| Days of Heaven (1978) | 7.7 | |
| Holy Motors (2012) | 7.0 | |
| I Remember (1973) | 7.8 | |
| Solaris (1972) | 7.9 | |
| The Lobster (2015) | 7.1 |
Art house movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant art house movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out art house, weird, surreal, sexy, psychological and realistic films and TV shows about / with nude, nudity, sex, female nudity, obsession, male nudity, female full frontal nudity, loneliness, storytelling and pornography plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Romance genres shot in France, USA, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as art house: Suntan (2016), The Dance of Reality (2013), Too Old to Die Young (2019), Bully (2001), Blind (2014), Ken Park (2002), Burning (2018), Dogville (2003), The Master (2012), The Neon Demon (2016).
Best films
New films
| Duse (2025) | 6.0 | |
| Shine (2025) | 8.0 | |
| Madly (2025) | 6.9 | |
| Anemos (2025) | 7.6 | |
| Ekō (2025) | 7.8 |
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Kostis is a 40-year-old doctor that finds himself in the small island of Antiparos, in order to take over the local clinic. His whole life and routine will turn upside down when he meets an international group of young and beautiful tourists and he ...
Style:
art house, sexy, touching, tense, light ...
Plot:
nudism, slutty woman, nude beach, greek island, doctor, unrequited love, nudist, sex scene, wench, harlot, sexually liberated, skinny dipping ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
greece, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
“Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.” This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. Alejandro ...
Style:
art house, surreal, realistic, touching, atmospheric ...
Plot:
surrealism, childhood, coming of age, kids in trouble, dysfunctional family, family life, family relations, street kid, family problems, parents and children, misfit, youth ...
Time:
year 2013, year 2014, 2010s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
chile, latin america
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
TV show
Story:
The numb existences of Martin Jones, a police officer with secrets to hide, and Jesus, a traumatized avenging son, collide in a ghostly Los Angeles where several ruthless criminal gangs fight for their turf and dictate who lives and who dies.
Style:
neo noir, art house, bloody, suspense, artsy ...
Plot:
vigilantism, gang war, social satire, police brutality, sex with a minor, criminal underworld, shooting, mother son relationship, criminal, mexican immigrant, double life, serial killer ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
This South Korean film takes place on an isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy living with him, learning to become a monk. We watch as seasons and years pass by.
Style:
philosophical, atmospheric, melancholic, meditative, spiritual ...
Plot:
buddhism, life & death, coming of age, isolation, meditation, buddhist monk, monk, guilt, existentialism, buddhist, nature, beautiful scenery ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
south korea, tibet, korea, east asia, asia ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
After finding himself at the constant abuse of his best friend Bobby, Marty has become fed up with his friend's twisted ways. His girlfriend, a victim of Bobby's often cruel ways, couldn't agree more and they strategize murdering ...
Style:
disturbing, sexy, bleak, erotic drama, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama, adult
Plot:
bullying, sexual abuse, teenager, nudity, murder, violent, rivalry, bully comeuppance, revenge, sex, social decay, drug ...
Time:
year 2001, 90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
usa, bronx new york city, florida
Is relevant?
9K
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Netherlands
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Having recently lost her sight, Ingrid retreats to the safety of her home—a place where she can feel in control, alone with her husband and her thoughts. After a while, Ingrid starts to feel the presence of her husband in the flat when he is ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, touching, art house, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
voyeur, blindness, fetish, losing-it hero, loneliness, imagination, blind woman, fetish sex, female nudity, reality vs fantasy, loss of eyesight, strong sexual content ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
scandinavia, europe, oslo norway
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32K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his ...
Style:
disturbing, sexual, sexy, art house, rough ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
coming of age, sex, strong sexual content, explicit sex, underage sex, older woman younger man relationship, youth, incest, teenage sex, nudity, suicide, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, australia
Is relevant?
85K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Deliveryman Jongsu is out on a job when he runs into Haemi, a girl who once lived in his neighborhood. She asks if he'd mind looking after her cat while she's away on a trip to Africa. On her return she introduces to Jongsu an enigmatic ...
Style:
suspense, art house, exciting, ambiguous ending, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
class differences, metaphor, suspicion, arson, asian, anger, aspiring writer, childhood friend, rural setting, stalking, tragic love, bare breasts ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
south korea, seoul, korea, india
Is relevant?
