Nyika ye elokuva Iyo yakakamurwa kuita akati wandei subcategories, ino nguva isu tichataura nezve art cinema. Kazhinji iri mhando yemabhaisikopo, iyo isina bhokisi hofisi kubudirira kana kuwanda kwekushandisa sechinangwa chayo, asi panzvimbo pezvo kugadzirwa kwemahara uye ekugadzira mafirimu, ayo ane nharo uye anoshamisa masvomhu, anowanzo kunetsa kunzwisisa. Uye zvakare, mafirimu e art cinemaVanotakura chitambi chemukuru wavo pavari. Icho chaicho chakanakisa sarudzo kune vanoenda kumamuvhi. Izvo zvakakosha kuti utaure kuti art cinema mafirimu anowanzo gadzirwa nemakambani madiki ekugadzira, uye haana makuru mabhajeti kana akakosha mhedzisiro.
Pakati pe mafirimu emazuva anoAkakurumbira erudzi urwu rwemhando isu tinayo Anopesana naKristu, bhaisikopo ra2009, rakanyorwa uye rinotungamirwa nemukurumbira director weDenmark uye munyori wezvekunyora Lars Von Trier. Inoshamisa uye inotyisa yakatemwa, inorumbidzwa nevatsoropodzi uye ichionekwa se "inyanzvi yeinotyisa."
Mamwe mafirimu anobuda pachena ndiMulhollan Drive nemutungamiriri weNorth America David Lynch, Les Choristes inotungamirwa naChristophe Barratier, pakati pevamwe.
Zvino kana tikadzokera ku art firimu nhoroondoTinogona kudzokera kumashure kune gore ra1910, nguva iyo pakanga pasina musiyano chaiwo pakati pekutengesa cinema uye art cinema, zvisinei vatungamiriri ndivo vaitarisira kutsvaga hunyanzvi mune aesthetics yemufirimu. Aya ndiwo maitiro atinogona kudaidza echinyakare mafirimu senge Kuberekwa kweNyika ya1915 uye Kusashivirira kwa1916, ese ari maviri anotungamirwa naDW Griffith, seyema cinema. Tinofanira zvakare kunongedzera kumafirimu akaburitswa muna 1925, Strike uye Iyo Hondo yehondo Potemkin naSergei Eisenstein.