Arthouse Films
Auteur films are works in which the director is not an executor but the author: they choose the subject, the rhythm and the gaze, and answer for it down to the last shot. This is arthouse cinema, born from a personal urgency rather than a formula, and one that often gives up explaining in order to give the viewer time to step into the image.
Here you will find a selection of auteur films to stream, made by filmmakers who take risks: intimate stories, silences that weigh, forms that do not seek approval. There are psychological dramas, portraits of suburbs and solitude, works that blend reality and imagination, films that take the time to observe rather than explain.
Auteur cinema is not measured by box office but by the coherence of a vision. That is why the films in this category differ widely in country, era and language, yet share the same freedom: they ask for attention and repay it with a vision that stays after the credits. Cinema to be discovered slowly, far from what the market keeps repeating.
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The Lost Poet
Movie
Drama, by Fabio Del Greco, Italy, 2024.
Dante Mezzadri wants to see an old friend, nicknamed the Iguana, whom he has lost sight of for many years, and who has managed to turn their shared youthful passion for poetry into a job, becoming a famous writer and poet. The man escapes from his bourgeois... -
Miss Oyu
Movie
Drama, by Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan, 1951.
Bachelor Shinnosuke falls in love with Miss Oyu, the companion of his younger sister Shizu who visits him as a future bride. The family taboo prevents Shinnosuke from marrying Oyu. He marries Shizu without consummating their marriage so that Shinnosuke can ... -
Mystery of an Employee
Movie
Drama, thriller, by Fabio Del Greco, Italy, 2019.
Someone wants to control the life of the employee Giuseppe Russo: the products he buys, his political and religious faith, his private life, even his dreams. But he will do anything to escape control and find his true self. Giuseppe is a man of ar... -
Nosferatu
Movie
When a young real estate agent, Thomas Hutter, goes to the castle to close a deal, Orlok is attracted by his blood and decides to follow him to his hometown. The arrival of the count causes a series of mysterious deaths and spreads panic among the inhabitants.
Murnau, through evocative images an...
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Occidente
Movie
Drama film, by Jorge Acebo Canedo, 2019, Spain.
Torino Underground Cinefest 2020, Ponferrada International Film Festival 2019. A fugitive director in exile named H returns to the industrial city he fled from long ago, in an unknown time and place. Gloria, the worker he left behind and whom she lo... -
The House is Black
Movie
Documentary, by Forough Farrokhzad, Iran, 1963.
The House is Black is a lyrical, transcendent film that places a gaze full of compassion and religiosity towards a suffering humanity. The only source of harmony is found outside the leper colony, in nature: suffering reigns inside. Not even religio... -
A Better Life
Movie
Drama, thriller, by Fabio Del Greco, Italy, 2007.
Rome: Andrea Casadei is a young investigator specializing in audio wiretapping who conducts investigations commissioned by husbands betrayed by their wives, or by parents worried about what their children are doing outside the home. But what inter... -
Sebastiane
Movie
Drama, history, by Derek Jarman, United Kingdom, 1976.
In the third century A.D. Sebastiano is a member of the personal guard of the Emperor Diocletian. When he tries to intervene to prevent one of the Emperor's catamites from being strangled by one of his bodyguards, Sebastian is exiled to a rem... -
Testament of Orpheus
Movie
Drama film, by Jean Cocteu, France, 1960.
In his latest film, the legendary Jean Cocteau is a poet who travels through time in search of enlightenment. In a mysterious wasteland, he meets lost souls that result in his death and resurrection. With an exceptional cast including Pablo Picasso, Jean-... -
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Movie
Horror, fantasy, by Robert Wiene, Germany, 1920.
The symbolic film of cinematic expressionism. Francis tells a story to a man: in 1830, in a small town, a guy named Caligari, plays the barker at the fair to present the attraction of him, a sleepwalker that he holds under hypnosis in a coffin. The... -
The Exterminating Angel
Movie
Drama, by Luis Bunuel, Mexico, 1962.
The plot revolves around a group of people who gather in a sumptuous villa for a gala dinner. However, after dinner, they find that they are unable to leave the villa, despite the fact that the doors and windows are barred and the exits apparently blocked. Wha... -
The Kempinsky Method
Movie
Drama, by Federico Salsano, Italy 2020.
