The 15 Greatest Arthouse Dramas of the Last Decade
An arthouse film is a piece of work that can only be described in the oxymoronic phrase, “broadly specific.” While the list of genre films considered arthouse is endless, they are intended to be films made for specific audiences, while emphasis is placed on aesthetics and unique approaches to a wide array of subjects. The arthouse film can trace its roots back to the early 1900s and European filmmakers such as D.W. Griffith and Sergei Eisenstein. Thriving in Europe for decades, arthouse films began to make a bigger splash in America throughout the 1970s with films like Badlands, Taxi Driver, and Eraserhead.