Art House Cinema
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'.
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (2002)
6.6/10
Director: Rolf de Heer
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Timothy Spall, Hugo Weaving, Cathy Tyson
This extraordinary film, at once thrilling and deeply moving, is set in the wild reaches of the upper Amazon. Widower Antonio Bolivar (Richard Dreyfus... Read more
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
7.6/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Adjani, Klaus Kinski
A reverential remake of Murnau's classic by the perversely talented Herzog. Klaus Kinski's Count cannot match Schreck's original for sheer terrifying... Read more
Exotica (1994)
7.1/10
Director: Atom Egoyan
Starring: Mia Kirshner, Elias Koteas, Bruce Greenwood
This eerie, erotic meditation on sex, lies and voyeurism from Canada's Atom Egoyan is set in and around a strip club frequented by a docile tax audito... Read more
Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)
7/10
Director: Lars von Trier
Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Christian Slater, Connie Nielsen, Jean-Marc Barr, Stellan...
A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men... Read more
Modigliani (2003)
7.4/10
Director: Mick Davis
Starring: Andy Garcia, Elsa Zylberstein, Hippolyte Girardot, Omid Djalili, Eva Herzigova
Amedeo Modigliani was a gifted artist and contemporary rival of Picasso's in Bohemian 1910s Paris. Andy Garcia plays the Jewish Italian immigrant as... Read more
Pretty Baby (1978)
6.6/10
Director: Louis Malle
Starring: Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon, Brooke Shields
Director Malle has taken a taboo subject, child prostitution, and created a film of humanity and beauty. Brooke Shields plays a young girl in 1917 New... Read more
Yes (2004)
6.8/10
Director: Sally Potter
Starring: Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian, Sam Neill, Shirley Henderson, Sheila Hancock
Sally Potter's daring and artful meditation on the dynamics of romantic and sexual relationships stars Joan Allen as 'She' the frustrated housewife of... Read more
Paris, Texas (1984)
8.1/10
Director: Wim Wenders
Starring: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clement, Hunter Car...
Sam Shepard wrote this lyrical and moving American tale directed by German filmmaker Wim Wenders. Beautifully photographed by Robby Muller with music... Read more
The Man Who Cried (2001)
6.2/10
Director: Sally Potter
Starring: Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Harry Dean Stanton
In 1930's Paris, Russian-born refugee Christina Ricci finds work as a chorus girl and befriends fellow dancer Cate Blanchett. Ricci's dream of travell... Read more
Junebug (2005)
7/10
Director: Phil Morrison
Starring: Embeth Davidtz, Alessandro Nivola, Amy Adams, Ben McKenzie, Celia Weston, Scott...
Embeth Davidtz plays Madeleine, a dealer in avant garde art, who challenges (and is challenged by) the middle-class, back-water mediocrity of her in-l... Read more