Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Television > Foreign Cinema: 61 Films to Rent
- Un Village Francais (TV Series) (2009-2017)
- Feat. Robin Renucci, Audrey Fleurot
- Confronting the difficult subject of French collaboration with the Germans during WW2, this series details the lives of the people of a fictional…
- Fred Vargas Collection (TV Series) (2008-2010)
- Dir. Josee Dayan
Feat. Jean-Hugues Anglade, Helene Fillieres, Charlotte Rampling
- Four excellent French TV adaptations of crime fiction novelist Fred Vargas' popular policiers, with her famous protagonist, Detective Adamsberg, a…
- Protectors, The (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Cecilie Stenspil, Søren Vejby, André Babikian
- Stellar Danish production centred on a group of professional bodyguards assigned to protect VIPs, politicians, and heads of state out of Copenhagen.…
- Rosario + Vampire (TV Series) (Rozario To Banpaia) (2008)
- Tskune accidentally gets on a bus to a school of monsters.
- Killing, The - Series 1 (TV Series) (Forbrydelsen) (2007)
- Dir. Birger Larsen
Feat. Sofie Grabol, Søren Malling
- A ripping Danish homicide serial in the long–form tradition of THE WIRE, which weaves a plot of intrigue, corruption, and bureaucracy around a…
- Anna Pihl (TV Series) (2006-2008)
- Feat. Charlotte Munck, Iben Hjejle
- Praised for its realism, this Danish police drama centres around a Copenhagen policewoman also having to deal with solo parenthood.
- Bartali - The Iron Man (Mini-Series) (Gino Bartali - L'intramontabile) (2006)
- Dir. Alberto Negrin
Feat. Pierfrancesco Favino
- Spirited made–for–TV biopic of Italy’s indomitable road cyclist Gino Bartali, twice winner of the Tour de France.
- Tiger Brigades, The (2006)
- Dir. Jerome Cornuau
Feat. Clovis Cornillac, Diane Kruger, Edouard Baer…
- Splashy French adventurism, in the spirit of THE UNTOUCHABLES, pits a high–minded inspector and his hard knocks 'Tiger Brigade' of crimebusters…
- Shakugan No Shana (TV Series) (2005)
- Yuji is returning from school when suddenly time stops and monsters appear to devour people. He is not frozen, however. When one of the monsters…
- Spiral (TV Series) (Engrenages) (2005)
- Feat. Audrey Fleurot, Philippe Duclos, Caroline Proust
- Euro–crime TV series set in Paris and following the police officers, lawyers and judges surrounding various criminal investigations.