Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3343 Films to Buy & Rent
One Missed Call (Chakushin Ari) (2003)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Ko Shibasaki, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Kazue Fukiishi…
- Another 'J–horror' riding on the wave of the RING phenomena, updating the supernatural formula with cell–phone technology and…
Ong-Bak (Muay Thai Warrior) (2003)
- Dir. Prachya Pinkaew
Feat. Tony Jaa, Petchtai Wongkamlao
- A martial arts juggernaut from Thailand, in which a benign village kickboxer travels to big bad Bangkok in search of a sacred statue stolen from his…
Osama (2003)
- Dir. Siddiq Barmak
Feat. Marina Golbahari
- Though nothing to do with a certain infamous terrorist, this first Afghani film made since the rise and fall of the Taliban also happens to be a…
Other Side of the Bed, The (2003)
- Dir. Emilio Martinez Lazaro
Feat. Paz Vega, Natalia Verbeke, Ernesto Alterio…
- Frisky Spanish sex comedy involving the criss–crossing love affairs across a group of "friends" and acquaintances.
Cast with 'Guess Jeans'…
Remember Me (Ricordati di Me) (2003)
- Dir. Gabriel Muccino
Feat. Fabrizzio Bentivoglio, Laura Morante, Monica Bellucci
- The dir. of THE LAST KISS constructs an equally heightened melodrama about the saga of a middle–class Italian family, their various personal…
Return, The (Vozvrashcheniye) (2003)
- Dir. Andrei Zvyagintsev
Feat. Ivan Dobronravov, Vladimir Garin, Konstantin Lavronenko…
- A surprise arthouse hit about a couple of teenage brothers who are taken on a mysterious trip by their estranged and rather surly father, with his…
Rosenstrasse (2003)
- Dir. Margarethe von Trotta
Feat. Katja Riemann, Maria Schrader, Martin Feifel
- Fact–based drama set around the wartime protest movement of Aryan German women in 1943 Berlin, who were distraught at the forced detention of…
Schultze Gets the Blues (2003)
- Dir. Michael Schorr
Feat. Horst Krause, Harald Warmbrunn
- A recently retired worker (Krause) in a dismal German mining town, discovers an unexpected passion for playing Zydeco rhythms on the piano accordion,…
Seducing Doctor Lewis (La Grande séduction) (2003)
- Dir. Jean-François Pouliot
Feat. Raymond Bouchard, David Boutin
- Amiable and crafty, this Québécois comedy has a small fishing village trying to gently persuade a visiting young doctor to take up permanent…
Silmido (2003)
- Dir. Woo-Suk Kang
Feat. Ahn Sung-Ki, Kyung-gu Sol
- Korean Cold War thriller which takes the true scandal of how a team of gangsters and death–row criminals were recruited in 1968 as part of a…