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'.
Electrick Children (2012)
6.8/10
Director: Rebecca Thomas
Starring: Bill Sage, Billy Zane, Liam Aiken, Rory Culkin, Cynthia Watros, Julia Garner
Rachel (Julia Garner) is a rambunctious teenager from a fundamentalist Mormon family in Utah. On her 15th birthday, she discovers a forbidden cassette... Read more
Planetarium (2016)
7.8/10
Director: Rebecca Zlotowski
Starring: David Bennent, Natalie Portman, Emmanuel Salinger, Louis Garrel, Damien Chapelle...
"Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp star in this eerie wonder from visionary French director Rebecca Zlotowski. A film about speaking to spirits and c... Read more
If.... (Blu-ray) (1968)
7.6/10
Director: Lindsay Anderson
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan
A daringly anarchic vision of British society, set in a boarding school in late-sixties England. Before Kubrick made his mischief iconic in 'A Clockwo... Read more
Vivarium (Blu-ray) (2019)
5.8/10
Director: Lorcan Finnegan
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Imogen Poots
A young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses. Read more
Bones And All (2022)
6.9/10
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Starring: Timothee Chalamet, Andre Holland, Kellie Parker
A story of first love between Maren, a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee, an intense and disenfranchised drifter,... Read more
The French Dispatch (2021)
7.2/10
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Bill Murray, Adrien Brody, Benicio Del Toro, Tilda Swinton, Lea...
A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional twentieth century French city that brings to life a collection... Read more
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973)
6/10
Director: Hall Bartlett
Based on the popular book by Richard Bach, this warm and exhilarating film traces the life of a flock of seagulls, and of one bird in particular who l... Read more
The Immortal Story (1968)
7.1/10
Director: Orson Welles
Starring: Orson Welles, Roger Coggio, Jeanne Moreau
'Immortal Story' was directed by Orson Welles, who also stars as a fabulously wealthy, but bitter and dictatorial, European merchant. Soured on life,... Read more
Shadows (1959)
7.4/10
Director: John Cassavetes
Starring: Ben Carruthers, Lelia Goldoni, Hugh Hurd, Anthony Ray
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
The Secret of Dorian Gray (1970)
Director: Massimo Dallamano
Starring: Helmut Berger, Herbert Lom, Margaret Lee, Richard Todd, Marie Liljedahl, Maria R...
In the late 60s in London, the model Dorian Gray (Helmut Berger) meets an aspiring actress, Sybil Vane (Marie Liljedahl), and they fall in love. Meanw... Read more