Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3343 Films to Buy & Rent
Black Mask (1997)
- Dir. Daniel Lee
Feat. Jet Li, Lau Ching-wan
- Mild–mannered librarian by day – pain–resistant, cool–garbed crime–fighter by night – Jet Li's engaging…
Brother (Brat) (1997)
- Dir. Aleksei Balabanov
Feat. Sergei Bodrov Jr
- Grimily captivating thriller follows a baby–faced veteran of the Chechen war as he quietly 'assists' his brother in the St Petersburg…
Character (1997)
- Dir. Mike van Diem
Feat. Fedja Van Huet
- A murderous confrontation bookends an elegantly told story of class, oppression and perseverance in 1920s Rotterdam, in which a young…
Cure (1997)
- Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki…
- Delivering one of the great, unsung horror movies, dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa plumbs the depths of societal malaise with this novel take on serial…
Dance of the Wind (1997)
- Dir. Rajan Khosa
Feat. Ami Arora, Roshan Bano, Kitu Gidwani
- Set in contemporary Delhi, this drama concerns the responses of classical Hindi singer Kitu Gidwani to her mother’s death. Steeped in a particular…
Dobermann (1997)
- Dir. Jan Kounen
Feat. Tcheky Karyo, Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci…
- Frenetic French crime thriller filled with over the top gun play and colourful yet grimy characters.
Vincent Cassel plays a bank robber known as…
Eel, The (1997)
- Dir. Shohei Imamura
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu
- After doing eight years for killing his wife, an inhibited man (Yakusho Koji of SHALL WE DANCE) sets himself up at a quiet riverside barbershop, the…
For Roseanna (Roseanna's Grave) (1997)
- Dir. Paul Weiland
Feat. Mercedes Ruehl, Jean Reno
- Terminally–ill Mercedes Ruehl's dying wish is to be buried in the local cemetary, but the plots are filling up fast, thus sending off her…
Full Alert (1997)
- Dir. Ringo Lam
Feat. Lau Ching-wan, Francis Ng
- Quality police thriller with realistic drama, bracing action and strong sense of locale – regarded as one of the last 'classics' from the…
Funny Games (1997)
- Dir. Michael Haneke
Feat. Ulrich Muhe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering…
- Michael Haneke’s disturbing, self–reflexive examination of violence, and violence as entertainment, in which two young men dressed in tennis…