Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1781 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Sacred Heart (Cuore Sacro) (2005)
- Dir. Ferzan Ozpetek
Feat. Erika Blanc, Barbora Bobulova, Camille Dugay Comencini…
- Invigorating Italian drama of a successful businesswoman forced to re–assess her life by way of an encounter with a street kid after two of her…
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
- Dir. March Rothemund
Feat. Julia Jentsch
- An interesting and worthy companion piece to the excellent DOWNFALL, this necessarily grim drama looks at the trial of 21–year–old…
Speer And Hitler: The Devil's Architect (2005)
- Dir. Heinrich Breloer
Feat. Sebastian Koch, Tobias Moretti
- Painstaking docu–drama attempts to reevaluate the war crimes of one Albert Speer, Third Reich celebrity and Hilter’s personal architect…
Stupid Boy (Garçon Stupide) (2005)
- Dir. Lionel Baier
Feat. Natacha Koutchoumov, Pierre Chatagny, Rui Pedro Alves
- Raw drama focused around Loic, a young gay swinger in Switzerland, and his attraction to an older man who offers unexpected emotional stability.…
Takeshis' (2005)
- Dir. Takeshi Kitano
Feat. Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Osugi…
- Returning to his comedic roots, dir. Takeshi Kitano springs layer upon layer of self–reference and in this conceptually ambitious, though…
Three Times (2005)
- Dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Feat. Chen Chang, Shu Qi
- Taiwanese great Hou Hsiao–Hsien rekindles the memory of three of his finest films, linking a trio of elegant, erstwhile love stories (across…
Tickets (2005)
- Dir. Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach
- Surprisingly succinct take on the "omnibus" film sees the trifecta of Olmi, Kiarostami and Loach intersect three eclectic stories on a…