Subgenre Sampler
      Cult > Foreign Cinema: 133 Films to Buy & Rent
	  		 
	        
Mark of Cain, The (2000)
 
- Dir. Alix Lambert
 
- Instructive documentary on an esoteric subject: the disappearing art of the Russian prison tattoo. Journeying the penal system of the Russian…
 
MPD - Psycho (TV Series) (2000) 
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Naoki Hosaka 
- Takashi Miike's TV series is an appropriately psychotic riff on a policier, featuring a detective with 32 personalities chasing a serial killer who…
 
Scarlet Diva (2000) 
- Dir. Asia Argento
Feat. Asia Argento 
- A fearless, punk excursion into her own fleeting status as a model–cum–actress daughter of Italian horror stylist Dario Argento, Asia…
 
Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
 
- Dir. Roy Andersson
Feat. Lars Nordh, Stefan Larsson 
- Various rotund men of retirement age face personal crises in a series of unsettling, stylised vignettes that could be collectively read as an…
 
Tears of the Black Tiger (Fah Talai Jone) (2000)
 
- Dir. Wisit Sasanatieng
 
- A blast of wild inspiration from the New Thai Cinema, this restages a Hollywood Western within a luridly kitschy setting using back–projection,…
 
Wild Zero (2000) 
- Dir. Tetsuro Takeuchi
Feat. Guitar Wolf 
- Japanese punk tyrants Guitar Wolf shred up the screen in this appropriately chaotic zombie fest, gouged from the remnants of a meteor carrying…
 
Attack the Gas Station (1999)
 
- Dir. Sang-Jin Kim
Feat. Sung-jae Lee, Oh-seong Yu, Seong-jin Kang… 
- Four disaffected youths take hostage an entire gas station in this subversive, blackly–comic masterpiece from Korea.
Gleefully tearing apart…
 
Hypnosis (Saimin) (1999)
 
- Dir. Masayuki Ochiai
Feat. Hiroshi Inagaki, Miho Kanno 
- A mysterious force is causing a spate of bizarre suicides, creatively and gruesomely staged for our blackly comic pleasure, in this…
 
I Stand Alone (Seul Contre Tous) (1998) 
- Dir. Gaspar Noe
Feat. Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankie Pain… 
- Staunch attempt to shake up the “bourgeois” values in French cinema, first–time director Gaspar Noe fleshes out his short film about a…
 
Young Thugs  - Nostalgia (1998) 
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Naoto Takenaka 
- Apparently dir. Miike's (AUDITION) favourite of his own films, this semi–autobiographical rites of passage tale is a prequel to YOUNG THUGS…