Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Foreign Cinema: 3248 Films to Rent
Sun, The (2004)
- Dir. Alexandr Sokurov
Feat. Robert Dawson, Issey Ogata
- A lucid, painstaking portrait of Emperor Hirohito, whose authority over Japanese troops during WWII is contrasted against intimate scenes of…
Survive Style 5+ (2004)
- Dir. Gen Sekiguchi
Feat. Tadanobu Asano, Hiroshi Abe, Vinnie Jones…
- Hitmen, hypnotists, murdered spouses, and a trio of oddball thieves converge in this delirious, unclassifiable comedy–mystery–drama by…
They Came Back (Les Revenants) (2004)
- Dir. Robin Campillo
Feat. Géraldine Pailhas, Jonathan Zaccai, Frédéric Pierrot…
- This disquieting, unconventional ‘zombie’ movie concerns a global phenomenon of returning dead, and their subsequent integration back into living…
Three Dancing Slaves (2004)
- Dir. Gaël Morel
Feat. Nicolas Cazalé, Stephane Rideau, Thomas Dumerchez…
- French romantic drama set in a working class Annecy neighbourhood where three brothers are in and out of the criminal world after their mother dies,…
Three...Extremes (3 Extremes) (2004)
- Dir. Takashi Miike, Park Chan-Wook, Fruit Chan
Feat. Ling Bai, Tony Leung (Kar-fai)
- Three prominent Asian maestros of terror serve up an intense and rewarding portmanteau of short horror works.
'Dumplings' (Dir. Fruit Chan)…
Trilogy 1: The Weeping Meadow (To Livadi pou dakryzei) (2004)
- Dir. Theo Angelopoulos
- The first part of an intended trilogy of films dealing with 20th century Greece, this monumental epic depicts the travails of a Greek refugee family…
Tropical Malady (2004)
- Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Feat. Banlop Lomnoi, Sakda Kaewbuadee
- A gorgeous two–hander from the dir. of BLISSFULLY YOURS begins as a tender romance between a farmer and a solider, before transforming into a…
Turtles Can Fly (Lakposhtha hâm parvaz mikonand) (2004)
- Dir. Bahman Ghobadi
Feat. Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif
- The first widely–released film to emerge from post–Hussein Iraq, this wrenching tale concerns a raucous gang of children who scratch out…
Twenty Thirty Forty (20 30 40) (2004)
- Dir. Sylvia Chang
Feat. Sylvia Chang, Rene Liu, Lee Sinji
- The destinies of three women in contemporary urban Taiwan – aged 20, 30 and 40 – evolve in parallel as each feels their way through the…
Unconscious (Inconscientes) (2004)
- Dir. Joaquin Oristrell
- Boisterous 'Freudian farce' set amidst the extravagent architecture of Barcelona in 1913, where a disturbed psychiatrist suddenly adandons his…