington | United Kingdom | |
| Europa | Lars von Trier | Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Ernst-Hugo Järegård | Denmark | |
| Flaming Ears | Ursula Pürrer, Hans A. Scheirl, Dietmar Schipek | | Austria | |
| Franz Kafka | Piotr Dumala | | Poland | |
| Naked Lunch | David Cronenberg | Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm | Canada UK | |
| Prospero's Books | Peter Greenaway | John Gielgud, Michael Clark, Michel Blanc | UK France | |
| Traveling at Night | Chris Kraus | | United States | |
| Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America | Craig Baldwin | | United States | |
| 1992 |||||
| Acidfilmda | Metamkine | | France | |
| The Bride, The Bachelors – Even | Sanja Iveković, Dalibor Martinis | | Yugoslavia | |
| A Cage of Flame | Kayla Parker | | United Kingdom | |
| Crack Glass Eulogy | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Falling Lessons | Amy Halpern | | United States | |
| Fatima's Letter | Alia Syed | | United Kingdom | |
| I am My Own Woman | Rosa von Praunheim | Charlotte von Mahlsdorf | Germany | |
| Interpolations I-V | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| The Last Bolshevik | Chris Marker | | France | |
| Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media | Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick | Noam Chomsky | United States | |
| Jidlo | Jan Švankmajer | | Czech Republic | |
| Side/Walk/Shuttle | Ernie Gehr | | United States | |
| Untitled (For Marilyn) | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Videograms of a Revolution | Haron Farocki, Andrei Ujică | | Romania Germany | |
| Wittgenstein Tractatus | Péter Forgács | | Hungary | |
| Zefiro Torna | Jonas Mekas | | United States | |
| 1993 |||||
| Anamorphosis, or De Artificiali Perspectiva | Brothers Quay | | United Kingdom | |
| Artwar | Jeff Keen | | United Kingdom | |
| The Attendant | Isaac Julien | | United Kingdom | |
| Autumnal | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Blossom-Gift/Favor | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Blue | Derek Jarman | John Quentin, Nigel Terry, Derek Jarman | United Kingdom | |
| Boulder Blues and Pearls and... | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Careful | Guy Maddin | Kyle McCulloch, Gosia Dobrowolska, Sarah Neville | Canada | |
| Ephemeral Solidity | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Eyewitnesses in Foreign Countries | Gustav Deutsch, Mostafa Tabbou | | Austria Morocco | |
| Fast Trip, Long Drop | Gregg Bordowitz | | United States | |
| Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life | Peter Capaldi | Richard E. Grant | United Kingdom | |
| Gender Troublemakers | Xantha Philippa Mackay, Mirha-Soleil Ross | | Canada | |
| The Harrowing | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Passage à l'acte | Martin Arnold | | Austria | |
| Project Eleonara | Rühm T | | Estonia | |
| Smoking/No Smoking | Alain Resnais | Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi | France Italy | |
| Stellar | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Stille Nacht II: Tales from the Vienna Woods | Brothers Quay | | United Kingdom | |
| Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You | Brothers Quay | | United Kingdom | |
| Study in Color and Black and White | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Three Homerics | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Tryst Haunt | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Wittgenstein | Derek Jarman | Karl Johnson, Michael Gough, Tilda Swinton | United Kingdom | |
| 1994 |||||
| A.13 (short) | William Raban | | United Kingdom | |
| Black Ice | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Cannot Exist | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Cannot Not Exist | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Chartres Series | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Elementary Phrases | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Faust | Jan Švankmajer | Petr Čepek | Czech Republic France United Kingdom Germany | |
| From: First Hymn to the Night - Novalis | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| London | Patrick Keiller | Paul Scofield | United Kingdom | |
| Luna 10 | Marina Gržinić, Aina Šmid | | Slovenia | |
| The Mammals of Victoria | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Naughts | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Postcards from America | Elizabeth Gill, Chris Hoover, Steve McLean | James Lyons, Michael Tighe, Olmo Tighe | United States | |
| Roy Cohn/Jack Smith | Ron Vawter, Anita Thacher, Jill Godmilow | Coco McPherson, Ron Vawter | United States | |
| Sátántángo | Béla Tarr | Putyi Horváth, László Lugossy, Mihály Víg | Hungary | |
| Seduction of a Cyborg | Lynn Hershman Leeson | | United States | |
| Vanya on 42nd Street | Louis Malle | Wallace Shawn, Larry Pine, Andre Gregory | United States | |
