Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3363 Films to Buy & Rent
Il Dolce E L'Amaro (The Sweet and The Bitter) (2007)
- Dir. Andrea Porporati
Feat. Donatella Finocchiaro, Luigi Lo Cascio, Fabrizio Gifuni
- Compact underworld drama peddles a familiar crime–doesn’t–pay theme in its story of a young man seduced by the Mafia, only to become…
In the City of Sylvia (2007)
- Dir. José Luis Guerín
Feat. Xavier Lafitte, Pilar López de Ayala
- A bouquet of visual and aural pleasures, this sensually shot mood–piece follows an unnamed artist who in turn ‘stalks’ a fetching young…
Invisible Target (Naam yi boon sik) (2007)
- Dir. Benny Chan
Feat. Nicholas Tse, Jaycee Chan, Shawn Yue…
- Unyielding martial arts thriller rumbles with a group of detectives commissioned to take out a local Hong Kong mercenary gang. The expected ass…
Joy Division (2007)
- Dir. Reg Traviss
Feat. Ed Stoppard, Tom Schilling, Bernadette Heerwagen…
- Ed Stoppard, son of Sir Tom, stars as a young German boy who becomes a KGB agent in this ambitious wartime saga that sweeps from WWII to swinging,…
Just Another Love Story (2007)
- Dir. Ole Bornedal
Feat. Anders W. Berthelsen, Rebecka Hemse, Nikolaj Lie Kaas
- An enjoyably overwrought Danish thriller with noir–ish aspirations, whose story revolves around a bored married man who assumes the identity of…
Kaidan (2007)
- Dir. Hideo Nakata
Feat. Kumiko Aso
- Period J–horror from the director of THE RING relays the ghostly tale of a samurai’s son attempting to escape an ancient curse laid on his…
Katyn (2007)
- Dir. Andrzej Wajda
Feat. Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Żmijewski, Pawel Malaszynski
- Andrzej Wajda cements himself as Poland’s greatest director with this late–career triumph, a war story addressing the eradication of some…
Killing, The - Complete Series Boxset (TV Series) (Forbrydelsen) (2007-2012)
- Feat. Sofie Grabol
- The entire 40–episode story arc of the gripping Danish crime thriller – an immensely popular series synonymous with the 'Nordic Noir'…
Killing, The - Series 1 (TV Series) (Forbrydelsen) (2007)
- Dir. Birger Larsen
Feat. Sofie Grabol, Søren Malling
- A ripping Danish homicide serial in the long–form tradition of THE WIRE, which weaves a plot of intrigue, corruption, and bureaucracy around a…
King of the Hill (El Rey de la montaña) (2007)
- Dir. Gonzalo López-Gallego
Feat. Leonardo Sbaraglia, Maria Valverde
- A well–crafted, believable take on the lost–in–the–woods genre, about a man who follows an attractive stranger into the…