Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure > Foreign Cinema: 396 Films to Buy & Rent
- Hero (2002)
- Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Jet Li, Tony Leung (Chiu-wai), Maggie Cheung…
- Though no doubt diminished on the small screen, this ancient Martial Arts spectacle from the dir. of RAISE THE RED…
- Infernal Affairs (2002)
- Dir. Wai Keung Lau, Siu Fai Mak
Feat. Andy Lau, Tony Leung (Chiu-wai), Anthony Wong…
- This dynamic cops ‘n’ robbers spectacle is populist Hong Kong film–making at its most slick and sophisticated.
Infused with more than a…
- Legend of Suriyothai, The (2002)
- Dir. Chatrichalerm Yukol
- A lavish historical epic financed by the royal family of Thailand (and directed by a prince) and centred around two powerful women – a princess…
- Missing Gun, The (Xun qiang) (2002)
- Dir. Chuan Lu
Feat. Wen Jiang
- Wound–up thriller set in a small and eccentric Chinese village, where a policeman wakes one morning with a hangover to find his…
- Nest, The (Nid de Guêpes) (2002)
- Dir. Florent Emilio Siri
Feat. Nadia Farès, Samy Naceri, Benoit Magimel
- A brutally efficient and stylish French action yarn about a night–time standoff between various crims, security guards and an army of Albanian…
- 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…
- So Close (Chik yeung tin sai) (2002)
- Dir. Corey Yuen
Feat. Shu Qi, Karen Mok, Vicki Zhao
- Presenting... a heroic trio of femmes for a new generation – a kind of high–octane "Asian Charlie's Angels".
This super–flash…
- Sweat (Sueurs) (2002)
- Dir. Louis-Pascal Couvelaire
Feat. Jean-Hugues Anglade, Joaquim De Almeida
- Interesting but flawed re–imagining of THE WAGES OF FEAR, with a gang of four hoods trying to heist a fortune in gold ore across the North…
- Vampire Hunters (2002)
- Dir. Wellson Chin
Feat. Ken Chang
- Typically enjoyable and overblown Hong Kong mayhem, where five powerful warriors battle the Vampire King and his followers.
Written and produced…
- Asoka (2001)
- Dir. Santosh Sivan
Feat. Shahrukh Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Danny Denzongpa
- Scintillating, hallucinatory epic of ancient India that’s perhaps the first ‘Bollywood’ film to reach international audiences, telling the…