The best Salvador Dalí’s movies

Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí

11/05/1904- 23/01/1989
Today we present the best Salvador Dalí’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 Salvador Dalí’s movies.
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Un Chien Andalou

Un Chien Andalou
7.6/10
  • Genre: FantasyHorror
  • Release: 05/06/1929
  • Character: Seminarist (uncredited)
Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.

Filmmakers in Action

Filmmakers in Action
7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 15/09/2006
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors' copyright? What is their legal status in different countries? (Sequel to “Filmmakers vs. Tycoons.”)

As Far as Love Can Go

As Far as Love Can Go
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/10/1971
The boyfriend of Isabelle has just committed suicide. Therefore Isabelle roams the streets of Paris until she decides to change her life radically and leave the city. She travels to the coast where she meets a young history professor on the beach...

Andy Warhol Screen Tests

Andy Warhol Screen Tests
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 28/11/1965
  • Character: Self
The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film at 24 frames per second. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in 'slow motion' at 16 frames per second.

Fun and Games for Everyone

Fun and Games for Everyone
7.2/10
  • Release: 22/12/1969
“FUN AND GAMES (FOR EVERYONE): a pitch black and milky white film shot during one of Olivier Mosset's exhibition openings. A psychedelic game of improvisation joins the Zanzibar group with Salvador Dalí, Barbet Schroeder and Jean Mascolo... the solarized image reminiscent of thick strokes of a paintbrush.” - Philippe Azoury

Dalí & Disney: A Date with Destino

Dalí & Disney: A Date with Destino
7.3/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 30/10/2010
  • Character: Himself (archive footage)
The story of the unlikely alliance between two of the most renowned innovators of the twentieth century: brilliantly eccentric Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí and American entertainment innovator Walt Disney.

Salvador Dalí: In Search of Immortality

Salvador Dalí: In Search of Immortality
7.3/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 17/04/2018
  • Character: Himself (archive footage)
The documentary proposes an exhaustive journey through the life and work of Salvador Dalí, and also of Gala, his muse and collaborator. It starts in 1929, a crucial year in Dalí's career and life, as he joined the surrealist group and met Gala, and advances until the year of the artist's death in 1989.

Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí
7.9/10
  • Release: 01/01/1966
  • Character: Himself
Salvador Dalí is a 35-minute film directed by Andy Warhol. The film features surrealist artist Salvador Dalí visiting The Factory and meeting the rock band The Velvet Underground.

Johnny Minotaur

Johnny Minotaur
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/04/1971
Johnny Minotaur is a lyrical explosion of taboos: incest, intergenerational desire, pansexuality and autoeroticism are a few of the issues Charles Henri Ford grapples with through mythopoeic, sensual imagery, recitations of his diaries and a philosophical debate featuring an impressive narration by such artists as Salvador Dali, Allen Ginsberg, Warren Sonbert and Lynne Tillman.

The End of a Mystery

The End of a Mystery
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/01/2003
Joaquin comes back to Granada in the eighties trying to find out about something happened when he was a child and the Spanish Civil War was going on. He helped an unknown man who survived after being executed. He finds the man, Galapago, who is now quite old, poor and with almost no memory. Joaquin takes care of him and finds hints that point to Galapago as Federico García Lorca.

God Chose Paris

God Chose Paris
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/09/1969
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
An interesting mixture of filmed scenes with Belmondo and archival footage regarding cultural aspects of all kind around Paris, starting at the end of the 19th century and ending in the mid-1960's. Jean-Paul Belmondo leads us through the movie starting as a young photographer around 1900, a reporter in both world-wars and doing fictional interviews with lots of celebrities.

Salvador Dalí's Fantastic Dream

Salvador Dalí's Fantastic Dream
Produced by 20th Century Fox, this Maysles Brothers short was intended to help promote the release of Disney's Fantastic Voyage (1966) for which Salvador Dali was artistic consultant. Shot in and around New York, the film features a cameo by a bikini clad Raquel Welch, star of Fantastic Voyage and Dali's muse for a series of portraits of Hollywood starlets.

Good Morning, Mr. Orwell

Good Morning, Mr. Orwell
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 01/01/1984
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
In his book "1984", George Orwell saw the television of the future as a control instrument in the hands of Big Brother. Right at the start of the much-anticipated Orwellian year, Paik and Co. were keen to demonstrate satellite TV's ability to serve positive ends-- Namely, the intercontinental exchange of culture, combining both highbrow and entertainment elements. A live broadcast shared between WNET TV in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, linked up with broadcasters in Germany and South Korea, reached a worldwide audience of over 10 or even 25 million (including the later repeat transmissions).

Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique

Salvador Dalí: Génie tragi-comique
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 03/03/2019
  • Character: Himself

Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks

Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks
  • Release: 01/01/1964
  • Character: Self
This compilation of Gerard Malanga's short films consists of a collection of extremely rare footage and film portraits providing candid and interesting glimpses of Bob Dylan, Salvador Dalí, Jane Fonda and The Velvet Underground among other 1960s icons and featuring original music by Angus MacLise, who was the first drummer to perform with The Velvet Underground.

The Shock of the New

The Shock of the New
8.5/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 21/09/1980
  • Character: Self
A definitive eight part series on the rise and fall of the modern art movement presented by critic Robert Hughes.

Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali

Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali
7.8/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 29/12/1979
  • Character: Himself
A documentary about surrealist artist Salvador Dali, narrated by Orson Welles.

Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar

Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar
  • Release: 14/04/2016
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
Warhol Superstar Ultra Violet (Isabelle Colin Dufresne) and Lower East Side Icon Taylor Mead (Poet/Actor/Artist) share their stories of Manhattan in the 1960s.

Impressions of Upper Mongolia

Impressions of Upper Mongolia
7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/01/1976
  • Character: Self
The genius Spanish painter Salvador Dalí undertakes an amazing journey through the unknown mental territories of Upper Mongolia in search of a giant hallucinogenic mushroom while paying an experimental tribute to the French poet Raymond Roussel (1877-1933), a visionary and eccentric writer, precursor of the surrealists and much admired by them.

Salvador Dalí at Work

Salvador Dalí at Work
6/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 11/11/2006
  • Character: Himself
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows the surrealist artist around the streets of New York documenting staged public art events.

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