Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Foreign Cinema: 3260 Films to Rent
Wheels on Meals (1984)
- Dir. Sammo Hung
Feat. Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Biao Yuen
- The kung–fu trio of Chan, Hung and Biao travel, to Spain for this rambunctious minor classic, in a tale about food–vendors helping out a…
Yellow Earth (1984)
- Dir. Chen Kaige
Feat. Quiang Liu, Tuo Tan, Xueyin Wang…
- This spearheaded the wave of modern Chinese cinema to be seen outside the People's Republic. A communist soldier visits a backwards village in 1939…
À Nos Amours (To Our Loves) (1983)
- Dir. Maurice Pialat
Feat. Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat, Cyril Collard
- One of dir. Pialat's most satisfying dramas, this concerns a journey of a teenage girl (Bonnaire, in a stunning debut) when her family life turns…
Ballad of Narayama (1983)
- Dir. Shohei Imamura
Feat. Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Tonpei Hidari
- Austere beauty characterises this second retelling of a Japanese legend, originally filmed in stylised, Kabuki–inspired vignettes.
Ken…
Carmen (1983)
- Dir. Carlos Saura
Feat. Antonio Gades, Laura Del Sol
- A choreographer casting Bizet's opera falls for a woman who transpires to be as passionate and treacherous Carmen herself. Carlos Saura's mesmerizing…
Dark Habits (1983)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Cristina Pascual
- Red–light denizen on the run, Cristina Pascual holes up in a bizarre, wildly improbable Convent of the Humble Redeemers, frequented by…
Devil's Sword (1983)
- Dir. Ratno Timoer
Feat. Barry Prima
- A villager must race a band of marauding psychopaths to find and acquire the legendary Devil's Sword. Unfortunately, the sword is no match for the…
El Norte (The North) (1983)
- Dir. Gregory Nava
Feat. Zaide Silvia Gutierrez, David Villalpando
- The journey northward of a Guatemalan brother and sister (Zaide Silvia Gutierrez and David Villalpando) on the run is an epic saga of the modern…
Fanny and Alexander (1983)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Kristina Adolphson, Borje Ahlstedt, Pernilla Allwin
- Dir. Bergman's last film is his least typical, yet one of his finest. It tells a semi–autobiographical family saga through the eyes of two…
Finally Sunday (Vivement Dimanche!) (1983)
- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant
- A businessman in trouble with the police over the murder of his wife's lover finds solace in his secretary who decides to investigate the case…