Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3375 Films to Buy & Rent
Bride Wore Black, The (La Mariée était en noir) (1968)
- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Michel Bouquet, Jean-Claude Brialy…
- Traumatised by her fiance's death, moments before due to be wed, Jeanne Moreau dedicates herself to a long–term plan of revenge, hunting and…
Claude Chabrol Boxset Vol. 1 (Les Biches, Le Boucher, Que La Bete Meure, La Femme Infidele, Juste Avant La Nuit, Les Noces Rouges, Nada, Madame Bovary) (1968-1991)
- Dir. Claude Chabrol
- Eight classic films from the French master of suspense.
– Les Biches (Bad Girls, 1968)
– La Femme Infidele (The Unfaithful Wife,…
Cremator, The (1968)
- Dir. Juraz Herz
Feat. Rudolf Hrusinsky, Vlasta Chramostova
- Widely considered one of the greatest films of the Czech new wave, a blackly humorous fantasy horror following the increasingly deranged impulses of…
Damned, The (1968)
- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Berger
- Italian dir. Luchino Visconti casts a languorous eye over the decline of a German industrialist family during the Nazi era. Heavyweight cast includes…
Farewell, Friend (Honor Among Thieves) (1968)
- Dir. Jean Herman
Feat. Alain Delon, Charles Bronson
- Dependable French caper, centered on an elaborate heist, with warhorses Branson and Delon thick as thieves in vying to crack the same high security…
Hour Of The Wolf (Vargtimmen) (1968)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann
- One of dir. Bergman's most troubled visions, this concerns the descent of an unstable artist (von Sydow) and his sensitive wife (Ullmann) into a…
Kill! (Kiru) (1968)
- Dir. Kihachi Okamoto
Feat. Tatsuya Nakadai
- A sharp and blackly comic tale set in 1830s Japan around two bedraggled swordsman – one a former samurai (Nakadai), the other a farmer aspiring…
Kuroneko (1968)
- Dir. Kaneto Shindo
Feat. Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kiwako Taichi
- Visually exquisite black and white horror film from Japanese director Kaneto Shindo (ONIBABA). An adaptation of a supernatural folktale set during…
L'Enfance-Nue (Naked Childhood) (1968)
- Dir. Maurice Pialat
Feat. Michel Terrazon
- Astonishingly sober coming–of–age tale represents Pialat at his most profoundly unsentimental. The director brilliantly blends naturalism…
La Chamade (Heartbeat) (1968)
- Dir. Alain Cavalier
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli
- Catherine Deneuve flitters between youthful passion and the comfort of an older, wealthy lover in this elegant menage a trios, lessened only by an…