Arthouse: Its Place Among Other Genres

Arthouse is a developing genre of movies, which refers to a non-wide audience. Arthouse is a center of art and cinema criticism and scandal because it is non-standard. It consists of intellectual, festival movies, and movies of ethnic and sexual minorities. The name came from the 1940s to call the films about a pre-war period when independent locals produced them. Nowadays arthouse is a ‘brother’ of an avant-garde. There was a time when they were developing in parallel

Arthouse is a kind of a strange movie consisting of extraordinary thinking and global outlook of its creator. The main rule of arthouse movies: no connection with mainstream! Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthouse_action_film and other websites offer many lists of famous arthouse movies.

Here are some of them:

- Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925);

- M (Fritz Lang, 1931);

- Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954);

- Django (Sergio Corbucci, 1966);

- Batman (Tim Burton, 1989);

- Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch, 1999);

- Apocalypto (Mel Gibson, 2006);

- Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015).