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Rental > Foreign Cinema: 3247 Films to Rent
Simone Young - To Hamburg From Downunder (2008)
- Dir. Ralf Pleger
- Perceptive documentary following renowned Australian conductor and Sydney Opera House Director Simone Young on her return journey from Europe to…
Sin Nombre (Without Name) (2008)
- Dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga
Feat. Paulina Gaitan, Edgar Flores
- Honduran teenagers brave Mexican gangs and border patrols as they attempt to illegally emigrate to the US in this superbly mounted,…
Sky Crawlers, The (2008)
- Dir. Mamoru Oshii
- Mamoru Oshii’s (GHOST IN THE SHELL) latest head–scratcher conceives an alternate World War II–reality around another conceptually dense…
Sleep Dealer (2008)
- Dir. Alex Rivera
Feat. Leonor Varela, Jacob Vargas, Luis Fernando Peña
- Ideas over special effects characterise this Mexican sci–fi sleeper, where in the not–to–distant future cheap Hispanic labour is…
Song of Sparrows, The (Âvâz-e gonjeshk-hâ) (2008)
- Dir. Majid Majidi
Feat. Reza Naji
- Iranian film following the life of a simple and contented ostrich farmer whose life changes dramatically when he loses his job and travels to Tehran…
Sorry If I Want to Marry You (2008)
- Dir. Federico Moccia
Feat. Raoul Bova, Michela Quattrociocche, Francesco Apolloni
- Supremely frothy comedy about with a man's increasing insecurity about his relationship leads him to propose marriage setting off a comic chain of…
Speak To Me of Love (Parlami d'amore ) (2008)
- Dir. Silvio Muccino
Feat. Silvio Muccino, Carolina Crescentini, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón…
- Sasha is a boy in his twenties, deeply loving the beautiful Benedetta, who doesn't seem to recognize his existence. Nicole is a French woman in her…
Still Walking (2008)
- Dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu
Feat. Hiroshi Abe, You , Yui Natsukawa…
- A recently remarried son (Abe) pays visit to his quietly disapproving parents in this exquisitely observed family drama, shot in the tradition of…
Summer Hours (2008)
- Dir. Olivier Assayas
Feat. Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jeremie Renier…
- Three siblings deliberate over the family estate following the death of their mother in this subtle, gorgeously rendered meditation on ‘moving…
Super Comet, The (Super Comet: After the Impact) (2008)
- Dir. Stefan Schneider
- This Discovery Channel special uses plenty of amazing FX and the helter–skelter tropes of docu–drama to explore the likely…