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'.
Ray and Liz (2018)
Director: Richard Billingham
Photographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and... Read more
Red Road (2006)
6.8/10
Director: Andrea Arnold
Starring: Tony Curran, Natalie Press, Martin Compston, Kate Dickie
Winner of the Cannes Prix du Jury Prize, this startling Scottish noir thriller is about a Glasgow CCTV operator who ends up stalking a man she sees on... Read more
Red Rocket (2021)
7.2/10
Director: Sean Baker
Starring: Simon Rex
Finding himself down and out in Los Angeles, ex porn star Mikey Saber decides to crawl back to his hometown of Texas City, Texas, where his estranged... Read more
Repulsion (1965)
7.8/10
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Renee Houston, Patrick Wymark, Yvonn...
Roman Polanski followed up his international breakthrough "Knife in the Water" with this controversial, chilling tale of psychosis. Catherine Deneuve... Read more
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
8.3/10
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Jared Leto, Marlon Wayans, Jennifer Connelly, Ellen Burstyn
As powerful an anti-drug statement as it is a drama, director Aronofsky's ('Pi') visually hypnotic film graphically tracks the downward spiral of four... Read more
Riff Raff (1990)
5.2/10
Director: Ken Loach
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Emer McCourt, Jimmy Coleman
The scams, arguments, shoddy practices and humour of a group of workers, one just out of jail, working on expensive flats are the basis for this gem.... Read more
Robot Stories (2003)
5.8/10
Director: Greg Pak
Starring: Tamlyn Tomita, James Saito, Vin Knight, Karen Tse Lee, Glenn Kubota, Cindy Cheun...
Four separate vignettes, set in the near future, beautifully explore the man/machine relationship in this multi-award winning film. In 'My Robot Baby'... Read more
Rolf de Heer Collection ( The Quiet Room / Epsilon / Bad Boy Bubby / Dingo / Incident at Raven's Gate / Tail of a Tiger ) (2009)
Director: Rolf de Heer
Starring: Celine O'Leary, Colin Friels, Miles Davis, Nicholas Hope, Paul Blackwell, Steven...
The Rolf de Heer Collection provides an ideal introduction to this remarkable and idiosyncratic Australian filmmaker. Included in this set is the disq... Read more
Roman Polanski Collection: Knife in the Water / Repulsion / Cul-de-Sac (1962)
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Donald Pleasence, Francoise Dorleac, Ian Hendry, Jolanta Umec...
'Knife in the Water' (90 mins): An absorbing drama that grows out of the tensions created when a couple off for a sailing weekend pick up a student hi... Read more
Romance and Cigarettes (2005)
Director: John Turturro
Starring: James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Steve Buscemi, Mary-Louise Parke...
Writer/director John Turturro sets his ambitious musical in Queens, New York, where the marriage of working-class couple Nick Murder (James Gandolfini... Read more