The best arthouse action movies of all time include Oldboy, Drive, and El Mariachi.
While it's possible to describe certain films as being "arthouse," the term isn't a genre in the same way that drama, comedy, or thriller are all types of genres. Arthouse can sometimes be a genre, but it also feels like the term describes a type of movie, based on its style and overall feel.
9 'The Grandmaster' Few arthouse directors have found quite as much success as Wong Kar-wai, who has an undeniable style to all his films that makes them stand out from just about all others. Many of his films fall within the crime, drama, and romance genres, though he's made a handful of movies that could be described as action films, including the 1994 wuxia movie Ashes of Time and 2013's The Grandmaster.
It has an outlandish premise, but works because it all feels as though it takes place in a heightened and rather explosive reality . It's probably more conventional than most so-called arthouse action movies, but that's also likely one reason it's among the most popular. It does have a strange feel to it - in a good way - with the atmosphere created by oppressively cold weather giving it a more haunting and bleak visual style than more conventional action movies. It's also somewhat offbeat with some of its creative decisions and acting choices, with the leads here - Jon Voight and Eric Roberts - giving particularly intense performances.
4 'Branded to Kill' The premise of Branded to Kill makes it sound all pretty simple on paper, especially for anyone well-versed in the yakuza genre . It follows one assassin after he botches a job, and thereby finds himself targeted by another assassin who's tracking him down to punish him.
2 'El Mariachi' Robert Rodriguez exploded onto the filmmaking scene with the ultra-low-budget El Mariachi, an action film he directed, co-produced, wrote, edited, and did the cinematography for. Despite being smaller scale than his later films and having a budget of just $7000, it's still one of his most exciting and action-packed movies.
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