Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3343 Films to Buy & Rent
Two English Girls (Anne and Muriel) (1971)
- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Kika Markham, Stacey Tendeter
- A French writer encounters the delicate dilemma of falling in love with both English sisters at a Welsh coastal cottage. Tantalising romance is…
W.R. Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
- Dir. Dusan Makavejev
- Documentary footage, late sixties counter–culture and fictional elements are freely mixed to explore the ideas of radical sexologist, Wilhelm…
Widow Couderc, The (La veuve Couderc) (1971)
- Dir. Pierre Granier-Deferre
Feat. Alain Delon, Simone Signoret
- Rustic thriller with Delon as a brooding stranger embroiled in a torrid affair with hard–bitten widow Signoret.
Witty adaptation of a George…
Zatoichi Meets The One Armed Swordsman (Zatoichi 22) (1971)
- Dir. Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Feat. Shintaro Katsu, Yu Wang
- An above–average entry in the continuing series, this has the titular blind swordsman assist the Chinese One–Armed Swordsman, who has…
A Swedish Love Story (1970)
- Dir. Roy Andersson
Feat. Ann-Sofie Kylin, Rolf Sohlman
- The debut feature film from director Roy Andersson (YOU, THE LIVING) is an unforgettably beautiful coming–of–age tale inspired by the…
American Soldier, The (Der Amerikanische Soldat) (1970)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Karl Scheydt, Elga Sorbas, Jan George…
- The third in a loose trilogy of gangster films directed by prolific German iconoclast Rainer Werner Fassbinder early in his career.
A…
Borsalino (1970)
- Dir. Jacques Deray
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Michel Bouquet
- Delightful seriocomic film of two likeable hoods who become gangland chieftains in 1930s Marseilles. Music by Claude Bolling.
Cercle Rouge, Le (The Red Circle) (1970)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Alain Delon, Gian Maria Volonte, Yves Montand…
- A precisely–crafted colour 'noir' from the French master, dir. Melville, which rejigs the usual ingredients into an exemplary heist…
Claire's Knee (1970)
- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Jean-Claude Brialy
- The director's fifth moral tale gained him major international recognition. A curiously droll tale of a middle–aged man's obsession with the…
Confession, The (L'Aveu) (1970)
- Dir. Costa-Gavras
Feat. Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Gabriele Ferzetti…
- A high–ranking government official in Communist Czechoslovakia is taken prisoner and forced to confess to treason he never committed.