Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1774 Films to Buy & Rent
Mirror (Zerkalo) (1974)
- Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Feat. Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev, Larisa Tarkovskaya
- Appropriately titled autobiography of Tarkovsky's childhood, impressioned by the volatile cultural environment. Unique in both form and vision, this…
Stavisky (1974)
- Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Francois Perier, Anny Duperey…
- Belmondo lends his shafty screen persona to the role of notorious financier, swindler, and raconteur Alexandre Stavisky, whose monetary exploits and…
Wim Wenders Road Movies (Alice in the Cities, Wrong Move, Kings of the Road) (1974-1976)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
- Boxset compilation of a further three Wim Wenders touchstones, each variations on the quintessential road movie.
Burned Barns, The (Les granges brulées) (1973)
- Dir. Jean Chapot
Feat. Alain Delon, Simone Signoret
- Moody provincial drama of death and betrayal reunites Delon and Signoret, this time on opposite sides of the law.
More a character study than a…
Day For Night (La Nuit Americaine) (1973)
- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Jean-Pierre Leaud…
- The blueprint film about film–making – made a few decades before it became fashionable – mirroring the first–hand experiences…
Fear Eats the Soul (1973)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem
- A sort of remake of Douglas Sirk's older woman–younger man melodrama "All That Heaven Allows", with added plot weirds countered by typical…
Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson
- Married couple Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson undergo a lengthy emotional ordeal as their marriage disintegrates. Shot in a sparse functional…
Touki Bouki (1973)
- Dir. Djibril Diop Mambety
Feat. Magaye Niang, Mareme Niang
- A Senegalese drama, recently restored, about a cowherd and a university student try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past…
A Gorgeous Girl Like Me (Une Belle Fille Comme Moi) (1972)
- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Bernadette Lafont, Andre Dussollier
- Twisted French black comedy of a licentious, manipulative murderess recounting her sordid past to a green criminology student. Dripping in silly…
Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Klaus Kinski
- Stunningly shot on location in the Amazon, this spellbinding adventure details the decline and fall of a conquistador (Klaus Kinski) in his maniacal…