Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1767 Films to Buy & Rent
- Rosenstrasse (2003)
- Dir. Margarethe von Trotta
Feat. Katja Riemann, Maria Schrader, Martin Feifel
- Fact–based drama set around the wartime protest movement of Aryan German women in 1943 Berlin, who were distraught at the forced detention of…
- Since Otar Left (2003)
- Dir. Julie Bertuccelli
Feat. Dinara Droukarova, Nino Khomassouridze, Ester Gorintin
- Touching and wryly comic tale set in post–Communist Georgia, in which a mother, daughter and granddaughter partly survive through a romantic…
- Singing Behind Screens (Cantando dietro i paraventi) (2003)
- Dir. Ermanno Olmi
Feat. Bud Spencer, Davide Dragonetti
- Visually opulent Italian epic directed by Ermanno Olmi (THE TREE OF WOODEN CLOGS) set in coastal China and centred on a plucky widow who takes her…
- Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring (Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom) (2003)
- Dir. Kim Ki-Duk
Feat. Oh Young-Soo, Kim Ki-Duk, Kim Young-Min…
- As the seasons pass through many years, the inhabitants of a floating temple on a woodland pond – a young boy and his wizened mentor –…
- Springtime in a Small Town (2003)
- Dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang
- Long–awaited followup to THE BLUE KITE for dir. Zhuangzhuang (who was banned from filmmaking for three years afterwards), constructing a…
- Story of Marie and Julien, The (Histoire de Marie et Julien) (2003)
- Dir. Jacques Rivette
Feat. Emmanuelle Beart, Jerzy Radziwilowicz
- Meandering and hypnotic tale of the supernatural from French master Jacques Rivette, which begins in the apparently nondescript world of a Parisian…
- Swimming Pool (2003)
- Dir. Francois Ozon
Feat. Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, Charles Dance
- A beguiling psychological thriller, in which a British mystery–novelist (Rampling) travels to her publisher's holiday house in rural France for…
- Thousand Months, A (Mille Mois) (2003)
- Dir. Faouzi Bensaïdi
Feat. Fouad Labied, Nezha Rahile
- A rare international release from Morocco, this portrays languid months of existence for a boy who, following various family crises, moves with his…
- Time of the Wolf (Temps du loup, Le) (2003)
- Dir. Michael Haneke
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Beatrice Dalle, Olivier Gourmet
- Chilling, disconcerting post–apocalyptic nightmare that begins with Isabelle Huppert and children fleeing into a barren French countryside,…
- Touch of Spice, A (Politiki kouzina) (2003)
- Dir. Tassos Boulmetis
Feat. George Corraface
- Spices build bridges in this touching account of a Greek astrophysicist and his spice merchant grandfather, conjoined by that now–familiar…