Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3343 Films to Buy & Rent
Read My Lips (Sur Mes Levres) (2001)
- Dir. Jacques Audiard
Feat. Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos
- Sturdy, unconventional French thriller about an insecure, partially–deaf office clerk who tries to help an irascible ex–con integrate…
Ring 2 (2001)
- Dir. Hideo Nakata
Feat. Miki Nakatani, Hitomi Sato
- Esteemable sequel to the 1998 original, this finds the supernaturally fatal videotape – the one that causes death, a week after watching it –…
Samsara (2001)
- Dir. Pan Nalin
Feat. Shawn Ku, Christy Chung, Neelesha Bavora
- A spiritual and visually resplendent drama based around the sexual awakening of a novice Buddhist monk in remote, mountainous Tibet.
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Sex and Lucia (2001)
- Dir. Julio Medem
Feat. Paz Vega, Tristan Ulloa, Najwa Nimri…
- Another sumptuous, stylistic meditation for dir. Julio Medem that interlocks his penchant for intricate, fractured narrative with a thrust of daring…
Shadow of the Wraith (Ikisudama) (2001)
- Dir. Toshiharu Ikeda
- Fitfully scary J–horror is set around a series of disconnected horrors in two halves: first, at a high school plagued by a creepy…
Shaolin Soccer (2001)
- Dir. Stephen Chow (Chiao)
Feat. Stephen Chow (Chiao), Richard Ng, Vicki Zhao
- With an astounding mix of Eastern fantasy, CGI effects and the game of soccer, Hong Kong’s one–man comedy machine Stephen Chow kicks one out…
Sleepless (Non ho Sonno) (2001)
- Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. Max von Sydow, Stefano Dionisi, Chiara Caselli
- A welcome return to his 'giallo' roots by dir. Argento, turning a tangled tango between a serial–killer and recently–retired detective…
Song for Martin, A (2001)
- Dir. Bille August
Feat. Sven Wollter, Reine Brynolfsson
- Touching drama of a composer and concertmaster who fall in love through classical music, only to battle the effects of Alzheimer's.
Foreseeable…
Tanguy (2001)
- Dir. Etienne Chatiliez
Feat. Sabine Azema, Andre Dussollier, Laurent Chouchan
- A crowd–pleasing French comedy set around the efforts of a middle–aged couple to surreptitiously get their 28–year–old son to…
Time for Drunken Horses, A (2001)
- Dir. Bahman Ghobadi
Feat. Ayoub Ahmadi, Rojin Younessi, Amaneh Ekhtiar-dini…
- Set in remote Kurdistan, along the mountainous smuggling border between Iran and Iraq, this chronicles the pitiable circumstances of a recently…