Arthouse Movies to Watch
by mumusilvabarros | created - 22 Sep 2018 | updated - 02 Nov 2018 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. The Guilty (2018)
R | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A police officer assigned alarm dispatch duty enters a race against time when he answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman.
Director: Gustav Möller | Stars: Jakob Cedergren, Jessica Dinnage, Omar Shargawi, Johan Gotthardt Olsen
Votes: 64,355 | Gross: $0.21M
2. The Wound (2017)
Unrated | 88 min | Drama, Romance
Xolani, a lonely factory worker, travels to the rural mountains with the men of his community to initiate a group of teenage boys into manhood.
Director: John Trengove | Stars: Nakhane, Bongile Mantsai, Niza Jay, Thobani Mseleni
Votes: 2,083 | Gross: $0.03M
3. Burning (2018)
Not Rated | 148 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Jong-su bumps into a girl who used to live in the same neighborhood, who asks him to look after her cat while she's on a trip to Africa. When back, she introduces Ben, a mysterious guy she met there, who confesses his secret hobby.
Director: Lee Chang-dong | Stars: Yoo Ah-in, Steven Yeun, Jeon Jong-seo, Kim Soo-Kyung
Votes: 76,179 | Gross: $0.72M
4. 1945 (2017)
91 min | Drama
12 August 1945, 11 AM. Two mysterious strangers dressed in black appear at the railway station of a Hungarian village. Within a few hours, everything changes.
Director: Ferenc Török | Stars: Péter Rudolf, Bence Tasnádi, Tamás Szabó Kimmel, Dóra Sztarenki
Votes: 4,288 | Gross: $1.01M
5. Rainbow: A Private Affair (2017)
84 min | Drama, Romance, War
An Italian partisan torn between the resistance movement and his obsession with a young woman during World War II.
Director: Paolo Taviani | Stars: Luca Marinelli, Lorenzo Richelmy, Valentina Bellè, Francesca Agostini
Votes: 987
6. Jupiter's Moon (2017)
PG-13 | 129 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Aryan is a Syrian refugee trying to make his way into Hungary from Serbia, along with his father and many other wretched souls. They are all caught, and find themselves in a web of cynicism and corruption.
Director: Kornél Mundruczó | Stars: Merab Ninidze, Zsombor Jéger, György Cserhalmi, Mónika Balsai
Votes: 3,516
7. Blindspot (2015–2020)
TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Jane Doe is found in Times Square with no memory and mysterious tattoos on her body.
Stars: Sullivan Stapleton, Jaimie Alexander, Audrey Esparza, Ashley Johnson
Votes: 78,973
8. At War with Love (2016)
99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A tender love story intertwines with the Allied conquest of Sicily during World War II, where the US Army has to gain support from the locals.
Director: Pif | Stars: Pif, Andrea Di Stefano, Miriam Leone, Vincent Riotta
Votes: 2,352
9. Promise at Dawn (2017)
131 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A man recounts his life, from his childhood through his experiences in World War II, and the story of his self-sacrificing mother, who raised him alone.
Director: Eric Barbier | Stars: Pierre Niney, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Didier Bourdon, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Votes: 3,846
10. My Blind Date with Life (2017)
111 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
An ambitious young man struggles to achieve his dream of becoming an employee in a Munich luxury hotel despite being strongly visually impaired.
Director: Marc Rothemund | Stars: Kostja Ullmann, Jacob Matschenz, Anna Maria Mühe, Johann von Bülow
Votes: 5,776
11. In the Fade (2017)
R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Katja's life collapses after the deaths of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Numan Acar, Adam Bousdoukos, Diane Kruger, Denis Moschitto
Votes: 35,609 | Gross: $0.32M
12. The Insult (2017)
R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.
Director: Ziad Doueiri | Stars: Adel Karam, Kamel El Basha, Camille Salameh, Diamand Abou Abboud
Votes: 18,055 | Gross: $1.00M
13. Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti (2017)
102 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Focused on French painter Paul Gauguin's affair with a younger lady in Tahiti.
Director: Edouard Deluc | Stars: Vincent Cassel, Tuheï Adams, Malik Zidi, Pua-Taï Hikutini
Votes: 2,378 | Gross: $0.20M
14. Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden (2016)
110 min | Biography, Drama, History
Vienna, early 20th century: the young Egon Schiele is one of the most discussed artists of his time with his original, erotically charged works.
