Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3343 Films to Buy & Rent
What is Love? (Quale Amore) (2006)
- Dir. Maurizio Sciarra
Feat. Giorgio Pasotti, Arnoldo Foa, Vanessa Incontrada…
- Sullen adaptation of Tolstoy's "Kreutzer Sonata" has jealous Pasotti recount how he murdered his wife. Good looking film features some accomplished…
13 Tzameti (2005)
- Dir. Géla Babluani
Feat. Aurelien Recoing, Georges Babluani
- Coolly disturbing noir thriller tracks the fate of a struggling immigrant labourer who intercepts a package with instructions that lead him into a…
9th Company (2005)
- Dir. Fyodor Bondarchuk
Feat. Artur Smolyaninov, Aleksey Chadov , Konstantin Kryukov
- A muscular, at times brutal, war film set during the Russian invasion of Afghanistan follows a regiment from training to ill–fated combat with…
Accused (Anklaget) (2005)
- Dir. Jacob Thuesen
Feat. Troels Lyby, Sofie Grabol
- Unnerving Danish chamber–piece concerns the accusation by a 14–year–old girl that her father has sexually abused her – a…
Adam's Apples (2005)
- Dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
Feat. Mads Mikkelsen, Ulrich Thomsen, Paprika Steen…
- Roguishly sardonic Danish black comedy about a sanguine country vicar (CASINO ROYALE’s Mikkelsen) who encounters resistance from a neo–Nazi…
Airlift, The (2005)
- Dir. Dror Zahavi
Feat. Heino Ferch, Ulrich Tukur, Bettina Zimmerman
- Sweeping historical drama set in post–WWII Berlin with the love affair between a German single mother and an American General complicated by…
Allegro (2005)
- Dir. Christoffer Boe
Feat. Ulrich Thomsen, Helena Christensen
- Conceptually intriguing Danish sci–fi drama concerns a gifted concert pianist whose lack of intimacy leads to amnesia, forcing him to enter…
Always - Sunset on Third Street (Always san-chôme no yûhi ) (2005)
- Dir. Takashi Yamazaki
Feat. Koyuki, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Hiroko Yakushimaru
- A wistful Japanese drama, set against the backdrop of a developing Tokyo skyline in the 50's, centred on a handful of residents living in the…
Angel-A (2005)
- Dir. Luc Besson
Feat. Jamel Debbouze, Rie Rasmussen
- This sleek, stylized departure for dir. Luc Besson dabbles in an unlikely romance between a statuesque blonde (Rassmusen), and a nebbish, diminutive…
Apnea (2005)
- Dir. Roberto Dordit
Feat. Claudio Santamaria, Elio De Capitani
- Involving socio–political thriller about a man who discovers that his best friend, was not who he thought he was.