Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1773 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
In the Light of the Sun (Alla luce del sole) (2005)
- Dir. Roberto Faenza
Feat. Luca Zingaretti
- Grave Italian drama, set in a time of increased Mafia terrorism and based on the chain of events that led to the assassination of the Catholic priest…
Italian Film Festival Collection, The - 2007 (2005-2006)
- Comprehensive box–set collection of 11 of the best Italian films featured at the 'Italian Film Festival 2007' spread over 6 discs.
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Italian, The (Italianetz) (2005)
- Dir. Andrei Kravchuk
Feat. Kolya Spiridonov, Nikolai Reutov, Maria Kuznetsova…
- Despite the title there is little Tuscan sunshine to be found here, but instead a frosty though warm–hearted tale from a Russian orphanage,…
Joyeux Noel (Merry Christmas) (2005)
- Dir. Christian Carion
Feat. Ian Richardson, Diane Kruger, Daniel Bruhl
- Fact–based WWI drama centred around how, on Christmas Eve, 1914, opposing French, German and British soldiers called a temporary ceasefire amid…
Karol - A Man Who Became Pope (2005)
- Dir. Giacomo Battiato
Feat. Piotr Adamczyk
- A lavish TV biopic concerning the life of the Polish–born leader of the Roman Catholic church between 1978 and 2005, Karol Wojtyla or Pope John…
L'Enfer (Hell) (2005)
- Dir. Danis Tanovic
Feat. Emmanuelle Beart, Karin Viard, Marie Gillain…
- Intense and twisting family psychodrama based on a script by Krystof Kieslowski (THREE COLOURS) has three French sisters finding their lives…
La Maison de Nina (2005)
- Dir. Richard Dembo
Feat. Agnes Jaoui, Sarah Adler, Katia Lewkowicz
- Quietly accomplished French drama focused on the relationships within the fragile structures of the 'houses of hope': houses run by surrogate mothers…
La Petite Jerusalem (2005)
- Dir. Karin Albou
Feat. Elsa Zylberstein
- Passion must be reconciled with faith for two sisters growing impatient with family and religious boundaries, while living in the drab Parisian…