Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Foreign Cinema: 3248 Films to Rent
Warm Spring (2002)
- Dir. Tana Wulan
Feat. Chenren Tian, Yan Zhang
- Little–known but rather poignant story in which an orphan girl runs away from her abusive foster parents and is sheltered by a poor elderly…
Yossi and Jagger (2002)
- Dir. Eytan Fox
Feat. Ohad Knoller
- Subversive, sweetly–natured gay drama set amid the close–quarters comraderie of the IDF (Israeli Defence Force) where a commanding…
8 Women (8 Femmes) (2001)
- Dir. Francois Ozon
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Beart…
- In the classic whodunnit mould, this whimsical French "thriller" starts with a man’s dead body in a snowbound Alpine manse in the 1950s, and eight…
A Ma Soeur! (For My Sister, aka Fat Girl) (2001)
- Dir. Catherine Breillat
Feat. Anais Reboux, Roxane Mesquida, Libero de Rienzo…
- An artfully impassive study of sexual predation that takes place during the summer holidays of two teenage sisters – the dumpy Anais Reboux and…
A Young Prisoner's Revenge (2001)
- Dir. Mu Deyuan
- Obscure, but supposedly award winning Chinese drama concerns the botched plans of a couple to bribe a judge so their son, guilty of robbery, gets a…
Aimee and Jaguar (2001)
- Dir. Max Farberbock
Feat. Maria Schrader, Juliane Kohler
- A forbidden love story that crosses both ethnic and sexual lines, inspired by a true love affair between a role–model Nazi mother and a…
All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)
- Dir. Shunji Iwai
Feat. Hayato Ichihara, Yu Aoi, Ayumi Ito…
- Vogue Japanese dir. Shunji Iwai renders the contemporary teen malaise with poignancy and despair in this haunting commentary on the perils of…
Amelie (2001)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Feat. Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz
- A charming romantic comedy stamped with the purely cinematic style of dir. Jean–Pierre Juenet, who here remixes intricate set pieces, editing…
Amour de Femme (A Woman's Love) (2001)
- Dir. Sylvie Verheyde
Feat. Raffaela Anderson, Helene Fillieres, Anthony Delon…
- Quiet romantic drama of a woman trapped in a lifeless marriage who embarks on a journey of self–discovery when she begins an affair with a…
Asoka (2001)
- Dir. Santosh Sivan
Feat. Shahrukh Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Danny Denzongpa
- Scintillating, hallucinatory epic of ancient India that’s perhaps the first ‘Bollywood’ film to reach international audiences, telling the…