Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3319 Films to Buy & Rent
- Headhunters (2011)
- Dir. Morten Tyldum
Feat. Aksel Hennie, Synnove Macody Lund, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau…
- Jo Nesbo's blockbusting crime novel about a corporate headhunter moonlighting as an art thief gets an appropriately energetic treatment, and with its…
- Headshot (2011)
- Dir. Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Feat. Nopachai Chaiyanam
- Thai new waver Pen–ek Ratanaruang directs this zen–like "Buddist noir" about a hitman who seeks enlightenment after a bullet to the head…
- Hell (2011)
- Dir. Tim Fehlbaum
Feat. Hannah Herzsprung, Stipe Erceg, Angela Winkler
- Earth has been parched by solar flares in this resourceful variation on the oft–told post–apocalyptic survival tale. Swiss–German…
- Himizu (2011)
- Dir. Sion Sono
Feat. Shota Sometani, Tetsu Watanabe, Fumi Nikaido
- Bleak coming–of–age story with two teens scraping out an existence in post–tsunami Japan and embarking on a campaign of violence…
- House of Pleasures (House of Tolerance) (2011)
- Dir. Bertrand Bonello
Feat. Hafsia Herzi, Jasmine Trinca, Noemie Lvovsky…
- Richly designed elegy set in a Parisian bordello at the end of the 18th century follows the working lives of its varied inhabitants. Bonello's…
- I Wish (2011)
- Dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu
Feat. Koki Maeda, Ohshiro Maeda, Yui Natsukawa…
- Two brothers living in different cities because of their parents' separation conspire to reunite them through a mythical 'wish' in this delicate,…
- Immature, The (2011)
- Dir. Paolo Genovese
Feat. Raoul Bova, Barbora Bobulova, Ambra Angiolini…
- A breezy, feel–good comedy about a group of friends reunited after twenty years, after a formal error forces them to resit their…
- In Darkness (2011)
- Dir. Agnieszka Holland
Feat. Robert Wieckiewicz, Agnieszka Grochowska, Kinga Preis
- A stirring, endlessly suspenseful wartime resistance drama from dir. Agnieszka Holland (EUROPA, EUROPA), about the ordinary men and women surviving…
- Intouchables, The (2011)
- Dir. Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano
Feat. Francois Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny…
- Exemplary feel–good French comedy that details the unlikely friendship between an aristocratic quadriplegic and a young French–African…
- Italian Film Festival Collection, The - 2011 (2011)
- Comprehensive box–set collection of 11 of the best Italian films featured at the 'Italian Film Festival 2011' spread over 5 discs.
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