Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3369 Films to Buy & Rent
In the Realm of the Senses (Ai No Corrida) (1976)
- Dir. Nagisa Oshima
Feat. Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda
- Hailed as an erotic masterpiece in some quarters and condemned as mere sexually explicit exploitation in others, Oshima’s indisputably elegant…
Kieslowski Collection, The (The Scar, Camera Buff, No End, Blind Chance, I'm So So) (1976-1987)
- Dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski
- The acclaimed early works of Krzysztof Kieslowski in a five disc box–set. Includes I'M SO SO, an hour–long tribute to the director…
Kings of the Road (1976)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Rudiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa Kreuzer
- Two men embark on an odyssey of discovery along Germany's East/West border. A thoughtful, illuminating road movie that will ultimately reward…
L'Innocente (1976)
- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Giancarlo Giannini, Laura Antonelli, Jennifer O'Neill
- Visconti's swan–song is an exquisite noble period drama in which a faithless husband in driven to extremes when his wife bears a child to…
Magic Blade, The (Tien ya, ming yueh tao) (1976)
- Dir. Che Yuan
Feat. Ti Lung, Ching Li, Lo Lieh
- Excellent action tale from the prime era of "Wu Xia" cinema, this has three rival swordsman in medieval China compete for possession of a secret…
Maitresse (1976)
- Dir. Barbet Schroeder
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Bulle Ogier
- An eye–watering, willfully transgressive tale of a petty crook (Depardieu) who enters into a seemingly conventional romance with a…
Man of Marble (1976)
- Dir. Andrzej Wajda
- One of dir. Wadja's later masterpieces is a strong attack on the tactics and hypocrisy of the Communist government of the day.
A film student…
Mr. Klein (1976)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau
- A dark, dread–inducing moral tale, with Delon fleecing vulnerable Jews under German–occupied–France, only to be mistaken by…
News From Home (La Chambre, Hotel Monterey) (1976)
- Dir. Chantal Akerman
Feat. Chantal Akerman
- A beautifully composed tableaux of New York in the seventies, cut to a reading of letters from dir. Akerman's mother.
Also includes the…
Satan's Brew (Satansbraten) (1976)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Margit Carstensen, Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven…
- Schizophrenic Fassbinder dramedy involving a German poet struck with writer's block that partakes in a number of moneymaking schemes involving his…