Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Foreign Cinema: 3269 Films to Rent
Yojimbo (1961)
- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa
- Mercenary Sanjuro walks into town and sells his services to both factions of rival gangs – to stand back and watch them destroy each other.…
Bad Sleep Well, The (1960)
- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune
- A contemporary gangster saga that uses a Hamlet–esque narrative to indict corporate and political corruption. Government officials were not…
Classe Tous Risques (Consider All Risks) (1960)
- Dir. Claude Sautet
Feat. Lino Ventura, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Sandra Milo
- French–Italian gangster film following the exploits of a French mobster (Lino Ventura, based on a real life henchman for the French Gestapo)…
Cloud-Capped Star, The (1960)
- Dir. Ritwik Ghatak
Feat. Supriya Choudhury
- The kind–hearted daughter of a middle–class refugee family from East Pakistan sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family,…
Devil's Eye, The (Djävulens öga) (1960)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Jarl Kulle, Bibi Andersson, Stig Jarrel…
- Simultaneously at the lighter and weirder ends of the Bergman spectrum, this film sees the Devil send Don Juan from hell to the mortal plane to rob a…
Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse (The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse) (1960)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Dawn Addams, Peter Van Eyck, Gert Frobe
- The final film in Fritz Lang's DR. MABUSE series, which includes DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER and THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE, is also the director's…
Eyes Without a Face (Yeux sans visage, Les) (1960)
- Dir. Georges Franju
Feat. Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Edith Scob
- Landmark European horror tells with French artistry and tonal malevolence the magnificent obsession of a surgeon determined to restore his…
L'Avventura (1960)
- Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Feat. Monica Vitti
- The quintessential Euro–arthouse film of the 60s – a rambling yet elegant voyage through the sterile lives of the bourgeiousie, following…
La Dolce Vita (1960)
- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Marcello Mastroianni
- An episodic film following the very cool Marcello Mastroianni, a disillusioned journalist trapped in shallow, so called 'decadent' society. A…
Le Trou (The Hole; The Night Watch) (1960)
- Dir. Jacques Becker
Feat. Marc Michel
- Classic, noir–ish prison suspense in the mould of A MAN ESCAPED and RIFIFI chronicles an ambitious tunnel escape. Sparse and tense.