Main content | Search | Section navigation menu | Site-wide navigation menu

Main menu

 
 
 

Subgenre Sampler

 
Tokyo Gore PoliceTokyo Gore Police (2008)
Dir. Yoshihiro Nishimura
Feat. Eihi Shiina, Itsuji Ltao, Yukihide Benny
Trashy, imaginative Japanese gore fest aims to out–splatter Peter Jackson’s BRAINDEAD with its outrageous hybrid of ROBOCOP and…
Tokyo SonataTokyo Sonata (2008) Recommended
Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Feat. Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyôko Koizumi, Yû Koyanagi
A devastating contemporary drama from the master of modern malaise, this piercing study of social collapse focuses on an downsized Japanese corporate…
Tony ManeroTony Manero (2008) Recommended
Dir. Pablo Larrain
Feat. Alfredo Castro, Paola Lattus, Héctor Morales
Unsettling drama set against the Pinochet regime in Chile in 1978, where a psychopathic disco fan steals and kills in an effort to become the…
Treeless MountainTreeless Mountain (2008) Recommended
Dir. So Yong Kim
Feat. Hee-yeon Kim, Song-hee Kim, Mi-hyang Kim
Korean–American So Yong Kim directs this moderate, heartfelt drama of two sisters, aged 3 and 6 respectively, who are abandoned by their mother…
TulpanTulpan (2008) Recommended
Dir. Sergey Dvortsevoy
Feat. Askhat Kuchinchirekov
A goofy love story is eked out of this astonishing account of nomadic life, where a family not only survive but relish sheep and goat herding on the…
Ugly MelanieUgly Melanie (Vilaine) (2008)
Dir. Jean-Patrick Benes, Allan Mauduit
Feat. Marilou Berry, Frédérique Bel
Mild black comedy set in a world of beauty or death, where ugly Melanie (Berry, not really ugly at all) plots a series of contrived punishments for…
Un Secret Un Secret (2008)
Dir. Claude Miller
Feat. Cecile De France, Ludivine Sagnier, Julie Depardieu
Graceful, poignant French wartime drama centred on the son of a Jewish family who uncovers a piece of unsettling family history at the time of the…
Underdog Knight, TheUnderdog Knight, The (Ying Han) (2008)
Dir. Sheng Ding
Feat. Ye Liu, Yong You, Anthony Wong
An offbeat, anti–heroic character study out of mainland China, in which a self–styled martial arts pretender lands a job as bodyguard for…
Wave, TheWave, The (Die Welle) (2008) Recommended
Dir. Dennis Gansel
Feat. Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt
Based on a true incident in the US in the early 1970's to practically illustrate the machinations of Nazi propaganda, a school teacher's unorthodox…
Welcome to the SticksWelcome to the Sticks (Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis) (2008)
Dir. Dany Boon
Feat. Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Zoé Félix
Actor Dany Boon, best known for MY BEST FRIEND, co–wrote and directed this similar comedy about a post–office manager who is, er, posted…

Results Page   Prev | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 Next    Show All

Display
Display
Order
Order