Subgenre Sampler
Sales > Action/Adventure > Foreign Cinema: 32 films to Buy
- Escape from Mogadishu (2021)
- A gritty action–thriller based on true events following a diplomatic skirmish between North and South Korea that breaks out on the African…
- DVD $29.95
- Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula (2020)
- A standalone sequel to the 2016 action–horror hit TRAIN TO BUSAN, with director Yeon Sang–ho returning for a less focused but no less…
- DVD $29.95 | Blu-Ray $34.95
- Monos (2019)
- A dark contemporary fable inspired by Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, set in a remote and mountainous region of Columbia, where a group of teenage…
- DVD $29.95
- Age of Shadows, The (2016)
- Elegantly crafted spy thriller set in Japanese occupied Seoul in the 1920's, in which a Korean–born police captain in the Japanese police force…
- DVD $24.95
- Embrace of the Serpent (El abrazo de la serpiente) (2015)
- A breathtaking cinematic odyssey through the Amazon, following the quests of two European explorers (one in 1909 and the other in the 1940s).…
- DVD $29.95
- Far from Men (2014)
- Viggo Mortensen stars in this existential western adapted from an Albert Camus' short story. Set in Algeria in the fifties, Mortensen is charged with…
- DVD $29.95
- Raid 2, The (2014)
- Picking up from where it last left off, this epic sequel to the best martial arts movie in recent memory combines gangland melodrama (reminiscent of…
- DVD $29.95 | Blu-Ray $34.95
- Shield of Straw (2013)
- The prolific Takashi Miike returns with a tale of a team of cops who must protect an accused killer with a billion–yen bounty on his head.
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$19.95 $14.95
- Wu Dang (2012)
- A rambunctious, action–packed throwback to '80s martial arts flicks and strapping Indiana Jones–style adventure, centred on a famed…
- Blu-Ray
$19.95 $14.95
- Front Line, The (2011)
- Big battles clash with big themes in this sizable war epic set during the last days of the Korean war, where soldiers from both the North and South…
- DVD $29.95 | Blu-Ray $34.95
- Haunters (2010)
- Two brooding pretty boys with unexplained superpowers battle it out in what is a familiar, if distinctly Korean spin on the anarchic superhero…
- DVD $29.95
- Ip Man 2 (2010)
- The kick–ass legend of Ip Man continues with the wushu grandmaster immigrating to Hong Kong to school other Kung Fu practitioners in the art of…
- DVD $24.95 | Blu-Ray $29.95
- Legend of the Fist - The Return of Chen Zhen (2010)
- Belated sequel to Bruce Lee's FIST OF FURY (remade with Jet Li as FIST OF LEGEND) picks up well after the Dojo–busting triumphs of those films,…
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$29.95 $19.95
- Mutant Girls Squad (2010)
- Japan's outlandish splatter–comedy phase reaches its logical end point with this three–chapter collaboration between the most notorious…
- DVD $29.95
- Reign of Assassins (2010)
- Classy John Woo–produced swordplay, with Kelly Lin as a feared wuxia assassin who, seeking a new life, surgically alters her appearance (to…
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$29.95 $19.95 | Blu-Ray $29.95
- Ong-Bak 3 (2009)
- Cliffhanger ending to the ONG–BAK legend sees Thai martial arts phenom Tony Jaa return to battle his arch nemesis (from Part II’s prequel…
- DVD
$29.95 $19.95
- Yatterman (2009)
- Fantastical live–action anime serves kids and kidults alike with its tale of mild–mannered shop keepers who don jaunty costumes to fight…
- DVD $29.95
- Ong-Bak 2 (Ong-Bak 2: The Beginning) (2008)
- Heavy–handed follow–up to the decade’s best martial arts movie, co–directed by and starring ONG–BAK’s Tony Jaa as a…
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$29.95 $19.95, $39.95 | Blu-Ray $39.95
- No Mercy For The Rude (2006)
- A mute hitman limits his contract killings to ‘rude’ individuals, saving up for a voice–restoring operation in this unconventional riff on…
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$29.95 $19.95
- OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)
- Dusting off a little–known French spy spoof from the 1960's, this remake upgrades rather than updates the franchise, combining the Bond school…
- DVD $19.95
- Myth, The (San Wa) (2005)
- Alternating between past and present, Jackie Chan plays a warrior general during the Qing Dynasty and a modern day archaeologist respectively in this…
- DVD $29.95
- Shadowless Sword (Muyeong geom) (2005)
- Spiffy Korean wuxia extravaganza grafting comedy, romance and action aplenty onto the skin of an ambitious historical epic.
Scaling the efforts of…
- DVD $29.95
- Arahan (2004)
- Urban martial arts injected with supernatural pep, this effects–laden action comedy has an ultimately limited box of tricks, but provides more…
- DVD $29.95
- Ong-Bak (Muay Thai Warrior) (2003)
- A martial arts juggernaut from Thailand, in which a benign village kickboxer travels to big bad Bangkok in search of a sacred statue stolen from his…
- DVD $19.95
- 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…
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- Bang Rajan (2000)
- Truly ferocious action spectacular based on the true tale of how a small Siamese village tried to withstand the efforts of 100 000 invading Burmese…
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$29.95 $19.95
- Bichunmoo (2000)
- Boasting the biggest budget of any Korean film, this period epic, a kind–of "Once Upon a Time in Korea", blends the usual ingredients with…
- DVD $29.95
- JSA: Joint Security Area (2000)
- A Korean military thriller of high repute that opens with a double–killing on the bitterly–tense border between North and South and…
- DVD $29.95
- Bangkok Dangerous (1999)
- Frenetic, violent gangland tale set in the throbbing Thai capital, about a deaf–mute hitman isolated by his affliction and his profession, and…
- DVD $19.95
- Bride With White Hair 2, The (Bai fa mo nu zhuan II) (1993)
- Above–average sequel to the martial arts blockbuster continuing on directly from its cliffhanger ending, with the viciously insane Lin, now…
- DVD $19.95
- 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…
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$15 $11.25
- Le Dernier Combat (The Last Battle) (1983)
- The director's impressive debut (at the age of 24) is a post–apocalyptic fable, strikingly filmed in black and white with almost no…
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$19.95 $14.95 | Blu-Ray $29.95 $24.95