In the challenging times we are going through, it is important to focus on more than one problem. A good solution would be to watch a complex and exciting "movie not for everyone", over which you will have to smash your head. Here's a list of the best independent films with a high rating - this arthouse will keep your mind busy.
Manifesto
- 2016 year
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 7.0; IMDb - 6.6
- Germany, Austria
- drama
"Good evening ladies and gentlemen. All contemporary art is fake. " This is how one of the heroines of Cate Blanchett begins her performance on conceptual art. There are thirteen of them in total, and that's all - she, including the bum and the tattooed punk.
Manifesto is not really a film, but a video installation in which Blanchett presents the most important artistic manifestos of the 20th century and one of the Communist Party, compiled by Marx and Engels. The film will replace the lecture series on contemporary art and remind you that Blanchett can read a phone book from the screen and still be cool.
Log (Otesánek)
- year 2000
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 7.2; IMDb - 7.3
- Czech Republic, Great Britain, Japan
- horror, fantasy, thriller, drama, comedy
A childless couple brought a piece of wood into the house. She carved a semblance of a little man out of the churochka and began to treat him like a child. And the log came to life and began to eat. And is, and is, and is ...
The film of the Czech classic of surrealism Jan Schwankmeier can be called a philosophical horror. The maestro himself, whose paintings make all critics make serious faces, treats them in a peculiar way. For example, about his other film "Sleepwalking" says: "Horror, with all the degeneration inherent in this genre. This is not a work of art. " But the world thinks differently and watches his films in search of politics, psychoanalysis, social acuteness and sentences to modern culture.
Eraserhead
- 1977 year
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 7.3; IMDb - 7.4
- USA
- horror, sci-fi, fantasy, drama
A tortured factory worker marries a former girlfriend because she gave birth to him. The fruit of their bond is a repulsive mutant unlike a human.
The film's history of filming is almost as dark and convoluted as it is. David Lynch filmed it for five years, and not in chronological order. For the sake of financing the picture, I did everything, even delivered the newspapers myself. During the filming, he was abandoned by his wife, who recently gave birth to his daughter. The first operator died in his sleep. As if a disturbing feverish dream in reality pursued the director. Will haunt you after watching.
Roma
- 2018 year
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 7.1; IMDb - 7.7
- USA, Mexico
- drama
“In the 1970s, the most ordinary family lived in Mexico, living the most ordinary life,” - this phrase clearly reflects the essence of the picture.
The general public knows Alfonso Cuarón best for his inspiring feminist test of power in space "Gravity", the brightest part of the screen Potter, the down-to-earth sexual adventure of adolescents "And Your Mom," and the post-apocalypse "Child of Man", filmed in dull tones in every sense. Therefore, the minimalistic black-and-white "Roma", where nothing special seems to be happening, will surprise you. And it may seem even brighter than "Harry Potter".
Ecstasy (Climax)
- 2018 year
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 7.1; IMDb - 7.1
- France, Belgium
- thriller, drama
In the mid-90s, at a graduation party for dance academy students, someone mixes LSD into the sangria that everyone drinks. The evening ceases to be languid: anarchy and chaos reign, and the further, the more they go mad.
And the further, the more the Argentine experimenter Gaspar Noe departs from the canons of traditional cinema. He actually had no script for the film: the madness in red that you will see is almost complete improvisation. This is not even a "movie not for everyone", but death at a rave in real time, a riot of elements, Dionysian dance. And the highly rated candid scenes that are common to Noé.
Stay in my skin (Under the Skin)
- year 2013
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 5.7; IMDb - 6.5
- Switzerland, UK, USA
- horror, fantasy, thriller, drama
In Scotland, a brunette with red lips and a Cheburashka fur coat rides on the highway, luring men into the car. And not at all for sex, as one might think.
This will not be a spoiler: Scarlett Johannsson plays an alien who is trying to understand something about earthlings, so she talks to them, pensively examines the mean landscapes. If it weren't for Something, to which she drags people, she would be like a philosophy student collecting material for a coursework. It's worth watching for the sake of this movie: how Johansson looks. Very ... alien. About what all this was - not everyone will understand. Probably no one will even understand. Yes and no need.
The Lobster
- 2015 year
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 6.9; IMDb - 7.2
- Ireland, UK, Greece, France, Netherlands
- fantasy, thriller, drama, melodrama, comedy
In some dystopia it is forbidden to be alone. Singles are sent to special hotels, where they must find a mate. Those who cannot, will be turned into animals and released into the forest, where a group of lone rebels has gathered, who are against any relationship in principle and strictly punish them. Between them is a divorced architect with glasses (Colin Farrell), looking out for a myopic lady (Rachel Weisz), since it is believed that the two halves must have common characteristics.
Greek avant-garde artist Yorgos Latimos filmed an absurd satire on love and loneliness in the modern world. There is something wrong with both - the director tells us.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
- 2017 year
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 6.8; IMDb - 7.1
- Ireland, UK
- horror, thriller, drama, detective
Successful heart surgeon Stephen (Colin Farrell) lives with his beautiful wife (Nicole Kidman) and two children. Secretly from the family, for some reason he meets with a teenage boy. Soon, Stephen's son's legs fail, and this is just the beginning of a nightmare.
Yorgos Latimos has long earned a reputation as a misanthrope who experiments with humanity. By the standards of modern humanism, they are unacceptable. But the Greek filmmaker turns to ancient culture: cruel gods who always demand human sacrifice. Sometimes it seems like a good excuse to continue filming your unpleasant movie.
On the border of the worlds (Gräns)
- 2018 year
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 6.4; IMDb - 7
- Sweden, Denmark
- fantasy, thriller, drama, melodrama, crime
A woman who is not very human in appearance and with the ability to recognize other people's emotions by smell works at customs, where her abilities are very useful. One day she meets a man like her, who reveals to her a secret about herself.
Iranian director Ali Abbas is a big fan of Let Me In, a novel by Swede Yun Aivide Lindqvist. Abbas shot his picture of loving trolls based on the novel of the writer. If you are fed up with sugary vampires and caramel fantasy, we recommend watching this movie. We guarantee a new approach to folklore and mysticism with a high rating.
2046 (2046)
- 2004 year
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 7.4; IMDb - 7.4
- Hong Kong, China, France, Italy, Germany
- fantasy, drama, melodrama
A writer from Hong Kong writes about a fantasy world of the future, in which the Earth is surrounded by a giant transport network, along which you can move in time and space. Everyone strives to get to 2046, hoping to find what was lost there.
Wong Kar-Wai's poetic phantasmagoria rounds off our list of the best art house films. The picture is in many ways a self-citation of the eminent director, other scenes seem to be duplicates of "In the Mood for Love" not included in the film. But sensuality, and tenderness, and a heartfelt soundtrack in a neon futuristic shell - captivate.