Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1792 Films to Buy & Rent
Still Walking (2008)
- Dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu
Feat. Hiroshi Abe, You , Yui Natsukawa…
- A recently remarried son (Abe) pays visit to his quietly disapproving parents in this exquisitely observed family drama, shot in the tradition of…
Summer Hours (2008)
- Dir. Olivier Assayas
Feat. Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jeremie Renier…
- Three siblings deliberate over the family estate following the death of their mother in this subtle, gorgeously rendered meditation on ‘moving…
Tokyo Sonata (2008)
- Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Feat. Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyôko Koizumi, Yû Koyanagi…
- A devastating contemporary drama from the master of modern malaise, this piercing study of social collapse focuses on an downsized Japanese corporate…
Treeless Mountain (2008)
- Dir. So Yong Kim
Feat. Hee-yeon Kim, Song-hee Kim, Mi-hyang Kim
- Korean–American So Yong Kim directs this moderate, heartfelt drama of two sisters, aged 3 and 6 respectively, who are abandoned by their mother…
Tulpan (2008)
- Dir. Sergey Dvortsevoy
Feat. Askhat Kuchinchirekov
- A goofy love story is eked out of this astonishing account of nomadic life, where a family not only survive but relish sheep and goat herding on the…
Un Secret (2008)
- Dir. Claude Miller
Feat. Cecile De France, Ludivine Sagnier, Julie Depardieu…
- Graceful, poignant French wartime drama centred on the son of a Jewish family who uncovers a piece of unsettling family history at the time of the…
Underdog Knight, The (Ying Han) (2008)
- Dir. Sheng Ding
Feat. Ye Liu, Yong You, Anthony Wong
- An offbeat, anti–heroic character study out of mainland China, in which a self–styled martial arts pretender lands a job as bodyguard for…
Wild Blood (Sanguepazzo) (2008)
- Dir. Marco Tullio Giordana
Feat. Monica Bellucci, Alessio Boni, Luca Zingaretti
- Compelling melodrama traces the rise and fall of two movie stars who embrace Fascism under Mussolini's Italy.
Wild Grass (Les Herbes Folles) (2008)
- Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Andre Dussollier, Sabine Azema, Emmanuelle Devos…
- A masterful light–footed comedy of the surreal from veteran French dir. Alain Resnais, centered on a missing wallet responsible for triggering…
Winter in Wartime (2008)
- Dir. Martin Koolhoven
Feat. Martijn Lakemeier, Yorick van Wageningen, Jamie Campbell Bower…
- Sensitively handled account of a thirteen year old boy who joins the Dutch resistance at the tail end of World War II.