Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3354 Films to Buy & Rent
Little Big Soldier (2010)
- Dir. Sheng Ding
Feat. Jackie Chan, Lee-Hom Wang
- Charismatic anti–war comedy stars Jackie Chan as a lowly foot soldier who strikes it lucky when he captures a wanted enemy General (Wang).…
Little White Lies (Les petits mouchoirs) (2010)
- Dir. Guillaume Canet
Feat. Francois Cluzet, Marion Cotillard, Benoit Magimel…
- Airy ensemble from the dir. of TELL NO ONE about a group of French sophisticates whose annual seaside reunion is disturbed when one of them is badly…
Longlasting Youth (TV Mini-series) (Le cose che restano) (2010)
- Dir. Gianluca Maria Tavarelli
Feat. Lorenzo Balducci, Daniela Giordano
- A four–part mini–series about a Roman family who take separate paths after the death of their youngest son.
Loose Cannons (2010)
- Dir. Ferzan Ozpetek
Feat. Riccardo Scamarcio
- An cheerfully overstuffed family comedy of a gay young man who attempts to come out to his ultra traditionalist parents in the south of Italy.
Lope (The Outlaw) (2010)
- Dir. Andrucha Waddington
Feat. Alberto Ammann, Leonor Watling, Pilar López de Ayala
- Splendid biopic of Lope de Vega, the Spanish playwright who dominated Spain's early Golden Age of theare.
Lost Kisses (I baci mai dati) (2010)
- Dir. Roberta Torre
Feat. Carla Marchese, Donatella Finocchiaro
- A 13–year–old girl in the deprived outskirts of a sprawling Sicilian city becomes a local celebrity to her needy community when word…
Love Crime (2010)
- Dir. Alain Corneau
Feat. Kristin Scott Thomas, Ludivine Sagnier, Olivier Rabourdin
- Kristin Scott–Thomas sinks her teeth into the bitchiest role of her career as a ruthless, high–flying executive whose attempts at…
Love Like Poison (2010)
- Dir. Katell Quillévéré
Feat. Clara Augarde, Michel Galabru, Stefano Cassetti…
- A potent variation on an oft–told theme, this carefully observed drama considers the fraught adolescence of a 14–year–old girl torn…
Mammuth (2010)
- Dir. Gustave Kervern, Benoit Delepine
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Yolande Moreau, Isabelle Adjani…
- Slyly subversive comic tale with Gerard Depardieu in fine fettle as a retiree battling to secure his state pension.
Man From Nowhere, The (Ajeossi) (2010)
- Dir. Jeong-beom Lee
Feat. Won Bin, Sae-ron Kim
- Korean action movie following a former special agent who is living a quiet life as a pawnshop owner after his wife dies in a tragic accident, when a…