World Cinema sale
Discounted titles, mostly from the non English-speaking world, all new or "as new" as denoted, and mostly out-of-print...
43 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)
Perfect Strangers (Perfetti sconosciuti) (2016)
- A clever comedy of manners for the iphone–era, this Italian award–winner follows a dinner party debacle that unfolds after seven…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95 (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
Rust and Bone (2012)
- Jacques Audiard (A PROPHET) directs this searing drama of a broken woman (Marion Cotillard) who rediscovers the will to live through an itinerant man…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95 (As New)
Headhunters (2011)
- Jo Nesbo's blockbusting crime novel about a corporate headhunter moonlighting as an art thief gets an appropriately energetic treatment, and with its…
- DVD
$20 $15 (2-Pack w/ Jackpot ~ as new)
Intouchables, The (2011)
- Exemplary feel–good French comedy that details the unlikely friendship between an aristocratic quadriplegic and a young French–African…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95 (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)
Waltz With Bashir (Vals Im Bashir) (2008)
- This striking hybrid animation is an audacious attempt to recall, through anecdote, dream, and documentary, the 1982 Israeli–Lebanon war.…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95 (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)
Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (Le Scaphandre et Le Papillon) (2007)
- Justly celebrated adaptation of the autobiography of the late Jean–Dominique Bauby, who enjoyed the high life as editor of Elle magazine before…
- DVD
$20 $15 (as new)
Manufactured Landscapes (2007)
- Astounding 'environmental' documentary centering on the landscape photography of Edward Burtynsky, whose large–scale images of…
- DVD
$20 $15
Days of Glory (Indigènes) (2006)
- Epic Algerian WW2 drama focused on a determined group of Algerian soldiers fighting to defend France with little acknowledgement of their sacrifices…
- DVD
$19.95 $10
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)
2046 (2004)
- A companion piece of sorts to IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, this has the seasoned stylist dir. Wong Kar–Wai sketch an impressionistic portrait of loss,…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70 (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
$19.95 $14.95 (Ex Rental)
Chorus, The (Les Choristes) (2004)
- Crowd–pleasing drama set in post–WW2 France, where a sympathetic and patient music teacher strives to win over the troubled orphans in…
- DVD
$20 $15 (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)
Nicotina (2003)
- A stylish crime caper set in Mexico City, featuring an array of storylines, all featuring frustrated cigarette addicts, who finally intersect in a…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95 (as new)
Noi Albinoi (Noi the Albino) (2003)
- Distinctive drama about a 'gifted' 17–year–old who rebels against the limits of life in a remote Icelandic town.
Brimming with…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95 (As New)
Spanish Apartment, The (L'Auberge Espagnole) (2002)
- Summery comedy set in a Barcelona apartment, where six international exchange students variously mingle, cavort and fall messily in love.
Although…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70 (As New)
Together (He Ni Zaiyiqi) (2002)
- Touching story of a father and his 13–year–old son, a shy violin prodigy, who scrape up their meagre savings and set off from their…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70 (As New)
Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) (2001)
- A ‘cause celebre’ of recent film festivals worldwide, this filmed folktale from the ice–bound Innuit communities of northern Canada,…
- DVD
$29.95 $15 (Pre-Loved)
Autumn Spring (Babí léto) (2001)
- Spry Czech comedy of elderly bad manners, concerns an aging prankster (Brodsky) who spends his retirement impersonating people in league with a…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70 (As New)
Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (2001)
- The astonishing true story of Hitler's private secretary, Traudl Junge, who at the age of 80 comes to terms with working alongside unspeakable evil…
- DVD
$15 $11.25 (as new)
Dinner Game, The (1998)
- Gourmet–grade French farce from the maestro of the genre – well–packaged, delivered without haste, indeed delicious, if a slightly…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70 (as new)
Kingdom II, The (Riget II) (1997)
- Lars Von Trier's compulsive TV creation continues into its second series of medical soap opera, supernatural horror and black comedy.
Raising the…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70 (as new)
Lucie Aubrac (1997)
- French Resistance true–story from the period–eye of dir. Claude Berri (JEAN DE FLORETTE), offering a romantic sub–plot between…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95 (As New)
Kama Sutra (1996)
- The director of SALAAM BOMBAY returns to her native land for this enticing, beautifully photographed tale of love, jealousy and revenge among the…
- DVD
$20 $15 (as new)
Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
- Those that attended Ang Lee's WEDDING BANQUET will want to sample his tasty and sensual comedy about the perennial delights of life – sex and…
- DVD
$20 $15 (as new import)
Damage (1992)
- Jeremy Irons plays a Tory cabinet minister who becomes entangled, (especially physically) with his son's fiancee – a chic,…
- DVD
$25 $18.75 (Thai import)
Stalingrad (1992)
- Superlative evocation of WW2 tragedy from a German perspective. A unit of soldiers are posted to the front line in the merciless Russian winter to…
- DVD
$20 $15 (Thai import ~ as new)
Mediterraneo (1991)
- Oscar–winning tale of eight Italian soldiers who find themselves stranded on a remote Greek isle during WW2. An affecting and surprising…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70
Music Teacher, The (1988)
- Sterling voiced Jose Van Dam plays an opera star who retires to train an aspiring nymphette and her wayward peer. Like the superlative operatic…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95 (As New)
Babette's Feast (1987)
- Oscar–winning and mouth watering delight which tells a wistful, wise tale with a subtle sense of humour. Exiled French housekeeper Stephane…
- DVD
$20 $15 (near 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)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
- Colonialist visionary Klaus Kinski attempts to haul a huge riverboat over a hill in 19th century S. America with the help of Indian…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95 (Pre-Loved)
Le Magnifique (1973)
- Jean–Paul Belmondo stars in this slapstick spoof of B–movie espionage films and novels, playing a frustrated writer working in this genre…
- DVD
$20 $15 (as new ~ import)
Stolen Kisses (Baisers Voles) (1968)
- Third film in the director's Antoine Doinel series (see also THE FOUR HUNDRED BLOWS) starring Jean–Pierre Leaud, here as a careless young man…
- DVD
$19.95 $14.95 (Ex Rental)
Samurai Saga (Aru kengo no shogai) (1959)
- Feudal Japanese retelling of Rostand's 'Cyrano de Bergerac', with the charismatic Toshiro Mifune as the shogun–poet with a…
- DVD
$24.95 $18.70 (As New)
Nights of Cabiria (1957)
- Giulietta Masina is marvelous as a waifish prostitute dreaming of a rich, wonderful life but always finding sorrow. Tragicomic masterpiece won an…
- DVD
$29.95 $20