Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1767 Films to Buy & Rent
- Days of Abandonment, The (I Giorni dell'abbandono) (2005)
- Dir. Roberto Faenza
Feat. Margherita Buy, Luca Zingaretti
- Shattering Italian drama with Margherita Buy in a breathtakingly brutal performance as a middle–age woman left by her husband who deteriorates…
- Death of Mr Lazarescu, The (2005)
- Dir. Cristi Puiu
Feat. Ion Fiscuteanu, Luminita Gheorghiu
- Whirling, labyrinthine black comedy follows with interest the Kafkaesque plight of an ailing elderly drunk, whose stomach pains are met with…
- El Violin (2005)
- Dir. Francisco Vargas
Feat. Angel Tavira
- A one–handed violinist commands this potent political history of Mexico’s 1970s Guerrero peasant revolt.
Plotting to befriend the…
- Elsa and Fred (2005)
- Dir. Marcos Carnevale
Feat. Manuel Alexandre, China Zorrilla
- Exquisitely acted romance between a pair of senior citizens expresses enough tenderness and fragility to overcome its rather prosaic storyline.…
- Familia (2005)
- Dir. Lousie Archambault
Feat. Mylene St-Sauveur, Macha Grenon, Sylvie Moreau
- Multi–faceted, thoroughly entertaining drama centres on the frequently discordant child–rearing beliefs of two friends as they attempt to…
- Fateless (Sorstalanság) (2005)
- Dir. Lajos Koltai
Feat. Marcell Nagy, Aron Dimeny, Daniel Craig
- Harrowing and distilled vision of the Holocaust adapted from a novel by concentration–camp survivor and Nobel prize–winning author Imre…
- Gabrielle (2005)
- Dir. Patrice Chereau
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory
- Absorbing adaptation of a Joseph Conrad short story coolly dissects the disintegrating marriage of a bourgeois French couple.
Gorgeously framed…
- Heading South (Vers le sud) (2005)
- Dir. Laurence Cantet
Feat. Charlotte Rampling, Karen Young, Louise Portal
- Pensive women's drama from the dir. of TIME OUT, set on a Haitian beach resort frequented by wealthy westerners and male gigolos.
Set in the 70s…
- House of Sand, The (2005)
- Dir. Andrucha Waddington
Feat. Fernanda Montenegro, Fernanda Torres, Ruy Guerra
- Rapturous cinematography transforms this melodramatic saga of three generations of women stranded in Brazil’s inhospitable Maranhão region, into…
- How Much Do You Love Me? (Combien tu m'aimes?) (2005)
- Dir. Bertrand Blier
Feat. Monica Bellucci, Gerard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Darroussin…
- Akin to THE VALET’s improbable live–in relationship, but offering entirely different results, this peculiar comedy–romance stars Monica…