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'.
Innocence (2004)
6.8/10
Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Starring: Marion Cotillard
A look inside an offbeat boarding school for young girls. Read more
Deep End (Blu-ray) (1970)
7.2/10
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Starring: Jane Asher, Karl Michael Vogler, Diana Dors
15-year-old dropout Mike takes a job at Newford Baths, where inappropriate sexual behaviour abounds, and becomes obsessed with his coworker Susan. Read more
First Cow (Blu-ray) (2019)
7.2/10
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Starring: Alia Shawkat, John Magaro
A skilled cook has traveled west and joined a group of fur trappers in Oregon, though he only finds true connection with a Chinese immigrant also seek... Read more
Love (Blu-ray) (2015)
6.1/10
Director: Gaspar Noe
Starring: Karl Glusman, Aomi Muyock, Klara Kristin
Murphy is an American living in Paris who enters a highly sexually and emotionally charged relationship with the unstable Electra. Unaware of the effe... Read more
Nebraska (2013)
7.7/10
Director: Alexander Payne
Starring: Bruce Dern, Stacy Keach, Bob Odenkirk, Will Forte, June Squibb
An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marke... Read more
The Big Blue: Extended Version (1988)
6.8/10
Director: Luc Besson
Starring: Rosanna Arquette, Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno
Luc Besson ('Nikita', 'Subway') delves into the watery mysteries of the deep in this salute to the legendary free diver Jacques Mayol who has plunged... Read more
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
7.3/10
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: John Hurt, Tilda Swinton, Jeffrey Wright, Anton Yelchin, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Was...
Jim Jarmusch's "Only Lovers Left Alive" tells the tale of two fragile and sensitive vampires, Adam (Tom Hiddleston) and Eve (Tilda Swinton), who have... Read more
The Navigators (2001)
7/10
Director: Ken Loach
"The Navigators" dramatises the events of 1995 in South Yorkshire, when the lives of a tight-knit group of railway workers were thrown into chaos when... Read more
Union City (1980)
6.5/10
Director: Marcus Reichert
Starring: Deborah Harry, Dennis Lipscomb, Everett McGill, Irina Maleeva, Sam McMurray, Pat...
Echoing the film noirs of the 1950s, Marcus Reichert's powerful production is the epitome of understated, yet deeply affecting film making. A represse... Read more
Actress (2014)
6.1/10
Director: Robert Greene
Starring: Brandy Burre
When Brandy decides to reclaim her life as an actor, the domestic world she's carefully created crumbles around her. Actress is both a present tense p... Read more