Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Foreign Cinema: 3255 Films to Rent
Water (2005)
- Dir. Deepa Mehta
Feat. Seema Biswas
- The third and finest entry in dir. Deepa Mehta's 'Elements' trilogy (FIRE, EARTH) is an opulent depiction of the plight of a group of Hindu widows…
When Will the Girls Show Up? (Ma quando arrivano le ragazze?) (2005)
- Dir. Pupi Avati
Feat. Vittoria Puccini, Paolo Briguglia, Claudio Santamaria…
- Charming Italian drama, billed as semi–autobiographical by its director Pupi Avati (A HEART ELSEWHERE), centred on two polar opposite musos who…
White Masai, The (Die Weisse Massai) (2005)
- Dir. Hermine Huntgeburth
Feat. Nina Hoss
- A mysterious, well–textured tale of attraction concerns a young Swiss woman travelling in Africa with her boyfriend who becomes infatuated with…
Yacoubian Building, The (2005)
- Dir. Marwan Hamed
- A downtown apartment building is the main setting for this lively, ambitious cross–section of Egyptian life: a melting pot of social, political…
Zozo (2005)
- Dir. Josef Fares
Feat. Imad Creidi
- Sincere and occasionally dreamlike tale of displacement follows the plight of a 10–year old boy (Creidi) caught in the midst of Lebanon's civil…
2046 (2004)
- Dir. Wong Kar-Wai
Feat. Tony Leung (Chiu-wai), Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li…
- A companion piece of sorts to IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, this has the seasoned stylist dir. Wong Kar–Wai sketch an impressionistic portrait of loss,…
3-Iron (Bin-jip) (2004)
- Dir. Kim Ki-Duk
Feat. Seung-yeon Lee, Hee Song Jae
- Odd, elliptical love story from the dir. SPRING, SUMMER concerns the blossoming romance between a domestic abuse victim and her savior, a…
36 Quai Des Orfevres (2004)
- Dir. Olivier Marchal
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil
- Gerard Depardieu and Daniel Auteuil partner again for this straight–faced policier as two veteran cops who compete for the top job while trying…
5x2 (Five Times Two) (2004)
- Dir. Francois Ozon
Feat. Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Stephane Freiss
- Simple and powerful 'deconstruction' of modern marriage, which offers five widely–spaced scenes from the relationship of an average French…
6 AM (2004)
- Dir. Adrian Kwan
Feat. Kenny Kwan, Steven Cheung, Charlene Choi…
- Popular Canto–pop duo ‘The Boy’z’ star in this absurdist gangster tale, playing high school slackers ‘Bowl’ and ‘Noodle’ who…