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'.
Valhalla Rising (2009)
6/10
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen
Mads Mikkelsen stars in this brutal Viking adventure as One-Eye, a mute warrior with supernatural strength who has been held prisoner for years by the... Read more
Naked (1993)
7.9/10
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Katrin Cartlidge
Lacerating tale of England's disaffected centers on Johnny, a scruffy, loquacious drifter whose visit to London to see an old girlfriend leads him int... Read more
Birth (2004)
6.1/10
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Starring: Anne Heche, Arliss Howard, Lauren Bacall, Nicole Kidman, Ted Levine, Peter Storm...
A ten year widow, Anna (Nicole Kidman) is about to remarry when a mysterious boy (Cameron Bright) convincingly claims he's her late husband reincarnat... Read more
Agnes of God (1985)
6.6/10
Director: Norman Jewison
Starring: Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft, Meg Tilly, Anne Pitoniak
The childlike novice of an extremely sheltered convent is discovered one night with the bloodied body of a baby she claims not to recognise. Psychiatr... Read more
The Lickerish Quartet (1970)
6.1/10
Director: Radley Metzger
Starring: Silvana Venturelli, Frank Wolff, Erika Remberg, Paolo Turco
Filmed in the breathtaking Castle of Balsorano in Italy's Abruzzi Mountains, 'The Lickerish Quartet' finds three people obsessed with an erotic film -... Read more
I Love Your Work (2003)
5.3/10
Director: Adam Goldberg
Starring: Giovanni Ribisi, Joshua Jackson, Christina Ricci, Franka Potente, Jared Harris,...
Gray Evans (Giovanni Ribisi) and Mia (Franka Potente), a celebrity couple, have only been married a year, but the relationship is already rocky. When... Read more
Raw (2015)
7/10
Director: Julia Ducournau
Starring: Ella Rumpf, Garance Marillier
Stringent vegetarian Justine (Garance Marillier) encounters a decadent, merciless and dangerously seductive world during her first week at veterinary... Read more
Adaptation (2002)
7.7/10
Director: Spike Jonze
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton, Brian Cox
From the "Being John Malkovich" duo of director Spike Jonze and writer Charlie Kaufman comes this stunningly original comedy that seamlessly blends fi... Read more
Lessons of Darkness / Fata Morgana (1992)
Director: Werner Herzog
In the aftermath of the Gulf War, retreating Iraqi soldiers left the oil fields of Kuwait a raging inferno. True to form as perhaps the world's most d... Read more
Storytelling (2002)
6.9/10
Director: Todd Solondz
Starring: Selma Blair, Robert Wisdom, Paul Giamatti, John Goodman, Julie Hagerty
Todd Solondz's controversial, pitch-black satire is divided into two different stories. In "Fiction," creative writing college student Selma Blair, wh... Read more