Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Foreign Cinema: 3273 Films to Rent
M... Worst Crime of All (1931)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Peter Lorre
- A chilling expressionist classic starring Peter Lorre as psychotic child molester. Dir. Lang masterfully fills the screen with understated but…
Marius (1931)
- Dir. Alexander Korda
Feat. Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, Orane Demazis…
- Based on the play by revered French writer Marcel Pagnol, this is the first film in the Marseille Trilogy featuring the characters of Marius (Pierre…
Silent Naruse (Flunky, Work Hard; No Blood Relation; Apart From You; Every-Night Dreams; Street Without End) (1931-1934)
- Dir. Mikio Naruse
- A collection of silent era films from renowned Japanese director Mikio Naruse, the only five from the 1930's that still exist today, featuring new…
Blood of a Poet (1930)
- Dir. Jean Cocteau
Feat. Lee Miller, Pauline Carton
- Cocteau's first film is a surrealist gem that sewed the seeds of his style. The Dali/Bunuel influence is clear, but this goes one step further with…
Blue Angel, The (1930)
- Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings
- A masterwork of the twenties German grotesquerie, this enjoyed great success and gave an early career boost to Marlene Dietrich.
Earth (Zemlya) (1930)
- Dir. Alexander Dovzhenko
- One of the poetic highpoints of Soviet cinema, this sets its simple tale amid the life of a Ukrainian peasant village undergoing modernization after…
Films of Jean Vigo, The (À propos de Nice; Taris, roi de l'eau; Zero De Conduite, L' Atlante) (1930-1933)
- Dir. Jean Vigo
Feat. Jean Daste
- Three early, formative short works from seminal French filmmaker Jean Vigo.
A PROPOS DE NICE (1930, 21 min): Vigo juxtaposes the affluence and…
Prix de Beaute (1930)
- Dir. Augusto Genina
Feat. Louise Brooks, Georges Charlia, Augusto Bandini
- Louise Brooks is vivacious beyond compare in her first sound film, a jazz–age classic about a young office worker who enters a beauty…
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
- Dir. G.W. Pabst
Feat. Louise Brooks
- Exceptional follow–up to the eye–opening PANDORA’S BOX, with Louise Brooks again provoking disorder with her unrestrained vitality and…
New Gentlemen, The (Les Nouveaux Messiers) (1929)
- Dir. Jacques Feyder
Feat. Albert Prejean
- A satirical French silent film, which uses a number of inventive visual techniques to comic effect. A dancer at the Paris Opera is the mistress of an…