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Rental > Foreign Cinema: 3255 Films to Rent
Oasis (2002)
- Dir. Chang-Dong Lee
Feat. Kyung-gu Sol, So-ri Moon
- Tough and emotionally powerful drama, highlighted by fearless performances, which charts the romance between a recent parolee and a cerebral…
Open Hearts (Elsker dig for evigt) (2002)
- Dir. Susanne Bier
Feat. Mads Mikkelsen, Sonja Richter
- A touch edgier than recent 'Dogme 95' melodramas, this explores the consequences of a car accident on the previously steady lives of those…
Pact of Silence, The (Le Pacte du Silence) (2002)
- Dir. Graham Guit
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Elodie Bouchez
- Glossy Euro–thriller in which a priest of doubtful faith (Depardieu) investigates twin sisters – one in prison, the other in a convent…
Phone (2002)
- Dir. Byeong-ki Ahn
Feat. Ji-won Ha, Yu-mi Kim
- Down the more cluttered and preposterous end of the Korean–horror genre, this finds a new cellphone being the centre of all the terror for an…
Ping Pong (2002)
- Dir. Fumisiko Sori
Feat. Yôsuke Kubozuka, Arata
- A madcap, yet gently humourous Japanese sports tale, set around two table tennis hotshots (Kubozuka and Arata) preparing for a ferocious battle at a…
Private Property (2002)
- Dir. Joachim Lafosse
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Jeremie Renier
- Isabelle Huppert is held to emotional ransom by her two grown–up twin sons in this ‘Mexican standoff’ of family dysfunction and domestic…
Radical Digital Cinema - Vol. 1 (Egoshooter, Half the Rent) (2002-2004)
- Dir. Christian Becker, Oliver Schwabe, Marc Ottiker
Feat. Tom Schilling, Stephan Kampwirth
- The brainchild of Wim Wenders, this digital cinema incubator provides a supportive framework for young filmmakers to push the envelope of the…
Radical Digital Cinema - Vol. 2 (Summer Moon (aka Junimond), Fools) (2002-2003)
- Dir. Hanno Hackfort, Tom Schreiber
- The brainchild of Wim Wenders, this digital cinema incubator provides a supportive framework for young filmmakers to push the envelope of the…
Respiro (Grazia's Island) (2002)
- Dir. Emanuele Crialese
Feat. Valeria Golino
- Highly charged and mostly insightful depiction of a free–spirited woman whose near–psychotic episodes have a profound effect on her small…
Returner (2002)
- Dir. Takashi Yamazaki
Feat. Takeshi Kaneshiro
- Kitted out with a charismatic cast, CGI–action that delivers, and tongue–lightly–in–cheek, this slick, big–budget…