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Subgenre Sampler
Minari (2020)
- Dir. Lee Isaac Chung
Feat. Steven Yeun, Han Ye-ri, Alan Kim… - Winner of the Grand Jury and Audience Awards at Sundance, this delicately drawn, sweeping story follows a Korean–American family in search of…
1917 (2019)- Dir. Sam Mendes
Feat. Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Daniel Mays - Immersive epic war film from director Sam Mendes (JARHEAD) which evokes the impression of a continuous take to follow two British soldiers on a…
Pain and Glory (Dolor y gloria) (2019)- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Penelope Cruz… - A more restrained, but no less pretty and witty outing for septuagenarian director Pedro Almodóvar, which narrates evocative vignettes from the life…
Parasite (2019)
- Dir. Joon-ho Bong
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Cho… - An unemployed family with a bleak future systematically ingratiate themselves into the lives of a wealthy family in this brilliant,…
Donbass (2018)- Dir. Sergey Loznitsa
Feat. Tamara Yatsenko, Irina Zayarmiuk, Grigory Masliuk - A 13–part exploration of the conflict between Ukraine and the Russian–supported Donetsk People's Republic throughout the…
Roma (2018)- Dir. Alfonso Cuaron
Feat. Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira - Another masterclass in storytelling from Mexican maestro Alfonso Cuarón, about a year in the life of a middle–class family's maid in Mexico…
A Fantastic Woman (Una mujer fantástica) (2017)- Dir. Sebastián Lelio
Feat. Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco - Another supremely elegant, substantive and compassionate character study from the director of GLORIA that this time focuses on a transgender woman in…
Call Me By Your Name (2017)- Dir. Luca Guadagnino
Feat. Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg… - Completing the "Desire" trilogy with I AM LOVE and A BIGGER SPLASH, this coming–of–age drama is set in Northern Italy in 1983, where a 17…
Fireworks (Fireworks: Should We See It from the Side or The Bottom?) (2017)- Dir. Nobuyuki Takeuchi
- Beautifully romantic Japanese anime set during a school summer vacation, based on Shunji Iwai’s 1993 TV series, “Fireworks”. Refreshingly…
Mary and the Witch's Flower (2017)- Dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi
- Beautiful Japanese animation telling the coming–of–age story of a boisterous girl whose summer holiday with her great aunt leads her to…
Other Side of Hope, The (2017)- Dir. Aki Kaurismaki
Feat. Sakari Kuosmanen, Sherwan Haji, Ville Virtanen… - This Finnish take on the European migrant crisis – proclaimed to be last directed by auteur Aki Kaurismäki – is a poignant yet typically…
Eagle Huntress, The (2016)- A 13–year–old nomadic Mongolian girl breaks a 2,000 year–old gender barrier to follow her father and train hunting eagles in this…
Handmaiden, The (2016)- Dir. Park Chan-Wook
Feat. Min-hee Kim, Tae-ri Kim, Jung-woo Ha… - Delicious erotic thriller from the brilliant Park Chan–Wook, who lends his impeccable style to a provocative potboiler of lesbian love and…
Raw (Grave) (2016)- Dir. Julia Ducournau
Feat. Garance Marillier , Ella Rumpf - A bright young veterinary student and ardent vegetarian is unexpectedly subjected to a series of cruel hazing rituals in her first week at college,…
Train to Busan (2016)- Dir. Sang-ho Yeon
Feat. Gong Yoo, Kim Soo-Ah, Jung Yu-mi - Breakout Korean zombie–thriller sensation in which a group of terrified passengers fight their way through a viral outbreak while trapped on a…
Assassin, The (2015)- Dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Feat. Shu Qi, Chen Chang, Satoshi Tsumabuki - Acclaimed director Hou Hsiao–Hsien returns with a breathtaking martial–arts epic in which an assassin accepts a dangerous mission to kill…
Lure, The (2015)- Dir. Agnieszka Smoczynska
Feat. Marta Mazurek - Utterly beguiling musical horror set in Poland in the 1980's, following the fate of a pair of mermaid sisters as they struggle to integrate into a…
Wild Tales (Relatos Salvajes) (2014)- Dir. Damian Szifron
Feat. Ricardo Darín, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Darío Grandinetti - Exhilarating anthology film combining six tales of revenge provides an ambitious smorgasbord of thrills, spills and blackly humorous gags that are…
Great Beauty, The (2013)- Dir. Paolo Sorrentino
Feat. Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli… - This Academy–Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film has dir. Paolo Sorrentino's regular frontman Toni Servillo as an aging Roman…
Hard To Be A God (2013)- Dir. Aleksey German
Feat. Leonid Yarmolnik - A group of scientists are sent to the planet Arkanar to give aid to the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, in…
Mood Indigo (2013)- Dir. Michel Gondry
Feat. Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Gad Elmaleh… - Audrey Tautou and Romain Duris star in this wild interpretation of Boris Vian’s cult novel 'Froth on the Daydream' from dir. Michel Gondry.
