Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3335 Films to Buy & Rent
Over the Hill Band, The (Meisjes) (2009)
- Dir. Geoffrey Enthoven
Feat. Marilou Mermans, Jan Van Looveren
- A modest old age delight centred on recently widowed mother who resolves to kick start her middle–aged son's music career by recruiting the…
Overheard (Qie ting feng yun) (2009)
- Dir. Felix Chong, Alan Mak
Feat. Lau Ching-wan, Louis Koo, Daniel Wu
- The directors of INFERNAL AFFAIRS reel in their sleek, sprawling urbane sensibility, changing tack with this compact character study about three…
Plan B (2009)
- Dir. Marco Berger
Feat. Manuel Vignau, Lucas Ferraro, Mercedes Quinteros
- Languid drama where a man's efforts to sabotage his ex–girlfriends new relationship – with a half baked plan of seducing her boyfriend,…
Please Please Me! (Fais-moi plaisir!) (2009)
- Dir. Emmanuel Mouret
Feat. Emmanuel Mouret, Judith Godreche, Deborah Francois
- Boudoir laughs a–plenty in this sexy farce from the 'French Woody Allen' as a goofy inventor's date with the President's daughter descends into…
Police, Adjective (2009)
- Dir. Corneliu Porumboiu
Feat. Dragos Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Irina Saulescu…
- An ingenious, pared–back police procedural in the droll tradition of the Romanian New Wave that at once deconstructs the genre, and wittily…
Prisoners of War (TV Series) (Hatufim) (2009)
- Dir. Gideon Raff
Feat. Yoram Toledano, Ishai Golan, Adi Ezroni…
- The source material for HOMELAND, this Israeli series is a more serious–minded and nuanced drama than its American successor, dealing with the…
Prophet, A (Un Prophet) (2009)
- Dir. Jacques Audiard
Feat. Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif…
- Dir. Jacques Audiard betters the accomplished storytelling of THE BEAT MY HEART SKIPPED, situating an immersive world of cloistered gangsters and…
Puzzle (Rompecabezas) (2009)
- Dir. Natalia Smirnoff
Feat. María Onetto, Arturo Goetz, Gabriel Goity
- Low–key charmer with a bored housewife discovering her freakish aptitude for puzzles and partnering with a rich bachelor for an international…
Raging Phoenix (2009)
- Dir. Rashane Limtrakul
Feat. JeeJa Yanin
- The female star of CHOCOLATE returns with break dancing moves to complement her sick martial arts skills, in this over–the–top kickboxing…
Red Nights (2009)
- Dir. Julien Carbon, Laurent Courtiaud
Feat. Frédérique Bel, Carrie Ng
- This tantalizing far East giallo offers both gruesome kill sequences and flamboyant erotic style in its story of a sadistic patron of the arts (NAKED…