The introspective imaginary road movie of a man in the maze of his own mind, his memories of his youth, his never dormant passions and contradictory truths. The road is made of water, the destination is falsely unknown. His traveling companions are three my... -
The Sands
Movie + 1 extra
Science fiction, by Noah Paganotto, Argentina, 2022.
In an undetermined location on planet Earth, in an unknown time, Zoilo lives with his family in a wasteland surrounded by ruins. They live uprooted, without mothers, knowing that pregnancy for women is synonymous with death. For them there is o... -
Tokyo Story
Movie
Drama, by Yasujirô Ozu, Japan, 1953.
Shukichi and Tomi, now close to seventy, take a trip to Tokyo to visit their children before it's too late. When they arrive in the city, however, the welcome is not what they expected: the eldest son Koichi and his sister Shige have too many work commitments ... -
Vampyr
Movie
Horror, by Carl Theodor Dreyer, Germany, 1932.
Late in the evening, Allan Gray arrives at an inn near the town of Courtempierre and rents a room to sleep. Gray is suddenly disturbed by an old man, who enters the room and leaves a square package on the table: "To be opened on my death" is written ... -
Walk Cheerfully
Movie
Drama, crime, by Yasujirō Ozu, Japan, 1930.
The plot of the film follows the story of Kenji, a low-ranking gangster, who decides to give up his life of crime and settle down. He falls in love with Yasue, a young car mechanic, and the two plan to get married. However, Kenji's past catches up with ... -
Don Barry: A Quixotic Exploration
Movie + 2 extras
Docufiction, Experimental, by Paul Smart, Mexico, 2026.
Don Barry: A Quixotic Exploration is a debut feature that places the biography of an eighty-year-old experimental filmmaker and artist, Barry Gerson, within the metanarrative of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Don Barry was filmed in the c... -
Early Summer
Movie
Drama, by Yasujirō Ozu, Japan, 1951.
Noriko, a secretary from Tokyo, resides in Kamakura with her family along with her parents Shūkichi and Shige, her elder brother Kōichi, a doctor, her wife Fumiko and their 2 boys Minoru and Isamu. Noriko's friends are divided into 2 groups, married and single... -
Faust
Movie
Horror, by F. W. Murnau, German, 1926.
Faust is an elderly scholar who has lost faith in life. He is defeated by his inability to help others and by his awareness of his own mortality. One day, he meets Mephistopheles, who offers him a pact: in exchange for his soul, Mephistopheles will give him ... -
I Am Nothing
Movie
Drama, thriller, by Fabio Del Greco, Italy, 2015.
The story revolves around Vasco, a Roman builder who, at the age of 74, enjoys a life of absolute comfort. His human parable takes a dramatic turn when a mysterious encounter leads him to an ambush. Having survived, but marked by a long coma, Vasc... -
Thirsty
Movie
Drama, musical, by Guru Dutt, India, 1957
Thirsty is the heartbreaking story of Vijay, a young poet living in Calcutta who dreams of giving voice to the suffering and injustice of the world through his verses. Idealistic and sensitive, Vijay clashes with a society that despises his art because it... -
Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo
Movie
Comedy, drama, historical, by Sadao Yamanaka, Japan, 1935.
A man gives an old cooking pot to his brother, not realizing that there is a treasure map inside. His sister-in-law sells the pot to a junk dealer, who in turn sells it to a boy named Yasu. A colorful cast of characters are looking for th... -
Love on the Run
Movie
Comedy, romance, by Francois Truffaut, France, 1978.
After seven years Antoine and Christine divorce, while remaining good friends. Antoine is in a relationship with Liliane, friend of Christine, has published an autobiography about his loves and finds work as a proofreader and also begins a chee... -
Man with a Movie Camera
Movie
Documentary, by Dziga Vertov, Russia, 1929.
After a few years spent making propaganda documentaries, Dziga Vertov realizes his masterpiece, inspired by the theories on reality cinema and Kinoglaz. An experimental visual symphony with futurist roots. An ordinary day of a cinematographer wandering ...