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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)
• 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)
• Conherence (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)

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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

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See also※

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

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