Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3335 Films to Buy & Rent
Firestorm (2013)
- Dir. Alan Yuen Kam-Lun
Feat. Andy Lau, Yao Chen
- Exhilarating action thriller where a crew criminals manage to pull off a car heist in broad daylight on the streets of Honk Kong, and a hardboiled…
French Minister, The (Quai d'Orsay) (2013)
- Dir. Bertrand Tavernier
Feat. Thierry Lhermitte, Niels Arestrup, Julie Gayet…
- A cutting political satire set in the world of French diplomacy, about the relationship between a young speechwriter and the Minister of Foreign…
Friends From France (Les interdits) (2013)
- Dir. Philippe Kotlarski, Anne Weil
- Two cousins pose as an engaged couple on a tour to Odessa in order to help liberate persecuted Jews in this suspenseful Iron Curtain thriller.
Garden of Words, The (2013)
- Dir. Makoto Shinkai
Feat. Miyu Irino, Kana Hanazawa
- Another gorgeous animated romance from the director of 5 CENTIMETRES PER SECOND, centred on the poignant relationship between a sensitive teenager…
German Doctor, The (2013)
- Dir. Lucía Puenzo
Feat. Àlex Brendemühl, Natalia Oreiro
- Chilling domestic thriller centred on the Argentine family who lived unknowingly with Josef Mengele, the notorious Auschwitz physician, after he fled…
Gilded Cage, The (2013)
- Dir. Ruben Alves
Feat. Rita Blanco, Joaquim De Almeida, Roland Giraud
- A beloved migrant family who service an exclusive apartment block in Paris decide to return to Portugal, though not if the residents have a say in…
Gloria (2013)
- Dir. Sebastián Lelio
Feat. Paulina García, Sergio Hernández
- Another superb Chilean drama in the wake of the previous year's NO, Paulina Garcia plays a free–spirited 58–year–old divorcee who…
Grandmaster, The (Yi dai zong shi) (2013)
- Dir. Wong Kar-Wai
Feat. Tony Leung (Chiu-wai), Zhang Ziyi
- Wong Kar–Wai's typically sumptous version of the life of martial–arts master Ip Man, the man who trained Bruce Lee.
Great Beauty, The (2013)
- Dir. Paolo Sorrentino
Feat. Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli…
- This Academy–Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film has dir. Paolo Sorrentino's regular frontman Toni Servillo as an aging Roman…
Hard To Be A God (2013)
- Dir. Aleksey German
Feat. Leonid Yarmolnik
- A group of scientists are sent to the planet Arkanar to give aid to the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, in…