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'.
Gypo (2005)
6.9/10
Director: Jan Dunn
Starring: Pauline McLynn, Paul McGann, Rula Lenska, Chloe Sirene, Freddie Connor
This intensely realistic drama weaves together the story of a Czech refugee in England from three radically different perspectives. Paul (Paul McGann... Read more
Happiness (1998)
7.7/10
Director: Todd Solondz
Starring: Jane Adams, Jon Lovitz, Philip Seymour Hoffman
This remarkable, controversial, jet-black comedy circles around an unhappy family - three sisters, their mother and father and others who come into th... Read more
Happy As Lazzaro (2018)
7.6/10
Director: Alice Rohrwacher
Starring: Nicoletta Braschi, Adriano Tardiolo, Sergi Lopez, Alba Rohrwacher
Lazzaro, a good-hearted young peasant, and Tancredi, a young nobleman cursed by his imagination, form a life-altering bond when Tancredi asks Lazzaro... Read more
Happy Endings (2005)
6.4/10
Director: Don Roos
Starring: Jesse Bradford, Laura Dern, Lisa Kudrow, Steve Coogan, Tom Arnold, Jason Ritter,...
A melee of dysfunctional relationships provide the impetus for three loosely interwoven darkly comic stories covering topics from sexual ambiguity to... Read more
Hatching (2022)
6.3/10
A young gymnast who tries desperately to please her demanding mother, discovers a strange egg. She hides it and keeps it warm, but when it hatches, wh... Read more
Head-On (2005)
8/10
Director: Fatih Akin
Starring: Birol Unel, Sibel Kekilli, Catrin Striebeck, Guven Kirac
Two desperate Turkish immigrants in Hamburg, Sibel and Cahit, meet at a psychiatrist's. She needs to escape her conservative family; he's a heavy drin... Read more
Heat and Sunlight (1988)
5.3/10
Director: Rob Nilsson
Starring: Rob Nilsson, Don Bajema, Consuelo Faust
This powerful and disturbingly honest film documents the final hours of a love affair between a photographer and his exotic dancer girlfriend. Made by... Read more
Heaven (2001)
6.5/10
Director: Tom Tykwer
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Remo Girone, Mattia Sbragia, Alberto Di Stasio,...
Working from a script by late filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski ("Three Colours" trilogy), director Tom Tykwer ("Run Lola Run") directs Cate Blanchett as... Read more
Heights (2004)
5.5/10
Director: Chris Terrio
Starring: Glenn Close, Elizabeth Banks, James Marsden, Jesse Bradford, Eric Bogosian, Matt...
A smart ensemble drama revolving around 24 hours in the lives of five ambitious New Yorkers. Glenn Close is the link as a Broadway diva who's just fo... Read more
Henry and June (1990)
Director: Philip Kaufman
Starring: Fred Ward, Uma Thurman, Maria de Medeiros, Richard E Grant, Kevin Spacey
The life and times of America's most controversial writer, Henry Miller, and especially his stormy relationship with June Smith, a dance hall hostess... Read more