Subgenre Sampler
Sales > Foreign Cinema > Girl-centric: 22 films to Buy
- Goodbye Julia (2023)
- An outstanding drama from Sudan about two women – a retired Muslim singer and a Southern Sudanese widow – who forge an unusual friendship…
- DVD $29.95
- Two Tickets To Greece (2022)
- A sunlit escapist comedy set in Les Cyclades (the original French title) starring Laure Calamy and Olivia Côte as long–estranged childhood…
- DVD $29.95
- Full Time (A Plien Temps) (2021)
- A cracker of a French drama that teeters on the edge of a thriller throughout because it’s all about the pressure cooker that is modern life.…
- DVD $29.95
- To Chiara (A Chiara) (2021)
- A rites–of–passage drama in the Italian neo–realist tradition that examines the impact of Mafia activity on those in the close…
- DVD $29.95
- Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Guzen to Sozo) (2021)
- An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, the director of DRIVE MY CAR explores…
- DVD $29.95
- Worst Person in the World, The (2021)
- Gloriously provocative and richly perceptive comedy drama from talented Norwegian director Joachim Trier (THELMA), which follows an unpredictable,…
- DVD $29.95
- Working Woman (2018)
- Workplace drama capturing the spirit of the "Me Too" movement to tell the story of a smart and capable mother of three who returns to the workforce…
- DVD $29.95
- Aurore (I Got Life!) (2017)
- Actress and co–writer Jaoui is the heart and soul of this witty if overly–familiar rom–com as the eponymous 50–year–old…
- DVD $29.95
- I Am Not a Witch (2017)
- Full of joy and tragedy in the equal measure, this assured debut from Zambian writer–director Rungano Nyoni follows the story of 9–year…
- DVD
$29.95 $19.95
- Like Crazy (La Pazza Gioia) (2016)
- Gratifying comedy–drama following two women, one a troubled introvert, one an impassioned mythomaniac, who break out of a psychiatric facility…
- DVD $29.95
- Sami Blood (2016)
- Emotionally powerful female coming–of–age movie set in 1930's Sweden, where a reindeer–herding teenager, an indigenous Sami child,…
- DVD $29.95
- Modus (TV Series) (2015-2017)
- Swedish psychological thriller series following the work of a criminal psychologist and profiler who has previously assisted both the Swedish police…
- DVD $34.95
- In Bloom (2013)
- Set in the newly independent state of Georgia in the wake of the Soviet regime, this powerful story follows two young girls as they courageously…
- DVD $29.95
- Wetlands (2013)
- Provocative comic tale of an eccentric girl who has strange attitudes towards hygiene and sexuality longs for the reunion of her divorced parents.
- DVD $29.95
- 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…
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$24.95 $18.70
- 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
- A Tale of a Naughty Girl (Mondo Meyer Upakhyan) (2002)
- Caught between the push of tradition and the pull of the promise of a new life, a bright prostitute's daughter runs away to Calcutta to escape a…
- DVD $29.95
- Amelie (2001)
- A charming romantic comedy stamped with the purely cinematic style of dir. Jean–Pierre Juenet, who here remixes intricate set pieces, editing…
- DVD $14.95
- 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
- All About My Mother (1999)
- Almodovar's "celebration of mother and womanhood" has been hailed as something of a departure for the director, though in fact all of his (beloved)…
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$24.95 $18.70
- Post Coitum (1997)
- The director herself plays a 40–year–old wife, mother and book editor who has her respectable life devastated after a whirlwind affair…
- Poster (F) $9.95
- Nikita (La Femme Nikita) (1990)
- A stylish thriller if ever there was one. The director combines the visual ostentation from his THE BIG BLUE with the plot mechanics of a classic…
- DVD $19.95