Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3343 Films to Buy & Rent
Last Life in the Universe (2003)
- Dir. Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Feat. Tadanobu Asano, Riki Takeuchi, Sinitta Boonyasak
- With a cool command of the aloof, this strange, seductive noir–romance merges the soulless existence of a suicidal librarian (Asano), a…
Love Me If You Dare (Jeux d'enfants) (2003)
- Dir. Yann Samuell
Feat. Marion Cotillard, Guillaume Canet
- Two French kids develop an intense relationship through escalating games of "dare" that bond and haunt them through a turbulent teenage and…
Memories of Murder (Salinui chueok) (2003)
- Dir. Joon-ho Bong
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Sang-kyung Kim, Roe-ha Kim
- A darkly lyrical thriller, set around the true–life hunt for South Korea's first documented serial killer in 1986, during the years of Chun…
Miracle of Bern, The (2003)
- Dir. Sonke Wortmann
- Set in grim post–WW2 West Germany, this passionate, if broadly–handled drama respools a backdrop of events leading to the shock triumph…
Monsieur Ibrahim (2003)
- Dir. Francois Dupeyron
Feat. Omar Sharif, Pierre Boulanger
- Set on the multicultural streets of 1960s working–class Paris, this warm–hearted tale has a Sufi grocery store owner befriend a lonely…
Munnabhai M.B.B.S. (2003)
- Dir. Rajkumar Hirani
Feat. Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Dutt
- An unusually comedic Bollywood musical, sees a smalltime gangster staging an elaborate deception to prove to his straight–laced father that, in…
Nathalie... (2003)
- Dir. Anne Fontaine
Feat. Emmanuelle Beart, Fanny Ardant, Gerard Depardieu
- Steamy French confection involves frustrated wife Ardant in hiring prostitute Beart to seduce her philandering husband (Depardieu), and bring her…
Natural City (2003)
- Dir. Byung-chun Min
Feat. Ji-tae Yoo, Jae-un Lee, Rin Seo
- A stylised high–tech thriller set in 2080 – after global war has destroyed much of civilisation – where an isolated metropolis has…
Noi Albinoi (Noi the Albino) (2003)
- Dir. Dagur Kari
Feat. Tomas Lemarquis, Pröstur Leó Gunnarsson
- Distinctive drama about a 'gifted' 17–year–old who rebels against the limits of life in a remote Icelandic town.
Brimming with…
Nowhere in Africa (Nirgendwo in Afrika) (2003)
- Dir. Caroline Link
Feat. Juliane Kohler
- An old–fashioned epic of family survival, where a privileged Jewish family migrate from 1938 Nazi Germany into the exotic vastness of…