# Arthouse science fiction film

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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