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'.
Songs From The Second Floor (2000)
7.6/10
Director: Roy Andersson
Starring: Lars Nordh
Songs from the Second Floor (Swedish: Sånger från andra våningen) is a Swedish black comedy-drama film which was released to cinemas in Sweden on 6 Oc... Read more
Sorry, Haters (2005)
6.3/10
Director: Jeff Stanzler
Starring: Robin Wright, Abdellatif Kechiche, Elodie Bouchez, Sandra Oh, Fred Durst
This intense and thought-provoking psychological thriller takes a hard look at the relationship between white and Muslim Americans in a post-911 world... Read more
Spider (2002)
6.8/10
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, John Neville, Bradley Hall, Ly...
Master of cerebral horror David Cronenberg directs this mind-bending psychodrama. In a London halfway house, paranoid-schizophrenic Ralph Fiennes stru... Read more
Steal Me (2005)
6/10
Director: Melissa Painter
Starring: Danny Alexander, Hunter Parrish, Cara Seymour, John Terry
Fifteen-year-old Jake is a homeless kleptomaniac with a taste for older women. He's drifting from place to place in search of his mother who abandone... Read more
Steaming (1985)
6.5/10
Director: Joseph Losey
Starring: Diana Dors, Sarah Miles, Vanessa Redgrave
The last film by the great filmmaker Joseph Losey features a stellar female cast of Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, Diana Dors and Patti Love in an ada... Read more
Steppenwolf (1974)
6.3/10
Director: Fred Haines
Starring: Max von Sydow, Dominique Sanda, Pierre Clementi
Max von Sydow and Dominique Sanda star in this adaptation of Herman Hesse's classic novel about a man's internal struggle to find peace within himself... Read more
Stoker (2013)
6.8/10
Director: Chan-wook Park
Starring: Dermot Mulroney, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode, Mia Wasikowska, Jacki Weaver
Following her father's death in an unexplained road accident, reclusive teenager India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska) withdraws further into the quiet rural... Read more
Stoker ( Blu-ray ) (2013)
6.8/10
Director: Chan-wook Park
Starring: Dermot Mulroney, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode, Mia Wasikowska, Jacki Weaver
Following her father's death in an unexplained road accident, reclusive teenager India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska) withdraws further into the quiet rural... Read more
Story of a Love Affair (1950)
7.1/10
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Starring: Gino Cervi, Massimo Girotti, Lucia Bose
An early masterpiece from then documentary-maker director Michelangelo Antonioni, said to be one of Martin Scorsese's favourite films. Setting the to... 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