Guy Maddin Movies

A medieval cult travels to the 20th century and kills people in an attempt to bring about the end of the world. The policeman must stop them by...

En route to the annual G7 summit, the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest liberal democracies get lost in the woods and face increasing...

An exploration of the cinematic history of the folk horror, from its beginnings in the UK in the late sixties; through its proliferation on British...

While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother...

A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be a transgender writer named JT Leroy, the made-up literary persona of her...

At the height of the October Revolution during the 1919 allied intervention in Arkhangelsk, the exploits of one-legged Canadian soldier Lt. John...

The mountain-village passions of a German widow and her sons unfold in the style of a 1920s expressionist movie.

A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they...

Short documentary revealing how the sound effects were created for Maddin's film "Brand Upon the Brain".

A murder has been committed on a balcony. But it is only one of the many balconies attached to a large apartment block. Strange things are...

Gangster and deadbeat dad, Ulysses Pick, embarks on an unusual journey through his home.

Guided by the spirit of “The Cuadecuc Manifesto” (coined by co-director Evan Johnson and inspired by Pere Portabella’s 1970...

Pure fantasia, a race to save the world from a fatal heart attack, juxtaposed against a love rivalry between two brothers - a mortician and an actor...

When he takes his girlfriend to a seedy abortion clinic in the back room of a combination hair salon / bordello, Guy Maddin meets the madam’s...

A short film in which Isabella Rossellini discusses the life and work of her father, Roberto Rossellini.

Maddin's film incorporates found footage to provide a glimpse of wartime Berlin. Crowds of soldiers march in formation, play instruments and engage...

The filmmaker sends the viewers off to sleep with this 9minute descent into the netherworld.

A story about an aging crime family patriarch.

In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the world, offering a grand prize of $25,000.

After returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the...