Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3363 Films to Buy & Rent
Counterfeiters, The (Die Fälscher) (2007)
- Dir. Stefan Ruzowitzky
Feat. Karl Markovics, Devid Striesow
- An Oscar–winner for Best Foreign Language film, this taut German thriller reconstructs the story of a Jewish fraudster forced to assist the…
Crows O (Kurôzu zero) (2007)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Shun Oguri, Kishitani Goro, Yamada Takayuki…
- Irresistibly entertaining manga adaptation from the genius director of ICHI THE KILLER, presenting the first in a series of Japanese action films…
Days and Clouds (2007)
- Dir. Silvio Soldini
Feat. Margherita Buy, Antonio Albanese, Giuseppe Battiston…
- Resonating drama about a well–heeled, sophisticated couple who struggle to stay together after the husband loses his job.
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Debt, The (Ha Hov) (2007)
- Dir. Assaf Bernstein
Feat. Gila Almagor, Yuriy Chepurnov, Oleg Drach
- Unsettling thriller with a retired Mossad agent, whose Nazi–hunting past comes back to haunt her and her fellow agents.
Dinner Guest, The (L'Invité) (2007)
- Dir. Laurent Bouhnik
Feat. Daniel Auteuil, Valérie Lemercier, Thierry Lhermitte
- The side order of French fries to THE DINNER GAME’s comedic cassoulet, this overly contrived yet lightly amusing farce serves up a…
Disengagement (2007)
- Dir. Amos Gitai
Feat. Juliette Binoche, Jeanne Moreau, Liron Levo
- Juliette Binoche plays a French–Israeli settler in Gaza who must return to the West Bank following Israel’s pullout from the occupied…
Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (Le Scaphandre et Le Papillon) (2007)
- Dir. Julian Schnabel
Feat. Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josee Croze
- Justly celebrated adaptation of the autobiography of the late Jean–Dominique Bauby, who enjoyed the high life as editor of Elle magazine before…
Don't Touch the Axe (Duchess of Langeais, The) (2007)
- Dir. Jacques Rivette
Feat. Jeanne Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu, Bulle Ogier…
- A duchess and a general play out an unusual courtship in this engrossing period chamber piece, elevated by the superb interplay between the two…
Dororo (2007)
- Dir. Akihiko Shiota
Feat. Ko Shibasaki, Satoshi Tsumabuki
- Electrifying action fantasy based on a manga comic by the grandfather of Anime – Osamu Tezuka (ASTRO BOY), in which an abandoned samurai's son…
Drummer, The (Zhan. gu) (2007)
- Dir. Kenneth Bi
Feat. Tony Leung (Kar-fai), Kenneth Tsang, Jaycee Chan
- Visually enticing martial arts drama of a self–indulgent son sent into the Taiwanese mountains to escape gangland city retribution, who ends up…