01 Four college girls' spring break trip spirals into a candy-colored crime spree.
10 Best 2010s Arthouse Movies
By Vlad Zakh · August 3, 2026
Arthouse slow and atmosphericthought provoking
The 2010s arthouse scene leaned into deadpan absurdism as much as slow cinema, a dystopia where single people are turned into animals, a dressmaker’s obsessive control over every woman in his life, a getaway to a Cannes-lit Bordeaux street with no clear moral center.
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02 A Bangkok crime family's revenge plot unfolds in slow, neon-soaked dread.
03 A teenage model's rise through the fashion industry curdles into something predatory and strange.
04 A man rides through Paris in a limousine, changing into a new identity at every stop.
05 A wedding reception unfolds as a rogue planet drifts closer to colliding with Earth.
06 A doomed romance stretched across the Iron Curtain over more than a decade.
07 An erotic con-artist thriller told in three perspectives, each recontextualizing the last.
08 A hotel concierge's absurd inheritance scheme spirals across a fictional European country.
09 Single people are given 45 days to find a partner or be turned into an animal of their choice.
10 A controlling dressmaker's rigid life is upended by the one woman who won't simply comply.
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