Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1756 Films to Buy & Rent
- Last Sentence, The (2012)
- Dir. Jan Troell
Feat. Jesper Christensen, Pernilla August
- Anchored by a superb Jesper Christensen, this serious and sombre biopic accurately reflects Swedish journalist Jesper Christensen's stubborn…
- Laurence Anyways (2012)
- Dir. Xavier Dolan
Feat. Melvil Poupaud, Suzanne Clément, Nathalie Baye…
- Young French–Canadian actor/director Xavier Dolan stays behind the camera of his third film (made at 23 years of age, no less), an assured…
- Looking for Hortense (2012)
- Dir. Pascal Bonitzer
Feat. Jean-Pierre Bacri, Kristin Scott Thomas, Isabelle Carré…
- This bittersweet comedy of manners finds familiar May–December pleasures in the mid–life journey of an unhappily married professor who…
- Lore (2012)
- Dir. Cate Shortland
Feat. Saskia Rosendahl
- A satisfyingly ambitious and haunting drama from the Australian dir. of SOMERSAULT, set in Europe in the aftermath of WWII.
Following the arrest…
- Man Who Laughs, The (2012)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Améris
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Marc-André Grondin, Emmanuelle Seigner…
- Victor Hugo's classic tale of two orphans – one disfigured, one blind – who become popular entertainers compels in this handsomely…
- Masquerade (2012)
- Dir. Chang-min Choo
Feat. Byung-hun Lee
- A Chosun Dynasty monarch under threat of assassination recruits a jester who specialises in satrising royals to impersonate him in this richly…
- My Straight Son (Azul y no tan rosa) (2012)
- Dir. Miguel Ferrari
Feat. Guillermo Garcia, Nacho Montes, Hilda Abrahamz
- Venezuelan drama about a successful gay photographer living in Caracas whose teenage son from a past relationship comes to stay. Unfamiliar with the…
- Neighboring Sounds (Neighbouring Sounds) (2012)
- Dir. Kleber Mendonca Filho
Feat. Irandhir Santos, Maeve Jinkings, Gustavo Jahn
- The striking feature debut of Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho (BACURAU) depicting life on a sheltered prosperous street adjacent to a poor…
- No (2012)
- Dir. Pablo Larrain
Feat. Gael Garcia Bernal, Alfredo Castro
- Gael Garcia Bernal plays an ad executive who conceives a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum in this unique celebration of…
- Oh Boy (A Coffee in Berlin) (2012)
- Dir. Jan Ole Gerster
Feat. Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler
- A college dropout wanders the streets of Berlin contemplating his place in the world in this ironic portrait of early adulthood.