Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3343 Films to Buy & Rent
A Man Called Ove (En man som heter Ove) (2015)
- Dir. Hannes Holm
Feat. Rolf Lassgard, Bahar Pars, Filip Berg
- Endearing Swedish hit about a grumpy 59–year–old widower who was deposed as president of the condominium association, but still presides…
Acquitted (TV Series) (Frikjent) (2015)
- Feat. Nicolai Cleve Broch, Lena Endre, Anne Marit Jacobsen
- High quality Norwegian crime drama centred around a high–flying executive who returns to his hometown twenty years after he was cleared of the…
Angelby (TV Series) (Ängelby) (2015)
- Feat. Mia Skaringer, Goran Ragnerstam, Amanda Ooms
- Unsettling Swedish mystery series about a wife–and–mother who is forced to take a job in a small remote city of Ängelby where she…
Arabian Nights (2015)
- Dir. Miguel Gomes
Feat. Crista Alfaiate
- Wildly original and ambitious triptych of films set in modern–day Portugal but structured on the sprawling Arabic fairy–tale collection…
As it is in Heaven 2: Heaven on Earth (Heaven on Earth) (2015)
- Dir. Kay Pollak
Feat. Frida Hallgren, Niklas Falk, Jacob Oftebro
- Sequel to the beloved Swedish classic, follows on after the death of conductor Daniel Darius, where the soprano and love of his life expects his…
Assassin, The (2015)
- Dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Feat. Shu Qi, Chen Chang, Satoshi Tsumabuki
- Acclaimed director Hou Hsiao–Hsien returns with a breathtaking martial–arts epic in which an assassin accepts a dangerous mission to kill…
Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) (2015)
- Dir. Eva Husson
Feat. Finnegan Oldfield
- A refreshingly non–judgemental account of female promiscuity, following a group of adolescents in a sleepy French town who start a sex party…
Baskin (2015)
- Dir. Can Evrenol
Feat. Mehmet Cerrahoglu, Görkem Kasal, Ergun Kuyucu…
- A police squad inadvertently wander into hell in this terrifying tour–de–force feature debut from Turkish director Can Evrenol, which…
Belle and Sebastian: The Adventure Continues (Belle et Sebastien 2 - L'aventure Continue) (2015)
- Dir. Christian Duguay
Feat. Félix Bossuet, Tcheky Karyo, Thierry Neuvic
- Sequel to the delightful 2013 French adventure about an orphan and his friendship with a wild mountain dog during the upheaval of WWII.
Blind Date (2015)
- Dir. Clovis Cornillac
Feat. Melanie Bernier, Clovis Cornillac, Philippe Duquesne…
- Frothy French comedy follows the escalating conflict between two lonely neighbours whose thin walls give them plenty of opportunity to annoy each…