Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Foreign Cinema: 3248 Films to Rent
Naked Island (Hadaka no shima) (1960)
- Dir. Kaneto Shindo
Feat. Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama
- An exquisitely simple and moving Japanese drama, notable for having almost no spoken dialogue in depicting a year of struggle for a small farming…
Plein Soleil (Purple Noon) (1960)
- Dir. Rene Clement
Feat. Alain Delon, Marie Laforet, Maurice Ronet
- The original adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's gripping novel 'The Talented Mr Ripley', who is here embodied by a sleek Delon in only his third…
Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot…
- An uncompromising, richly detailed portrait of an impoverished family who travel to Milan where they are beset by violent misfortune.
Shoot the Pianist (Shoot the Piano Player) (1960)
- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger…
- Part homage to Hollywood film noir, part love story and part and parcel of the new wave, a down–on–his–luck pianist is drawn into…
Testament of Orpheus (Testament D'orphee) (1960)
- Dir. Jean Cocteau
Feat. Jean Cocteau, Yul Brynner, Jean-Pierre Leaud…
- Cocteau's swansong is an intensely personal odyssey, with the director himself immersed in a world of his cumulative creation. Like a moving…
Virgin Spring, The (1960)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Max von Sydow
- Bergman won his first Oscar for this brooding yet gripping medieval tale about a peasant couple who avenge the savage murderers of their daughter.
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
- Dir. Mikio Naruse
Feat. Hideko Takamine
- Melancholic masterpiece from a largely overshadowed figure in Japanese cinema: concerning the post–war ‘water trade’ of bar hostesses in…
Zazie Dans Le Metro (Zazie in the Underground) (1960)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret
- Anarchistic comedy drops the impudent 11yr old Zazie into the care of Uncle Phillipe Noiret and the whirlygig chaos of modern Paris.
Adapted from…
400 Blows, The (1959)
- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Remy…
- Truffaut's first film rocketed him to fame as some kind of New Wave radical, but at a second glance this story of a teenage delinquent thrown in and…
A Bout de Souffle (Breathless) (1959)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger…
- Godard's landmark first film pulls out all the stops in the style department – with Jean–Paul Belmondo as the romantic fugitive,…