Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3335 Films to Buy & Rent
A Silent Voice (Koe no katachi) (2016)
- Dir. Naoko Yamada
Feat. Miyu Irino
- Unique Japanese anime following a deaf girl called Shoko, who is bullied at school by a boy who grows up to be tormented by his past behavior, and…
After the Storm (Umi yori mo mada fukaku) (2016)
- Dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu
Feat. Hiroshi Abe, Kirin Kiki, Yôko Maki
- After the death of his father, a morally bankrupt private detective struggles to find child support money and reconnect with his son and…
Age of Shadows, The (2016)
- Dir. Ji-woon Kim
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Gong Yoo, Han Ji-min
- Elegantly crafted spy thriller set in Japanese occupied Seoul in the 1920's, in which a Korean–born police captain in the Japanese police force…
Aquarius (2016)
- Dir. Kleber Mendonca Filho
Feat. Sonia Braga, Maeve Jinkings, Irandhir Santos…
- Gratifying portrait of a 65–year–old widow and retired music critic who battles a development company to retain her residency at the…
Country Doctor, The (Irreplaceable) (2016)
- Dir. Thomas Lilti
Feat. Francois Cluzet, Marianne Denicourt
- Genteel drama starring François Cluzet (THE INTOUCHABLES) as a devoted doctor in a rural French town who himself is diagnosed with a serious illness…
Dancer, The (La danseuse) (2016)
- Dir. Stéphanie Di Giusto
Feat. Soko , Gaspard Ulliel, Mélanie Thierry…
- Dazzling rags–to–riches biopic following the true story of Loïe Fuller and Isadora Duncan, two dancers who together pioneered modern…
Death of Louis XIV, The (La mort de Louis XIV) (2016)
- Dir. Albert Serra
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud
- A master of minimalist portraits of historical figures, Albert Serra directs French New Wave doyen Jean–Pierre Léaud as Louis XIV during the…
Dheepan (2016)
- Dir. Jacques Audiard
Feat. Antonythasan Jesuthasan
- A Sri Lankan refugee in France finds himself posing as the father and husband of two other refugees in order to gain asylum status. An unflinchingly…
Eagle Huntress, The (2016)
- A 13–year–old nomadic Mongolian girl breaks a 2,000 year–old gender barrier to follow her father and train hunting eagles in this…
Elle (2016)
- Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny…
- Controversial, unflinching drama closely following the perspective of a woman who is repeatedly raped by the same masked intruder, but whose…