Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1784 Films to Buy & Rent
Sundays and Cybele (Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray) (1962)
- Dir. Serge Bourguignon
Feat. Hardy Kruger, Patricia Gozzi
- Touching, if occasionally over–sentimentalised drama that contemplates the relationship between a mentally scarred bomber pilot and the…
Trial of Joan of Arc, The (Procès de Jeanne d'Arc) (1962)
- Dir. Robert Bresson
- One of dir. Bressons' more difficult works, depicting the final days of 15th century French religious patriot Joan of Arc and utilising the actual…
Vivre Sa Vie (My Life to Live) (1962)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Anna Karina
- While filtered through dir. Godard's preoccupations with genre, this series of twelve vignettes about a Parisian woman's marriage breakup and gradual…
Winter Light (1962)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Gunnel Lindblom…
- The second in Bergman's faith trilogy, in which a village priest finds himself drawn towards atheism after the death of his wife. Crisp, reflective…
Accattone (1961)
- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Franco Citti
- The debut feature of Italian filmmaker–novelist–poet–provocateur Pasolini, which depicts the underbelly of Roman street life in a…
Antigone (1961)
- Dir. Yorgos Javellas
Feat. Irene Papas
- An impressive Irene Papas heads this black and white epic adapted from Sophocles' Greek tragedy, about the twisted family legacy left behind by…
End of Summer, The (Kohayagawa-ke no aki) (1961)
- Dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Feat. Ganjiro Nakamura, Setsuko Hara
- Another intimate portrayal of Japanese family life
from the dir. of TOKYO STORY that explores the breakdown of traditional family values in the face…
Essential Bergman: The Faith Trilogy Boxset (Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, The Silence) (1961-1963)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
- Ingmar Bergman's trilogy of films dealing with questions of religion and faith, contained here in one essential boxset.
Femme Est Une Femme, Une (A Woman is a Woman) (1961)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo…
- Godard flirts with the Hollywood musical, and any other idea that takes his fancy to tell his buoyant tale of a free–spirited stripper who…
Il Posto (1961)
- Dir. Ermanno Olmi
Feat. Loredana Detto, Sandro Panseri
- This Italian neo–realist classic is a simply told yet beautiful depiction of a small–town boy whose employment search in Milan lands him…