Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema > Cult: 130 Films to Buy & Rent
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet
- Masterpiece of loopy morals, terrorist attacks and chastity belts that turns that age old loves–me–loves–me–not story once…
Allegro Non Troppo (1976)
- Dir. Bruno Bozzetto
- This pastiche of Disney's FANTASIA holds its own with a variety of animators having a ball with the freedom to interpret some popular classical…
Master of the Flying Guillotine (1975)
- Dir. Yu Wang
Feat. Yu Wang
- Legendary martial arts anomaly cited by Quentin Tarantino as his favourite kung fu film, this stars (and is directed by) Jimmy Yu Wang as a…
Salo (1975)
- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Paolo Bonacelli, Giogio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle…
- More extreme in content than anything else in our library, an embittered Pasolini spares the viewer nothing in his faithful adaptation of The Marquis…
Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira
- The title refers to the only case of a man who was 'born' as an adult. He has lived in a dark cellar all his life and has never seen another human…
Lone Wolf & Cub 6: White Heaven in Hell (1974)
- Dir. Yoshiyuki Kuroda
Feat. Tomisaburo Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa, Junko Hitomi…
- The continuing adventures of disgraced Shogun assassin Ogami Itto and his infant son Daigoro.
Lone wolf and Cub return for their final battle…
Phantom of Liberty, The (1974)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Jean-Claude Brialy, Monica Vitti
- The great surrealist's penultimate film uses a Chinese–box structure to weave a dream–like tableau of set pieces that waver from to the…
Street Fighter, The (1974)
- Dir. Shigehiro Ozawa
Feat. Sonny Chiba
- Career–making martial arts outing for Japanese icon Sonny Chiba, mugging his heart out as a brutal enforcer who turns the tables on his…
Cauldron Of Death (Ricco) (1973)
- Dir. Tulio DeMicheli
Feat. Christopher Mitchum, Barbara Bouchet, Malisa Longo
- Masquerading as a B–grade horror, this is actually a melodramatic Italian revenge thriller concerning the son of a murdered mobster who is…
Don Juan (or if Don Juan Were a Woman) (1973)
- Dir. Roger Vadim
Feat. Brigitte Bardot, Robert Hossein, Mathieu Carriere
- Notable mainly as the last appearance from screen goddess Brigitte Bardot, this erotic drama sees the sex–kitten playing a lusty seductress who…