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Rental > Foreign Cinema: 3255 Films to Rent
Cafe Lumiere (Kôhî jikô) (2003)
- Dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Feat. Tadanobu Asano, Yo Hitoto
- Luminous tribute to Japanese dir. Yasujiro Ozu from a Taiwanese admirer, which honours Ozu's aesthetic in a minimalist study of personal…
Carandiru (2003)
- Dir. Hector Babenco
- An expressionist series of tales set within the notorious titular prison in Sao Paolo, Brazil, as seen through the eyes of a benevolent doctor and…
Chalte Chalte (2003)
- Dir. Aziz Mirza
Feat. Shahrukh Khan
- Glossy Bollywood comic–romance that runs a typical gamut of emotions about a chalk–and–cheese yet glamourous couple, who against…
Chokher Bali (2003)
- Dir. Rituparno Ghosh
Feat. Aishwarya Rai, Prasenjit Chatterjee
- Set in colonial Bengal, this adaptation of Nobel prizewinner Rabindranath Tagore's 1902 novel, concerns a beautiful widow (Aishwarya) who enters a…
City of Men (TV Series) (Cidade dos Homens) (2003)
- Feat. Darlan Cunha, Douglas Silva
- Brazilian TV followup to the crime epic CITY OF GOD, continues the lives of Acerola and Laranjinha in the shanties of Sao Paolo dodging drug gangs…
Crimson Gold (Talaye sorkh) (2003)
- Dir. Jafar Panahi
- Extraordinary, emotionally–compelling class fable set in contemporary Iran, which begins with a failed jewelery heist in Tehran, then…
Dot The I (El Punto sobre la I) (2003)
- Dir. Matthew Parkhill
Feat. Gael Garcia Bernal, James D'Arcy, Natalia Verbeke
- A skillfully moody London romance, in which the relationship of an engaged couple is disturbed by a pre–wedding ritual in which Verbeke must…
Evil (Ondskan) (2003)
- Dir. Mikael Håfström
Feat. Andreas Wilson, Henrik Lundstrom, Gustaf Skarsard
- Based on a renowned novel, this dramatic thriller is set in the 1950s Sweden, where a high school bully (Wilson) is expelled and sent by his mother…
Facing Windows (La Finestra di fronte) (2003)
- Dir. Ferzan Ozpetek
Feat. Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Massimo Girotti, Raoul Bova
- An Italian woman finds her life and desires fraying away, as she struggles to support her family in the apartment blocks of Rome, while coming to…
Father and Son (Otets i syn) (2003)
- Dir. Alexandr Sokurov
Feat. Andrei Shchetinin, Aleksei Nejmyshev, Aleksandr Razbash
- A loose 'sequel' to dir. Sokurov's arthouse hit MOTHER AND SON, this again uses an oblique, dreamlike visual style, here for an exploration of filial…