Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1773 Films to Buy & Rent
Element of Crime, The (1984)
- Dir. Lars Von Trier
Feat. Michael Elphick
- A detective’s unconventional methods qualify him for the investigation of child murders in a dark, decaying, post–apocalyptic Germany.…
Full Moon in Paris (1984)
- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Pascale Ogier, Fabrice Luchini, Christian Vadim…
- From Rohmer's 'Comedies and Proverbs' series, wit and subtlety is derived from the simplest of plots. This time a headstrong woman's plans backfire…
Holy Innocents, The (1984)
- Dir. Mario Camus
Feat. Alfredo Landa, Terele Pavez, Belen Ballesteros
- A soldier returns to his rural croft and recalls his impoverished family's struggle with daily life and unscrupulous landlords. The bitter climate of…
Kaos (1984)
- Dir. Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
- Marvellous but rarely seen compendium of four tales (and an epilogue) by Luigi Pirandello set in the parched landscape of Sicily.
'The Other Son'…
Legend of the Suram Fortress (1984)
- Dir. Sergei Paradjanov
- Soviet dir. Sergei Paradjanov resumed his filmmaking career after years of exile with this visually rapturous, obscure folk tale.
More opaque in…
Love Unto Death (L'amour à Mort) (1984)
- Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Sabine Azema, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi
- Alain Resnais (HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR) pursues his themes of love and death with this symbolic tale of lovers Simon (Arditi) and Elizabeth (Azema)…
Runner, The (1984)
- Dir. Amir Naderi
Feat. Abbas Nazeri, Majid Niroumand, Musa Torkizadeh
- On a coastline strewn with the flotsam of the Arabian Gulf, an Iranian orphan boy scrapes a living together scavenging and selling ice before it…
Sunday in the Country, A (1984)
- Dir. Bertrand Tavernier
Feat. Louis Ducreux, Sabine Azema, Michel Aumont…
- An elderly painter invites his family to his country villa; in a single day their happinesses and sorrows come to be expressed. Subtle, intelligent…
Swann in Love (1984)
- Dir. Volker Schlondorff
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Alain Delon…
- Lavish filming of Proust's novel 'Remembrance of Things Past' which centres around a high class man who risks everything for his erotic obsessions.…
Three of Us, The (Noi Tre) (1984)
- Dir. Pupi Avati
Feat. Christopher Davidson, Ida De Benedetto, Gianni Cavina…
- Charming, though slender, portrayal of Mozart’s teenage life as the 14–year old musical prodigy spends a summer in Italy and starts to…