The best Alejandro Jodorowsky’s fantasy movies

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Alejandro Jodorowsky

07/02/1929 (95 años)
Today we present the best Alejandro Jodorowsky’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Alejandro Jodorowsky’s movies.

Fando and Lis

Fando and Lis
6.7/10
Fando and his partially paralyzed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar. Based on Jodorowsky's memories of a play by surrealist Fernando Arrabal.

The Dance of Reality

The Dance of Reality
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaFantasy
  • Release: 19/06/2013
  • Character: Old Alejandro
“Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.” This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in 1929 in Tocopilla, a coastal town on edge of the Chilean desert, where this film was shot. It was there where he discovered the fundamentals of reality, as he underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family.

Endless Poetry

Endless Poetry
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaFantasy
  • Release: 23/03/2016
  • Character: Old Alejandro
A portrait of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s and 50s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic circle of the time.

The Severed Heads

The Severed Heads
6.5/10
  • Genre: Fantasy
  • Release: 31/03/1957
  • Character: (as Alexandre Jodorowsky)
A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads. Lost for nearly 50 years, the movie was found in 2006 by the son of Ruth Michelly and Saul Gilbert when he found it in his mom's attic in Munich.

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