Kuroneko (1968), Grass (2018), Kwaidan (1964), Moonlighting (1982), Submarine (2010), Blind Beast (1969), A Fantastic Woman (2017), Shakespeare Wallah (1965) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Art House movies.
Storyline: In this ghost story based on a folk tale of feudal Japan, a group of samurai mercenaries led by Raiko Minamoto (Kei Satô) storm the home of Yone (Nobuko Otowa) and her daughter, Shigei (Kiwako Taichi), pillaging their food before raping and murdering the pair and finally burning the house down. When the samurai are set upon by vengeful vampire-like ghosts, it falls to the warrior Gintoki (Kichiemon Nakamura) to slay the malicious spirits, but his connection to the victims leads to conflict.
Plot Keywords: horror, supernatural, folklore, ghost story, black-and-white, period drama, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young woman working on her laptop in a cafe overhears three dramatic stories unfolding through nearby conversations.
Plot Keywords: documentary, korean cinema, minimalist, dialogue-driven, slice of life, black and white, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This film contains four distinct, separate stories. "Black Hair": A poor samurai who divorces his true love to marry for money, but finds the marriage disastrous and returns to his old wife, only to discover something eerie about her. "The Woman in the Snow": Stranded in a snowstorm, a woodcutter meets an icy spirit in the form of a woman spares his life on the condition that he never tell anyone about her. A decade later he forgets his promise. "Hoichi the Earless": Hoichi is a blind musician, living in a monastery who sings so well that a ghostly imperial court commands him to perform the epic ballad of their death battle for them. But the ghosts are draining away his life, and the monks set out to protect him by writing a holy mantra over his body to make him invisible to the ghosts. But they've forgotten something. "In a Cup of Tea": a writer tells the story of a man who keep seeing a mysterious face reflected in his cup of tea.
Plot Keywords: horror, anthology, japanese, supernatural, folklore, classic, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak (Irons) has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.—Dan Hartung <dhartung@mcs.com>
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, drama, thriller, suspense, crime, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Precocious Oliver struggles with being popular in school but when a dark-haired beauty takes interest in him, he's determined to become the best boyfriend in the world. Meanwhile, his parents' already rocky relationship is threatened when his mother's ex-boyfriend moves in next door. Oliver makes some unorthodox plans to ensure that his parents stay together and that Jordana still likes him.
Plot Keywords: coming of age, dark comedy, romance, first love, family dynamics, self-discovery, melancholy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A blind sculpter kidnaps a beautiful young model and takes her back to his home. He and his mother live in a warehouse that he has turned into a surreal tribute to the senses. It is filled with huge sculptures of body parts and the female form. He is obsessed with exploring the senses to the fullest. At first, the model only wants to escape from this bizarre scene, but eventually she succumbs to his strange vision and even surpasses his obsession.—Fred Cabral <ftcabral@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: japanese, horror, erotic, thriller, avant-garde, psychological, exploitation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Somewhere in Santiago at a dimly-lit nightclub, Orlando, the kindly and well-off owner of a textile company, locks eyes with Marina, a hopeful singer and the roughly half-his-age love of his life. But, unfortunately, after Marina's birthday celebration and a night of passion, Orlando falls gravely ill--and by the following morning--he dies in hospital. In the wake of her companion's untimely death, Marina will soon realise that, from now on, everything is brought into question: her involvement in Orlando's death, their unconventional relationship; and above all, her right to mourn her beloved deceased. In the end, what was Marina's crime; a deed so hideous that would rob a fantastic woman of her respect, her dignity, and ultimately, her identity?
Plot Keywords: lgbtq+, drama, oscar winner, identity, grief, discrimination, love story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story of a family troupe of English actors in India. They travel around the towns and villages giving performances of Shakespearean plays. Through their travels we see the changing face of India as the old is replaced by the new, Maharajas become hotel owners, sports become more important than culture and the theater is replaced by Bolliwood movies. Based on the travels of Geoffrey Kendal with his daughter Felicity Kendal.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, british, india, cultural clash, theater, shakespeare ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An English mother and teenage son spend a week in the South of France breaking up a summer home that has become one of the casualties of the boy's parents' crumbling marriage. Matters only become more complicated when an enigmatic local boy enters their lives.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, lgbt, coming of age, youth, family, french ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cheyenne, a journalist, decides to leave Paris after being laid off and to settle down in the middle of nowhere, far from the society she hates.The trouble is that she leaves Sonia, her true love, behind. The latter, a teacher who loves her job, refuses to give up everything -including her comfort- to follow her. Sonia makes all the efforts in the world to forget Cheyenne, whether in the arms of Pierre, a charming anarchist, or in those of Béatrice, a gay woman who soon proves perverse and dangerous, only to realize that her heart belongs to Cheyenne and nobody else. If Cheyenne does not come back, Sonia feels life is not worth living any longer...—Guy Bellinger
Plot Keywords: lgbtq+, lesbian, french cinema, drama, romance, independent film, urban life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Fabric is a haunting ghost story set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period in a department store and follows the life of a cursed dress as it passes from person to person, with devastating consequences.
Plot Keywords: horror, comedy, surreal, fashion, supernatural, dark comedy, psychological ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: International cover girl, Emmanuelle Richmond Morgan, is in a clinic near Manhattan suffering memory loss. Her physician, Paul, a Freudian, pays her special attention, making his wife jealous. He interviews Emmanuelle daily, asking her to record memories on tape. He interviews a photographer with whom she worked, her father, and her husband, from whom she's been separated two years. Her memories of each of them differ sharply from their own. In flashbacks we see both versions. Gradually her memories clear as she parties with another patient, Paul's niece Sharon. Besides Emmanuelle's memory block, is everyone else telling the truth? Can Paul help her remember and heal?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: exploitation, erotic, italian cinema, 1970s, adventure, journalist, africa ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A member of the U.S. Marine Corps (Robert Muller) is accused of murdering his wife, having been caught in the process of trying to dig her grave. The military police embark on an investigation, led by a captain (Tinka Menkes), in order to determine the events leading up to the woman's death. As the officers interrogate the suspect and venture into local bars frequented by Marines, a ghostly voice and strange, mythical figures mourn the woman's death.
Plot Keywords: experimental, avant-garde, surreal, psychological, crime, horror, mystery ...
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