Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1773 Films to Buy & Rent
Last Metro, The (1980)
- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu
- Elegant war story in occupied France, Catherine Deneuve struggles to keep her Jewish husband's theatre operating while concealing his whereabouts.
Lili Marleen (1980)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer
- Fassbinder's fact–based account of the recording of the Nazi anthem, sung by a jaded cabaret singer with a Jewish love interest.
Loulou (1980)
- Dir. Maurice Pialat
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Isabelle Huppert, Guy Marchand
- Charismatic street rogue Gerard Depardieu lures an impetuous Isabelle Huppert out her stale, bourgeois partnership with Guy Marchand. Star chemistry…
Mon Oncle D'Amerique (My American Uncle) (1980)
- Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Marie Dubois, Jean Daste
- The dir. of LAST YEAR IN MARIENBAD experiments with notions of human behaviour in this unusual drama, centred around the theories of a French…
Un Mauvais Fils (A Bad Son) (1980)
- Dir. Claude Sautet
Feat. Patrick Dewaere, Brigitte Fossey, Yves Robert
- Affecting working–class drama about a young man returning to France after a jail term in the US for narcotics, where his attempt to restart his…
Wim Wenders on Film (Lightning over Water, The State of Things, A Trick of the Light) (1980-1995)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
- Boxset of three underseen Wim Wenders classics, each concerning the agony and ectasy of filmmaking.
Alexandria... Why? (1979)
- Dir. Youssef Chahine
- An autobiographical film about the early life of director Youssef Chahine, set in Alexandria. Winner of the Silver Bear at the 29th Berlin…
Amour en fuite, L' (Love on the Run) (1979)
- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Marie-France Pisier
- The fifth and final entry in dir. Truffaut's loosely autobiographical 'Anoine Doinel' series. Here, the footloose hero reaches his 30s and a new…
Camera Buff (Amator) (1979)
- Dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Pointed, if slightly familiar satire of Communist life, has a smalltown clerk in Poland buy a Super8 film camera and begin to film life around him,…
Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
- Dir. Francesco Rosi
Feat. Gian Maria Volente, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny
- A writer is exiled to the remote South in the mid 1930s. Based on the autobiography of Carlos Levi, this film in four parts contrasts his political…