Art House films are critically-acclaimed movies that don't necessarily cause a stampede at the box-office. These so-called 'minor' works are generally seen only at Film Festivals or a few selective theatres, but they stay in the mind, for better or worse. Below is a list of films in Alice's Collection that for one unexplained reason or another, generally didn't quite get the exposure they may have deserved when originally released. Enjoy finding many of cinema's 'gems' in this section. Right: Peter Greenaway's 'The Baby Of Macon'.
John Cassavetes' stunning directorial debut, starring Leila Goldoni as a light-skinned black woman whose romance with a white man (Anthony Ray) is thr... Read more
From the writer and director of cult film 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch', this New York indie-style 'smart-porn' follows a group of largely non-actors, a... Read more
From the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Herman Hesse ("Steppenwolf"), "Siddhartha" is the story of a young Brahmin who leaves his wealthy parents to bec... Read more
Compared with David Lynch's 'Blue Velvet', this features Ellen Barkin, Martin Sheen, Jodie Foster, Isabella Rossellini and Grace Jones, with a hot sou... Read more
'Inni' is either the first-ever sigur rós live album, or second live film (and follow up to 2007's acclaimed iceland tour film heima). In fact, it is... Read more
A stylish, entertaining tale of brothers Robert Burke and William Sage, who set out in search of their fugitive father who in the late 60s became a bo... Read more
John Guare adapted his hit Broadway play, based on a true incident, about a man pretending to be Sidney Poitier's son who works his way into the lives... Read more
It's hardly a fairytale life for disaffected college student Lucy (Emily Browning). After taking a job as a "lingerie waitress" at an exclusive club c... Read more
Anthony Hopkins directed, wrote and stars in this Lynch-ian, stream-of-consciousness drama about a screenwriter whose reality and imagination are abou... Read more
Harvey Keitel, William Hurt and Forest Whitaker star in this off-beat comedy gem set in a New York cigar shop involving the intertwining lives of it's... Read more