Director: Dieter Berner | Stars: Noah Saavedra, Maresi Riegner, Valerie Pachner, Marie Jung
Votes: 1,528
15. 120 BPM (2017)
Not Rated | 143 min | Drama
Members of the advocacy group ACT UP Paris demand action by the government and pharmaceutical companies to combat the AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s.
Director: Robin Campillo | Stars: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel, Antoine Reinartz
Votes: 16,719 | Gross: $0.13M
16. Loveless (2017)
R | 127 min | Drama
A couple going through a divorce must team up to find their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter arguments.
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev | Stars: Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Matvey Novikov, Marina Vasileva
Votes: 35,529 | Gross: $0.57M
17. Zama (2017)
Unrated | 115 min | Drama, History
Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto written in 1956, on Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the seventeenth century settled in Asunción, who awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires.
Director: Lucrecia Martel | Stars: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lola Dueñas, Matheus Nachtergaele, Juan Minujín
Votes: 7,128 | Gross: $0.20M
18. The Bookshop (2017)
PG | 113 min | Drama
England 1959. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop.
Director: Isabel Coixet | Stars: Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Hunter Tremayne, Honor Kneafsey
Votes: 17,439 | Gross: $1.33M
19. A Ciambra (2017)
Unrated | 118 min | Crime, Drama
In A CIAMBRA, a small Romani community in Calabria, Pio Amato is desperate to grow up fast. At 14, he drinks, smokes and is one of the few to easily slide between the region's factions - ... See full summary »
Director: Jonas Carpignano | Stars: Pio Amato, Iolanda Amato, Koudous Seihon, Damiano Amato
Votes: 2,936 | Gross: $0.03M
20. L'échange des princesses (2017)
100 min | Drama, History
In 1721, the Regent of France, wanting to seal the peace with Spain, offers to the Spanish King, a marriage between their respective heirs: Louis XV, age 11, and Maria Anna Victoria, the 4-... See full summary »
Director: Marc Dugain | Stars: Lambert Wilson, Anamaria Vartolomei, Olivier Gourmet, Catherine Mouchet
Votes: 1,309
21. The Heiresses (2018)
TV-14 | 98 min | Drama
Marcelo Martinessi's stunning debut The Heiresses is an immersive and emotionally compelling look into the lives of the privileged, through the tribulations of a hesitant woman in quiet crisis.
Director: Marcelo Martinessi | Stars: Norma Codas, Margarita Irun, Ana Brun, Yvera
Votes: 3,280 | Gross: $0.08M
22. Reinventing Marvin (2017)
115 min | Drama
A young man runs away from his family to become an actor.
Director: Anne Fontaine | Stars: Finnegan Oldfield, Grégory Gadebois, Vincent Macaigne, Catherine Salée
Votes: 1,583
23. Marie-Francine (2017)
TV-14 | 95 min | Comedy
A woman at the age of 50 moves back in with her parent after her husband leaves her for a younger woman.
Director: Valérie Lemercier | Stars: Valérie Lemercier, Patrick Timsit, Hélène Vincent, Philippe Laudenbach
Votes: 1,419
24. Double Lover (2017)
Not Rated | 107 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Chloé, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing a part of his identity.
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Marine Vacth, Jérémie Renier, Jacqueline Bisset, Myriam Boyer
Votes: 13,641 | Gross: $0.17M
25. Le Parc (2016)
Not Rated | 71 min | Drama
Summer time. Two teenagers, a boy and a girl, have their first date in a park. Hesitant and shy at first, they soon discover each other, get closer as they wander, and end up falling in ... See full summary »
Director: Damien Manivel | Stars: Naomie Vogt-Roby, Maxime Bachellerie, Sobéré Sessouma
Votes: 337
26. In the Shadow of Women (2015)
Not Rated | 73 min | Drama, Romance
Pierre and Manon are a pair of poor documentary makers, who scrape by with odd jobs. When Pierre meets young trainee Elisabeth, he falls for her, but wants to keep Manon at the same time. ... See full summary »
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Clotilde Courau, Stanislas Merhar, Lena Paugam, Vimala Pons
Votes: 1,569 | Gross: $0.05M
27. Let the Sunshine In (2017)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love at last.
Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Xavier Beauvois, Philippe Katerine, Josiane Balasko
Votes: 7,757 | Gross: $0.87M
28. Western (2017)
Unrated | 121 min | Drama
German construction workers building a dam near a Bulgarian village interact with the locals, and soon the troubles arise both with the locals and among themselves.