Blancanieves (2012)- Dir. Pablo Berger
Feat. Daniel Giménez Cacho, Angela Molina, Maribel Verdu… - The legend of Snow White is transposed to the bullfighting, flamenco dancing netherworld of the Spanish provinces in this beautiful and beguiling…
In the Fog (2012)- Dir. Sergey Loznitsa
Feat. Vladislav Svirskiy, Vladislav Abashin - Intense, slow burning Russian drama exploring the moralities of war through the story of a man wrongly accused of collaboration with the German…
Lesson of Evil (Lesson of the Evil) (2012)- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Yamada Takayuki, Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Hideaki Ito - Another manga adaption from director cult Takashi Miike based on the seinen manga on the same name. A successful English teacher who is secretly a…
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011)- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Naoto Takenaka - The ever–versatile Takashi Miike changes tack from his rollicking samurai adventure, 13 ASSASSINS, to deliver a restrained and resonant tale of…
Headhunters (2011)- Dir. Morten Tyldum
Feat. Aksel Hennie, Synnove Macody Lund, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau… - Jo Nesbo's blockbusting crime novel about a corporate headhunter moonlighting as an art thief gets an appropriately energetic treatment, and with its…
CJ7 (Cheung Gong 7 hou) (2008)- Dir. Stephen Chow (Chiao)
Feat. Stephen Chow (Chiao) - Hong Kong superstar Stephen Chow turns his directing talents to the family–friendly fantasy, playing a dirt–poor father who surprises his…
Kung Fu Hustle (2004)- Dir. Stephen Chow (Chiao)
Feat. Stephen Chow (Chiao), Wah Yuen - Hong Kong superstar Stephen Chow trumps all previous efforts (and that's saying something) with this dynamic, bust–a–gut funny…
Old Boy (Oldboy) (2004)- Dir. Park Chan-Wook
Feat. Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yoo - Wowing audiences wherever it's played (including being nominated for the Palm D'Or at Cannes), this achingly intense thriller from Korea raises the…
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)- Dir. Ang Lee
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi… - A fantasy–fuelled, Chinese feudal melodrama laced with jaw–dropping combat sequences (arguably the best ever staged), this represents a…
Maborosi (Mabaroshi) (1995)- Dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu
Feat. Makikio Esumi, Tadanobu Asano - A young woman's fear that she brings death to those around her forms the basis for this contemplative, serene drama, the dir.'s debut. Suggestively…
Dragon Inn (New Dragon Gate Inn) (1992)- Dir. Tsui Hark
Feat. Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung (Kar-fai)… - Gory Ming Dynasty–set epic in which forces of good and evil clash swords over the fate of feudal China. An extravagant climax, featuring…
Legend of the Holy Drinker, The (1988)- Dir. Ermanno Olmi
Feat. Rutger Hauer, Anthony Quayle, Sandrine Dumas… - Rutger Hauer plays a drunken homeless man in Paris who is lent 200 francs by a stranger as long as he promises to repay it to a local church when he…
Das Boot (The Boat) (1981)- Dir. Wolfgang Petersen
Feat. Jurgen Prochnow - Nail biting, meticulous and realistic account of a German U–boat's prowlings through the North Atlantic. The most expensive German film to…
Legend of the Mountain (Shan zhong zhuan qi) (1979)- Dir. King Hu
Feat. Shih Chun, Hsu Feng, Sylvia Chang - A scholar translating Buddhist sutras visits a monastery filled with various mysterious characters, in this soothing spiritual drama with elements of…
A Special Day (1977)- Dir. Ettore Scola
Feat. Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon - Quietly subversive drama set entirely in a working–class apartment building in Rome, on the fateful day in 1938 that Mussolini welcomed Hitler…
Mississippi Mermaid (1969)- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Belmondo - Tobacco baron Belmondo sends for a mail–order bride, gets the ravishing Deneuve. Too bad she's a con–artist with an inescapable past.…
Kuroneko (1968)- Dir. Kaneto Shindo
Feat. Kichiemon Nakamura, Nobuko Otowa, Kiwako Taichi - Visually exquisite black and white horror film from Japanese director Kaneto Shindo (ONIBABA). An adaptation of a supernatural folktale set during…
Hands Over the City (Le mani sulla città) (1963)- Dir. Francesco Rosi
Feat. Rod Steiger, Salvo Randone, Guido Alberti - An astute and ever–pertinent story of political corruption in post–World War II Italy starring Rod Steiger as a ruthless developer and…
Leopard, The (Il Gattopardo) (1963)- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale… - An Italian classic, concerning the decline of the 19th century Sicilian aristocracy – represented by Burt Lancaster– that fulfils its…
Harakiri (Seppuku) (1962)- Dir. Masaki Kobayashi
Feat. Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita, Akira Ishihama… - Japanese jidaigeki (period drama) set at the beginning of the Edo period, following a masterless samurai (ronin) who wishes to commit suicide…
Accattone (1961)- Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Feat. Franco Citti - The debut feature of Italian filmmaker–novelist–poet–provocateur Pasolini, which depicts the underbelly of Roman street life in a…
Gate of Hell (Jigokumon) (1953)- Dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa
Feat. Machiko Kyo, Kazuo Hasegawa, Isao Yamagata - Tragic story of unrequited love set during the Heiji Rebellion in 1159, where a samurai warrior falls in love with a married…
Jour Se Leve, Le (Daybreak) (1939)- Dir. Marcel Carne
Feat. Jean Gabin, Arletty - A renowned example of 'poetic realism', Jean Gabin gives another consummate performance as a doomed anti–hero. His tragic story is told in…
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