Subgenre Sampler
Sales > Foreign Cinema &g: 402 films to Buy
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
- Melancholic masterpiece from a largely overshadowed figure in Japanese cinema: concerning the post–war ‘water trade’ of bar hostesses in…
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$35 $26.25
Adventures Of Antoine Doinel, The (400 Blows, Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board, Love on the Run) (1959-1979)
- Francois Truffaut's most enduring cinematic creation, the irrepressible Antoine Doinel (played synonymously by Jean–Pierre Leaud) is…
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$100 $75
Le Notti Bianche (White Nights) (1957)
- A departure from neo–realist beginnings, this surreal Visconti masterwork adapts Dostoyevsky’s ‘White Nights’ through dreamlike art…
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$35 $26.25
Man Escaped, A (1956)
- Bresson's films are all extremely controlled in style: no suspense, no histrionics, flat acting, spare and simple camerawork, yet this is an…
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$40 $30
Lola Montes (1955)
- The life of the famous 19th century courtesan provides the basis for this sophisticated portrayal of the capriciousness of fate, which leads to the…
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$25 $18.75
Seven Samurai, The (1954)
- Kurosawa's classic 'Eastern Western' about a village who hire an elite band of warriors to fend off marauders. Compassionate storytelling with combat…
- DVD $29.95 | Blu-Ray $34.95
Mr. Hulot's Holiday (Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot) (1953)
- Jacques Tati fine–tunes the virtues of JOUR DE FETE to create his most eponymous character. The first of four Hulot features follows the…
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$35 $26.25
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
- Stories by the 18th century writer Akinari Ueda are woven into an odyssey of civil–war misfortune, in which two peasant–potters and their…
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$40 $30
Casque d'Or (Golden Marie) (1952)
- A gangster’s moll falls in love with a reformed criminal, igniting underworld violence, in this lush, overwhelming tragi–romance set in Paris…
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$35 $26.25
Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy (Rome Open City, Paisan, Germany: Year Zero) (1945-1948)
- Shot in battle–ravaged Italy and Germany, featuring largely nonprofessional casts, real war ravaged locations, and unorthodox approaches to…
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$100 $75