Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema > Television: 76 Films to Buy & Rent
- Bartali - The Iron Man (Mini-Series) (Gino Bartali - L'intramontabile) (2006)
- Dir. Alberto Negrin
Feat. Pierfrancesco Favino
- Spirited made–for–TV biopic of Italy’s indomitable road cyclist Gino Bartali, twice winner of the Tour de France.
- Tiger Brigades, The (2006)
- Dir. Jerome Cornuau
Feat. Clovis Cornillac, Diane Kruger, Edouard Baer…
- Splashy French adventurism, in the spirit of THE UNTOUCHABLES, pits a high–minded inspector and his hard knocks 'Tiger Brigade' of crimebusters…
- Shakugan No Shana (TV Series) (2005)
- Yuji is returning from school when suddenly time stops and monsters appear to devour people. He is not frozen, however. When one of the monsters…
- Spiral (TV Series) (Engrenages) (2005)
- Feat. Audrey Fleurot, Philippe Duclos, Caroline Proust
- Euro–crime TV series set in Paris and following the police officers, lawyers and judges surrounding various criminal investigations.
- Wallander (TV Series) (2005)
- Feat. Krister Henriksson, Johanna Sällström
- Suspenseful Scandinavian procedural finds drama within the inner–workings of a police force in southern Sweden, chiefly between the series’…
- Eagle, The (TV Series) (A Crime Odyssey) (2004)
- Feat. Jens Albinus
- An expert Danish thriller dealing in international terrorism and cross–border crime, this involves the usual task force machinations of special…
- Elfen Lied (2004)
- Dir. Mamoru Kanbe
- Anime TV series adapting the earlier part of a manga of the same name by Lynn Okamoto that was considered edgy in its time due to being pretty dark…
- City of Men (TV Series) (Cidade dos Homens) (2003)
- Feat. Darlan Cunha, Douglas Silva
- Brazilian TV followup to the crime epic CITY OF GOD, continues the lives of Acerola and Laranjinha in the shanties of Sao Paolo dodging drug gangs…
- Braquo (TV Series) (2002)
- Dir. Olivier Marchal, Xavier Palud
Feat. Jean-Hugues Anglade, Joseph Malerba, Karole Rocher…
- Grungy French police series in which four officers of the SDPJ Hauts–de–Seine have their lives turned upside down after a colleague…
- Count of Monte Cristo, The (2001)
- Dir. Josee Dayan
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Ornella Muti, Jean Rochefort
- The classic tale of injustice and revenge (by Alexander Dumas), gets respectful treatment in this French TV mini–series starring Gerard…