Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3343 Films to Buy & Rent
La Veuve de Saint-Pierre (Widow Of Saint-Pierre) (1999)
- Dir. Patrice Leconte
Feat. Emir Kusturica, Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil
- In 1850, on a tiny island near Canada, an oafish Emir Kusturica is sentenced to die by guillotine.
While waiting for an executioner to arrive from…
Lies (Gojitmal) (1999)
- Dir. Jang Sun-Woo
Feat. Kim Tae Yeon, Lee Sang Hyun
- Highly controversial in its native Korea (the source novel was banned) this tale of S&M sex–addiction between a schoolgirl and an older…
Mifune (1999)
- Dir. Soren Kragh-Jacobson
Feat. Iben Hjejle, Anders W Berthelsen, Jesper Asholt…
- The third Dogma 95 film is in many ways as traditional a European romantic comedy as you could come across, a breezy and smart take on a yuppie…
Moloch (1999)
- Dir. Alexandr Sokurov
Feat. Yelena Rufanova, Leonid Mozgovoy
- Typically Sokurov, the dir. of RUSSIAN ARK turns his filtered lens on a day in the life of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, concerned more with the…
My Neighbours the Yamadas (Houhokekyo tonari no Yamada-kun) (1999)
- Dir. Isao Takahata
- With an original eye and ear for the burdensome triviality and difficulties of everyday life, this Japanese animation concerns a set of suburbanite…
Nameless, The (Los Sin Nombre) (1999)
- Dir. Jaume Balaguero
Feat. Emma Vilarasau, Karra Elejalde
- A family, devastated by the murder of their daughter, are sent into a fresh spin by her seeming re–appearance five years later in this visually…
Not One Less (1999)
- Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Wei Minzhi
- 13–year old peasant–girl Wei Minzhi is handed the responsibility of substitute–teaching a class of children in a rural China…
Nowhere to Hide (1999)
- Dir. Lee Myung-Se
Feat. Park Joong-Hoon, Ahn Sung-Ki
- An irreverent pastiche of seemingly every violent cop flick ever made, this hysterical, hyper–kinetic Korean action movie throws up every…
Pornographic Affair, A (An Affair Of Love) (1999)
- Dir. Frederic Fonteyne
Feat. Nathalie Baye, Sergi Lopez
- A decidedly unpornographic meditation upon the mutability of human desires and emotions, with Nathalie Baye and Sergi Lopez as a nameless couple who…
Postmen in the Mountains (Nashan naren nagou) (1999)
- Dir. Jianqi Huo
- A simply conveyed fable of 'youth' coming to an understanding of 'age', with a young man accompanying his father on a long–held postal delivery…