168K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, UK, France, Finland, Norway, Italy
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
A barren soundstage is stylishly utilized to create a minimalist small-town setting in which a mysterious woman named Grace hides from the criminals who pursue her. The town is two-faced and offers to harbor Grace as long as she can make it worth ...
Style:
art house, psychological, bleak, philosophical, cerebral ...
Plot:
rape, society, morality, twists and turns, victim, female protagonist, vengeance, gangster, rocky mountains, sex scene, making love, haunted by the past ...
Time:
1930s, year 2003, future, near future, year 2004 ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France, Netherlands
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but ...
Style:
sexy, black comedy, art house, disturbing, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
food, cannibalism, brutality, restaurant, taboo sex, violence, sex, gangster, adultery, public humiliation, surrealism, sex scene ...
Time:
year 1989, 20th century, 80s, future
Place:
britain
Is relevant?
199K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World ...
Style:
art house, atmospheric, philosophical, cerebral, surreal ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
psychiatry, scientology, right hand man, drifter, sex, female pubic hair, mentor, religion, bare breasts, religions or cults, brainwashing, writers ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 20th century, 1940s, year 1950 ...
Place:
usa, phoenix arizona, san francisco, alabama, pennsylvania ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA, Belgium
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.
Style:
art house, sexy, disturbing, dark, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
fashion, teenage girl, cannibalism, model, beauty, lesbian, obsession, jealousy, murder, rivalry, fashion model, surrealism ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, pasadena california
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, UK, Belgium
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A look inside an offbeat boarding school for young girls.
Style:
disturbing, art house, surreal, erotic, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
boarding school, friendship, childhood, coming of age, boarding school life, girls' boarding school, forest, female protagonist, society, school, dark and stormy night, death ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france, tokyo, paris france
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Paul and Agnes have been going out for quite a while and Agnes is shocked to learn that he'd rather live with two roommates on campus than move in with her. As soon as he meets one of his roommates, Louis-Anault, Paul's behavior changes - ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sincere, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay love, male pubic hair, male nudity, swinger, gay athlete, love triangle, gays and lesbians, sexual relations, male homosexuality, naked man ...
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Ukraine, Czech Republic
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An ordinary funeral procession moves along its path from church to cemetery. Observing, you slip from reality into a place where time has lost its linearity, looping through the odd images thrown off by a distorted reality. Images of non-existence, ...
Style:
art house, psychedelic, non-linear, neo noir, surreal ...
Plot:
surrealism, murder, insanity, hanging, psychotic, identity crisis, mental illness, family drama, claustrophobia, metaphysics, obsession, isolation ...
Place:
ukraine
Is relevant?
32K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession.
Style:
psychological, art house, visually stunning, suspense, dark ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
obsession, husband wife relationship, control, bored housewife, abortion, loneliness, mental disorder, psychotherapist, hospital, telephone call, pregnant woman, surgery ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
pittsburgh, africa, new york state
Is relevant?
21K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, Russia, Italy, France, Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In 1600, nobleman Orlando inherits his parents' house, thanks to Queen Elizabeth I, who commands the young man to never change. After a disastrous affair with Russian princess Sasha, Orlando looks for solace in the arts before being appointed ...
Style:
stylized, art house, surreal, period piece, visually stunning ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gender bending, gender, eternal youth, nobility, politics, tudors, painting, surrealism, transsexual, looking for love, switching roles, women ...
Time:
17th century, 16th century, year 1992, 18th century, victorian era ...
Place:
england, ottoman empire, europe, middle east, russia ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Hungary
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A woman who studies butterflies and moths tests the limits of her relationship with her lover.
Style:
erotic, sexy, atmospheric, surreal, visually stunning ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
lesbian, lgbtq, bdsm, sex game, sexual content, sex, sexual satisfaction, punishment, dominatrix, lesbian relationship, foot fetish, lesbianism ...
Time:
year 2014
Place:
indiana
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Style:
surreal, psychological, neo noir, art house, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
surrealism, twists and turns, amnesia, lesbian, obsession, dream, alternate reality, parallel universe, hollywood, filmmaking, lesbian sex, nightmare ...
Time:
2000s, year 2001, 20th century, future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, persia, usa, california, mulholland drive
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
An Innuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film, in real and imaginary form. Meanwhile, Axel tags fish in New York as a naturalist's gofer. He's happy there, but a messenger arrives to ...
