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'.
Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
7.6/10
Director: Marc Forster
Starring: Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah, Emma Thompson
Will Ferrell does a serio-comic turn as IRS agent Harold Crick, a pedantic number-cruncher who one day wakes up to find he can hear a woman's voice na... Read more
Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
7.6/10
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson
Offbeat and engaging look at the American dream through "foreign" eyes from Jim Jarmusch. The stagnant lives of two New York misfits are changed when... Read more
Submarine (2010)
7.3/10
Director: Richard Ayoade
Starring: Noah Taylor, Paddy Considine, Sally Hawkins, Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige
Young Oliver Tate's coming of age is coming even sooner than expected. Prone to daydreaming, listening to French crooners, and indulging other self-ab... Read more
Subway Stories (1997)
Director: Abel Ferrara, Alison Maclean, Bob Balaban, Jonathan Demme, Julie Dash, Ted Demme, Patricia Benoit, Craig McKay, Lucas Platt, Seth Zvi Rosenfeld
Starring: Denis Leary, Anne Heche, Gregory Hines, Rosie Perez, Bonnie Hunt, Bill Irwin, Ch...
Take a dramatic and surprising ride underneath the streets of New York City as 10 top directors (including Julie Dash, Jonathan Demme, Ted Demme, Abel... Read more
Suite 16 (1995)
5.7/10
Director: Dominique Deruddere
Starring: Pete Postlethwaite, Antonie Kamerling, Tom Jansen
Psychological and sexual games run amok on the Cote D'Azur in this intriguingly sick English-language drama. Pete Postlethwaite plays a rich wheelchai... Read more
Surviving Desire (1991)
7.5/10
Director: Hal Hartley
Starring: Martin Donovan, Mary Ward, Matt Malloy, Rebecca Nelson
A perfectly formed 60 minute film detailing the relationship between misanthropic college professor Jude (Martin Donovan) and Sofie (Mary Ward), a bea... Read more
Suspiria (2018)
7.1/10
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Starring: Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Angela Winkler, Ingrid Caven, Sylvie Te...
Young American dancer Susie Bannion arrives in 1970s Berlin to audition for the world-renowned Helena Markos Dance Co. When she vaults to the role of... Read more
Suspiria (Blu-Ray) (2018)
7.5/10
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Starring: Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Angela Winkler, Ingrid Caven, Sylvie Te...
Young American dancer Susie Bannion arrives in 1970s Berlin to audition for the world-renowned Helena Markos Dance Co. When she vaults to the role of... Read more
Suture (1993)
6.6/10
Director: David Siegel, Scott McGehee
Starring: Mel Harris, Dennis Haysbert, Sab Shimono, Dina Merrill
A unique, creepy, independently produced psychological thriller about Vincent (Michael Harris), suspected of murdering his father, who hatches a schem... Read more
Sweet Sixteen (2002)
7.5/10
Director: Ken Loach
Starring: Michelle Abercromby, Martin Compston, Michelle Coulter, Annmarie Fulton, Tommy M...
Liam's mum is in prison and due to be released in time for his sixteenth birthday. Dreaming of the family life he never had, Liam is determined to mak... Read more