Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Foreign Cinema: 3248 Films to Rent
Bleeder (1999)
- Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
Feat. Kim Bodnia
- Hard–nosed drama about a brooding man who turns destructive when he learns of his girlfriend’s pregnancy in…
Butterfly's Tongue (La lengua de las mariposas) (1999)
- Dir. Jose Luis Cuerda
Feat. Fernando Fernan Gomez, Manuel Lozano
- Heartwarming Spanish coming–of–age drama set in Galicia in 1936.
Against the backdrop of the encroaching Spanish Civil War, a shy…
Cabaret Balkan (The Powder Keg) (1999)
- Dir. Goran Paskaljevic
Feat. Nikola Ristanovski
- Troubling split–portrait of the Serbian psyche, depicting a series of often violent incidents over the course of a single night in Belgrade,…
Carriers Are Waiting, The (Les Convoyeurs Attendent) (1999)
- Dir. Benoit Maraige
Feat. Benoit Poelvoorde, Morgane Simon, Bouli Laners
- When journalist Benoit Poelvoorde decides his family MUST win top prize in local competition (which involves training his reluctant son to break the…
Celebration, The (Festen) (1999)
- Dir. Thomas Vinterberg
Feat. Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen
- Conceived and executed under the "Dogma 95" manifesto, this corrosive black comedy sees the birthday celebrations of a wealthy family implode after…
Charisma (1999)
- Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Ren Osugi
- An eerie 'ecological horror' from the mind of dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, here following the path of a police detective (Yakusho Koji) who has been…
Children of the Marshlands (Les Enfants du Marais) (1999)
- Dir. Jean Becker
Feat. Jacques Villeret, Michel Serrault, Eric Cantona
- Old–fashioned French drama, whose 1930s Loire Valley setting is refreshingly free of the usual cliches, while remaining utterly charming and…
Colour of Paradise, The (1999)
- Dir. Majid Majidi
Feat. Mohsen Ramezani
- A gripping, compassionate study of a blind Iranian boy’s attempts to connect with his egotistical father and a carpentry tutor when he is taken to…
Criminal Lovers (Amants criminels, Les) (1999)
- Dir. Francois Ozon
Feat. Natacha Regnier, Miki Manojlovic
- Before he made the lighter 8 WOMEN, dir. Ozon established his credentials with this twisted wee horror, which fearlessly ventures into sadistic and…
Cup, The (1999)
- Dir. Khyentse Norbu
Feat. Orgyen Tobgyal, Neten Chokling, Jamyang Lodro
- This charming, slyly comic tale of soccer–mad young monks obsessed with viewing the World Cup has found broad worldwide appreciation with its…