Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1773 Films to Buy & Rent
Minor Mishaps (2001)
- Dir. Annette K. Olesen
Feat. Jorgen Kiil, Maria Wurgler Rich, Jannie Faurschou
- Emerging from the lighter end of the Dogme 95 movement, this drama reunites a father and three children after the death of their mother in a car…
Naked, The (Golasy) (2001)
- Dir. Witold Swiêtnicki
- Genuine oddity, this Polish satire upon the tedium of the Soviet era, as experienced by an office full of white–collar workers, is lent a…
Night Shift (Trois Huit) (2001)
- Dir. Phillippe Le Guay
Feat. Gérald Laroche, Marc Barbe
- Tense French workplace drama about a mild–mannered factory employee who must cope with a vindictive and domineering co–worker.
Working…
Pauline and Paulette (Pauline et Paulette) (2001)
- Dir. Lieven Debrauwer
Feat. Dora van der Groen, Ann Petersen
- An amusing, poignant tale of two elderly sisters and their unique relationship, portrayed by two grand old dames of Belgian theatre.
After her…
Piano Teacher, The (2001)
- Dir. Michael Haneke
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoit Magimel
- Isabelle Huppert gives the bravest and possibly best performance of her career as a brittle, imbalanced music teacher in a drama that might prove too…
Read My Lips (Sur Mes Levres) (2001)
- Dir. Jacques Audiard
Feat. Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos
- Sturdy, unconventional French thriller about an insecure, partially–deaf office clerk who tries to help an irascible ex–con integrate…
Samsara (2001)
- Dir. Pan Nalin
Feat. Shawn Ku, Christy Chung, Neelesha Bavora
- A spiritual and visually resplendent drama based around the sexual awakening of a novice Buddhist monk in remote, mountainous Tibet.
After…
Sex and Lucia (2001)
- Dir. Julio Medem
Feat. Paz Vega, Tristan Ulloa, Najwa Nimri…
- Another sumptuous, stylistic meditation for dir. Julio Medem that interlocks his penchant for intricate, fractured narrative with a thrust of daring…
Song for Martin, A (2001)
- Dir. Bille August
Feat. Sven Wollter, Reine Brynolfsson
- Touching drama of a composer and concertmaster who fall in love through classical music, only to battle the effects of Alzheimer's.
Foreseeable…
Time for Drunken Horses, A (2001)
- Dir. Bahman Ghobadi
Feat. Ayoub Ahmadi, Rojin Younessi, Amaneh Ekhtiar-dini…
- Set in remote Kurdistan, along the mountainous smuggling border between Iran and Iraq, this chronicles the pitiable circumstances of a recently…