Beau is Afraid was the last one I recall. I think it was mostly the latter half of the movie where I started to get a bit confused and needed the ending explained to me.
What movies made you look up some kind of explanation afterwards? I feel like I have done it several times in the past for more surreal movies but can’t think of any other examples.
It can also be a TV show.
Mulholland Drive
That’s cheating. No one knows what that movie is about.
I’ve heard that you can watch that movie in a loop starting at any point and it doesn’t make any more or less sense than starting at the beginning.
It was supposed to be a pilot for a TV series, that’s why it makes even less sense than the other Lynch movies.
I think what makes it so tricky for many is trying to “interpret” Lynch’s storytelling.
Spoiler, sort of?
At the beginning, we see a POV of laying down on a pillow in a dark room. Then a dream begins — with dream-logic and structure — and eventually winds up with the cowboy saying, “time to wake up.” Then the final act reveals what really happened to the main character (and how the dream made her the innocent victim/hero).
I think all of David Lynch’s movies could fit here. I tried watching his mini-series “Rabbits” over and over to understand, and I still have no idea what it’s really meant to be about.
Check out the documentary Lynch/Oz, it helps put his work in a more straightforward context.
Thanks, added to the list!