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Rental > Foreign Cinema: 3248 Films to Rent
Trouble Every Day (2001)
- Dir. Claire Denis
Feat. Vincent Gallo, Beatrice Dalle, Alex Descas…
- This messy yet mesmerizing tale of visceral sexual obsession has vamp Beatrice Dalle spoiling a couple's Paris honeymoon when she develops a carnally…
Tunnel, The (2001)
- Dir. Roland Suso Richter
Feat. Heino Ferch, Nicolette Krebitz
- An extended though by no means deep excavation of German Cold War history, in which an East German swimmer (Ferch) defects to West Berlin in 1961 and…
Under the Sand (2001)
- Dir. Francois Ozon
Feat. Charlotte Rampling, Jacques Nolot, Bruno Cremer
- Charlotte Rampling enters a twilit zone of denial following her husband’s disappearance into the sea on a beach holiday, and mysterious…
Va Savoir (Who Knows) (2001)
- Dir. Jacques Rivette
Feat. Jeanne Balibar, Sergio Castellitto, Jacques Bonnaffe…
- Skilful romantic farce interweaves the lives of six characters connected to an Italian theatre troupe on tour in Paris (doing Pirandello’s ‘As…
Versus (2001)
- Dir. Ryuhei Kitamura
Feat. Tak Sakaguchi, Kenji Matsuda
- The zombie genre is resurrected yet again, here spliced with Asian combat routines and punk–gangster gunplay, and set in the local woods on an…
Vertical Ray of the Sun, The (At the Height of Summer) (2001)
- Dir. Tran Anh Hung
Feat. Tran Nu Yen-Khe, Nhu Quynh Nguyen, Le Khanh
- Conjuring once more the scent, hue and atmosphere of Vietnam, the dir. of SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA depicts the complicated sisterhood of three women in…
Volcano High (Whasango) (2001)
- Dir. Tae-gyun Kim
- Wildly action–packed Korean thriller, set in a future high–school where combat–trained, telekinetic students and staff slug it out…
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)
- Dir. Shohei Imamura
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu
- Nourishing sex fable in which Japanese everyman Koji Yakusho, down and out after losing his wife and job, discovers the joys of making love to a…
What Time Is It There? (2001)
- Dir. Ming-liang Tsai
Feat. Kang-sheng Lee, Cecilia Yip, Jean-Pierre Leaud
- Three forlorn individuals bide their time between grief, ennui and loneliness in this minimalist – and unusually talky – masterpiece from…
Wind Will Carry Us, The (2001)
- Dir. Abbas Kiarostami
Feat. Behzad Dourani
- Carried by the dir.’s deadpan comic instincts and more minimally poetic, this quasi–fable concerns (what seems to be) a documentary crew who…