Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1773 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Travellers and Magicians (2003)
- Dir. Khyentse Norbu
Feat. Tsewang Dandup, Sonam Lhamo
- A puckishly effective road movie from the Himilayan kingdom of Bhutan, this follows a young villager who gets the opportunity to travel forth from…
Twentynine Palms (2003)
- Dir. Bruno Dumont
Feat. Katia Golubeva, David Wissak
- Provocative in both form and content, dir. Dumont (L'HUMANITE) crafts an opaque thriller around a dysfunctional couple's 'holiday' in the American…
Untold Scandal (2003)
- Dir. Je-yong Lee
Feat. Mi-suk Lee, Yong-joon Bae
- ‘Dangerous Liaisons’ translates seamlessly to Chosun Dynasty Korea, with temptress Lady Cho (Lee) assuming role of sexual power broker in this…
Vodka Lemon (2003)
- Dir. Hiner Saleem
Feat. Romen Avinian
- The residents of a diminishing Armenian village eke out meagre living in this sombre, if delightfully deadpan post–communist…
Zelary (2003)
- Dir. Ondrej Trojan
Feat. Anna Geislerova, Gyorgy Cserhalmi
- A layered tale of war and romance set around the 1943 purge of the Czech resistance by the occupying Nazis, and a young nurse's flight to…
A Loving Father (Aime ton père) (2002)
- Dir. Jacob Berger
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Guillaume Depardieu, Sylvie Testud
- Gerard Depardieu and real–life offspring Guillaume star as estranged father and son in this MISERY–inspired scenario of gaping family…
A Tale of a Naughty Girl (Mondo Meyer Upakhyan) (2002)
- Dir. Buddhadev Dasgupta
Feat. Samata Das, Rituparna Sengupta, Arpan Basar
- Caught between the push of tradition and the pull of the promise of a new life, a bright prostitute's daughter runs away to Calcutta to escape a…
Abouna (Our Father) (2002)
- Dir. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
- Set in the impoverished, dusty landscapes of Chad, this fable of African fragmentation follows two brothers (aged 8 and 15) as they search…