Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1773 Films to Buy & Rent
Farewell - Brecht's Last Summer, The (2000)
- Dir. Jan Schutte
Feat. Josef Bierbichler, Monika Bliebtreu, Elfriede Irrall
- Prior knowledge of the life of playwright Bertolt Brecht (played by Josef Bierbichler) will enhance this accomplished chamber–drama, set at an…
Girls Can't Swim (Les filles ne savent pas nager) (2000)
- Dir. Anne-Sophie Birot
Feat. Isild Le Besco, Karen Alyx, Pascale Bussieres…
- Moody French coming–of–age drama about two girls, one who lives in the coastal town in Brittany, the other from the city.
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Himalaya (2000)
- Dir. Eric Valli
Feat. Thilen Lhondup, Gurgon Kyap, Lhakpa Tsamchoe…
- A journey into the life of a remote Nepalese village which relies on an annual pilgrimage to collect salt from the Tibetan side of the Himalayas,…
In the Mood for Love (2000)
- Dir. Wong Kar-Wai
Feat. Tony Leung (Chiu-wai), Maggie Cheung
- As in DAYS OF BEING WILD, dir. Wong Kar–Wai portrays the languor of a 1960s Hong Kong in which two neighbours discover their respective spouses…
Les Destinees Sentimentales (2000)
- Dir. Olivier Assayas
Feat. Emmanuelle Beart, Charles Berling, Isabelle Huppert
- Genteel family saga from the trilogy of novels by Jacques Chardonne that follows the destiny of pastor Charles Berling through the first decades of…
Lumumba (2000)
- Dir. Raoul Peck
Feat. Eric Ebouaney
- A strident and fittingly uncompromising biopic about an African political icon, Patrice Lumumba, who liberated the Congo from Belgium in the late…
Malena (2000)
- Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
Feat. Monica Bellucci
- The dir. of CINEMA PARADISO throws an amber–lit glow around a man’s memory of a boyhood infatuation in his hometown in WWII Sicily.…
Me You Them (Eu Tu Eles) (2000)
- Dir. Andrucha Waddington
Feat. Regina Case, Lima Duarte, Stenio Garcia
- Set in the arid hinterlands of Brazil, this serio–comic study of rural polyandry has Regina Case (Brazil’s Oprah Winfrey) hitch up three…
One Hundred Steps, The (I Cento Passi) (2000)
- Dir. Marco Tullio Giordana
- Expansive, fact–based drama set around a young man's fight against local mafiosos in the small Sicilian village of Cinisi in the…
Platform (Zhantai) (2000)
- Dir. Jia Zhang-ke
Feat. Zhao Tao
- Taking its title from a Chinese hit rock song of the 80s, this fetchingly spare epic meditates on the changes of that turbulent decade and the…