Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Foreign Cinema: 3255 Films to Rent
Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Helmut Doring, Gerd Gickel, Paul Glauer
- A group of dwarfs run riot and take over their penal colony on a bleak volcanic island. Bizarre and unsettling parable will leave an indelible mark…
Fellini Satyricon (1970)
- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born…
- Freely adapted from the Roman author Petronious, this follows the adventures of two bisexual youths through the decadent, fragmented age of Rome's…
Gods of the Plague (Götter der Pest) (1970)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Hanna Schygulla, Margarethe von Trotta, Harry Baer…
- The second in a loose trilogy of gangster films directed by prolific German iconoclast Rainer Werner Fassbinder early in his career.
In this…
Heroic Ones, The (1970)
- Dir. Chang Cheh
Feat. David Chiang, Chin Han, Ti Lung…
- Martial arts film set in 1880s imperial China, where a Mogul king secretly assembles his loyal generals on a mission to take on his greatest rivals.…
Incident at Blood Pass, The (Machibuse) (1970)
- Dir. Hiroshi Inagaki
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Shintaro Katsu
- Pedigree shogun face off between genre icons Mifune and Katsu in a tautly conceived show down over hijacked gold between a remote mountain pass.…
La Rupture (The Breach) (1970)
- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Stephane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jean-Claude Drouot…
- Stéphane Audran plays a good mother with a chequered past who divorces her deadbeat husband and is targeted by her aggrieved in–laws. In a bit…
Medea (1970)
- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Maria Callas
- Pasolini's stylised, passionate rendering of Euripides play blessed with the formidable presence of Maria Callas, in a non–operatic role, as…
One Plus One (Sympathy for the Devil) (1970)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- Controversial work from dir. Godard's 'Mao–ist' period intercuts a fascinating, disorganised recording session by the Rolling Stones…
Quiet Days in Clichy (1970)
- Dir. Jens Jørgen Thorsen
Feat. Paul Valjean, Wayne Rodda, Ulla Koppel
- Fascinating Danish adaptation of Henry Miller's ribald novel set around the sexual adventures of a young writer and his roommate in 1930s Paris.…
Secret Of Dorian Gray, The (Dorian Gray) (1970)
- Dir. Massimo Dallamano
Feat. Helmut Berger, Herbert Lom, Richard Todd
- Fleshy retelling of Oscar Wilde's classic tale with Helmut Berger living it up as the decadent naif who fails to age.
Certainly the raunchier of…