Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3363 Films to Buy & Rent
K-20 - Legend Of The Mask (2008)
- Dir. Shimako Sato
Feat. Takeshi Kaneshiro, Takako Matsu, Tôru Nakamura
- An adventurous Japanese swashbuckler spun around a flamboyant mtaster thief who steals from the rich, and the unassuming acrobat (Kaneshiro) who is…
Krabat (2008)
- Dir. Marco Kreuzpaintner
Feat. David Kross, Daniel Bruhl, Christian Redl
- Faustian fantasy centred around a teenager who is lured into joining an elite circle of black magic practitioners in 18th Century Germany.
A…
L Change the World (2008)
- Dir. Hideo Nakata
Feat. Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Youki Kudoh
- Sugar–rushing spinoff of the Japanese sci–fi DEATH NOTE films, from the director of THE RING, picking up with detective 'L' attempting to…
Lady Cop and Papa Crook (Daai Sau cha Ji Neui) (2008)
- Dir. Siu Fai Mak, Felix Chong
Feat. Eason Chang, Sammi Cheng, Tak-bun Wong…
- An oil kingpin (Chang) finds himself in alliance with a cop (Cheng) when his son is kidnapped, resulting in an uneasy relationship between the law…
Last Pulcinella (L'ultimo Pulcinella) (2008)
- Dir. Maurizio Scaparro
Feat. Massimo Ranieri, Adriana Asti, Jean Sorel…
- A struggling actor travels to France to find his estranged son who has fled after witnessing a mob crime.
Last Stop 174 (2008)
- Dir. Bruno Barreto
Feat. Michel Gomes, Cris Vianna, Marcello Melo Junior
- Adrenalised dramatisation of the infamous bus–hijacking examines the life of the troubled young hijacker. As an action film this is…
Lemon Tree (Etz Limon) (2008)
- Dir. Eran Riklis
Feat. Hiam Abbass, Doron Tavory, Ali Suliman…
- An out–of–bounds lemon tree poses as a metaphorical olive branch in this heartfelt Israeli–Palestinian fable.
When a…
Let The Right One In (2008)
- Dir. Tomas Alfredson
Feat. Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar
- Sending many critics into raptures as a vampire flick to finally get excited about, this frost–bitten Swedish entry mixes social realism with…
LOL (2008)
- Dir. Lisa Azuelos
Feat. Christa Theret, Sophie Marceau
- Sassy French comedy stars Sophie Marceau as the loving, long–suffering mother of a rebellious teen lass.
Louise - Michel (2008)
- Dir. Benoit Delepine, Gustave Kervern
Feat. Yolande Moreau, Bouli Lanners, Benoit Poelvoorde…
- A black comedy treasure about a newly redundant factory worker who hires a dodgy hit man to take out her rich employers. The trouble starts when the…