World Cinema sale
Discounted titles, mostly from the non English-speaking world, all new or "as new" as denoted, and mostly out-of-print...
23 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)
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
Amour (2012)
- An octogenarian couple find their love put to the ultimate test when one of them suffers a stroke in this devastating humanist drama from master…
- DVD
$25 $18.75 (As New)
Lore (2012)
- A satisfyingly ambitious and haunting drama from the Australian dir. of SOMERSAULT, set in Europe in the aftermath of WWII.
Following the arrest…
- 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)
About Elly (2009)
- Though something of a dress rehearsal for Farhadi's Oscar–winning A SEPARATION, this tense and absorbing account of a beach holiday tainted by…
- DVD
$20 $15 (As New - Import)
Still Walking (2008)
- A recently remarried son (Abe) pays visit to his quietly disapproving parents in this exquisitely observed family drama, shot in the tradition of…
- DVD
$20 $15 (Pre-Loved)
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)
Fireworks Wednesday (Chaharshanbe-soori) (2006)
- This earlier feature from the director of A SEPARATION similarly explores the mores of the urban middle and lower classes with depth and complexity.…
- DVD
$20 $15 (As New - Import)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)