Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1773 Films to Buy & Rent
Very Long Engagement, A (Long dimanche de fiançailles, Un) (2004)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Feat. Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Clovis Cornillac…
- Another crowd–pleasing favourite from the dir. of AMELIE, which uses the Great War as setting for the fairytale search by Audrey Tatou for her…
Wayward Cloud, The (2004)
- Dir. Ming-liang Tsai
Feat. Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen
- Eye–popping musical numbers burst forth from this outré Tsai Ming–liang offering, which couples the Taiwanese director’s usual…
World, The (Shijie) (2004)
- Dir. Jia Zhang-ke
Feat. Zhao Tao
- The dir. of PLATFORM continues his perceptive and wry dissection of Chinese society reacting with surreal clumsiness to the forces of globalisation,…
Yesterday (2004)
- Dir. Darrell Roodt
Feat. Kenneth Khambula, Leleti Khumalo
- A groundbreaking drama set in a South African village, which depicts a woman's (Khumalo) struggles with health, family and local superstition when…
15 (2003)
- Dir. Royston Tan
Feat. Melvin Chen, Erick Chun
- Doing for the tiny island nation of Singapore what LA HAINE did for France, this box–office hit follows the misfiring antics of three teenagers…
A Heart Elsewhere (Il Cuore Altrove) (2003)
- Dir. Pupi Avati
Feat. Giancarlo Giannini, Neri Marcore, Vanessa Incontrada
- Seemingly a soft–centred drama set in 1930s Italy, this curious tale of blind love carries its own insinuating mood of melancholy. Marcore…
Anatomy of Hell (Anatomie De L'enfer) (2003)
- Dir. Catherine Breillat
Feat. Amira Casar, Rocco Siffredi
- A queasily explicit sex drama about a suicidal woman who challenges (and pays) a promiscuous gay man to participate in an uneasy nightly ritual of…
Armaan (2003)
- Dir. Honey Irani
Feat. Amitabh Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Gracey Singh
- A hospital soap–opera, Bollywood–style, centering around a doctor and his neurosurgeon son who dream of turning a private hospital into a…
As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (2003)
- Dir. Hardy Martins
- Based on the novel by Josef Martin Bauer, this film recounts the harrowing true story of Clemens Forell, the German POW who escaped a Siberian labour…
At Five in the Afternoon (Panj é asr) (2003)
- Dir. Samira Makhmalbaf
Feat. Agheleh Rezaie, Abdolgani Yousefrazi
- Delivering perhaps her most visually poetic, yet dramatically starkest work to date, the dir. of THE APPLE and BLACKBOARDS has a father and daughter…