Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Foreign Cinema: 3260 Films to Rent
Flower of My Secret, The (1996)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Marisa Paredes
- An artistic maturing for the director of kitsch sex comedies like HIGH HEELS and KIKA, this is an introspective study of a successful authoress…
Forbidden City Cop (1996)
- Dir. Vincent Tak-Chiu
Feat. Stephen Chow (Chiao)
- Hysterical and kinda crazy semi–sequel to the smash hit comedy FROM BEIJING WITH LOVE, splices James Bond with A CHINESE GHOST STORY, following…
French Twist (Gazon Maudit) (1996)
- Dir. Josiane Balasko
Feat. Victoria Abril, Josiane Balasko
- Radiant Spanish star Victoria Abril plays a betrayed wife teased into an affair with a butch lesbian (director Balasko). Many permutations of a very…
Fudoh - The Next Generation (1996)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Shosuke Tanihara, Kenji Takano, Marie Jinno
- Possibly the first film that gave the Western world an inkling of dir. Miike's unhinged worldview, investing a tale of yakuza vengeance with surreal,…
Gabbeh (1996)
- Dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Feat. Abbas Sayah, Shaghayeh Djodat, Hossein Moharami…
- Unique combination of lyricism and social realism from one of the icons of Iranian cinema – a story of a remote struggling tribe, the…
God of Cookery, The (1996)
- Dir. Stephen Chow (Chiao)
Feat. Stephen Chow (Chiao)
- Stephen Chow cooks up a comic storm as a mercilessly ego–centric chef who, in great narrative tradition, is forced to truly earn his title…
Goodbye South Goodbye (1996)
- Dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Feat. Jack Kao, Lim Giong
- Another exemplary, detailed effort from dir. Hsiao–Hsien, this time following a couple of small time grafters trying to put together 'the big…
Guantanamera (1996)
- Dir. Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabio
Feat. Carlos Cruz, Mirta Ibarra, Jorge Perugorria…
- A quirky mix of low–speed road movie and romantic comedy following the unsteady progress of a funeral procession across the length of Cuba…
Horseman on the Roof (1996)
- Dir. Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Feat. Juliette Binoche, Olivier Martinez
- Strapping melodrama in the old–fashioned Errol Flynn milieu set during the cholera epidemic of 1800s France. A tale of chivalry, loyalty and…
Il Ciclone (1996)
- Dir. Leonardo Pieraccioni
Feat. Leonardo Pieraccioni, Lorena Forteza, Barbara Enrichi
- Ribald comedy that holds the local box–office record in Italy, posits a bored accountant in Tuscany whose life hits the fan when a bus filled…