Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Foreign Cinema: 3269 Films to Rent
Bullet Train, The (1975)
- Dir. Jun'ya Sato
Feat. Ken Takakura, Sonny Chiba
- Unstoppable, no–holds–barred action vehicle finds Sonny Chiba steering a passenger train rigged with a bomb to explode if its speed drops…
Cousin Cousine (1975)
- Dir. Jean-Charles Tacchella
Feat. Marie-Christine Barrault, Victor Lanoux, Marie-France Pisier…
- Warm, witty and immensely successful comedy in which cousins by marriage take their relationship way beyond the…
Dersu Uzala (1975)
- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Maksim Munzuk, Yuri Solomin, Svetlana Danilchenko
- Kurosawa ventured to Russia for this Oscar–winning epic detailing the experiences of a Russian military explorer in Siberia, and his friendship…
Emilienne (1975)
- Dir. Guy Cararil
Feat. Betty Mars, Pierre Oudry
- French art house erotica based on a novel by Claude Des Olbes about a threesome between a young model, an artist and his wife. Straight faced and as…
Fear of Fear (Angst vor der Angst) (1975)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira
- Overlooked Fassbinder drama following an isolated young mother suffering from post–natal depression who turns to drugs to help her cope. A fine…
Fox and His Friends (1975)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Peter Chatel, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Adrian Hoven
- Fassbinder himself stars in one of his best melodramas as a working class lottery–winner who is exploited by his middle–class lover. A…
Gypsy, The (Le Gitan) (1975)
- Dir. Jose Giovanni
Feat. Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Paul Meurisse
- Alain Delon humours the plight of the gypsy as a gangster with a nomadic past. An obscure, moody crime vehicle.
Je tu il elle (I, You, He, She) (1975)
- Dir. Chantal Akerman
Feat. Chantal Akerman, Niels Arestrup, Claire Wauthion
- Dir. Chantal Akerman stars in her debut feature as a lonely drifter whose road trip to nowhere detours via encounters with a male truck driver and a…
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
- Dir. Chantal Akerman
Feat. Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte
- Delphine Seyrig plays a repressed housewife whose rigid domestic routine – with, secretly, the occasional trick turned on the side –…
Lost Honor of Katherina Blum, The (1975)
- Dir. Volker Schlondorff
Feat. Angela Winkler, Jurgen Prochnow
- Taken from the novel by Heinrich Boll, this reproach to the powers–that–be in mid–70s West Germany portrays the hardheaded…