Arthouse science fiction (or arthouse sci-fi) is a combination of art and science fiction cinema. Andrei Tarkovsky, Stanley Kubrick, and David Cronenberg are some of the most renowned directors whose contributions to arthouse science fiction cinema have made a lasting impact and have influenced other filmmakers.

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)
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)
Quarantine (Diana Ringo, 2021)
Bigbug (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2022)
Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg, 2022)
Petrópolis (Valery Fokin, 2022)
W (Anna Eriksson, 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 
German Expressionism
Arthouse action film
Art horror
Arthouse animation
Minimalist film
Maximalist film
Slow cinema
Vulgar auteurism
Extreme cinema

References 

Film styles
Film genres
1920s in film
1960s in film
1970s in film
1980s in film
1990s in film
2000s in film
2010s in film
2020s in film
Postmodern art
Modern art