Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3343 Films to Buy & Rent
Themroc (1973)
- Dir. Claude Faraldo
Feat. Michel Piccoli
- Satirical in a most primitive, bestial way, this astonishing fable sees frustrated factory–worker Michel Piccoli cease to speak one morning,…
Touki Bouki (1973)
- Dir. Djibril Diop Mambety
Feat. Magaye Niang, Mareme Niang
- A Senegalese drama, recently restored, about a cowherd and a university student try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past…
World on a Wire (1973)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Klaus Löwitsch, Mascha Rabben, Adrian Hoven…
- Fassbinder's one–and–only sci–fi foray is awash with trademark visual motifs, gaudy fashion, and dramatic power struggles of the…
Zatoichi's Conspiracy (Zatoichi 25) (1973)
- Dir. Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Feat. Shintaro Katsu
- Blind masseur and swordsman Zatoichi returns to his home town after decades of wandering and trouble, only to find inevitable conflict with a…
A Gorgeous Girl Like Me (Une Belle Fille Comme Moi) (1972)
- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Bernadette Lafont, Andre Dussollier
- Twisted French black comedy of a licentious, manipulative murderess recounting her sordid past to a green criminology student. Dripping in silly…
Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Klaus Kinski
- Stunningly shot on location in the Amazon, this spellbinding adventure details the decline and fall of a conquistador (Klaus Kinski) in his maniacal…
All Men are Brothers (Sui woo juen) (1972)
- Dir. Chang Cheh
Feat. David Chiang, Ti Lung, Danny Lee
- Slathered with great fight scenes, this Shaw Brothers sequel to THE WATER MARGIN ups the ante considerably, with the band of Outlaw warriors…
Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, The (1972)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla
- Lurid, feverish masterpiece from the incredibly prolific Fassbinder, chronicles a doomed lesbian relationship from the claustrophobic confines of…
Canterbury Tales, The (I Racconti di Canterbury) (1972)
- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Hugh Griffith, Tom Baker, Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Pasolini interprets four of Geoffrey Chaucer’s tales in the second of the director's medieval trilogy, set in a bawdy, perverse and dark vision of…
Cesar & Rosalie (1972)
- Dir. Claude Sautet
Feat. Yves Montand, Romy Schneider, Sami Frey…
- French romantic drama with Yves Montand and Sami Frey playing contrasting romantic rivals to divorced single mum Romy Schneider. Montand is a coarse…