Arthouse action film
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The arthouse action genre is an emerging film genre in contemporary cinema that traces its roots back to Asian and European films. Various sources have recently begun referring to various films under this label. Such titles include Hanna, Drive, Haywire, and Looper.
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Examples of films
- Apocalypto (Mel Gibson, 2006)
- Batman (Tim Burton, 1989)
- Django (Sergio Corbucci, 1966)
- Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011)
- El Mariachi (Robert Rodriguez, 1992)
- Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jim Jarmusch, 1999)
- Gloria (John Cassavetes, 1980)
- Hanna (Joe Wright, 2011)
- Haywire (Steven Soderbergh, 2011)
- Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010)
- Kill Bill: Volume 1 (Quentin Tarantino, 2003)
- Léon: The Professional (Luc Besson, 1994)
- Looper (Rian Johnson, 2012)
- Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, 2003)
- Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2013)
- Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
- Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer, 1998)
- Runaway Train (Andrei Konchalovsky, 1985)
- Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa, 1962)
- Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
- Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho, 2013)
- Sorcerer (William Friedkin, 1977)
- Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997)
- The Exterminator (James Glickenhaus, 1980)
- The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-Wai, 2013)
- The Killer (John Woo, 1989)
- The Northman (Robert Eggers, 2022)
- The Soldier (James Glickenhaus, 1982)
- The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953)
- Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, 1961)
- Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki, 1967)
- Miami Vice (Michael Mann, 2006)
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Peter R. Hunt, 1969)
- Point Blank (John Boorman, 1967)
- The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman, 2002)
- The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2008)
- Trial of the Road (Aleksei German, 1971)
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See also
- Social thriller
- Cannon Films
- Art film
- Vulgar auteurism
- Neo-noir
- New Hollywood
- Film noir
- Midnight movie
- Synthwave
- Extreme cinema
- French New Wave
- Cinéma du look
- Maximalist film
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