Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Foreign Cinema: 3260 Films to Rent
Overture, The (Hom rong) (2004)
- Dir. Ittisoontorn Vichailak
Feat. Anuchit Sapanpong, Aratee Tanmahapran
- Biopic exploring the life of Thai musical master Luang Pradit Pairoh (Sorn Silapabanleng), who was a palace musician and ra–nad ek (Thai…
People (2004)
- Dir. Fabien Onteniente
Feat. Rupert Everett, Jose Garcia, Ornella Muti
- Raucous French comedy starring one Rupert Everett as the Parisian Jet Set's party organiser, who finds himself departing to Ibiza in order to retain…
Premonition (Yogen) (2004)
- Dir. Norio Tsuruta
Feat. Hiroshi Mikami, Noriko Sakai
- Competent J–Horror entry posits the intriguing, if unrealised premise of a man whose premonitions foresee the murderous acts of a killer,…
Pusher II (With Blood on my Hands) (2004)
- Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
Feat. Mads Mikkelsen
- Number two in the Danish thriller PUSHER series tracks a muddled Copenhagen thug fresh from prison who faces the scorn of his gangster father, past…
Queen of Sheba's Pearls, The (2004)
- Dir. Colin Nutley
Feat. Helena Bergstrom
- Set in post–WW2 England this centres its tale on a rural West Country family, whose members are on the cusp of various life passages, upset by…
Raincoat (2004)
- Dir. Rituparno Ghosh
Feat. Ajay Devgan, Aishwarya Rai
- Dramatically–ambitious dir. Ghosh here creates an understated chamber piece from the usual Bollywood melodramatics, staging a rainy–day…
Red Lights (Feux Rouges) (2004)
- Dir. Cedric Kahn
Feat. Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Carole Bouquet
- A married couple bicker in a holiday traffic–jam, fueled by the husband's drunken irritability and his wife's haughty disregard, leading them…
Rhythm Is It! (2004)
- Dir. Thomas Grube
- The Berlin Philharmonic’s ambitious and dramatic undertaking – to school 250 children in a staging of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" – is…
Rice Rhapsody (Hainan ji fan) (2004)
- Dir. Kenneth Bi
Feat. Sylvia Chang, Mélanie Laurent, Maggie Q
- Light, good–natured familial farce about a sturdy single mother who, fearing a drought of grandchildren, plots to ‘straighten’ the…
Salvador Allende (2004)
- Dir. Patricio Guzmán
- A documentary portrait of the Marxist Chilean President who was elected by the public and brutally overthrown by Pinochet's fascist coup of September…