Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1773 Films to Buy & Rent
Café de Flore (2011)
- Dir. Jean-Marc Vallée
Feat. Vanessa Paradis, Kevin Parent
- Two parallel stories of love and hope transcend their time difference in this fantastical juggling act from French–Canadian filmmaker…
Chinese Takeaway (2011)
- Dir. Sebastian Borensztein
Feat. Ricardo Darín, Muriel Santa Ana, Ignacio Huang…
- Wry comedy of clashing cultures centres on an unlikely friendship between a curmudgeonly hardware store–owner and a young immigrant.
Circumstance (2011)
- Dir. Maryam Keshavarz
Feat. Sarah Kazemy, Nikohl Boosheri, Reza Sixo Safai…
- A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's dangerous obsession in this courageous, if…
Corpo Celeste (2011)
- Dir. Alice Rohrwacher
Feat. Salvatore Cantalupo, Anita Caprioli
- A thirteen–year–old girl moves back to southern Italy with her mother and older sister and struggles to find her place, restlessly…
Declaration of War (2011)
- Dir. Valérie Donzelli
Feat. Valérie Donzelli, Jérémie Elkaïm
- A young couple go to war for their cancer–stricken child in this galvanizing drama, based on dir. Valérie Donzelli's fight for the life of her…
Elena (2011)
- Dir. Andrei Zvyagintsev
Feat. Nadezhda Markina, Andrey Smirnov, Aleksey Rozin
- An old fashioned mortality play told through the eyes of Russia's new monied class, centred on the wife of a wealthy businessman whose sudden death…
Elles (2011)
- Dir. Malgorzata Szumowska
Feat. Juliette Binoche, Anaïs Demoustier, Joanna Kulig
- Juliette Binoche plays an investigative reporter who becomes entangled in the world of student prostitution in this serious erotic thriller.
Flowers of War, The (2011)
- Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Christian Bale, Ni Ni, Paul Schneider
- Dir. Zhang Yimou tackles the Nanking massacre with equal parts grim realism and stylish melodrama – befitting of a lavish wartime epic, less so…
Footnote (2011)
- Dir. Joseph Cedar
Feat. Shlomo Bar-Aba, Lior Ashkenazi, Micah Lewnsohn
- A father and son's complicated relationship is tested over the award of a vaunted academic prize in their shared field of Talmudic studies in this…
Forgiveness of Blood, The (2011)
- Dir. Joshua Marston
Feat. Tristan Halilaj, Refet Abazi, Zana Hasaj
- Dir. Joshua Marston (MARIA FULL OF GRACE) helms this engrossing Albanian drama of family blood feuds and the tensions between tradition and…