World Cinema sale

Discounted titles, mostly from the non English-speaking world, all new or "as new" as denoted, and mostly out-of-print...

42 Films.

A Faithful Man (L'homme fidèle) (2018): Romantic farce with a whimsical, French new–wave sensibility directed by and starring Louis Garrel. A dashing journalist finds his life…; DVD ~~$29.98~~ $15 (As New)
Country Doctor, The (Irreplaceable) (2016): Genteel drama starring François Cluzet (THE INTOUCHABLES) as a devoted doctor in a rural French town who himself is diagnosed with a serious illness…; DVD ~~$20~~ $15 (As New)
Perfect Strangers (Perfetti sconosciuti) (2016): A clever comedy of manners for the iphone–era, this Italian award–winner follows a dinner party debacle that unfolds after seven…; DVD ~~$19.95~~ $14.95 (As New)
Palio (2015): DVD ~~$20~~ $15 (As New)
Half of a Yellow Sun (2013): A moving, if overly melodramatic rendering of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel about the Nigerian Civil War as experienced by two…; DVD ~~$19.95~~ $10
May in the Summer (2013): Jordanian set drama of cultural misunderstanding about a successful author returning to her familial hometown Amman in preparation for her impending…; DVD ~~$19.95~~ $10
Intouchables, The (2011): Exemplary feel–good French comedy that details the unlikely friendship between an aristocratic quadriplegic and a young French–African…; DVD ~~$20~~ $15 (as new)
Life, Above All (2011): Heartrending tale of a headstrong 12–year–old girl who struggles to hold together her broken, AIDS–ridden family in modern day…; DVD ~~$19.95~~ $14.95 (As New)
You Will Be My Son (2011): An intense, boldly flavoured father–son melodrama centred on a prestigious French wine label, whose arrogant owner (Arestrup) begins to groom…; DVD ~~$20~~ $15 (As New)
King of Devil's Island (2010): The boys of an early 20th century reform school revolt against an abusive regime in this stirring, snow–swept Norwegian drama. Featuring music…; DVD ~~$20~~ $15 (Near New)
Mysteries of Lisbon (Mistérios de Lisboa) (2010): Sprawling, utterly beguiling tribute to the power of stories set in 19th century Lisbon where an orphan boy discovers the truth about his birth and…; DVD ~~$25~~ $18.75 (As New)
Female Agents (Les femmes de l'ombre) (2008): Substantial, exciting WWII espionage thriller following an all–female commando unit of the French Resistance recruited to rescue a British…; DVD ~~$15~~ $11.25 (as new)
Mid-August Lunch (2008): A comedy of manners and good taste in form and content, this soulful comedy sets up a middle–aged man forced to play host to a gaggle of…; DVD ~~$20~~ $15 (As New)
Wave, The (Die Welle) (2008): Based on a true incident in the US in the early 1970's to practically illustrate the machinations of Nazi propaganda, a school teacher's unorthodox…; DVD ~~$25~~ $18.75 (As New)
Winter in Wartime (2008): Sensitively handled account of a thirteen year old boy who joins the Dutch resistance at the tail end of World War II.; DVD ~~$19.95~~ $14.95 (As New)
Caramel (Sukkar banat) (2007): Charming Lebanese soap opera with a social conscience, the latest in an emerging wave of dissenting Middle Eastern dramas divulges the stifled lives…; DVD ~~$24.95~~ $18.70 (As New)
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 (As New 2-Disc)
Bothersome Man, The (2006): A black comedy with a typically Scandinavian sense of absurdity and style, in which an amnesiac finds himself in an unfamiliar city with a new job,…; DVD ~~$20~~ $15 (As New)
Days of Glory (Indigènes) (2006): Epic Algerian WW2 drama focused on a determined group of Algerian soldiers fighting to defend France with little acknowledgement of their sacrifices…; DVD ~~$19.95~~ $10
Ring Finger, The (L'annulaire) (2005): Ravishing to look at, if lacking so much as a storyline, this exquisite erotic fiction features Bond Girl Olga Kurylenko as a gorgeous laboratory…; DVD ~~$20~~ $15 (As New)