| What She Wants | Ruth Lingford | | United Kingdom | |
| Why I Never Became a Dancer | Tracey Emin | | United Kingdom | |
| 1995 |||||
| Above the Lake | Dmitrii Frolov | Peter Kremis, Romil Rachev, Natalya Surkova | Russia |
| A3 – Apatija, AIDS in Antarktika | Marina Gržinić, Aina Šmid | | Slovenia |
| The 'b' Series | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Cremaster 1 | Matthew Barney | | United States | |
| Earthen Aerie | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| I... | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| I Take These Truths | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| If 6 was 9 | Eija-Liisa Ahtila | | Finland | |
| In Consideration of Pompeii | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December | Jean-Luc Godard | | France | |
| The Lost Films | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Lumière and Company | Various directors | | France Spain Sweden | |
| Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversion | Rosa von Praunheim | | Germany | |
| Out of the Present | Andrei Ujică | | Romania | |
| Paranoia Corridor | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Sonic Outlaws | Craig Baldwin | | United States | |
| Spring Cycle | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Tokyo Fist | Shinya Tsukamoto | Shinya Tsukamoto, Kaori Fujii, Kohji Tsukamoto | Japan | |
| We Hold These | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| 1996 |||||
| Beautiful Funerals | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Blue Value | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Breaking the Waves | Lars von Trier | Emily Watson | Denmark |
| Comingled Containers | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Concrescence | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Conspirators of Pleasure | Jan Švankmajer | Petr Meissel | Switzerland United Kingdom Czech Republic | |
| Crash | David Cronenberg | James Spader, Deborah Kara Unger, Elias Koteas, Holly Hunter, Rosanna Arquette | Canada United Kingdom | |
| The Film of Her | Bill Morrison | | United Kingdom | |
| For Ever Mozart | Jean-Luc Godard | Madeleine Assas, Bérangère Allaux | Switzerland France | |
| The Fur of Home | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Gallivant | Andrew Kötting | | United Kingdom | |
| Georgetown Loop | Ken Jacobs | | United States | |
| Happy-End | Peter Tscherkassky | | Austria | |
| Hide and Seek | Su Friedrich | | United States | |
| Irma Vep | Olivier Assayas | Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud | France | |
| Passagen | Lisl Ponger | | Austria | |
| The Pillow Book | Peter Greenaway | Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor, Yoshi Oida | United Kingdom France Netherlands | |
| Polite Madness | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Prelude 1 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Prelude 2 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Prelude 3 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Prelude 4 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Prelude 5 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Prelude 6 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Prelude 7 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Prelude 8 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Prelude 9 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Prelude 10 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Prelude 11 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Prelude 12 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Prelude 13 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Prelude 14 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Prelude 15 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Prelude 16 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Prelude 17 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Prelude 18 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Prelude 19 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Prelude 20 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Prelude 21 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Prelude 22 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Prelude 23 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Prelude 24 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Sexual Saga | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Shockingly Hot | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Terminus for You | Nicolas Rey | | France | |
| Through Wounded Eyes | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Triste | Nathaniel Dorsky | | United States | |
| Two Found Objects of Charles Boultenhouse | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Village of Dreams | Yōichi Higashi | Mieko Harada, Kaneko Iwasaki, Hosei Komatsu | Japan | |
| 1997 |||||
| Astor Place | Eve Heller | | United States | |
