Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1756 Films to Buy & Rent
- Love Like Poison (2010)
- Dir. Katell Quillévéré
Feat. Clara Augarde, Michel Galabru, Stefano Cassetti…
- A potent variation on an oft–told theme, this carefully observed drama considers the fraught adolescence of a 14–year–old girl torn…
- Monga: Gangs of Taipei (Báng-kah) (2010)
- Dir. Doze Niu
Feat. Ching-Tien Juan, Mark Chao, Ju-Lung Ma
- Pungent youth drama set in 1980s Taiwan, after the end of military dictatorship, concerns the intertwined fate of five troubled friends.
- Mozart's Sister (2010)
- Dir. Rene Feret
Feat. Marie Feret, Marc Barbe, David Moreau…
- Exuberant romp through pre–revolutionary France following the life of Mozart's talented older sister who was soon sidelined as her family's…
- My Afternoons With Margueritte (2010)
- Dir. Jean Becker
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Gisèle Casadesus
- Gerard Depardieu plays an illiterate man who forges an unlikely friendship with a elderly writer in this gentle new film from the dir. of…
- My Name is Khan (2010)
- Dir. Karan Johar
Feat. Shahrukh Khan, Kajol , Christopher B. Duncan
- Well–meaning plea for racial tolerance with an Aspergers–afflicted Muslim detained in the U.S. as a terrorist and undertaking a journey…
- Mysteries of Lisbon (Mistérios de Lisboa) (2010)
- Dir. Raul Ruiz
Feat. Adriano Luz, Clotilde Hesme, Maria Joao Bastos…
- Sprawling, utterly beguiling tribute to the power of stories set in 19th century Lisbon where an orphan boy discovers the truth about his birth and…
- Names of Love, The (2010)
- Dir. Michel Leclerc
Feat. Jacques Gamblin, Sara Forestier, Zinedine Soualem…
- Witty cocktail of sex and politics about an extroverted left–wing activist who sleeps with her political opponents to convert them to her cause.
- Norwegian Wood (2010)
- Dir. Tran Anh Hung
Feat. Rinko Kikuchi, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Kiko Mizuhara
- Yearning, visually rapturous adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s widely read novel, about a devoted college student in the 60s whose relationships are…
- Of Gods and Men (2010)
- Dir. Xavier Beauvois
Feat. Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin
- Residing peacefully in a North African monastery, eight French Christian monks must confront the threat of an Islamic fundamentalist group in this…
- Princess of Montpensier, The (2010)
- Dir. Bertrand Tavernier
Feat. Mélanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson, Gaspard Ulliel
- French veteran Bertrand Tavernier tackles the period costume drama with a firm classical and intellectual grip, shifting effortlessly between the…