Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1767 Films to Buy & Rent
- Nobody Knows (Dare mo shiranai) (2004)
- Dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu
Feat. Yuya Yagira, Ayu Kitaura, You
- Based on a notorious 1988 case where four abandoned children were found to have been living on their own devices out of a Japanese apartment for six…
- Offbeat (Kammerflimmern) (2004)
- Dir. Hendrik Hölzemann
Feat. Matthias Schoenaerts, Jessica Schwarz, Florian Lukas
- Fitfully intense indie drama is set around the daily rounds of a paramedic (Schweighöfer) struggling with his own dreams, memories and a few lurking…
- Overture, The (Hom rong) (2004)
- Dir. Ittisoontorn Vichailak
Feat. Anuchit Sapanpong, Aratee Tanmahapran
- Biopic exploring the life of Thai musical master Luang Pradit Pairoh (Sorn Silapabanleng), who was a palace musician and ra–nad ek (Thai…
- Queen of Sheba's Pearls, The (2004)
- Dir. Colin Nutley
Feat. Helena Bergstrom
- Set in post–WW2 England this centres its tale on a rural West Country family, whose members are on the cusp of various life passages, upset by…
- Raincoat (2004)
- Dir. Rituparno Ghosh
Feat. Ajay Devgan, Aishwarya Rai
- Dramatically–ambitious dir. Ghosh here creates an understated chamber piece from the usual Bollywood melodramatics, staging a rainy–day…
- Rice Rhapsody (Hainan ji fan) (2004)
- Dir. Kenneth Bi
Feat. Sylvia Chang, Mélanie Laurent, Maggie Q
- Light, good–natured familial farce about a sturdy single mother who, fearing a drought of grandchildren, plots to ‘straighten’ the…
- Sea Inside, The (Mar Adentro) (2004)
- Dir. Alejandro Amenabar
Feat. Javier Bardem, Belen Rueda, Lola Dueñas…
- A deserving winner of the Best Foreign Film Academy Award, this outstanding melodrama is based on the unique real–life story of Ramon Sampedro,…
- Shadows Of Time (Scatten der Zeit) (2004)
- Dir. Florian Gallenberger
Feat. Prushant Narayanan, Tanishta Chaterjee
- Sumptuous romantic melodrama of a high order, following the bittersweet relations between two abandoned children, who graduate from working in a…
- Stray Dogs (Sag-haye velgard) (2004)
- Dir. Marziyeh Meshkini
Feat. Gol-Ghotai , Zahed , Agheleh Rezaie
- A wrenching, emotionally gripping tale of two children, orphaned after their parents are imprisoned, who must fend for themselves in…
- Summer Storm (Sommersturm) (2004)
- Dir. Marco Kreuzpaintner
Feat. Robert Stadlober, Kostja Ullmann
- Two best friends – the pride of the local rowing club – find their loyalties and chances of winning threatened, as one gets serious about…