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'.
Memento (2000)
8.5/10
Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano
The toast of the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, this crafty, twisty offbeat thriller focuses on Leonard (Guy Pearce), a man struggling to put his life b... Read more
Men (2022)
6.1/10
Director: Alex Garland
Starring: Jessie Buckley, Rory Kinnear
A young woman goes on a solo vacation to the English countryside following the death of her ex-husband. Read more
Mirror (1974)
8.1/10
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Starring: Margarita Terekhova, Philip Yankovsky
Effortlessly blending past and present, dreams, subjective reminiscence and a wider overview of 20th Century Russian history, Andrei Tarkovsky creates... Read more
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
7.9/10
Director: Paul Schrader
Starring: Ken Ogata
Paul Schrader's visually stunning, collage-like portrait of acclaimed Japanese author and playwright Yukio Mishima (played by Ken Ogata) investigates... Read more
Miss Julie (2014)
5.5/10
Director: Liv Ullmann
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton
1890, Ireland. Over the course of a midsummer night, Julie (Jessica Chastain), the daughter of Anglo-Irish aristocracy, encourages her father's valet... Read more
Miss Julie (1999)
6.3/10
Director: Mike Figgis
Starring: Saffron Burrows, Peter Mullan, Maria Doyle Kennedy
The interplay between sex, money and power keeps August Strindberg's drama as relevant as ever. This latest version by "Leaving Las Vegas" director Mi... Read more
Mister Lonely (2007)
6.4/10
Director: Harmony Korine
Starring: Diego Luna, Samantha Morton, Werner Herzog
In Paris, a sweet, shy Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) is befriended by a Marilyn Monroe lookalike (Samantha Morton), who quickly convinces... Read more
Model Shop (Blu-ray) (1969)
6.7/10
Director: Jacques Demy
Starring: Anouk Aimee, Gary Lockwood, Tom Holland, Severn Darden
George Matthews is a young man who is having a bittersweet affair with a French divorcée in Los Angeles. Waiting to be drafted, he is unable to commit... Read more
Modigliani (2003)
7.4/10
Director: Mick Davis
Starring: Andy Garcia, Elsa Zylberstein, Hippolyte Girardot, Omid Djalili, Eva Herzigova
Amedeo Modigliani was a gifted artist and contemporary rival of Picasso's in Bohemian 1910s Paris. Andy Garcia plays the Jewish Italian immigrant as... Read more
Mommy (2014)
8.1/10
Director: Xavier Dolan
Starring: Anne Dorval, Antoine-Olivier Pilan, Suzanne Clement, Patrick Huard
French-Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan was 25 when he delivered his fifth feature to Cannes in 2014. What's truly precocious is the power of the exub... Read more