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'.
Land of Plenty (2004)
6.5/10
Director: Wim Wenders
Starring: John Diehl, Wendell Pierce, Shaun Toub, Michelle Williams, Richard Edson
Shot in 2003 on digital video in just 16 days, Wim Wenders meditates on the divided, anxious state of post-9/11 America via the relationship between t... Read more
Land of the Blind (2006)
6.6/10
Director: Robert Edwards
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Donald Sutherland, Lara Flynn Boyle, Tom Hollander, Marc Warren,...
An unsusual blend of surrealism and satire, this political allegory is set in a fictional totalitarian country ruled by a vain and heartless dictator,... Read more
Last Days (2005)
5.8/10
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Michael Pitt, Lukas Haas, Asia Argento, Scott Patrick Green, Nicole Vicius, Harm...
Gus Van Sant's languid meditation on the price of fame was partly inspired by the life and death of Kurt Cobain. Blake (Michael Pitt) leads an influen... Read more
Last Exit To Brooklyn (1989)
6.8/10
Director: Uli Edel
Starring: Stephen Lang, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Burt Young
A powerful and disturbing adaptation of Hubert Selby's controversial novel. Set in Brooklyn in 1952, the story centres around a massive strike by fact... Read more
Last Night (1998)
7.3/10
Director: Don McKellar
Starring: Don McKellar, Sandra Oh, Callum Keith Rennie
"Party like there's no tomorrow...because there isn't". With the world about to come to an end at midnight on January 1, 2000, a group of people in To... Read more
Last Tango in Paris (1972)
7.1/10
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Starring: Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Maria Michi
Powerful, explosive, erotic, political film that took the world by storm; Maria Schneider and Marlon Brando co-star in this film of love, sex and will... Read more
Latcho Drom (1995)
8.2/10
Director: Tony Gatlif
Ecstatically celebrates the gypsy experience through eight countries on three separate continents. Beginning in Northern India and proceeding through... Read more
Laura (1979)
5.9/10
Director: David Hamilton
Starring: Maud Adams, Dawn Dunlap, James Mitchell
"The sensually provocative images of internationally acclaimed photographer David Hamilton again move and breathe in 'Laura'. A gossamer journey throu... Read more
Lawless Heart (2003)
6.8/10
Director: Neil Hunter, Tom Hunsinger
Starring: Douglas Henshall, Tom Hollander, Bill Nighy, Clementine Celarie
A sharp modern love story that begins with a man's death and its effect on three of his friends. Each of their stories is told to its conclusion befo... Read more
Lessons of Darkness / Fata Morgana (1992)
Director: Werner Herzog
In the aftermath of the Gulf War, retreating Iraqi soldiers left the oil fields of Kuwait a raging inferno. True to form as perhaps the world's most d... Read more