Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3366 Films to Buy & Rent
Jour De Fete (1947)
- Dir. Jacques Tati
Feat. Jacques Tati
- Jacques Tati established himself as a major new comic as a postman who attempts to modernise his mail service. Such precise visual humour had not…
La Terra Trema (1947)
- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Luchino Visconti, Antonio Pietrangeli
- Life–study of a poor Sicilian fishing village that is reverently neo–realist in its approach. Lovely B&W photography never distracts from…
Quai Des Orfevres (1947)
- Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Feat. Louis Jouvet, Bernard Blier, Suzy Delair…
- Romantically bleak French noir about an ambitious starlet and her protective husband who find themselves implicated in the murder of a lecherous…
Ship Bound for India, A (1947)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Holger Löwenadler
- An early, overlooked play adaptation finds Bergman's visual and dramatic style in its formative stages. Four troubled souls are drawn together by a…
Silence de la Mer, Le (The Silence of the Sea) (1947)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Howard Vernon
- A German officer is billeted with an elderly man and his niece during the occupation of France in this introspective and talky chamber piece, heavy…
Belle Et La Bete, La (Beauty and the Beast) (1946)
- Dir. Jean Cocteau
Feat. Jean Marais, Josette Day
- Cocteau brings a fine sense of fantasy to the old fable, creating a luxuriant atmosphere unique to his film–making. A true classic.
Classic Bergman Collection (It Rains on our Love, Ship Bound for India, Sawdust and Tinsel, So Close to Life, Dreams) (1946-1958)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
- Five early works that brought international acclaim to the Swedish master.
This Box–Set is only available as a Region 2 Import from the UK.
Crisis (Kris) (1946)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Inga Landgré, Stig Olin
- The very first film Ingmar Bergman directed, which focuses on a young woman who attracts the attention of every man in her village, and who is caught…
It Rains On Our Love (1946)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Barbro Kollberg, Birger Malmsten
- Bergman experiments with this awkward combination of romance and misery, in which a couple's happiness is dogged by their criminal and vagrant past.…
Paisa (1946)
- Dir. Roberto Rossellini
Feat. Carmela Sazio, Robert Van Loon, Benjamin Emmanuel
- Six short films focusing on the minor victories and losses of ordinary folk during WW2. Pioneering the now–familiar use of documentary footage,…