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'.
The New Boy (2023)
5.6/10
Director: Warwick Thornton
Starring: Cate Blanchett
A nine-year-old Aboriginal Australian orphan boy arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun. Read more
The New World (2005)
6.7/10
Director: Terrence Malick
Starring: Christian Bale, Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher, Ben Mendelsohn, Christopher Pl...
Terrence Malick's epic dramatization of the mythical story of Pocahantas and John Smith (Colin Farrell) is just his fourth feature, coming more than 3... Read more
The New World: The Extended Cut ( Blu-ray ) (2005)
6.7/10
Director: Terrence Malick
Starring: August Schellenberg, Ben Mendelsohn, Brian O'Byrne, Christian Bale, Christopher...
Terrence Malick's epic dramatization of the mythical story of Pocahantas and John Smith (Colin Farrell) is just his fourth feature, coming more than 3... Read more
The Night Porter (1974)
6.8/10
Director: Liliana Cavani
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling
In Liliana Cavani's scintillating drama, a concentration camp survivor (Charlotte Rampling) discovers her ex-torturer/lover (Dirk Bogarde) working as... Read more
The Night Porter ( Blu-ray ) (1974)
6.8/10
Director: Liliana Cavani
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Dirk Bogarde, Gabriele Ferzetti, Philippe Leroy
In Liliana Cavani's scintillating drama, a concentration camp survivor (Charlotte Rampling) discovers her ex-torturer/lover (Dirk Bogarde) working as... Read more
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (2002)
6.6/10
Director: Rolf de Heer
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Timothy Spall, Hugo Weaving, Cathy Tyson
This extraordinary film, at once thrilling and deeply moving, is set in the wild reaches of the upper Amazon. Widower Antonio Bolivar (Richard Dreyfus... Read more
The Passenger (1975)
7.6/10
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre
Antonioni's suspenseful and haunting adventure is a portrait of a drained journalist, covering a guerrilla war in North Africa who exchanges identitie... Read more
The Pillow Book (1996)
6.7/10
Director: Peter Greenaway
Starring: Yoshi Oida, Vivian Wu, Ken Ogata, Ewan McGregor
Peter Greenaway's bold stylistic experiment has as it's theme, the 'correspondence' between the daughter of a famous writer and a publisher, written o... Read more
The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders (2019)
6.8/10
Starring: Jeremy Irons
To celebrate its 200th anniversary after its foundation in 19th November 1819, legendary movie star Jeremy Irons turns in visitor and narrator of the... Read more
The Quiet Girl (2022)
7.7/10
Director: Colm Bairéad
Starring: Carrie Crowley
Rural Ireland 1981. A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. She blossoms in the... Read more