Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3342 Films to Buy & Rent
First Beautiful Thing, The (2010)
- Dir. Paolo Virzi
Feat. Valerio Mastandrea, Micaela Ramazzotti, Stefania Sandrelli
- Winsome melodrama with a misanthropic professor returning to his home town to assist his dying mother. Delicately performed but perhaps overly…
Gainsbourg (2010)
- Dir. Joann Sfar
Feat. Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Sara Forestier…
- Freewheeling biographical account of singer/composer/actor Serge Gainsbourg, an enduring iconic figure of French popular culture.
Serves the…
Gallants (2010)
- Dir. Chi-kin Kwok, Clement Sze-Kit Cheng
Feat. Siu-Lung Leung, Kuan Tai Chen
- An exuberant homage to the Shaw Brothers films of yesteryear, this kung–fu comedy delights as an old–school actioner, replete with…
Gantz (2010)
- Dir. Shinsuke Sato
Feat. Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Kazunari Ninomiya
- Part one of a riveting, action–packed remake of the ultra–violent anime series, in which a group of deceased individuals must engage in a…
Gorbaciof (2010)
- Dir. Stefano Incerti
Feat. Toni Servillo, Yang Mi
- Italian drama about a shy prison accountant with a passion for poker who turns to crime when the father of his Chinese girlfriend cannot pay off a…
Happy Family (2010)
- Dir. Gabriele Salvatores
Feat. Fabrizzio Bentivoglio, Margherita Buy, Valeria Bilello…
- Wafer thin meta–comedy with a struggling author writing himself into the tale of two disparate families who come together when their teenagers…
Happy, Happy (2010)
- Dir. Anne Sewitsky
Feat. Agnes Kittelsen, Henrik Rafaelsen, Joachim Rafaelsen…
- Sharp comedy with a woman trapped in a loveless marriage finding her life taking an exciting turn for the better when an exciting new couple move in…
Haunters (2010)
- Dir. Min-suk Kim
- Two brooding pretty boys with unexplained superpowers battle it out in what is a familiar, if distinctly Korean spin on the anarchic superhero…
Heartbeats (2010)
- Dir. Xavier Dolan
Feat. Xavier Dolan, Niels Schneider, Monia Chokri
- A quick turnaround for precocious French Canadian dir. Xavier Dolan; his sophomore feature an equally painful and amusing bifurcated romance, in…
Heartbreaker (L'arnacoeur) (2010)
- Dir. Pascal Chaumeil
Feat. Romain Duris, Vanessa Paradis
- Romain Duris exploits his handsome charms as a professional heartbreaker hired to ruin relationships – that is, until he strikes upon a woman…