Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3363 Films to Buy & Rent
MPD - Psycho (TV Series) (2000)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Naoki Hosaka
- Takashi Miike's TV series is an appropriately psychotic riff on a policier, featuring a detective with 32 personalities chasing a serial killer who…
Nine Queens (Nueve Reinas) (2000)
- Dir. Fabian Bielinsky
Feat. Gaston Pauls, Ricardo Darín
- An Argentian congame thriller which uses a fresh, edgy setting to bolster its David Mamet–by–way–of–Quentin Tarantino…
One Hundred Steps, The (I Cento Passi) (2000)
- Dir. Marco Tullio Giordana
- Expansive, fact–based drama set around a young man's fight against local mafiosos in the small Sicilian village of Cinisi in the…
Our Lady of the Assassins (la Virgen de los Sicarios) (2000)
- Dir. Barbet Schroeder
Feat. Anderson Ballesteros, Juan David Restrepo
- A middle aged author returns to his native Colombian village to find that it has been overrun by violence and corruption. After his young male lover…
Pet Shop of Horrors (2000)
- Horror–tinged anime set in a mysterious pet shop in New York's Chinatown, where the androgynous proprietor 'Count D' has a sinister pet for…
Platform (Zhantai) (2000)
- Dir. Jia Zhang-ke
Feat. Zhao Tao
- Taking its title from a Chinese hit rock song of the 80s, this fetchingly spare epic meditates on the changes of that turbulent decade and the…
Presque Rien (Almost Nothing) (2000)
- Dir. Sebastien Lifshitz
Feat. Jérémie Elkaïm, Stephane Rideau
- French drama of melancholic first love that, despite the common themes, sets itself apart with sensitive acting and a deeply felt approach to the…
Princes and Princesses (Princes et Princesses) (2000)
- Dir. Michel Ocelot
Feat. Arlette Mirapeu, Philippe Cheytion, Yves Barsacq
- French animation compilation made up of six episodes from director and animator Michel Ocelot's silhouette animation television series Ciné si. The…
Princess and the Warrior, The (2000)
- Dir. Tom Tykwer
Feat. Franke Potente
- Follow–up and companion piece to dir. Tykwer’s RUN LOLA RUN, is a 'Snow White'–inspired tale of a psychiatric nurse who is hit by a…
Ring 0 (2000)
- Dir. Norio Tsuruta
Feat. Yukie Nakama, Seilchi Tanabe, Yoshiko Tanaka
- Prequel to the first RING film details the transformation of the innocent schoolgirl Sadako in 50s Japan into the murderous demon who haunts the…