World Cinema sale

Discounted titles, mostly from the non English-speaking world, all new or "as new" as denoted, and mostly out-of-print...

28 Films.

A Faithful Man (L'homme fidèle) (2018): Romantic farce with a whimsical, French new–wave sensibility directed by and starring Louis Garrel. A dashing journalist finds his life…; DVD ~~$29.98~~ $15 (As New)
Dogman (2018): The director of GOMORRAH and TALE OF TALES expertly helms this gripping urban Italian crime noir about a mild mannered and diminutive dog groomer who…; DVD ~~$29.95~~ $15 (Near New)
Happy as Lazzaro (2018): It's summer at Inviolata, an isolated rural estate, where an extended family of tobacco farmers toil under the rule of a domineering marchesa, and…; DVD ~~$25~~ $18.75 (As New)
Happy End (2017): Michael Haneke lends his impeccably chilly style to this blackest of comedies about the disintegration of family relationships amidst the enduring…; DVD ~~$20~~ $15 (Near New)
Rams (2016): Distinctively woolly Nordic tale of two estranged sheep–farming brothers as they attempt to save their flocks from pending eradication in a…; DVD ~~$29.95~~ $15 (Near New)
Palio (2015): DVD ~~$20~~ $15 (As New)
Gloria (2013): Another superb Chilean drama in the wake of the previous year's NO, Paulina Garcia plays a free–spirited 58–year–old divorcee who…; DVD ~~$25~~ $18.75 (As New)
Half of a Yellow Sun (2013): A moving, if overly melodramatic rendering of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel about the Nigerian Civil War as experienced by two…; DVD ~~$19.95~~ $10
May in the Summer (2013): Jordanian set drama of cultural misunderstanding about a successful author returning to her familial hometown Amman in preparation for her impending…; DVD ~~$19.95~~ $10
Amour (2012): An octogenarian couple find their love put to the ultimate test when one of them suffers a stroke in this devastating humanist drama from master…; DVD ~~$25~~ $18.75 (As New)
Lore (2012): A satisfyingly ambitious and haunting drama from the Australian dir. of SOMERSAULT, set in Europe in the aftermath of WWII. Following the arrest…; DVD ~~$20~~ $15 (As New)
Life, Above All (2011): Heartrending tale of a headstrong 12–year–old girl who struggles to hold together her broken, AIDS–ridden family in modern day…; DVD ~~$19.95~~ $14.95 (As New)
You Will Be My Son (2011): An intense, boldly flavoured father–son melodrama centred on a prestigious French wine label, whose arrogant owner (Arestrup) begins to groom…; DVD ~~$20~~ $15 (As New)
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The (2009): One of the highest–grossing foreign language hits at the NZ box office, this riveting, full–bodied Swedish thriller follows an escalating…; DVD ~~$30~~ $22.50 (As New - With Played with Fire / Hornet's Nest)
Wave, The (Die Welle) (2008): Based on a true incident in the US in the early 1970's to practically illustrate the machinations of Nazi propaganda, a school teacher's unorthodox…; DVD ~~$25~~ $18.75 (As New)
Winter in Wartime (2008): Sensitively handled account of a thirteen year old boy who joins the Dutch resistance at the tail end of World War II.; DVD ~~$19.95~~ $14.95 (As New)
Caramel (Sukkar banat) (2007): Charming Lebanese soap opera with a social conscience, the latest in an emerging wave of dissenting Middle Eastern dramas divulges the stifled lives…; DVD ~~$24.95~~ $18.70 (As New)
La Vie en Rose (2007): Marion Cotillard excels (and deservingly won a Best Actress Oscar) in this stunning new biopic of the life and times of French singer Edith…; DVD ~~$20~~ $15 (As New 2-Disc)
Ten Canoes (2006): Beguiling Aboriginal parable from Rolf de Heer is an evocative time–warp of Australia’s rich ancestry, told through the campfire narration of…; DVD ~~$20~~ $15 (As New)
Ring Finger, The (L'annulaire) (2005): Ravishing to look at, if lacking so much as a storyline, this exquisite erotic fiction features Bond Girl Olga Kurylenko as a gorgeous laboratory…; DVD ~~$20~~ $15 (As New)
As it is in Heaven (Så som i himmelen) (2004): A feelgood arthouse hit about a renowned classical music conductor who rediscovers his roots in the far north of Sweden. Acquiring a rundown…; DVD ~~$25~~ $18.75 (As New)
Barbarian Invasions, The (2003): Another finely–wrought drama from French–Canadian dir. Denys Arcand, who invests his keen sense of history, politics, literature and sex…; DVD ~~$25~~ $18.75 (Near New)
I'm Not Scared (Io Non Ho Paura) (2003): Atmospheric thriller from dir. Gabriele Salvatores that deftly conveys a foreboding childhood experience during a long, hot summer in the country,…; DVD ~~$24.95~~ $18.70 (as new)
Springtime in a Small Town (2003): Long–awaited followup to THE BLUE KITE for dir. Zhuangzhuang (who was banned from filmmaking for three years afterwards), constructing a…; DVD ~~$25~~ $18.75 (As New)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000): A fantasy–fuelled, Chinese feudal melodrama laced with jaw–dropping combat sequences (arguably the best ever staged), this represents a…; DVD ~~$20~~ $15 (As New)
Kolya (1996): A beautifully sentimental Oscar winner for Best Foreign film – set during the 1988 Russian occupation of Czechoslovakia, when a…; DVD ~~$25~~ $18.75 (As New)
Last Emperor, The (1987): Grand scale interpretation of the true life of Pu Yi (John Lone), the last emperor of China, who ascended the throne at three years–old to live…; DVD ~~$20~~ $15 (as new)
Storm Over Asia (Potomok Chingis-Khana) (1928): An epic of silent Russian cinema to rival Eisenstein, this is set around a young Mongol fur–trapper who is swindled by traders and develops a…; DVD ~~$19.95~~ $14.95 (As New)

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