Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1773 Films to Buy & Rent
In Praise of Love (Eloge de L'amour) (2001)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Bruno Putzulu, Cecile Camp, Jean Davy…
- Dir. Godard’s first major film in over a decade presents intellect and filmmaking in full–flight, while stubbornly refusing to provide a…
Italian For Beginners (2001)
- Dir. Lone Scherfig
Feat. Anders W Berthelsen
- A likeable ensemble comedy in which six vulnerable characters orbit a drab Copenhagen suburb, each seeking some form of solace, romance or…
Kandahar (2001)
- Dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- A Canadian–Afghani journalist travels incognito into the heart of wartorn Afghanistan to find her sister.
Filmed at the height of the…
La Ciénaga (The Swamp) (2001)
- Dir. Lucrecia Martel
Feat. Graciela Borges, Mercedes Morán, Martín Adjemián…
- Dir. Lucrecia Martel's debut film is an abstract Chekhovian tale of two bourgeois families roasting under the Argentinian sun within the confines of…
Lady and the Duke, The (2001)
- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Jean Claude Dreyfus, Lucy Russell
- Intellectually stimulating and strikingly anti–realist account of the French Revolution, told through the (true–life) relationship…
Lagaan (2001)
- Dir. Ashutosh Gowariker
Feat. Aamir Khan, Gracey Singh, Paul Blackthorne…
- Bollywood epic that broke through to international awards and audience with its ‘test–match’ running–time, lavishness and periodic…
Laissez-Passer (Safe Conduct) (2001)
- Dir. Bertrand Tavernier
Feat. Jacques Gamblin, Denis Podalydes, Marie Gillain
- A vivid and suspenseful drama set in the French film industry during the German occupation of WWII, this is a labour of love for leading French dir.…
Last Kiss, The (L'Ultimo Bacio) (2001)
- Dir. Gabriel Muccino
Feat. Stefano Accorsi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Stefania Sandrelli
- Award–winning Italian melodrama investigates the anxieties of a young unmarried couple on the verge of parenthood.
Stefano Accorsi is torn…
Merci Pour Le Chocolat (Nightcap) (2001)
- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Isabelle Huppert
- Slyly subversive psychodrama, with Isabelle Huppert excelling as the owner of a Swiss chocolate–business, who also happens to be a…
Millennium Mambo (2001)
- Dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Feat. Shu Qi
- The first in dir. Hou’s ‘contemporary youth’ trilogy is a light–infused strobe of aimless young adults living in the accelerated urban…