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:10 great arthouse sci-fi films|BFI28 arthouse sci-fi films that will make you smarter (and cooler)|SYFY WIREThe 15 Best Arthouse Sci-fi Films of All Time - Taste of CinemaThe 15 Best Arthouse Sci-fi Films of All Time - Page 2 - Taste of CinemaArt House Science Fiction Films You Might Have Missed - Flavorwire'Under the Skin' flick offers art house sci-fi - THE MERCURYReview: In Space, 'High Life' Finds Alienation, Not Aliens : NPR15 Best Sci-Fi Horror Movies That Blend The Genres Perfectly|ScreenRant.comHow Sci-Fi Movies Have Changed In Each Decade (& Why) - Screen Rant10 arthouse sci-fi movies to watch before the apocalypse - i-d.vice.com10 Best Arthouse Sci-Fi Movies, Ranked|Collider
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:10 sci-fi movies with trippy ambient soundtracks - Ambient Music Guide
See also Art horror Arthouse animation Extreme cinema German Expressionism Maximalist film Minimalist film Slow cinema Vulgar auteurism
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