Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1756 Films to Buy & Rent
- 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…
- Giants, The (2011)
- Dir. Bouli Lanners
Feat. Zacharie Chasseriaud, Martin Nissen, Paul Bartel
- The misadventures of two teenage brothers and a local misfit are engagingly recounted in this balmy Belgium picaresque.
- Goodbye, First Love (2011)
- Dir. Mia Hansen-Love
Feat. Lola Créton, Sebastian Urzendowsky
- The director of FATHER OF MY CHILDREN turns her nuanced lens on the passionate but slow–maturing romance between a couple who break up in their…
- Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Naoto Takenaka
- The ever–versatile Takashi Miike changes tack from his rollicking samurai adventure, 13 ASSASSINS, to deliver a restrained and resonant tale of…
- Himizu (2011)
- Dir. Sion Sono
Feat. Shota Sometani, Tetsu Watanabe, Fumi Nikaido
- Bleak coming–of–age story with two teens scraping out an existence in post–tsunami Japan and embarking on a campaign of violence…
- House of Pleasures (House of Tolerance) (2011)
- Dir. Bertrand Bonello
Feat. Hafsia Herzi, Jasmine Trinca, Noemie Lvovsky…
- Richly designed elegy set in a Parisian bordello at the end of the 18th century follows the working lives of its varied inhabitants. Bonello's…
- I Wish (2011)
- Dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu
Feat. Koki Maeda, Ohshiro Maeda, Yui Natsukawa…
- Two brothers living in different cities because of their parents' separation conspire to reunite them through a mythical 'wish' in this delicate,…
- In Darkness (2011)
- Dir. Agnieszka Holland
Feat. Robert Wieckiewicz, Agnieszka Grochowska, Kinga Preis
- A stirring, endlessly suspenseful wartime resistance drama from dir. Agnieszka Holland (EUROPA, EUROPA), about the ordinary men and women surviving…