Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1773 Films to Buy & Rent
Live and Become (Va, vis et deviens) (2005)
- Dir. Radu Mihaileanu
- Set against a little–known human catastrophe in which thousands of Ethiopian Jews (Falasha) were evacuated to Israel during civil unrest in the…
Lower City (Cidade Baixa) (2005)
- Dir. Sergio Machado
Feat. Lazaro Ramos, Jose Dumont
- Sensual, if sordid Latin American affair lustily relaying an ongoing threesome between two poverty–stricken ferrymen and a gorgeous Salvadorian…
Mario's War (La Guerra di Mario) (2005)
- Dir. Antonio Capuano
Feat. Valeria Golino
- Confronting Italian drama focused on a young boy taken away from his abusive mother to be cared for by a generous upper–class couple attempting…
Method, The (El Método) (2005)
- Dir. Marcelo Pineyro
Feat. Eduardo Noriega, Najwa Nimri, Ernesto Alterio…
- This smart black comedy for the 21st century sees corporate ethics slyly dissected as seven candidates blindly compete for an executive position in a…
Once You're Born (Quando sei nato non puoi più nasconderti) (2005)
- Dir. Marco Tullio Giordana
Feat. Alessio Boni, Adriana Asti
- Frank Italian adventure by acclaimed director Marco Tullio Giordana (THE BEST OF YOUTH) telling the coming–of–age story of a wealthy…
One Stays, One Leaves (L' un reste, l'autre part) (2005)
- Dir. Claude Berri
Feat. Daniel Auteuil, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Nathalie Baye…
- Witty French comedy with an undercurrent of angst in which two philandering middle–aged husbands do their utmost to juggle fresh–faced…
Princesses (Princesas) (2005)
- Dir. Fernando León de Aranoa
Feat. Candela Pena, Micaela Nevarez
- A raw, heartfelt slice of social realism on Spain's unforgiving streets, this authentic drama about the tenuous friendship between two women who…
Regular Lovers (Les Amants réguliers) (2005)
- Dir. Philippe Garrel
Feat. Louis Garrel, Clotilde Hesme
- A richly photographed, Nouvelle Vague–styled homage to the revolutionary spirit of protesters in 1968 Paris, dir. Garrel offers a lucid, at…
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005)
- Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Ken Takakura
- An unmistakably poignant, tear–jerking chronicle of an elderly Japanese man’s pilgrimage to Mainland China in the hope of reconciling a…
Ring Finger, The (L'annulaire) (2005)
- Dir. Diane Bertrand
Feat. Olga Kurylenko, Marc Barbe, Stipe Erceg
- Ravishing to look at, if lacking so much as a storyline, this exquisite erotic fiction features Bond Girl Olga Kurylenko as a gorgeous laboratory…