Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3363 Films to Buy & Rent
Azumi 2 (2005)
- Dir. Shusuke Kaneko
Feat. Aya Ueto, Shun Oguri, Ai Maeda…
- Samurai girl–power sweeps feudal Japan once more in this competent, but lesser installment (minus the original director) in the Azumi…
Battle in Heaven (Batalla en el cielo) (2005)
- Dir. Carlos Reygadas
Feat. Marcos Hernández
- Heavyset follow–up to JAPON finds Mexican dir. Reygadas dealing in the spiritual and moral crises of two lost souls: one an underprivileged…
Beast in the Heart, The (La Bestia nel cuore, Don't Tell) (2005)
- Dir. Cristina Comencini
Feat. Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Stefania Rocca, Alessio Boni…
- Oscar–nominated Italian drama centred on the life of a successful career woman who finds herself haunted by nightmares of an abusive childhood…
Beat My Heart Skipped, The (De battre mon coeur s'est arrete) (2005)
- Dir. Jacques Audiard
Feat. Romain Duris, Niels Arestrup, Jonathan Zaccai…
- A star–turn by Romain Duris invigorates this deft remake of James Toback's 1978 thriller FINGERS, playing a reluctant young thug with a…
Beauty Remains (Mei ren yi jiu) (2005)
- Dir. Ann Hui
Feat. Vivian Wu, Xun Zhou
- Two sisters negotiate the turbulent rise of communism in China during the 1940s in this family melodrama.
Sensuously filmed in tones reminiscent…
Bittersweet Life, A (2005)
- Dir. Ji-woon Kim
Feat. Byung-hun Lee
- A suave mob enforcer's mercy for one of his intended victims results in the full wrath of the Korean organised crime world in this slick, ultra…
Black Cat (TV Series) (Shonen Jump) (2005)
- Sven is your run–of–the–mill sweeper (a.k.a. bounty hunter): down on his luck, haunted by the perpetual grumbling of his stomach…
Bystanders (Diary of June) (2005)
- Dir. Kyung-Soo Im
Feat. Yunjin Kim
- Proficient Korean thriller grapples with a murder mystery of cryptic diary notes left inside the bodies of murder victims; the handwriting matched to…
Cave of the Yellow Dog, The (2005)
- Dir. Byambasuren Davaa
- The dir. of THE WEEPING CAMEL weaves an enchanting tale of nomads through the eyes of a young girl, using her friendship with a stray dog as a launch…
Child, The (L'enfant) (2005)
- Dir. Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Feat. Jeremie Renier, Deborah Francois
- The latest humanist imprint from the Dardenne's is a gripping, logical extension of their socio–economic character studies, here following the…