Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3342 Films to Buy & Rent
Wrestling Queens (Les Reines du Ring) (2013)
- Dir. Jean-Marc Rudnicki
Feat. Marilou Berry, Nathalie Baye, Andre Dussollier…
- Broad French sports spoof with Nathalie Baye as an under–appreciated mother who recruits her working class friends to train to be wrestling…
1612 (2012)
- Dir. Vladimir Khotinenko
Feat. Pyotr Kislov
- Bloated Russian 'historical' epic renders the 17th century civil war that ravaged the divided country as a Peter Jackson–esque battle fantasy.…
7 Boxes (2012)
- Dir. Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tana Schembori
Feat. Celso Franco, Victor Sosa, Lali Gonzalez
- Well–plotted chase movie follows a young delivery boy who receives an unusual proposal to carry seven boxes of unknown content through Market…
A Gun in Each Hand (2012)
- Dir. Cesc Gay
Feat. Javier Camara, Ricardo Darín, Jordi Molla…
- A talk–em–up as opposed to a shoot–em–up, this lively portmanteau follows the dissatisfied lives of eight middle–aged…
A Hijacking (2012)
- Dir. Tobias Lindholm
Feat. Mikkel Hartmann, Pilou Asbæk, Søren Malling
- A Danish cargo ship is hijacked off the coast of Somalia in this gripping, intense maritime adventure that cuts out all the action heroics usually…
A Lady in Paris (2012)
- Dir. Ilmar Raag
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Laine Mägi, Patrick Pineau
- An Estonian woman bereft of loved ones moves to France to care for an elderly expatriate who still obsessively pines for a former younger lover. An…
A Royal Affair (2012)
- Dir. Nikolaj Arcel
Feat. Mads Mikkelsen, Alicia Vikander, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
- 18th Century Denmark is the backdrop for this high–costumed drama about the love affair between Queen Caroline Matilda and her royal physician…
Ace Attorney (2012)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Hiroki Narimiya, Takumi Saito
- Takashi Miike churns out this preposterous video game adaptation, about a cocksure lawyer who agrees to defend his courtroom rival in a murder trial,…
After May (Something in the Air) (2012)
- Dir. Olivier Assayas
Feat. Lola Créton, Clément Métayer
- Hatched from dir. Olivier Assayas' personal experiences, this bittersweet evocation of the leftist fervour that caught hold of young Europeans in the…
Amour (2012)
- Dir. Michael Haneke
Feat. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert
- An octogenarian couple find their love put to the ultimate test when one of them suffers a stroke in this devastating humanist drama from master…