Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Foreign Cinema: 3248 Films to Rent
Bullet Ballet (1998)
- Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto
Feat. Shinya Tsukamoto, Hisashi Igawa
- After his fiancee commits suicide, a young man tries to obtain a gun so that he can do the same, and in the process becomes embroiled in warfare…
Central Station (1998)
- Dir. Walter Salles
Feat. Fernanda Montenegro
- A cantankerous woman who writes letters for the illiterate at Rio De Janeiro's train station obliges to help a 9–year–old boy locate his…
Chance or Coincidence (1998)
- Dir. Claude Lelouch
Feat. Alessandra Martines, Pierre Arditi, Marc Hollogne
- Bereaved wife Alessandra Martine speeds like a comet through this intriguing comedy from dir. Lelouch equal parts melodrama, musical and…
Children of Heaven (1998)
- Dir. Majid Majidi
Feat. Mohammad Amir Naji, Amir Farrokh Hashemian, Bahare Seddiqi
- More simplicity from Iran in this child's tale of small disasters and small triumphs, as a lost pair of shoes provides a catalyst for change for a…
Così ridevano (The Way We Laughed) (1998)
- Dir. Gianni Amelio
Feat. Enrico Lo Verso, Francesco Giuffrida
- A superbly novelistic epic set amid the rigours of post–WW2 Italy where two poor Sicilian brothers settle in northern Turin in search of future…
Dinner Game, The (1998)
- Dir. Francis Veber
Feat. Thierry Lhermitte, Jacques Villeret
- Gourmet–grade French farce from the maestro of the genre – well–packaged, delivered without haste, indeed delicious, if a slightly…
Dreamlife of Angels, The (1998)
- Dir. Erick Zonca
Feat. Elodie Bouchez, Natacha Regnier
- Displaying the laconic influence of Eric Rohmer, the French critical triumph of 1998 explores with a contemporary honesty the friendship between two…
Drifting Clouds (1998)
- Dir. Aki Kaurismaki
Feat. Kati Outinen, Kari Vaananen, Elina Salo…
- Day–glo colours collide with glum silences in Aki Kaurismaki's unemployment comedy, effortlessly combining the previously unreconcilable genres…
Earth (1998)
- Dir. Deepa Mehta
Feat. Maia Sethna, Nandita Das, Kitu Gidwani
- The director of FIRE takes on another controversial element of modern India with the second in her (proposed) trilogy – a humanistic view of…
Eternity and a Day (1998)
- Dir. Theo Angelopoulos
Feat. Bruno Ganz
- A slow, austere cinematic journey in which memories and present–day events mesh in the thought–processes of a dying Greek writer (Bruno…