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'.
Drowning By Numbers (1988)
7.3/10
Director: Peter Greenaway
Starring: Bernard Hill, Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson
An ironic black comedy that celebrates the English obsession with game playing and their love of wit, verve and the multi-layered linguistic and picto... Read more
Drowning By Numbers (Blu-ray) (1988)
7.2/10
Director: Peter Greenaway
Starring: Bernard Hill, Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson
An ironic black comedy that celebrates the English obsession with game playing and their love of wit, verve and the multi-layered linguistic and picto... Read more
Dust (2001)
6.6/10
Director: Milcho Manchevski
Starring: David Wenham, Joseph Fiennes, Anne Brochet
Love and war divide two brothers in this cross between a harsh Mexican western ("El Topo") and an urban drama. From the award-winning director of "Bef... Read more
Eadweard (2015)
6.3/10
Director: Kyle Rideout
Starring: Michael Eklund, Torrance Coombs, Sara Canning, Jodi Balfour
A psychological drama centered around world-famous turn-of-the-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge, who photographed nude and deformed subjects, b... Read more
Eddington (2025)
6.6/10
Director: Ari Aster
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O'Connell, Austin Butler, Em...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbour is pitted against neighbour in Edding... Read more
El Norte (1983)
7.7/10
Director: Gregory Nava
Starring: David Villalpando, Zaide Silvia Gutierrez
'The North'. An independent American film that became a hit, the powerful story of a brother and sister who must leave their oppressed country of Guat... Read more
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
Elephant (2003)
7.2/10
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: John Robinson, Alex Frost, Eric Deulen, Elias McConnell, Jordan Taylor
Inspired by the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School, this stylish, understated drama from Gus Van Sant ("Drugstore Cowboy") depicts a day in the l... Read more
Enemy (2013)
6.9/10
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Starring: Isabella Rossellini, Jake Gyllenhaal, Melanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon
Adam Bell is a glum, disheveled history professor, who seems disinterested even in his beautiful girlfriend Mary. Watching a movie on the recommendati... Read more
Enter the Void (2009)
7.3/10
Director: Gaspar Noe
Starring: Paz de la Huerta, Nathaniel Brown, Olly Alexander
This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a young American drug dealer and addict... Read more