Subgenre Sampler
Sales > Foreign Cinema > Romance: 32 films to Buy
5 Centimetres Per Second (Five Centimetres Per Second) (2008)
- Sublimely romantic animated feature divided into three separate episodes tracing the emotional journey of a teenage boy through to manhood, and the…
- DVD $24.95
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
Singer, The (Quand j'étais chanteur) (2006)
- Gerard Depardieu works his rotund charm as a journeyman lounge singer, crooning his way through half–empty nightclubs while forging an unlikely…
- DVD $24.95
Head-On (Gegen die Wand) (2004)
- Set in scungy working–class Hamburg, this constructs an unusual love story around two Turkish immigrants – a drunken janitor (Unel) and a…
- DVD $29.95
Amelie (2001)
- A charming romantic comedy stamped with the purely cinematic style of dir. Jean–Pierre Juenet, who here remixes intricate set pieces, editing…
- DVD $14.95
Gloomy Sunday (Ein Lied Von Liebe Und Tod) (1999)
- Captivating drama which pivots around the apocryphal origins of the classic melancholy song 'Gloomy Sunday' in pre–WW2 Budapest.
An amiably…
- DVD
$25 $18.75
An Autumn Tale (1998)
- Completing his suite of films based on the four seasons, dir. Rohmer provides another mellow, seemingly unplotted comedy, in which Rhone valley…
- DVD
$25 $18.75
Life Is Beautiful (La vita e bella) (1998)
- Winner of both Best Foreign Film and Best Actor Oscars (a first for an actor speaking a foreign tongue) as well as the top prize at Cannes, Roberto…
- DVD
$20 $15
Fire (1996)
- Blazing melodrama defiantly targets Indian sexual hypocrisy and tradition, not to mention trangressing 'Bollywood' taboo, in portraying two women…
- DVD
$20 $15
Guantanamera (1996)
- A quirky mix of low–speed road movie and romantic comedy following the unsteady progress of a funeral procession across the length of Cuba…
- Poster (G) $9.95