Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Foreign Cinema: 3257 Films to Rent
Thale (2012)
- Dir. Aleksander Nordaas
Feat. Silje Reinåmo, Erlend Nervold
- An artful, serious–minded horror fantasy based on the Norwegian legend of the Hydra – a seductive, shape–shifting Scandanavian…
Thérèse Desqueyroux (Therese Desqueyroux) (2012)
- Dir. Claude Miller
Feat. Audrey Tautou, Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier
- In pre–war France, a free–spirited woman joins a wealthy landowner in a loveless marriage. Audrey Tautou dials down the cute to deliver…
Thieves, The (2012)
- Dir. Dong-hun Choi
Feat. Gianna Jun, Hye-su Kim, Yun-seok Kim…
- This slickly engineered Korean blockbuster (the second highest earning in the country's box office history) plays all the right cards in its…
Third Half, The (2012)
- Dir. Darko Mitrevski
Feat. Katarina Ivanovska, Sasko Kocev
- A Macedonian football club hires a German coach to galvanize the team as Nazis prepare to enter the country in this wartime occupation drama.
Two Lives (2012)
- Dir. Georg Maas, Judith Kaufmann
Feat. Juliane Kohler, Liv Ullmann, Rainer Bock
- A "war child" of the Nazi regime – the name given to children conceived by German officers and Norwegian women, who were subsequently taken…
Viral Factor, The (2012)
- Dir. Dante Lam
Feat. Jay Chou, Nicholas Tse
- Dante Lam brings the fire once more in this out–and–out grunt fest of special forces action. As to be expected, the corny dramatic…
Vulgaria (2012)
- Dir. Pang Ho-Cheung
Feat. Chapman To, Dada Chan, Suet Lam
- Amusingly scattershot showbiz satire of a struggling film producer who turns to making pornography under the financing of a twisted triad…
Wadjda (2012)
- Dir. Haifaa Al-Mansour
Feat. Waad Mohammed, Reem Abdullah
- This humanist triumph is the first ever feature to be shot in Saudi Arabia, centering on a plucky young girl who attempts to raise money for a…
War Witch (Rebelle) (2012)
- Dir. Kim Nguyen
Feat. Rachel Mwanza
- A remarkable magical realist portrayal of the tragedy of child soldiering in one of Africa’s many civil wars, with the phenomenal Rachel Mwanza as…
Welcome Aboard (2012)
- Dir. Jean Becker
Feat. Patrick Chesnais, Jeanne Lambert, Miou-Miou
- No stranger to movies about unlikely friendships, dir. Jean Becker balances sentiment with pathos in this finely drawn character study of a…