Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Foreign Cinema: 3260 Films to Rent
Passion (1982)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli
- 'Film within a film' from France's thorniest director, sowing narrative confusion in his story of director Michel Piccoli trying to make a arthouse…
Querelle (1982)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Brad Davis, Jeanne Moreau
- Fassbinder's parting shot is a fittingly bleak, ultra–stylised adaptation of Jean Genet's writings about the (bi)sexual escapades of a…
Return of Martin Guerre (1982)
- Dir. Daniel Vigne
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye
- A legendary French tale with Gerard Depardieu as the 16th century peasant who returns to his family after an eight year absense but is suspected of…
Shaolin Prince (1982)
- Dir. Chia Tang
Feat. Ti Lung
- Respected fight choreographer Tang Chia helms one of his few films as director: two princes are separated at birth; one is raised by Shaolin monks…
State of Things, The (1982)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Patrick Bauchau, Samuel Fuller, Roger Corman
- Reliving the personal turmoil of his first American production (HAMMETT), Wenders fashions a scathing yet oddly comedic…
That Night in Varennes (1982)
- Dir. Etore Scolla
Feat. Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-Louis Barrault, Harvey Keitel
- An enthralling, vivid historical drama set during the last days of Louis XVI's reign during the 1791 revolution, but focusing largely on a band of…
Une Chambre en Ville (1982)
- Dir. Jacques Demy
Feat. Dominique Sanda, Danielle Darrieux, Michel Piccoli
- Another entirely sung–through French musical from the director of THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, this time set against the backdrop of a workers'…
Veronika Voss (1982)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess
- Fictionalised biography of a once famous actress whose career surrendered to drug–addiction, neurosis and the dubious motives of a medical…
Wim Wenders Documentaries (Room 666, Tokyo-Ga, Notebook on Cities and Clothes) (1982-1989)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
- Three documentaries from the hand of Wim Wenders, concerned with his chief obsessions in Japanese culture and the state of cinema.
36 Chowringhee Lane (1981)
- Dir. Aparna Sen
Feat. Jennifer Kendal, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Debashree Roy…
- An English spinster living out her twilight years teaching in India befriends a young couple whose motives might not be what she suspects.
Tender…