Style:
art house, surreal, melancholic, atmospheric, dark comedy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
desert, magic realism, car salesman, nervous breakdown, self discovery, surrealism, family relations, fall in love, love and romance, eccentric family, on the road, sex scene ...
Time:
90s, year 1993
Place:
arizona, alaska, usa, new york, papua new guinea
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
Style:
controversial, disgusting, erotic, extreme horror, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult, teen drama
Plot:
torture, atrocity, sexual perversion, sex, fascism, sexual abuse, sexual torture, sadism, brutality, rape, libertine, captivity ...
Time:
1940s, year 1975, 20th century, year 1943, year 1944 ...
Place:
italy, europe, latin america
Is relevant?
18K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A father who is a failed former television reporter tries to mount a documentary about violence and sex among youths. He proceeds to have sex with his daughter who is now a prostitute, and films his son being humiliated and hit by classmates. ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, bloody, tense, cult classic ...
Plot:
incest, sex, rape, father daughter incest, macabre, violent, psychopath, prostitute, breast feeding, necrophilia, obsession, sexual harassment ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
japan, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Alone in her empty flat, from her window Anne observes the people passing by who nervously snatch up the personal belongings and pieces of furniture she has put out on the pavement. Her final gesture of taking a ring off her finger signals she is ...
Style:
atmospheric, sexy, psychological, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
loneliness, human nature, solitude, introspection, starting over, freedom, friendship, drifter, camping, older man younger woman romance, mental disorder, on the road ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, germany, england
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Mexico
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Two corporations compete for illicit 3D manga pornography, sending spies to infiltrate each other's operations.
Style:
erotic, art house, sexual, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
bare breasts, coitus, voyeurism, voyeur, female nudity, espionage, lesbian, nudity, murder, rivalry, internet, workplace situations ...
Time:
year 2002, turn of the century
Place:
tokyo, paris france, japan
Is relevant?
41K
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
The perversion behind imperial Rome, the epic story of Rome's mad Emporer. All the details of his cruel, bizarre reign are revealed right here: His unholy sexual passion for his sister, his marriage to Rome's most infamous prostitute, his ...
Style:
erotic, disturbing, sexual, cult classic, sexy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ancient rome, incest, sex, sexual perversion, sexploitation, explicit sex, brutality, ancient world, brother sister sex, sex scene, unsimulated sex, roman empire ...
Time:
ancient times, 1st century, year 1979, 1930s, 1940s
Place:
rome italy, italy, greece
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Norway, Iceland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment - even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but ...
Style:
surreal, philosophical, psychological, enigmatic, art house ...
Plot:
dystopia, nightmare, suicide attempt, exile, accountant, alone in the world, parallel universe, suicide, emotionless, isolation, confined, captivity ...
Time:
distant future, future
Place:
argentina
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a ...
Style:
atmospheric, sexy, surreal, art house, sexual ...
Plot:
satire, surrealism, humiliation, sexuality, sex scene, unrequited love, manipulation, maid, female nudity, frustration, rich man, absurd humor ...
Time:
20th century, year 1977, 70s
Place:
paris france, spain, europe, madrid, france
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from "The Pillow Book", the diary of a 10th-century lady-in-waiting. Nagiko grows up, obsessed with books, papers, and writing on ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, art house, surreal, non-linear ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
nudity, model, lovers, obsession, male nudity, art, geisha, sex, artist, book, homosexual, exhibitionist ...
Time:
year 1996, 10th century, middle ages
Place:
japan, california, tokyo, asia, shanghai ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A seductive alien prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.
Style:
surreal, creepy, dark, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
alien, extraterrestrial, human prey, disguise, femme fatale, nudity, seduction, nightclub, creature, deformity, arthouse horror, female nudity ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2013, year 2014, 21st century
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, France, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Hope, the third film in the PARADISE TRILOGY, tells the story of the 13-year-old Melanie. While her mother (Teresa) travels to Kenya, Melanie spends her holiday in the Austrian countryside at a strict diet camp for overweight teenagers. Under the ...
Style:
sincere, cynical, serious, realistic, art house ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
impossible love, overweight, 13 year old, physical appearance, teenage crush, older man younger woman relationship, diet, youth, camp, sex talk, coming of age, teenage life ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
austria, kenya
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