| The Cat of the Worm's Green Realm | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Divertimento | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Film Ist. | Gustav Deutsch | | Austria | |
| Gummo | Harmony Korine | Jacob Reynolds, Nick Sutton, Jacob Sewell | United States | |
| How I Learned to Stop Worring and Love Ariel Sharon | Avi Mograbi | | Israel | |
| Last Hymn to the Night - Novalis | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Level Five | Chris Marker | Catherine Belkhodja | France | |
| Lost Highway | David Lynch | Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty | United States | Surrealist film |
| Mein Herz – niemandem! | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Lena Stolze, Thomas Ruffer, René Schubert | Germany | |
| The Mirror | Jafar Panahi | Mina Mohammad Khani, Kadem Mojdehi | Iran | |
| Post-socializem + Retroavantgarde + IRWIN | Marina Gržinić, Aina Šmid | | Slovenia | |
| Robinson in Space | Patrick Keiller | Paul Scofield | United Kingdom | |
| Scars | James Herbert | Carter Davis, Alexandra Rosetti | United States | |
| Self Song/Death Song | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Still Life | Harun Farocki | | Germany | |
| Story of I | Jo Ann Kaplan | | United Kingdom | |
| Today | Eija-Liisa Ahtila | | Finland | |
| Uncut | John Greyson | Matthew Ferguson, Michael Achtman, Damon D'Oliveira | Canada | |
| Yggdrasill: Whose Roots Are Stars In The Human Mind | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| 1998 |||||
| ... Reel Five | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| ... Reel Four | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| ... Reel One | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| ... Reel Three | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| ... Reel Two | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy | Martin Arnold | | Austria | |
| L'Arrivée | Peter Tscherkassky | | Austria | |
| Dandy Dust | Hans A. Scheirl | Hans Scheirl, Leonora Rogers-Wright, Suzie Krüger, Tres Trash Temperilli | Austria | |
| Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Terry Gilliam | Johnny Depp, Benicio del Toro, Craig Bierko | United States | |
| Female Mystique and Spare Leaves | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Festen | Thomas Vinterberg | Trine Dyrholm, Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Birthe Neumann, Paprika Steen | Denmark | |
| Histoire(s) du cinéma | Jean-Luc Godard | | France | |
| His-story | Deimantas Narkevičius | | Lithuania | |
| The Idiots | Lars von Trier | Jens Albinus, Anne Louise Hassing, Bodil Jørgensen, Troels Lyby, Louise Meirtiz | Denmark |
| Money, A Mythology of Darkness | Vassilis Mazomenos | | Greece |
| Pi | Darren Aronofsky | Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman | United States | |
| Shulie | Elisabeth Subrin | | United States | |
| Troika | Jennifer Montgomery | Jenny Bass, Lev Shekhtman, Marina Shterenberg | United States | |
| Variations | Nathaniel Dorsky | | United States | |
| 1999 |||||
| Alternating Currents | Stan Brakhage, Phil Solomon | | United States | |
| Beau travail | Claire Denis | Denis Lavant, Michel Subor | France | |
| The Birds of Paradise | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Cloud Chamber | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Consolation Service | Eija-Liisa Ahtila | | Finland | |
| Coupling | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Cremaster 5 | Matthew Barney | Norman Mailer, Matthew Barney, Lauren Pine | United States | |
| Cricket Requiem | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Dancing with Hydra | Takuji Suzuki | | Japan | |
| The Dark Tower | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| E-CLIP-SE | Chris Marker | | France | |
| The Earthsong of the Cricket | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore | Mark Leckey | | United Kingdom | |
| Get Ready | Peter Tscherkassky | | Austria | |
| Julien Donkey-Boy | Harmony Korine | Ewen Bremner, Chloë Sevigny, Werner Herzog | United States | |
| The Lion and the Zebra Make God's Raw Jewels | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Outer Space | Peter Tscherkassky | | Austria | |
| Persian Series #1 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Persian Series #2 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Persian Series #3 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Persian Series #4 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Persian Series #5 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| See You in Hell, My Darling | Nikos Nikolaidis | Vicky Harris, Valeria Christodoulidou, Paschalis Tsarouhas | Greece | |
| Stately Mansions Did Decree | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Stereoscope | William Kentridge | | South Africa | |
| This Side of Paradise | Jonas Mekas | | United States | |
| Worm and Web Love | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |