Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1792 Films to Buy & Rent
Turning Gate (On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate) (2002)
- Dir. Sang-soo Hong
Feat. Sang-kyung Kim
- A wry and astute drama of romantic hang–ups, this follows a crestfallen actor’s trysts with two random women as he rebounds from a failed…
Twilight Samurai, The (Tasogare Seibei) (2002)
- Dir. Yoji Yamada
Feat. Hiroyuki Sanada, Ren Osugi, Rie Miyazawa…
- Boldly subverting the masculine cliches of the genre, this refreshing and highly rewarding Samurai drama follows a dishevelled, low–status…
Twin Sisters (De Tweeling) (2002)
- Dir. Ben Sombogaart
- An epic 'tale of two sisters', which follows their lives after being separated as children in 1920s Holland and sent to live with rich and poor…
Uzak (Distant) (2002)
- Dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Exuding a sense of melancholic accomplishment, this slowly unfolding Turkish drama centres on two cousins – one, a successful but cynical…
Villa Des Roses (2002)
- Dir. Frank Van Passel
Feat. Julie Delpy, Shirley Henderson, Timothy West
- A visually stylish excursion to Paris on the eve of WWI, in a shabby boarding house run by an English couple (Henderson and West) into which a new…
Waiting for Happiness (Heremakono) (2002)
- Dir. Abderrahmane Sissako
Feat. Khatra Ould Abder Kader, Mohamed Mahmoud
- A worldly 17–year–old returns to his coastal hometown, only to find himself a stranger amongst a community caught in limbo between…
Warm Spring (2002)
- Dir. Tana Wulan
Feat. Chenren Tian, Yan Zhang
- Little–known but rather poignant story in which an orphan girl runs away from her abusive foster parents and is sheltered by a poor elderly…
Yossi and Jagger (2002)
- Dir. Eytan Fox
Feat. Ohad Knoller
- Subversive, sweetly–natured gay drama set amid the close–quarters comraderie of the IDF (Israeli Defence Force) where a commanding…
A Ma Soeur! (For My Sister, aka Fat Girl) (2001)
- Dir. Catherine Breillat
Feat. Anais Reboux, Roxane Mesquida, Libero de Rienzo…
- An artfully impassive study of sexual predation that takes place during the summer holidays of two teenage sisters – the dumpy Anais Reboux and…
A Young Prisoner's Revenge (2001)
- Dir. Mu Deyuan
- Obscure, but supposedly award winning Chinese drama concerns the botched plans of a couple to bribe a judge so their son, guilty of robbery, gets a…