Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Foreign Cinema: 3255 Films to Rent
Days of Abandonment, The (I Giorni dell'abbandono) (2005)
- Dir. Roberto Faenza
Feat. Margherita Buy, Luca Zingaretti
- Shattering Italian drama with Margherita Buy in a breathtakingly brutal performance as a middle–age woman left by her husband who deteriorates…
Death of Mr Lazarescu, The (2005)
- Dir. Cristi Puiu
Feat. Ion Fiscuteanu, Luminita Gheorghiu
- Whirling, labyrinthine black comedy follows with interest the Kafkaesque plight of an ailing elderly drunk, whose stomach pains are met with…
Death Trance (2005)
- Dir. Yuji Shimomura
Feat. Tak Sakaguchi
- Another insane, neo–samurai fantasy from the VERSUS camp involving the battle over a mysterious coffin that, if opened, could destroy the…
Duelist (Hyeongsa) (2005)
- Dir. Lee Myung-Se
Feat. Ji-won Ha, Sung-kee Ahn, Dong-won Kang
- A restless, meta–revisionist sword epic from the dir. of NOWHERE TO HIDE places two undercover police officers in pursuit of an elusive…
El Violin (2005)
- Dir. Francisco Vargas
Feat. Angel Tavira
- A one–handed violinist commands this potent political history of Mexico’s 1970s Guerrero peasant revolt.
Plotting to befriend the…
Election (2005)
- Dir. Johnnie To
Feat. Simon Yam, Tony Leung (Kar-fai)
- A terrific gangland power tussle from genre exponent Johnnie To, this combative suspenser embarks on the shady underworld of triad politics in…
Elsa and Fred (2005)
- Dir. Marcos Carnevale
Feat. Manuel Alexandre, China Zorrilla
- Exquisitely acted romance between a pair of senior citizens expresses enough tenderness and fragility to overcome its rather prosaic storyline.…
Familia (2005)
- Dir. Lousie Archambault
Feat. Mylene St-Sauveur, Macha Grenon, Sylvie Moreau
- Multi–faceted, thoroughly entertaining drama centres on the frequently discordant child–rearing beliefs of two friends as they attempt to…
Fateless (Sorstalanság) (2005)
- Dir. Lajos Koltai
Feat. Marcell Nagy, Aron Dimeny, Daniel Craig
- Harrowing and distilled vision of the Holocaust adapted from a novel by concentration–camp survivor and Nobel prize–winning author Imre…
Ferpect Crime (Crimen Ferpecto) (2005)
- Dir. Alex de la Iglesia
Feat. Guillermo Toledo, Monica Cervera
- A spunky Spanish black comedy set almost entirely in a department store, where an obnoxious playboy salesman is blackmailed by a…