Director: Valeska Grisebach | Stars: Meinhard Neumann, Reinhardt Wetrek, Syuleyman Alilov Letifov, Veneta Fragnova
Votes: 4,299 | Gross: $0.04M
29. A Sort of Family (2017)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A woman flies from Buenos Aires to be present for the birth of the child she has arranged to adopt. When the child is born, she is confronted with a demand from the biological mother's ... See full summary »
Director: Diego Lerman | Stars: Bárbara Lennie, Daniel Aráoz, Claudio Tolcachir, Paula Cohen
Votes: 767
30. A Taxi Driver (2017)
Not Rated | 137 min | Action, Drama, History
A widowed father and taxi driver who drives a German reporter from Seoul to Gwangju to cover the 1980 uprising, soon finds himself regretting his decision after being caught in the violence around him.
Director: Hun Jang | Stars: Song Kang-ho, Thomas Kretschmann, Yoo Hae-jin, Ryu Jun-Yeol
Votes: 31,108 | Gross: $1.53M
31. Le brio (2017)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
After an incident, a brilliant professor known for his outbursts is forced to mentor the student he wronged for a speech contest.
Director: Yvan Attal | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Camélia Jordana, Yasin Houicha, Nozha Khouadra
Votes: 4,836
32. The Apparition (2018)
144 min | Drama, Mystery
A journalist is sent by the Vatican to investigate a young girl claiming to be visited by the Virgin Mary.
Director: Xavier Giannoli | Stars: Vincent Lindon, Galatéa Bellugi, Patrick d'Assumçao, Anatole Taubman
Votes: 1,856 | Gross: $0.03M
33. The Day After (2017)
92 min | Drama, Romance
The married Bongwan leaves home in the dark morning and sets off to work. The memories of the woman who left weigh down on him. That day Bongwan's wife finds a love note, bursts into the office, and mistakes Areum for the woman who left.
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Yunhee Cho, Kwon Hae-hyo, Ki Joabang, Taeu Kang
Votes: 2,507 | Gross: $0.02M
34. Radiance (II) (2017)
101 min | Drama, Romance
A passionate writer of film versions for visually impaired people meets an older photographer who is slowly losing his eyesight.
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Masatoshi Nagase, Ayame Misaki, Tatsuya Fuji, Kazuko Shirakawa
Votes: 1,995
35. Bitter Harvest (2017)
R | 103 min | Drama, History, Romance
Set in 1930s Ukraine, as Stalin advances the ambitions of communists in the Kremlin, young artist Yuri battles to save his lover Natalka from the Holodomor, the death-by-starvation program that ultimately killed millions of Ukrainians.
Director: George Mendeluk | Stars: Max Irons, Samantha Barks, Terence Stamp, Barry Pepper
Votes: 4,160 | Gross: $5.66M
36. Anna Karenina: Vronsky's Story (2017)
98 min | Drama
During Russian-Japanese War, the head of the hospital Sergey Karenin learns that the wounded officer Count Vronsky is the person who ruined his mother Anna Karenina.
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov | Stars: Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Mariel Chledowska, Kirill Grebenshchikov, Vladimir Ilin
Votes: 441
37. Dovlatov (2018)
PG-13 | 126 min | Biography, Drama
The film actions unfold in 1971, telling about the four days of life of famous writer Sergei Dovlatov. The film raises the eternal issue of the Russian and European culture - the issue of moral choice.
Director: Aleksey German Jr. | Stars: Milan Maric, Danila Kozlovskiy, Helena Sujecka, Eva Gerr
Votes: 2,222
38. The Invisibles (2017)
110 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
While Joseph Goebbels infamously declared Berlin "free of Jews" in 1943, 1,700 managed to survive in the Nazi capital through the end of WWII. The Invisibles traces the stories of four young people who learned to hide in plain sight.
Director: Claus Räfle | Stars: Max Mauff, Alice Dwyer, Ruby O. Fee, Aaron Altaras
Votes: 1,726 | Gross: $0.41M
39. A Twelve-Year Night (2018)
TV-MA | 122 min | Adventure, Biography, Crime
1973. Uruguay is governed by a military dictatorship. One autumn night, three Tupamaro prisoners are taken from their jail cells in a secret military operation. The order is precise: "As we can't kill them, let's drive them mad."
Director: Álvaro Brechner | Stars: Antonio de la Torre, Chino Darín, Alfonso Tort, César Troncoso
Votes: 10,968
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