Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema > Cult: 130 Films to Buy & Rent
Delirious Fictions of William Klein, The (Who are You, Polly Maggoo?; Mr. Freedom; The Model Couple) (1966-1977)
- Feat. Anemone , Jacques Boudet, Eddie Constantine…
- An American photographer in new wave Paris; Dir. Klein has been making challenging cinema for more than forty years. In his three obscure fiction…
Simon of the Desert (1965)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Silvia Pinal, Claudio Brook
- A short surrealist fantasy concerning the life of Simon Stylites (Claudio Brook), an early Christian ascetic, who stood for years atop a column in…
Woman of the Dunes (1964)
- Dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara
Feat. Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida
- From a simple premise – a man becomes trapped in a valley of sand in which a solitary woman lives – the director is able to draw out…
Exterminating Angel, The (1962)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Silvia Pinal
- A psychic 'disaster movie', in which guests become trapped at a dinner party by a mysterious forcefield. As the days go by, dinner–table…
La Jetee (1962)
- Dir. Chris Marker
- Classic science–fiction short told almost entirely in stills takes a man from the future on a terrifying journey back to his childhood. The…
Tale of Zatoichi, The (1962)
- Dir. Kenji Misumi
Feat. Shintaro Katsu
- The inaugural movie in the iconic 'Zatoichi' series – which followed the intriguing adventures in mythical Japan of a blind masseur, who has…
Viridiana (1961)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey
- Bunuel purges his spiritual demons in this potent psychological study of a novice nun who loses her innocence when she visits her…
Un Chant D'amour (A Song of Love) (1950)
- Dir. Jean Genet
- Sole foray into cinema for French convict–turned–playwright Jean Genet is a brief and intense visual poem about the fantasies of…
Las Hurdes (Land Without Bread) (1933)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
- Surrealist non–fiction short film focused around Las Hurdes, the poorest region of Western Spain. An unnervingly straight travelogue delivered…
Un Chien Andalou (1928)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Salvador Dali
- Bunuel and Salvador Dali collaborated for this sensational short film that blew the lid off convention in a way history could never repeat. A…