Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1767 Films to Buy & Rent
- Teddy Bear (10 Timer til Paradis) (2012)
- Dir. Mads Matthiesen
Feat. Kim Kold
- Real life body–builder Kim Kold stars as a shy and awkward 38 year–old Danish bodybuilder who still lives with his mum, but decides to…
- Thérèse Desqueyroux (Therese Desqueyroux) (2012)
- Dir. Claude Miller
Feat. Audrey Tautou, Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier
- In pre–war France, a free–spirited woman joins a wealthy landowner in a loveless marriage. Audrey Tautou dials down the cute to deliver…
- Third Half, The (2012)
- Dir. Darko Mitrevski
Feat. Katarina Ivanovska, Sasko Kocev
- A Macedonian football club hires a German coach to galvanize the team as Nazis prepare to enter the country in this wartime occupation drama.
- Wadjda (2012)
- Dir. Haifaa Al-Mansour
Feat. Waad Mohammed, Reem Abdullah
- This humanist triumph is the first ever feature to be shot in Saudi Arabia, centering on a plucky young girl who attempts to raise money for a…
- War Witch (Rebelle) (2012)
- Dir. Kim Nguyen
Feat. Rachel Mwanza
- A remarkable magical realist portrayal of the tragedy of child soldiering in one of Africa’s many civil wars, with the phenomenal Rachel Mwanza as…
- Welcome Aboard (2012)
- Dir. Jean Becker
Feat. Patrick Chesnais, Jeanne Lambert, Miou-Miou
- No stranger to movies about unlikely friendships, dir. Jean Becker balances sentiment with pathos in this finely drawn character study of a…
- White Elephant (2012)
- Dir. Pablo Trapero
Feat. Ricardo Darín, Jeremie Renier, Martina Gusman
- Two priests determined to build a hospital in a Buenos Aires shantytown encounter violent resistance from local drug lords in this superb social…
- Yossi (2012)
- Dir. Eytan Fox
Feat. Ohad Knoller
- A satisfying, exploratory follow–up to Israeli gay drama YOSSI AND JAGGER, this catches up with the titular Yossi, now ten years older and no…
- A Happy Event (Un Heureux Evenement) (2011)
- Dir. Rémi Bezançon
Feat. Louise Bourgoin, Pio Marmaï, Josiane Balasko…
- Keenly felt depiction of the baby blues as a young couple struggle to come to grips with parenthood.
- Against the Wind (Headwinds) (2011)
- Dir. Jalil Lespert
Feat. Benoit Magimel, Isabelle Carré, Bouli Lanners…
- Quality French drama explores the emotional wreck of a widower who tries to rebuild his life and make sense of his loss in the aftermath of his…