Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3319 Films to Buy & Rent
- Journey to the West (Conquering The Demons) (2013)
- Dir. Stephen Chow (Chiao), Chi-kin Kwok
Feat. Shu Qi, Zhang Wen, Bo Huang
- Stephen Chow directs this entertaining Monkey legend spoof with imagination and an eye for the ridiculous. Centred on a Buddhist's unpredictable road…
- Just a Sigh (2013)
- Dir. Jérôme Bonnell
Feat. Emmanuelle Devos, Gabriel Byrne
- Emmanuelle Devos and Gabriel Byrne experience a brief encounter as an actress and a professor who trade glances on a Paris–bound train. A…
- Keeper of Lost Causes, The (Kvinden i buret) (2013)
- Dir. Mikkel Nørgaard
Feat. Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Troels Lyby, Per Scheel Kruger…
- Danish thriller that finds a cynical detective, put in charge of the "Department Q"– devoted to "filing" cold cases, investigating the…
- Like Father, Like Son (2013)
- Dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu
Feat. Masaharu Fukuyama, Machiko Ono, Yôko Maki…
- Two divergent families struggle to cope with the revelation that their young sons were swapped at birth in this moving domestic drama from dir.…
- Living is Easy with Eyes Closed (2013)
- Dir. David Trueba
Feat. Javier Camara, Natalia de Molina, Francesc Colomer…
- Award–winning Spanish comedy concerning a Beatles–obsessed school teacher on a quest to meet John Lennon, picking up two teenage runaways…
- Mood Indigo (2013)
- Dir. Michel Gondry
Feat. Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Gad Elmaleh…
- Audrey Tautou and Romain Duris star in this wild interpretation of Boris Vian’s cult novel 'Froth on the Daydream' from dir. Michel Gondry.
- New World (2013)
- Dir. Hoon-jung Park
Feat. Jung-Jae Lee, Min-sik Choi
- Essentially INFERNAL AFFAIRS transposed to the Korean underworld, this brutal gangster flick revolves around an undercover cop whose loyalty to the…
- Nightingale, The (2013)
- Dir. Phillippe Muyl
Feat. Baotian Li, Xiaoran Li, Xin Yi Yang
- Gentle drama that draws together an elderly farmer and his spoiled urban grand–daughter on a lengthy pilgrimage through beautiful…
- Noble Family, The (2013)
- Dir. Gary Alazraki
Feat. Gonzalo Vega, Luis Gerardo Mendez, Karla Souza
- The most successful Mexican film of all time is a broad comedy of familial dysfunction. Three privileged adult children must fend for themselves…
- Norte, The End of History (2013)
- Dir. Lav Diaz
Feat. Sid Lucero
- Epic Dostoyevskian themes of cultural memory, national guilt and the origin of evil are translated to a modern–day Phillipines setting in this…