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'.
The Waiting Place (2001)
5.5/10
Director: Cristobal Araus Lobos
Starring: Dave Perrett, Dane Giraud, Vadim Ledogorov, Michelle Langstone
The unsetting story of two escaped convicts who hold up in a desolate psychiatric hospital while they await their ride to freedom. With nothing left t... Read more
The We and the I (2012)
6.1/10
Director: Michel Gondry
Starring: Michael Brodie, Teresa Lynn, Raymond Delgado
Workshopped with a group of teens from The Bronx over the course of 3 years, Michel Gondry's "The We and the I" gives an inside look into the dynamics... Read more
The White Ribbon (2009)
7.8/10
Director: Michael Haneke
Starring: Ursina Lardi, Ulrich Tukur, Leonie Benesch, Christian Friedel
Michael Haneke ('Funny Games', 'Code Unknown', etc) does not make films with easy answers. 'The White Ribbon' offers a view of a small pre-WWI German... Read more
The Wife (1995)
6.3/10
Director: Tom Noonan
Starring: Julie Hagerty, Tom Noonan, Wallace Shawn, Karen Young
Actor/writer/director Tom Noonan and Julie Hagerty star as Jack and Rita, a couple trapped in a fragile marriage who share their lives and professions... Read more
The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
6.3/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Brad Dourif
Earth has been decimated and as humans search for a new planet to inhabit, a race of aliens attempt to make a new home on our inhospitable, abandoned... Read more
The Wild Boys (Blu-ray) (2017)
6.8/10
Director: Bertrand Mandico
Starring: Sam Louwyck, Nathalie Richard
The tale of five adolescent boys enamored by the arts but drawn to crime and transgression. After committing a brutal crime aided by Trevor, a deity o... Read more
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013)
7.1/10
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Starring: Callum Keith Rennie, Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Kyle Catlett
A glorious storybook America of open prairies, cross-country railroads and zany inventions abounds with pictorial delights in this extravaganza from J... Read more
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet ( Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D ) (2013)
7.1/10
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Starring: Callum Keith Rennie, Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Kyle Catlett
A glorious storybook America of open prairies, cross-country railroads and zany inventions abounds with pictorial delights in this extravaganza from... Read more
The Young One (1961)
7.5/10
Director: Luis Bunuel
Starring: Claudio Brook, Zachary Scott, Key Meersman, Bernie Hamilton
Luis Bunuel's rarely-seen gem (and one of only two films he made in English) takes his oft-expressed themes of morality and sexual perversity and relo... Read more
Thieves Like Us (1974)
7.1/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, John Schuck
Robert Altman brings Edward Anderson's classic novel (already filmed by Nicholas Ray in 1949 as They Live by Night) to the screen in this moving and t... Read more