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'.
Leviathan (2012)
6.5/10
Director: Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Filmed off the coast of New Bedford, Massachusetts - at one time the whaling capital of the world as well as Melville's inspiration for Moby Dick; it... Read more
Licorice Pizza (2021)
7.3/10
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Sean Penn, Bradley Cooper, Cooper Hoffman, Alana Haim, Sasha Spielberg
LICORICE PIZZA is the story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and falling in love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973. Written... Read more
Lie With Me (2005)
5.4/10
Director: Clement Virgo
Starring: Lauren Lee Smith, Eric Balfour, Polly Shannon, Don Francks
Based on Tamara Faith Berger's erotic novel and telling the story of Leila (Lauren Lee Smith) and David (Eric Balfour) who shun middle class mediocrit... Read more
Life During Wartime (2009)
6.4/10
Director: Todd Solondz
Starring: Ally Sheedy, Charlotte Rampling, Ciaran Hinds, Paul Reubens, Shirley Henderson,...
Controversial writer-director Todd Solondz described this darkly comic drama as his 'quasi-sequel' to 'Happiness,' in that it elaborates upon the stor... Read more
Life is a Bed of Roses (1983)
6.5/10
Director: Alain Resnais
Starring: Fanny Ardant, Geraldine Chaplin, Ruggero Raimondi, Sabine Azema, Vittorio Gassma...
A homage to some of France's greatest film makers - Georges Melies, Marcel L'Herbier and Eric Rohmer - Alain Resnais' triptych film pays tribute to th... Read more
Life is Sweet (1990)
7.5/10
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner
Another slice of working-class life focusing on an endearing couple and their iconoclastic twin daughters - one of whom is waist-deep in self-loathing... Read more
Life is Sweet (Blu-ray) (1990)
7.5/10
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Alison Steadman, Claire Skinner, Jim Broadbent
Another slice of working-class life focusing on an endearing couple and their iconoclastic twin daughters - one of whom is waist-deep in self-loathing... Read more
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Lili Marleen (1981)
7.2/10
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Starring: Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer
An extravagant story of love, war and propaganda in the shadows of Nazi Germany, Fassbinder's "Lili Marleen" is, ironically, one of his few English la... Read more
Limbo (2020)
7.2/10
Limbo is a wry and poignant observation of the refugee experience, set on a fictional remote Scottish island where a group of new arrivals await the r... Read more
Listen Up Philip (2014)
6.3/10
Director: Alex Ross Perry
Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Elisabeth Moss, Jonathan Pryce, Krysten Ritter, Josephine de...
Anger rages in Philip (Jason Schwartzman, The Grand Budapest Hotel) as he awaits the publication of his sure-to-succeed second novel. He feels pushed... Read more