Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema > Drama: 1314 Films to Buy & Rent
Dangerous Liaisons (2012)
- Dir. Jin-ho Hur
Feat. Cecilia Cheung, Jang Dong-Gun, Zhang Ziyi
- A sumptuous new adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' famous novel, relocating the grand sexual conspiracy to opulent 1930s Shanghai, where two wealthy…
Laurence Anyways (2012)
- Dir. Xavier Dolan
Feat. Melvil Poupaud, Suzanne Clément, Nathalie Baye…
- Young French–Canadian actor/director Xavier Dolan sits behind the camera of his third film (made at 23 years of age, no less), an assured…
Lore (2012)
- Dir. Cate Shortland
Feat. Saskia Rosendahl
- A satisfyingly ambitious and haunting drama from the Australian dir. of SOMERSAULT, set in Europe in the aftermath of WWII.
Following the arrest…
Royal Affair, A (2012)
- Dir. Nikolaj Arcel
Feat. Mads Mikkelsen, Alicia Vikander, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
- 18th Denmark is the backdrop for this high–costumed drama about the love affair between Queen Caroline Matilda and her royal physician under…
Suskind (2012)
- Dir. Rudolf van den Berg
Feat. Karl Markovics, Jeroen Spitzenberger
- A serious, respectful historical dramatisation of the deeds of Walter Sueskind, a Jewish industrialist in Amsterdam who used his leverage as an…
Taste of Money, The (2012)
- Dir. Sang-soo Im
Feat. Kang-woo Kim, Yoon-sik Baek, Yuh-jung Youn
- The dir. of THE HOUSEMAID buffs this heady class critique of Korea's impudent elite to a high sheen, with the lust and corruption of a wealthy family…
Welcome Abroad (2012)
- Dir. Jean Becker
Feat. Patrick Chesnais, Jeanne Lambert, Miou-Miou
- No stranger to movies about unlikely friendships, dir. Jean Becker balances sentiment with pathos in this finely drawn character study of a…
A Happy Event (Un Heureux Evenement) (2011)
- Dir. Rémi Bezançon
Feat. Louise Bourgoin, Pio Marmaï, Josiane Balasko…
- Keenly felt depiction of the baby blues as a young couple struggle to come to grips with parenthood.
A Separation (2011)
- Dir. Asghar Farhadi
Feat. Peyman Moadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat…
- A thoroughly deserving winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, this is a masterfully layered domestic drama in which the wheels…
Ages of Love (Manual of Love 3) (2011)
- Dir. Giovanni Veronesi
Feat. Robert De Niro, Monica Bellucci, Riccardo Scamarcio…
- Third installment in the fluffy romantic series has benefits from the presence of De Niro as a visiting professor seduced by his neighbour's…