Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3335 Films to Buy & Rent
Omar (2013)
- Dir. Hany Abu-Assad
Feat. Adam Bakri, Leem Lubany
- This gripping new film from the dir. of PARADISE NOW concerns a Palestinian freedom fighter who is tricked into becoming an informant for the Israeli…
On My Way (2013)
- Dir. Emmanuelle Bercot
Feat. Catherine Deneuve
- A fine late–life outing for the ageless Catherine Deneuve, here playing a free–spirited grandmother who takes to the road with her…
On the Job (2013)
- Dir. Erik Matti
Feat. Joel Torre
- A hard–hitting, hard–edged Filipino thriller reminiscent of THE RAID (particularly its sequel), based on a real life scandal concerning…
Paradise: Hope (Paradise Hope) (2013)
- Dir. Ulrich Seidl
Feat. Melanie Lenz, Joseph Lorenz
- Austrian provocateur Ulrich Seidl dispatches a typically unvarnished portrait of institutional ritual with this concluding chapter to his PARADISE…
Past, The (2013)
- Dir. Asghar Farhadi
Feat. Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim, Ali Mosaffa
- Dir. Asghar Farhadi's follow–up to the acclaimed A SEPARATION centres on a man who must face the complications of divorce after he leaves his…
Protector 2, The (Tom yum goong 2) (2013)
- Dir. Prachya Pinkaew
Feat. Tony Jaa, Marrese Crump, RZA
- ONG–BAK superstar Tony Jaa punches below his weight in this undercooked sequel to the 2005 Sydney–set action romp about a country boy who…
Real (2013)
- Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Feat. Takeru Sato, Haruka Ayase, Joe Odagiri…
- A misstep, though an interesting one, from dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa (CURE), here crafting an uneven story of a grieving man who employs a neurosurgical…
Rock the Casbah (2013)
- Dir. Laïla Marrakchi
Feat. Morjana Alaoui, Nadine Labaki, Lubna Azabal…
- Culturally–specific family comedy in which three women reunite in Morocco to mourn in accordance with Muslim tradition following the death of…
Rocket, The (2013)
- Dir. Kim Mordaunt
Feat. Sitthiphon Disamoe
- The uplifting story of a cursed boy who strives to prove himself by building a giant rocket for the occasion of Laos' famous Rocket Festival.
Salamander (TV Series) (2013-2018)
- Dir. Frank van Mechelen
Feat. Filip Peeters, Koen De Bouw, Mike Verdrengh
- A compelling Flemish–Belgian spin on the Euro–crime template in which an incorruptible, old–school police inspector becomes the…