Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3343 Films to Buy & Rent
Theorem (Teorema) (1968)
- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Terence Stamp, Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti…
- A mysterious stranger seduces and corrupts each member of a bourgeois family. Pasolini stitches religious, social and political metaphors into his…
Werner Herzog Collection (Signs of Life, Even Dwarfs Started Small, Kaspar Hauser, Stroszek, Heart of Glass, Where the Green Ants Dream) (1968-1982)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
- Comprehensive box–set containing six early films from renowned German director Werner Herzog.
Z (1968)
- Dir. Costa-Gavras
Feat. Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Irene Papas
- Pioneering conspiracy thriller based on the true story of the murder of a doctor and the raw sore of Greek political corruption it exposes. Oscars…
Assassin, The (Da ci ke) (1967)
- Dir. Chang Cheh
Feat. Yu Wang
- More understated than later Shaw Brothers efforts, this costume actioner stars 'Jimmy' Wang Yu as a patriotic swordsman of ancient Han–era…
Belle De Jour (Beauty of the Day) (1967)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli…
- Cool and elegant comedy of manners about a virginal newlywed who works the day shift in a high class brothel. Bunuel's surrealist…
Champagne Murders, The (Le scandale) (1967)
- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Anthony Perkins, Maurice Ronet, Yvonne Furneaux…
- Claude Chabrol transitions into his revered period of thrillers with this potboiler about a champagne tycoon's partner who suspects his partner's…
Diabolically Yours (Diaboliquement vĂ´tre) (1967)
- Dir. Julien Duvivier
Feat. Alain Delon, Senta Berger, Sergio Fantoni
- Creepy thriller has amnesiac Delon recovering in his opulent mansion with beautiful wife Berger, living the good life. Trouble comes when he begins…
Elvira Madigan (1967)
- Dir. Bo Widerberg
Feat. Pia Degermark, Thommy Berggren, Lennart Malmer…
- Ultra–romantic story of an army officer and a tightrope dancer who sacrifice everything for each other. Filmed like a shampoo commercial, it…
Firemen's Ball, The (1967)
- Dir. Milos Forman
Feat. Jan Vostrcil, Josef Sebanek, Josef Valnoha
- Early film from the director of AMADEUS and CUCKOO'S NEST is an engaging, off–beat collection of comic vignettes, including a clumsy beauty…
French Screen Icons: Alain Delon 1 (Diabolically Yours, The Burned Barns, The Widow Coudrec, Shock Treatment) (1967-1973)
- Feat. Alain Delon
- Four films starring French leading–man Alain Delon.