Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1774 Films to Buy & Rent
Kiss Me First (Prima dammi un bacio) (2003)
- Dir. Ambrogio Lo Giudice
Feat. Stefania Rocca, Marco Cocci
- Endearing Italian comedy following the fate of two separated lovers whose lives cannot help but intersect. The events of WW2 inevitably drive these…
Kitchen Stories (Salmer fra kjøkkenet) (2003)
- Dir. Bent Hamer
Feat. Tomas Norstrom, Joachim Calmeyer, Reine Brynolfsson…
- A slyly humourous offering from Scandanavia, examining the efforts of the (real–life) Swedish Home Research Institute to improve lives of…
Koktebel (2003)
- Dir. Boris Khlebnikov, Alexei Popogrebsky
Feat. Gleb Puskepalis, Igor Chernevich
- A delicately imagined journey through the Ukrainian countryside in the company of a widower and his 11–year old son, who set off on foot from…
Last Life in the Universe (2003)
- Dir. Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Feat. Tadanobu Asano, Riki Takeuchi, Sinitta Boonyasak
- With a cool command of the aloof, this strange, seductive noir–romance merges the soulless existence of a suicidal librarian (Asano), a…
Love Me If You Dare (Jeux d'enfants) (2003)
- Dir. Yann Samuell
Feat. Marion Cotillard, Guillaume Canet
- Two French kids develop an intense relationship through escalating games of "dare" that bond and haunt them through a turbulent teenage and…
Miracle of Bern, The (2003)
- Dir. Sonke Wortmann
- Set in grim post–WW2 West Germany, this passionate, if broadly–handled drama respools a backdrop of events leading to the shock triumph…
Monsieur Ibrahim (2003)
- Dir. Francois Dupeyron
Feat. Omar Sharif, Pierre Boulanger
- Set on the multicultural streets of 1960s working–class Paris, this warm–hearted tale has a Sufi grocery store owner befriend a lonely…
Nathalie... (2003)
- Dir. Anne Fontaine
Feat. Emmanuelle Beart, Fanny Ardant, Gerard Depardieu
- Steamy French confection involves frustrated wife Ardant in hiring prostitute Beart to seduce her philandering husband (Depardieu), and bring her…
Noi Albinoi (Noi the Albino) (2003)
- Dir. Dagur Kari
Feat. Tomas Lemarquis, Pröstur Leó Gunnarsson
- Distinctive drama about a 'gifted' 17–year–old who rebels against the limits of life in a remote Icelandic town.
Brimming with…
Nowhere in Africa (Nirgendwo in Afrika) (2003)
- Dir. Caroline Link
Feat. Juliane Kohler
- An old–fashioned epic of family survival, where a privileged Jewish family migrate from 1938 Nazi Germany into the exotic vastness of…