Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3375 Films to Buy & Rent
Get Together Dinner, The (La Ceno per Farli Conoscere) (2007)
- Dir. Pupi Avati
Feat. Vanessa Incontrada, Diego Abatanthono, Violante Placido…
- Diverting comedy about three stepsisters playing cupid for their father, a jaded TV star whose career has seen better days. As lacerating as it is…
Girl by the Lake, The (La ragazza del lago) (2007)
- Dir. Andrea Molaioli
Feat. Toni Servillo, Denis Fasolo, Nello Mascia…
- A murder–mystery that swept Italy's Academy Awards set in an idyllic North Italian village where a beautiful young girl is found murdered.…
Grocer's Son, The (Le fils de l'épicier) (2007)
- Dir. Eric Guirado
Feat. Nicolas Cazalé, Clotilde Hesme, Daniel Duval…
- Gentle coming–of–age story following Antoine, a self–centered young man living in Paris, who is forced to return to his provincial…
Guru (2007)
- Dir. Mani Ratnam
Feat. Aishwarya Rai, Mithun Chakraborty, Abhishek Bachchan
- Rewarding rags–to–riches drama relates the story of an entrepreneurial young boy from a village in Gujarat who became the biggest…
Heartbeat Detector (La Question Humaine) (2007)
- Dir. Nicolas Klotz
Feat. Mathieu Amalric, Michael Lonsdale, Lou Castel…
- A dense, demanding corporate thriller woven around a German multinational, whose human resources expert (Amalric), in investigating the mental state…
Hellphone (2007)
- Dir. James Huth
Feat. Jean-Baptiste Maunier
- Smitten with the school babe, a spotty teenager acquires an all–important cellphone, only to discover the handset is possessed and capable of…
Hunting and Gathering (2007)
- Dir. Claude Berri
Feat. Audrey Tautou, Guillaume Canet, Laurent Stocker…
- A waif–thin artist/cleaner (Tautou) gains a new lease on life after a chance encounter with a dignified stutterer in this heartwarming lost…
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…