Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1792 Films to Buy & Rent
Cyclo (1995)
- Dir. Tran Anh Hung
Feat. Le Van Loc, Tony Leung (Chiu-wai), Tran Nu Yen-Khe
- Brooding expose of corruption, poverty and violence in contemporary Vietnam follows the ill fortunes of a young taxi–cyclist.
Has potent…
Fallen Angels (1995)
- Dir. Wong Kar-Wai
Feat. Leon Lai, Michelle Reis
- Seductive stylist Wong Kar–Wai here orchestrates the stories of three disreputable urbanites across a Hong Kong nightscape of impersonal…
French Woman, A (Une Femme Francaise) (1995)
- Dir. Regis Wargnier
Feat. Emmanuelle Beart, Daniel Auteuil
- Emmanuelle Beart stars in this period tale of idyllic romance compromised by the reality of war. The director of INDOCHINE again embraces the…
La Haine (Hate) (1995)
- Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
Feat. Vincent Cassel, Hubert Kounde, Said Taghmaoui…
- A distinctive French urban crime drama in which the idle hands of male youth form fisticuffs on mean urban streets. A whole lot punchier, intelligent…
Land of Milk and Honey (1995)
- Dir. Joseph Destein
Feat. Lumi Cavazos, Richard Panebianco
- A hired man plumbs the secrets of a Spanish–American family on a remote Californian coastal farm, in this stark, brooding melodrama. Stars…
Les Miserables (1995)
- Dir. Claude Lelouch
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo
- Widely considered the definitive screen version of this granddaddy of French literary staples. Few concessions have been allowed in staging a…
Letters from the East (1995)
- Dir. Andrew Grieve
Feat. Ewa Froling, Mark Womack, Ingeborga Dapkunaite
- The political turmoil of the Baltic Republics provides a backdrop for this Anglo–Estonian drama, in which a young English woman searches for…
Like Grains of Sand (1995)
- Dir. Hashiguchi Ryosuke
Feat. Yoshinori Okada, Kouta Kusano
- Remarkable, intense Japanese high school romance is centrally about a gay relationship, though it essentially captures the universal,…
Maborosi (Mabaroshi) (1995)
- Dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu
Feat. Makikio Esumi, Tadanobu Asano
- A young woman's fear that she brings death to those around her forms the basis for this contemplative, serene drama, the dir.'s debut. Suggestively…
Mina Tannenbaum (1995)
- Dir. Martine Dugowson
Feat. Romane Bohringer, Elsa Zylberstein
- Two childhood girl–friends of different character and ambition endure a tempestuous friendship over three decades. A freshly drawn, stylish…