Subgenre Sampler
Sales > Suspense/Crime > Foreign Cinema: 78 films to Buy
Read My Lips (Sur Mes Levres) (2001)
- Sturdy, unconventional French thriller about an insecure, partially–deaf office clerk who tries to help an irascible ex–con integrate…
- Poster (VG) $12.95
Character (1997)
- A murderous confrontation bookends an elegantly told story of class, oppression and perseverance in 1920s Rotterdam, in which a young…
- Poster (VG) $12.95
Coup de Torchon (Clean Slate) (1981)
- Mordantly humourous suspense set in dusty French Senegal, with Noiret playing a much–abused police chief who begins to have dreams of…
- DVD
$40 $30
American Friend, The (1976)
- Twisting thriller stars Bruno Ganz as an apparently terminally–ill man duped into murder. Dennis Hopper plays the American 'friend', while…
- DVD
$34.95 $19.95
Claude Chabrol Boxset Vol. 1 (Les Biches, Le Boucher, Que La Bete Meure, La Femme Infidele, Juste Avant La Nuit, Les Noces Rouges, Nada, Madame Bovary) (1968-1991)
- Eight classic films from the French master of suspense.
– Les Biches (Bad Girls, 1968)
– La Femme Infidele (The Unfaithful Wife,…
- DVD
$80 $60
Made in U.S.A (1966)
- Further political horseplay from Godard in the skin of a Nouvelle Vague alternate reality: this time, Anna Karina plays a war journalist on the hunt…
- DVD
$40 $30
Classe Tous Risques (Consider All Risks) (1960)
- French–Italian gangster film following the exploits of a French mobster (Lino Ventura, based on a real life henchman for the French Gestapo)…
- DVD
$40 $30
Le Corbeau (Raven, the) (1943)
- Fascinating as a wartime allegory made under the German Occupation of France, a small town becomes a hot–bed of paranoia following a rash of…
- DVD
$40 $30