Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Foreign Cinema: 3255 Films to Rent
Fear and Trembling (Stupeur et tremblements) (2003)
- Dir. Alain Corneau
Feat. Sylvie Testud
- A Belgian translator (Testud) takes a job in the corporate world of Tokyo (a city where she was born and grew up) hoping to rediscover the culture…
Fearless (Jet Li's Fearless; Huo Yuan Jia) (2003)
- Dir. Ronnie Yu
Feat. Jet Li
- Lively martial–arts epic which is reportedly Jet Li's final offering of screen 'wushu' (traditional Chinese fighting) , retells the story of…
Forest for the Trees, The (Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen) (2003)
- Dir. Maren Ade
Feat. Eva Löbau
- Impressively insightful German drama following an idealistic young teacher who starts a job at a Karlsruhe school and contends with her own…
Ginji The Slasher (2003)
- Dir. Takeshi Miyasaka
Feat. Riki Takeuchi
- Low profile suspenser, set around a recalcitrant swordsman who goes on the rampage in post–WW2 Japan and 50 years later is released to start…
Godzilla: Tokyo SOS (2003)
- Dir. Masaaki Tezuka
- More colossal mayhem from the never–ending franchise, with Japan vulnerable to a recuperated Godzilla, who will attack if government scientists…
Goodbye Lenin! (2003)
- Dir. Wolfgang Becker
Feat. Daniel Bruhl, Katrin Sass, Chulpan Khamatova
- This comedy of concealment set around the fall of the Berlin Wall was a justifiable success around the world, with a bittersweet mood of political…
Gozu (2003)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Sho Aikawa, Hideki Sone, Kimika Yoshino
- Rebel iconoclast of Japanese cinema, Takashi Miike, unveils his creepiest film since AUDITION: a hellishly disorientating – yet markedly restrained…
Green Butchers, The (De grønne slagtere ) (2003)
- Dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
Feat. Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas
- Grim comedy focused on two down–and–out butchers who discover they can make a killing out of their customer's oblivious cannibalistic…
Grudge 2, The (Ju-On 2) (2003)
- Dir. Takashi Shimizu
Feat. Chiharu Nîyama, Noriko Sakai, Kei Horie…
- Followup to the original Japanese version of dir. Takashi's own JU–ON, this proffers an almost identical vision, with a TV crew visiting the…
Grudge, The (Ju-On) (2003)
- Dir. Takashi Shimizu
- A horror film that understands that fear is best painted blacker than molasses, this cult Japanese hit follows in the ghostly steps of the RING…