Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Foreign Cinema: 3248 Films to Rent
Score (1995)
- Dir. Atsushi Muroga
Feat. Shu Ehara, Hiroshi Miyasaka, Ryuushi Mizukami
- A kinetic, if largely derivative actioner, which comes over as a Japanese RESERVOIR DOGS set around an unstable band of Yakuza henchmen attempting to…
Shanghai Triad (1995)
- Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Gong Li
- Richly–hued encounter with the criminal high–life of 1930s Shanghai, told through the hired servant of a pampered gangster's moll, and…
Sixty Million Dollar Man (1995)
- Dir. Yip Wai-Man
Feat. Stephen Chow (Chiao)
- Spoiled brat 'accident' victim Stephen Chow becomes a not–so–super hero when he is pieced back together Steve Austin–style for a…
Sun Valley (1995)
- Dir. He Ping
Feat. Feng Gu, Xueqi Wang
- A vengeful Chinese warrior drifts into a small village on the Silk Road, where he is destined for a climactic showdown with a rival suitor of a young…
Trick of the Light, A (Brothers Skladanowsky) (1995)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Udo Kier
- Quirky, pseudo–documentary in the tradition of FORGOTTEN SILVER recreates through faux interviews and found footage the exploits of the…
Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
- Dir. Theo Angelopoulos
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Maia Morgenstern
- Returning from exile in America, Yugoslavian filmmaker Harvey Keitel quests after rare film footage in the wartorn Balkans. Shot under conditions…
Underground (1995)
- Dir. Emir Kusturica
Feat. Miki Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic
- Palme D'Or–winning epic covering fifty years of Balkan history in fantastical, magic–realist style. While the brash satire may be too…
White Balloon, The (1995)
- Dir. Jafar Panahi
Feat. Aida Mohammadkhani, Mohsen Kalifi, Fereshteh Sadr Orfani
- Sophisticated kids and adults alike should seek out this multiple prize–winner from Iran that follows a seven–year–old–girl's…
Wild Reeds (Les Roseaux Sauvages) (1995)
- Dir. Andre Techine
Feat. Frederick Gorny, Gael Morel
- Beautifully studied coming–of–age saga set in rural France at the end of the Algerian war, as four young friends on the cusp of adulthood…
Zero Kelvin (1995)
- Dir. Hans Petter Moland
Feat. Gard B. Eidsvold, Stellan Skarsgard
- This tale of hardcore cabin fever in the 1930s has the Arctic wasteland as a backdrop for the face off between two romantic idealists – one a…