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Rental > Foreign Cinema: 3255 Films to Rent
Reprise (2006)
- Dir. Joachim Trier
Feat. Anders Danielsen Lie, Espen Klouman-Høiner, Viktoria Winge…
- Touching, keenly perceptive Norwegian film fest favourite centres on two twenty–something writers whose vastly divergent personalities and…
Requiem (2006)
- Dir. Hans-Christian Schmid
Feat. Sandra Huller
- Tightly coiled within Sandra Huller’s commanding lead performance, this riveting account of a young woman’s struggle with epilepsy and religious…
Retribution (2006)
- Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Manami Konishi, Tsuyoshi Ihara
- A skin–crawling 'mainstream' J–Horror from subtle spookmeister Kiyoshi Kurosawa, this trades heavily in established genre elements, but…
Robin-B-Hood (Bo bui gai wak) (2006)
- Dir. Benny Chan
Feat. Jackie Chan, Louis Koo, Michael Hui…
- Chan hams it up in this big–budget action caper as a compulsive gambler who inadvertently ends up with a kidnapped baby as a means to pay off…
Science of Sleep, The (2006)
- Dir. Michel Gondry
Feat. Gael Garcia Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Emma de Caunes…
- A delightfully self–conscious, self–indulged fantasy for cine–wizard Michel Gondry, the director's follow–up to ETERNAL…
Secret Journey (Viaggio Segreto) (2006)
- Dir. Roberto Ando
Feat. Marco Baliani, Alessio Boni, Emir Kusturica
- Leo, a psychoanalyst in his forties lives with his younger sister, Ale. When Harold , a famous and hugely successful artist, announces his intention…
Sheitan (2006)
- Dir. Kim Chapiron
Feat. Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, Roxane Mesquida
- A gaggle of young hedonists on a bender expend their energies at a disco and are invited by pouting barmaid Mesquida (A MA SOUER) to her remote…
Singer, The (Quand j'étais chanteur) (2006)
- Dir. Xavier Giannoli
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Cecile De France, Mathieu Amalric
- Gerard Depardieu works his rotund charm as a journeyman lounge singer, crooning his way through half–empty nightclubs while forging an unlikely…
Sinking of Japan, The (Nihon chinbotsu) (2006)
- Dir. Shinji Higuchi
Feat. Ko Shibasaki, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi
- Japan is posited as a submerging island nation in this cloying, ultra–earnest disaster movie, based on the (oft–told) theory that seismic…
Still Life (Dong) (2006)
- Dir. Jia Zhang-ke
Feat. Zhao Tao
- Another arresting globalisation story from China's leading contemporary filmmaker, situated on the banks of the Yangtze River, where once thriving…