2046 (2004): A companion piece of sorts to IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, this has the seasoned stylist dir. Wong Kar–Wai sketch an impressionistic portrait of loss,…; DVD ~~$24.95~~ $18.70 (As New)
As it is in Heaven (Så som i himmelen) (2004): A feelgood arthouse hit about a renowned classical music conductor who rediscovers his roots in the far north of Sweden. Acquiring a rundown…; DVD ~~$25~~ $18.75 (As New)
I'm Not Scared (Io Non Ho Paura) (2003): Atmospheric thriller from dir. Gabriele Salvatores that deftly conveys a foreboding childhood experience during a long, hot summer in the country,…; DVD ~~$24.95~~ $18.70 (as new)
Together (He Ni Zaiyiqi) (2002): Touching story of a father and his 13–year–old son, a shy violin prodigy, who scrape up their meagre savings and set off from their…; DVD ~~$24.95~~ $18.70 (As New)
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 (Pre-Loved)
Autumn Spring (Babí léto) (2001): Spry Czech comedy of elderly bad manners, concerns an aging prankster (Brodsky) who spends his retirement impersonating people in league with a…; DVD ~~$24.95~~ $18.70 (As New)
Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (2001): The astonishing true story of Hitler's private secretary, Traudl Junge, who at the age of 80 comes to terms with working alongside unspeakable evil…; DVD ~~$15~~ $11.25 (as new)
Kingdom II, The (Riget II) (1997): Lars Von Trier's compulsive TV creation continues into its second series of medical soap opera, supernatural horror and black comedy. Raising the…; DVD ~~$24.95~~ $18.70 (as new)
Kama Sutra (1996): The director of SALAAM BOMBAY returns to her native land for this enticing, beautifully photographed tale of love, jealousy and revenge among the…; DVD ~~$20~~ $15 (as new)
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 (As New)
Eat Drink Man Woman (1994): Those that attended Ang Lee's WEDDING BANQUET will want to sample his tasty and sensual comedy about the perennial delights of life – sex and…; DVD ~~$20~~ $15 (as new import)
Latcho Drom (1993): A moving testament to the plight of inter–continental gypsy culture and to the redemptive and communicative power of music, Tony Gatlif's…; DVD ~~$25~~ $18.75 (As New)
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 (Near New)
Last Emperor, The (1987): Grand scale interpretation of the true life of Pu Yi (John Lone), the last emperor of China, who ascended the throne at three years–old to live…; DVD ~~$20~~ $15 (as new)
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 (As New)
La Chevre (1981): Irrepressible comic duo Richard and Depardieu are paired for the first time; here, the chronically unlucky daughter of a businessman goes missing in…; DVD ~~$20~~ $15 (As New)
Le Magnifique (1973): Jean–Paul Belmondo stars in this slapstick spoof of B–movie espionage films and novels, playing a frustrated writer working in this genre…; DVD ~~$20~~ $15 (as new ~ import)
Death in Venice (1971): Dirk Bogarde plays a gay composer whose unspoken obssesion with a young boy detains him in Venice during a cholera epidemic. This soft–focus,…; DVD ~~$24.95~~ $18.70 (As New)
Sundays and Cybele (Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray) (1962): Touching, if occasionally over–sentimentalised drama that contemplates the relationship between a mentally scarred bomber pilot and the…; DVD ~~$25~~ $18.75 (As New)
Samurai Saga (Aru kengo no shogai) (1959): Feudal Japanese retelling of Rostand's 'Cyrano de Bergerac', with the charismatic Toshiro Mifune as the shogun–poet with a…; DVD ~~$24.95~~ $18.70 (As New)
Nights of Cabiria (1957): Giulietta Masina is marvelous as a waifish prostitute dreaming of a rich, wonderful life but always finding sorrow. Tragicomic masterpiece won an…; DVD ~~$29.95~~ $20
Storm Over Asia (Potomok Chingis-Khana) (1928): An epic of silent Russian cinema to rival Eisenstein, this is set around a young Mongol fur–trapper who is swindled by traders and develops a…; DVD ~~$19.95~~ $14.95 (As New)

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