Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Foreign Cinema: 3248 Films to Rent
Kuroneko (1968)
- Dir. Kaneto Shindo
Feat. Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kiwako Taichi
- Visually exquisite black and white horror film from Japanese director Kaneto Shindo (ONIBABA). An adaptation of a supernatural folktale set during…
L'Enfance-Nue (Naked Childhood) (1968)
- Dir. Maurice Pialat
Feat. Michel Terrazon
- Astonishingly sober coming–of–age tale represents Pialat at his most profoundly unsentimental. The director brilliantly blends naturalism…
La Chamade (Heartbeat) (1968)
- Dir. Alain Cavalier
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli
- Catherine Deneuve flitters between youthful passion and the comfort of an older, wealthy lover in this elegant menage a trios, lessened only by an…
Les Biches (Bad Girls) (1968)
- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacqueline Sassard, Stephane Audran
- A love–triangle between an heiress, an architect and a young woman, is tested to unsettling effect in this psychological drama. Chabrol…
Mandabi (The Money Order) (1968)
- Dir. Ousmane Sembene
- The first significant film to be made in an African language (Wolof), directed by the 'father of African cinema', Ousmane Sembène.
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Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)
- Dir. Tomas Gutierrez Alea
Feat. Sergio Corrieri
- Merging the political and personal to stunning effect, this witty and artful assemblage of documentary, still photography, and dramatic fiction…
Milky Way, The (1968)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Paul Frankeur, Laurent Terzieff, Alain Cuny…
- Bunuel experiments with narrative in relating theories of traditional Catholicism to the encounters of two wandering vagrants.
Signs of Life (Lebenszeichen) (1968)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Peter Brogle
- An early descent into madness for dir. Werner Herzog, in which a soldier charged with guarding a remote island fortress must overcome the boredom of…
Skammen (Shame) (1968)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Gunnar Bjornstrand
- Bleak parable set against the back drop of a fictional war finds an apolitical couple aloofly living out their days on an island indulging in various…
Stolen Kisses (Baisers Voles) (1968)
- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Delphine Seyrig
- Third film in the director's Antoine Doinel series (see also THE FOUR HUNDRED BLOWS) starring Jean–Pierre Leaud, here as a careless young man…