Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3335 Films to Buy & Rent
Draquila - Italy Trembles (2010)
- Dir. Sabina Guzzanti
- Sabina Guzzanti returns once more to do battle with Silvio Berlusconi in this incendiary doc that examines his administration's handling of the…
Easy Money (Snabba Cash) (2010)
- Dir. Daniel Espinosa
Feat. Joel Kinnaman, Matias Varela, Dragomir Mrsic…
- High–flying Swedish thriller centres on a Stockholm business student who moonlights as a drug runner in order to maintain the illusion of…
El Narco (2010)
- Dir. Luis Estrada
Feat. Damian Alcazar, Joaquin Cosio, Ernesto Gomez Cruz…
- Intense crime drama that offers a hellish version of Mexico and the drug war seen through the eyes of a man returning to his home country after…
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (Elite Squad 2) (2010)
- Dir. José Padilha
Feat. Wagner Moura, Andre Ramiro
- This riveting sequel to dir. Padilha's blockbuster policier features a more politically engaged storyline, with plenty of new angles on the…
Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec, The (Adèle Blanc-Sec) (2010)
- Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Louise Bourgoin, Mathieu Amalric, Gilles Lellouche…
- Luc Besson helms this outlandish female–scented romp, centred on the tomb raiding escapades of a writer (a fetching Louise Bourgoin) whose…
Fire Of Conscience (For Lung) (2010)
- Dir. Dante Lam
Feat. Leon Lai, Richie Ren, Baoqiang Wang
- It’s all guns blazing in this bang bang throwback to the glory days of Hong Kong cinema, about a violent detective and a sly inspector’s efforts…
First Assignment, The (2010)
- Dir. Giorgia Cecere
Feat. Isabella Ragonese, Francesco Chiarello, Alberto Boll
- A young teacher who posted to a provincial town struggles to connect with the local children and pines for her aristocratic boyfriend.
First Beautiful Thing, The (2010)
- Dir. Paolo Virzi
Feat. Valerio Mastandrea, Micaela Ramazzotti, Stefania Sandrelli
- Winsome melodrama with a misanthropic professor returning to his home town to assist his dying mother. Delicately performed but perhaps overly…
Gainsbourg (2010)
- Dir. Joann Sfar
Feat. Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Sara Forestier…
- Freewheeling biographical account of singer/composer/actor Serge Gainsbourg, an enduring iconic figure of French popular culture.
Serves the…
Gallants (2010)
- Dir. Chi-kin Kwok, Clement Sze-Kit Cheng
Feat. Siu-Lung Leung, Kuan Tai Chen
- An exuberant homage to the Shaw Brothers films of yesteryear, this kung–fu comedy delights as an old–school actioner, replete with…