Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3342 Films to Buy & Rent
No One Knows About Persian Cats (2009)
- Dir. Bahman Ghobadi
Feat. Negar Shaghaghi, Ashkan Koshanejad, Hamed Behdad
- Unprecedented pseudo–documentary exploring Iran’s forbidden underground music scene, starring Tehranian rockers Negar Shaghaghi and Ashkan…
Ong-Bak 3 (2009)
- Dir. Tony Jaa, Panna Rittikrai
Feat. Tony Jaa
- Cliffhanger ending to the ONG–BAK legend sees Thai martial arts phenom Tony Jaa return to battle his arch nemesis (from Part II’s prequel…
OSS 117: Lost in Rio (2009)
- Dir. Michel Hazanavicius
Feat. Jean Dujardin
- Bumbling intelligence officer and shameless chauvinist, Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, returns for Brazilian adventures in this bright and breezy spy…
Over the Hill Band, The (Meisjes) (2009)
- Dir. Geoffrey Enthoven
Feat. Marilou Mermans, Jan Van Looveren
- A modest old age delight centred on recently widowed mother who resolves to kick start her middle–aged son's music career by recruiting the…
Overheard (Qie ting feng yun) (2009)
- Dir. Felix Chong, Alan Mak
Feat. Lau Ching-wan, Louis Koo, Daniel Wu
- The directors of INFERNAL AFFAIRS reel in their sleek, sprawling urbane sensibility, changing tack with this compact character study about three…
Plan B (2009)
- Dir. Marco Berger
Feat. Manuel Vignau, Lucas Ferraro, Mercedes Quinteros
- Languid drama where a man's efforts to sabotage his ex–girlfriends new relationship – with a half baked plan of seducing her boyfriend,…
Please Please Me! (Fais-moi plaisir!) (2009)
- Dir. Emmanuel Mouret
Feat. Emmanuel Mouret, Judith Godreche, Deborah Francois
- Boudoir laughs a–plenty in this sexy farce from the 'French Woody Allen' as a goofy inventor's date with the President's daughter descends into…
Police, Adjective (2009)
- Dir. Corneliu Porumboiu
Feat. Dragos Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Irina Saulescu…
- An ingenious, pared–back police procedural in the droll tradition of the Romanian New Wave that at once deconstructs the genre, and wittily…
Prisoners of War (TV Series) (Hatufim) (2009)
- Dir. Gideon Raff
Feat. Yoram Toledano, Ishai Golan, Adi Ezroni…
- The source material for HOMELAND, this Israeli series is a more serious–minded and nuanced drama than its American successor, dealing with the…
Prophet, A (Un Prophet) (2009)
- Dir. Jacques Audiard
Feat. Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif…
- Dir. Jacques Audiard betters the accomplished storytelling of THE BEAT MY HEART SKIPPED, situating an immersive world of cloistered gangsters and…