Aro Favourite: Foreign Cinema
40 Foreign Cinema Films have attained the hallowed status of Aro Favourite
Big Man Japan (Dai-Nipponjin) (2007)
- A genuine inductee to the 'Incredibly Strange' hall of fame, this gonzo monster mash bounds between deadpan mock–u–mentary following the…
- DVD
$14.95 $11.20
La Vie en Rose (2007)
- Marion Cotillard excels (and deservingly won a Best Actress Oscar) in this stunning new biopic of the life and times of French singer Edith…
- DVD
$20 $15
Wallander (TV Series) (2005)
- Suspenseful Scandinavian procedural finds drama within the inner–workings of a police force in southern Sweden, chiefly between the series’…
- DVD $44.95
Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) (2001)
- A ‘cause celebre’ of recent film festivals worldwide, this filmed folktale from the ice–bound Innuit communities of northern Canada,…
- DVD
$29.95 $15
Amores Perros (Love's a Bitch) (2000)
- Bursting forth with passion, cinematic mettle and pungent local flavours, this debut feature, a triptych of stories set in polyglot Mexico City, is…
- DVD
$29.95 $15, $29.95
Kolya (1996)
- A beautifully sentimental Oscar winner for Best Foreign film – set during the 1988 Russian occupation of Czechoslovakia, when a…
- DVD
$25 $18.75
Delicatessen (1992)
- Two former Ad–men splash down with an audacious, darkly comic masterpiece set in a vegetarianist, post–apocalyptic future. Consumed with…
- DVD
$20 $15
El Mariachi (1992)
- A cause celebre of low–budget film–making, this $7000 Tex–Mex wonder about a guitar–player mistaken for a gangster contains…
- DVD
$15 $11.25
Das Boot (The Boat) (1981)
- Nail biting, meticulous and realistic account of a German U–boat's prowlings through the North Atlantic. The most expensive German film to…
- DVD
$25 $18.75
Seven Samurai, The (1954)
- Kurosawa's classic 'Eastern Western' about a village who hire an elite band of warriors to fend off marauders. Compassionate storytelling with combat…
- DVD $29.95 | Blu-Ray $34.95