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A list of the best arthouse and philosophical films from various directors and genres, ranked by their level of craziness and story focus. From Eraserhead to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, discover the films that will expand your mind and challenge your perception.
- Jeremy Urquhart
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- 'Beau Travail' (1999) Director: Claire Denis. Beau Travail is a film that’s unwilling to spell too many things out, instead feeling intensely emotional and even somewhat mysterious at times, but nevertheless still gives viewers tons to think about both during and after the film.
- 'Stalker' (1979) Director: Andrei Tarkovsky. A definitive and singular science fiction film, Stalker is an eerie and mesmerizing film from Andrei Tarkovsky, and stands as perhaps the greatest one he ever made during his directing career.
- 'Holy Motors' (2012) Director: Leos Carax. You could call Holy Motors a work of fantasy, but you could also call it just about anything else… or forego trying to label it with a genre at all, because it’s incredibly obscure, confronting, and unwaveringly strange.
- 'Days of Heaven' (1978) Director: Terrence Malick. More than three decades before The Tree of Life was released, Terrence Malick reached his arguable peak with the release of Days of Heaven.
An art film, art cinema, or arthouse film is typically an independent film, aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience. It is "intended to be a serious, artistic work, often experimental and not designed for mass appeal", [2] "made primarily for aesthetic reasons rather than commercial profit", [3] and containing "unconventional ...
A list of 100 movies from various countries and genres that are considered art house or international cinema. See the ratings, summaries, directors and stars of each film, from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to The Wife.
- Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) Director: Chantal Akerman. The current holder of Sight & Sound’s "greatest film of all-time" accolade is a deceptively uneventful 3 hours, 21 minutes, during which time filmmaker Chantal Akerman introduces us to the mundane routine of the titular Belgian housewife and sometime sex worker.
- In The Mood For Love (2000) Director: Wong Kar-wai. The most lushly romantic film of all time takes place in 1960s Hong Kong, when neighbours Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung) and Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung) discover their spouses have been having an affair.
- Un Chien Andalou (1929) Director: Luis Buñuel. David Lynch and many others have Un Chien Andalou to thank for introducing dream logic to cinema narratives.
- Citizen Kane (1941) Director: Orson Welles. The audacity is astounding: Aged just 25, Orson Wells marched into Hollywood, directed and starred in a film which boldly satirised the most powerful media baron of the day, and entirely revolutionised the cinema art-form in the process.
Dec 21, 2023 · A review of the year's most notable arthouse films, from France, Italy, Belgium, and beyond. Find out which movies made the cut and why they stand out from the mainstream.
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From thoughtful dramas to unconventional romances, these independent treasures from a variety of countries offer something deeper than the usual Hollywood movie.
