Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1792 Films to Buy & Rent
Fortapasc (Fort Apache) (2009)
- Dir. Marco Risi
Feat. Libero de Rienzo, Valentina Lodovini, Michele Riondino…
- Poignant account of the last days in the life of a young Italian journalist who's investigations into the Neapolitan Mafia resulted in his murder.
Founding of a Republic, The (Jian guo da ye) (2009)
- Dir. Sanping Han, Jianxin Huang
Feat. Guoqiang Tang, Guoli Zhang, Qing Xu…
- The People’s Republic of China rolls out the big guns for this 60th anniversary epic, chronicling in big, sweeping gestures, the uprising of Mao…
From Beginning to End (Do Começo ao Fim) (2009)
- Dir. Aluizio Abranches
Feat. João Gabriel Vasconcellos, Rafael Cardoso, Júlia Lemmertz
- Controversial Brazilian ode to incestuous half–brothers that's evocatively shot and titillatingly steamy but strangely coy on the consequences.
Giulia Doesn't Go Out at Night (2009)
- Dir. Giuseppe Piccioni
Feat. Valerio Mastandrea, Valeria Golino, Sonia Bergamasco
- Understated romantic drama with an enigmatic Golina as the titular character, a swimming instructor with a dark secret who embarks on a romance with…
Hedgehog, The (Le hérisson) (2009)
- Dir. Mona Achache
Feat. Josiane Balasko, Togo Igawa, Garance Le Guillermic…
- Charming, melancholy comedy in which a precocious, jaded 11–year–old from a well–to–do family decides to commit suicide on…
Human Zoo (2009)
- Dir. Rie Rasmussen
Feat. Rie Rasmussen, Hiam Abbass
- Gritty, naval–gazing immigrant story of a Serbian refugee (writer/dir. Rasmussen) who escapes the ethnic violence of her worn–torn…
I Am Love (Io sono l'amore) (2009)
- Dir. Luca Guadagnino
Feat. Tilda Swinton, Edoardo Gabbriellini
- Tilda Swinton stars as the Russian–born matriarch of a wealthy Milanese family in this fabulously opulent Italian drama, centred around her…
I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère) (2009)
- Dir. Xavier Dolan
Feat. Xavier Dolan, Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément…
- An angst ridden teen grapples with growing up gay and his neurotic, overbearing mother in this feisty first feature from young French Canadian…
I, Don Giovanni (2009)
- Dir. Carlos Saura
Feat. Lorenzo Balducci, Lino Guanciale, Emilia Verginelli…
- Veteran Spanish director Carlos Saura conducts this lavish, darkly–tinged story behind the making of Mozart's opera masterpiece, 'Don Giovanni'.
Leaving (Partir) (2009)
- Dir. Catherine Corsini
Feat. Kristin Scott Thomas, Sergi Lopez, Yvan Attal
- Doctor's wife and mother–of–two Kristin Scott Thomas falls unrelentingly for a blue–collar ex–con in this steamy, captivating…