Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1767 Films to Buy & Rent
- 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…
- Barbarian Invasions, The (2003)
- Dir. Denys Arcand
Feat. Remy Girard, Stephane Rousseau, Dorothee Berryman…
- Another finely–wrought drama from French–Canadian dir. Denys Arcand, who invests his keen sense of history, politics, literature and sex…
- Best of Youth, The (La Meglio gioventù) (2003)
- Dir. Marco Tullio Giordana
- Sprawling and heady Italian saga tracks the lives of two brothers through the idealistic dreams of the 1960s and the long messy aftermath of…