Arthouse science fiction (or arthouse sci-fi) is a combination of art and science fiction cinema.

List of notable arthouse sci-fi films

  • Aelita, (Yakov Protazanov, 1924)
  • Metropolis, (Fritz Lang, 1927)
  • Woman in the Moon, (Fritz Lang, 1929)
  • Krakatit (Otakar Vavra, 1948)
  • La Jetee (Chris Marker, 1962)
  • Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
  • Sins of the Fleshapoids (Mike Kuchar, 1965)
  • The 10th Victim (Elio Petri, 1965)
  • Fahrenheit 451 (François Truffaut, 1966)
  • Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966)
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
  • A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
  • THX-1138 (George Lucas, 1971)
  • Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
  • Fantastic Planet (René Laloux, 1973)
  • O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson, 1973)
  • World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1973)
  • A Boy and His Dog (L.Q. Jones, 1975)
  • The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nicholas Roeg, 1976)
  • Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
  • Dead Mountaineer's Hotel (Grigori Kromanov, 1979)
  • Altered States (Ken Russell, 1980)
  • Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
  • Liquid Sky (Slava Tsukerman, 1982)
  • Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden, 1983)
  • Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983)
  • Decoder (Muscha, 1984)
  • Repo Man (Alex Cox, 1984)
  • Angel's Egg (Mamoru Oshii, 1985)
  • Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985)
  • Dead Man's Letters (Konstantin Lopushansky, 1986)
  • Mauvais Sang (Leos Carax, 1986)
  • Morning Patrol (Nikos Nikolaidis, 1987)
  • Days of Eclipse (Alexander Sokurov, 1988)
  • On the Silver Globe (Andrzej Żuławski, 1988)
  • Tetsuo: The Iron Man (Shinya Tsukamoto, 1989)
  • A Visitor to a Museum (Konstantin Lopushansky, 1989)
  • Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg, 1991)
  • The City of Lost Children (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1995)
  • Gattaca (Andrew Niccol, 1997)
  • Pi (Darren Aronofsky, 1998)
  • New Rose Hotel (Abel Ferrara, 1998)
  • Dark City (Alex Proyas, 1998)
  • eXistenz (David Cronenberg, 1999)
  • Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001)
  • Solaris (Steven Soderbergh, 2002)
  • Code 46 (Michael Winterbottom, 2003)
  • 2046 (Wong Kar-wai, 2004)
  • Primer (Shane Carruth, 2004)
  • Dust (Sergey Loban, 2005)
  • The Wild Blue Yonder (Werner Herzog, 2005)
  • The Fountain (Darren Aranofsky, 2006)
  • A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater, 2006)
  • The Ugly Swans (Konstantin Lopushansky, 2006)
  • Mr. Nobody (Jaco Van Dormael, 2009)
  • Moon (Duncan Jones, 2009)
  • Beyond the Black Rainbow (Panos Cosmatos, 2010)
  • Melancholia (Lars von Trier, 2011)
  • Cloud Atlas (The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, 2012)
  • Coherence (James Ward Byrkit, 2013)
  • Hard to Be a God (Aleksei Yuryevich German, 2013)
  • Her (Spike Jonze, 2013)
  • Upstream Color (Shane Carruth, 2013)
  • Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
  • The Zero Theorem (Terry Gilliam, 2013)
  • Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2014)
  • The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015)
  • Under Electric Clouds (Aleksei Alekseivich German, 2015)
  • Marjorie Prime (Michael Almereyda, 2017)
  • Annihilation (Alex Garland, 2018)
  • High Life (Claire Denis, 2018)
  • After Blue (Bertrand Mandico, 2021)
  • Memorial (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2021)
  • Neptune Frost (Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman, 2021)
  • Quarantine (Diana Ringo, 2021)
  • Bigbug (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2022)
  • Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg, 2022)
  • Petrópolis (Valery Fokin, 2022)
  • W (Anna Eriksson, 2022)
  • Vesper (Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper, 2022)
  • 1984 (Diana Ringo, 2023)
  • Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2023)

Sources:[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]

Directors associated with sci-fi art film

  • Darren Aronofsky
  • Shane Carruth
  • David Cronenberg
  • Alex Garland
  • Terry Gilliam
  • Jonathan Glazer
  • Stanley Kubrick
  • Fritz Lang
  • Yorgos Lanthimos
  • Konstantin Lopushansky
  • George Lucas
  • Alex Proyas
  • Diana Ringo
  • Ridley Scott
  • Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Shinya Tsukamoto
  • The Wachowskis

Sources:[5][7][8][10][11][12][13][9][14][15]

See also

  • Art horror
  • Arthouse animation
  • Extreme cinema
  • German Expressionism
  • Maximalist film
  • Minimalist film
  • Slow cinema
  • Vulgar auteurism

References

  1. ^ "LOCARNO 2022 Out of Competition - Anna Eriksson - Director of W". Cineuropa. 12 August 2022.
  2. ^ "Вышел трейлер фильма «1984». Премьера — в апреле 2023" [The film trailer of "1984" has been released]. Afisha Weekend. 23 November 2022.
  3. ^ Linar Gimashev (26 March 2023). "Появился второй трейлер фильма «1984» - первая экранизация на русском языке" [The second trailer of "1984" based on George Orwell's novel has been released - the first Russian-language film adaptation]. Plugged In.
  4. ^ Yulia Danilchenko (5 December 2022). "Волгоградец Александр Обманов сыграл главную роль в экранизации «1984» Оруэлла" [Aleksandr Obmanov from Volgograd played the lead role in the film adaptation of Orwell's "1984"]. Komsomolskaya Pravda.
  5. ^ a b 10 great arthouse sci-fi films|BFI
  6. ^ 28 arthouse sci-fi films that will make you smarter (and cooler)|SYFY WIRE
  7. ^ a b The 15 Best Arthouse Sci-fi Films of All Time - Taste of Cinema
  8. ^ a b "10 Essential Arthouse Sci-Fi Films". Film School Rejects. 1 September 2018.
  9. ^ a b The 15 Best Arthouse Sci-fi Films of All Time - Page 2 - Taste of Cinema
  10. ^ a b Art House Science Fiction Films You Might Have Missed - Flavorwire
  11. ^ a b 'Under the Skin' flick offers art house sci-fi - THE MERCURY
  12. ^ a b 10 sci-fi movies with trippy ambient soundtracks - Ambient Music Guide
  13. ^ a b Review: In Space, 'High Life' Finds Alienation, Not Aliens : NPR
  14. ^ a b 15 Best Sci-Fi Horror Movies That Blend The Genres Perfectly|ScreenRant.com
  15. ^ a b How Sci-Fi Movies Have Changed In Each Decade (& Why) - Screen Rant
  16. ^ 10 arthouse sci-fi movies to watch before the apocalypse - i-d.vice.com
  17. ^ 10 Best Arthouse Sci-Fi Movies, Ranked|Collider