Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema > Drama: 1782 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
And Now Ladies and Gentlemen (2002)
- Dir. Claude Lelouch
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Patricia Kaas, Thierry Lhermitte…
- A smooth exercise in self–satire from dir. Lelouch, with Jeremy Irons playing a shifty jewel–thief who hooks up with lounge–singer…
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)
- Dir. Dai Sijie
- Lovingly photographed fable of freedom, set during China's 'Cultural Revolution' in 1971 and based on the dir.'s own adolescence.
Two young…
Blissfully Yours (Sud Sanaeha) (2002)
- Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- One–of–a–kind filmmaker Weerasethakul embarks on a delicate, ethereal journey through Thailand’s magical wilderness, to beguiling…
Broken Wings (K’nafayim Shvurot) (2002)
- Dir. Nir Bergman
Feat. Orly Silbersatz Banai, Maya Maron
- The fraught shuffle of daily life for an Israeli family after the death of the male head of the household, is depicted with touching and intimate…
Chaos (2002)
- Dir. Coline Serreau
Feat. Vincent Lindon, Catherine Frot
- A witty French thriller where, through a chance meeting, a middle–class woman comes to the rescue of an Algerian–born prostitute who is…
Chihwaseon (Painted Fire) (2002)
- Dir. Kwon-taek Im
Feat. Min-sik Choi, Sung-kee Ahn
- A mainstay of Korean cinema, Im Kwon–taek helms this impassioned portrait of one of the country's most celebrated painters, Jang…