Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3343 Films to Buy & Rent
To Live (1994)
- Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Gong Li
- An absorbing tale of Chinese peasantry in the dark shadow of politics over three decades.
Distinguished by the star presence of Gong Li and her…
Torment (L'Enfer) (1994)
- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Emmanuelle Beart, Francois Cluzet
- Based on an unproduced H.R. Clouzot screenplay from the 1950s, and not quite up to the standard of its follow–up, A JUDGEMENT IN STONE, but a…
Treasure Hunt (1994)
- Dir. Ricky Lau
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat
- CIA operative Chow Yun–Fat falls in love while on secret assignment at mainland Shaolin monastery. Bubble–headed romance with some action…
Wing Chun (1994)
- Dir. Yuen Woo Ping
Feat. Michelle Yeoh, Donnie Yen
- Martial–arts star Michelle Yeoh lends some charisma to a cotton–sugar tale of remote villagers plagued by robbers. In the title role Yeoh…
Yvonne's Perfume (1994)
- Dir. Patrice Leconte
Feat. Jean-Pierre Marielle, Hippolyte Girardot, Sandra Majani
- A deserter from the Algerian war falls for the charms of a beautiful actress and her gay companion at a lakeside hotel for pensioners. The director…
A Crime (Un Crime) (1993)
- Dir. Jacques Deray
Feat. Alain Delon
- Vintage courtroom vehicle for the ice cool Delon, sturdy in its workmanlike screenplay and no–nonsense attitude.
Accion Mutante (1993)
- Dir. Alex de la Iglesia
Feat. Antonio Resines, Alex Angulo
- A deformed terrorist group strike out against pretty society in this wildly irreverent satire that takes a gleeful turn into futuristic…
Bandit Queen (1993)
- Dir. Shekhar Kapur
Feat. Seema Biswas
- Far and away from the innocuous fluff that dominates India's film industry, comes this bold, controversial true story of Phoolan Devi, a notorious…
Barefoot Kid, The (1993)
- Dir. Johnnie To
Feat. Aaron Kwok
- Rites–of–passage, chop–socky style with lithe HK supernova Aaron Kwok as the eponymous hero whose inititation into manhood is…
Blue Kite, The (1993)
- Dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang
Feat. Tian Yi, Wenyao Zhang, Xiaoman Chen
- Emotive and honest account of the realities of daily life under chairman Mao's regime as witnessed by one Beijing family from the 1950s through…