Arthouse action film

List of characteristics

• Stylized action
• Arthouse atmosphere
• Disjointed, fragmented narrative and more complexity than the typical action flick which gives the viewer a sense of dreamy surrealism

  List of notable films

• Seven Samurai
• Django
• Branded to Kill
• The Exterminator
• Gloria
• The Soldier
• Runaway Train
• Batman
• The Killer
• El Mariachi
• '
• Run Lola Run
• '
• Drive
• Hanna
• Haywire
• Looper
• Only God Forgives

  Notable directors

• Kathryn Bigelow
• James Glickenhaus
• Nicolas Winding Refn
• Steven Soderbergh
• Joe Wright