Subgenre Sampler
Cult > Foreign Cinema: 130 Films to Buy & Rent
Secret Of Dorian Gray, The (Dorian Gray) (1970)
- Dir. Massimo Dallamano
Feat. Helmut Berger, Herbert Lom, Richard Todd
- Fleshy retelling of Oscar Wilde's classic tale with Helmut Berger living it up as the decadent naif who fails to age.
Certainly the raunchier of…
Dillinger is Dead (1969)
- Dir. Marco Ferreri
Feat. Michel Piccoli, Anita Pallenberg, Annie Girardot
- Indefinable late–sixties curio finds gas mask designer Michel Piccoli at a loose end in his gaudy suburban home. A gun that may have belonged…
Funeral Parade of Roses (Bara no Soretsu) (1969)
- Dir. Toshio Matsumoto
Feat. Shinnosuke Ikehata (aka Peter), Yoshio Tsuchiya
- A bold and significant product of the Japanese New Wave that loosely transposes Oedipus Rex to the underground gay culture of 1960s Tokyo with a…
Perversion Story (1969)
- Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Jean Sorel, Elsa Martinelli, Marisa Mell
- Erotic shocker from the priest of perversion. An unfortunate doctor falls in with an amoral stripper who happens to resemble his dead wife.
Spirits of the Dead (Histoires Extraordinaires) (1969)
- Dir. Louis Malle, Federico Fellini, Roger Vadim
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Terence Stamp, Alain Delon…
- A classy compendium of three Edgar Allan Poe stories directed by Europe's finest.
Metzengerstein (Dir. Roger Vadim) – Jane and Peter Fonda…
Touch of Zen, A (Hsia Nu) (1969)
- Dir. King Hu
Feat. Hsu Feng
- A dazzling blend of medieval potboiler, religious fable and martial arts spectacular, set in an ancient China wracked by civil war.
Centred on the…
Werner Herzog Collection (Signs of Life, Even Dwarfs Started Small, Kaspar Hauser, Stroszek, Heart of Glass, Where the Green Ants Dream) (1968-1982)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
- Comprehensive box–set containing six early films from renowned German director Werner Herzog.
Belle De Jour (Beauty of the Day) (1967)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli…
- Cool and elegant comedy of manners about a virginal newlywed who works the day shift in a high class brothel. Bunuel's surrealist…
Weekend (1967)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne
- A poetic, stylised and savage vision as only Godard could dream up and/or get away with. Road chaos and carnage is his metaphor for the decline of…
Daisies (1966)
- Dir. Vera Chytilova
Feat. Julius Albert, Jitka Cerhova, Marie Ceskova
- Much–loved cinematic firecracker from the halcyon days of 60s Czech radicalism, in which two girls (both called Marie) live out their anarchist…