Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3343 Films to Buy & Rent
Bullet Vanishes, The (2012)
- Dir. Chi-Leung Law
Feat. Nicholas Tse, Lau Ching-wan
- In 1930s China, two eccentric detectives are summoned to solve a series of murders caused by a phantom killer in a bullet factory. A superb Holmesian…
Camille Rewinds (2012)
- Dir. Noemie Lvovsky
Feat. Noemie Lvovsky, Yolande Moreau, Denis Podalydes…
- A jilted 40–something woman drowns her sorrows to the point of oblivion, sending herself back in time to her sixteenth birthday where she gets…
Dangerous Liaisons (2012)
- Dir. Jin-ho Hur
Feat. Cecilia Cheung, Jang Dong-Gun, Zhang Ziyi
- A sumptuous new adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' famous novel, relocating the grand sexual conspiracy to opulent 1930s Shanghai, where two wealthy…
Dead Sushi (2012)
- Dir. Noboru Iguchi
Feat. Rina Takeda
- An innkeeper proficient in both karate and sushi making must fend off a hoard of flesh–eating California Rolls after one of her guests injects…
Doomsday Book (2012)
- Dir. Ji-woon Kim, Pil-Sung Yim
Feat. Doona Bae, Joon-ho Bong, Kang-woo Kim
- A trilogy of short sci–fi stories imagining mass extinction on planet earth, directed by two of Korean cinema's leading lights.
Oscillating…
Drug War (2012)
- Dir. Johnnie To
Feat. Louis Koo, Honglei Sun, Yi Huang…
- Another great Johnnie To suspenser, with the master director at the top of his game helming this exciting police procedural set around an elaborate…
Escape (2012)
- Dir. Roar Uthaug
Feat. Isabel Christine Andreasen, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal
- A thrilling medieval chase movie, set in the aftermath of the Black Plague, about a captive teenage girl who escapes a bloodthirsty clan. Pursed…
Everybody Has a Plan (2012)
- Dir. Ana Piterbarg
Feat. Viggo Mortensen, Soledad Villamil
- A man dissatisfied with his life assumes the identity of his twin brother in this brooding Argentinian thriller.
Farewell, My Queen (2012)
- Dir. Benoît Jacquot
Feat. Diane Kruger, Léa Seydoux, Virginie Ledoyen…
- Benoît Jacquot’s film goes behind the scenes of Louis XVI and — more specifically — Marie Antoinette’s court during…
Fill the Void (2012)
- Dir. Rama Burshtein
Feat. Hadas Yaron, Yiftach Klein
- A young woman negotiates the fraught rite of arranged marriage in this austere insight into rituals of an Orthodox Hassidic family in Tel Aviv.