Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Foreign Cinema > Cult: 126 Films to Rent
- Violent Cop (1989)
- Dir. Takeshi Kitano
Feat. Takeshi Kitano
- Popular entertainer 'Beat' Takeshi's directing debut is a stylish, witty yet cynical and disturbing elegy to violence executed with alarming…
- Human Lanterns (Ren pi deng long) (1982)
- Dir. Chung Sun
Feat. Leih Lo
- The Shaw Brothers' first international star, Lo Leih, excels in this horror–suspenser as a mad lampshade maker in olden–day China who…
- Ninja Wars (Iga ninpûchô) (1982)
- Dir. Mitsumasa Saito
Feat. Hiroyuki Sanada, Sonny Chiba
- Period fantasy action involving magicians, love potions and endangered royalty in ancient Japan, a story resolved with a fair amount of…
- Christiane F. (1981)
- Dir. Ulrich Edel
Feat. David Bowie
- Absorbing account of the decline and fall into the Berlin's degrading drug and prostitution scene of two young heroin addicts. Features the music and…
- For Your Height Only (1981)
- Dir. Eddie Nicart
Feat. Weng Weng, Yehlen Catral, Carmi Martin…
- Schlocky riff on the 007 franchise with pint sized ass–kicker Weng Weng as the world's smallest super spy, Agent 00, doing battle with mad…
- Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians, The (Tajemstvi hradu v Karpatech) (1981)
- Dir. Oldrich Lipsky
Feat. Michal Docolomansky, Rudolf Hrusinsky, Vlastimil Brodsky…
- Cult oddity based on the Jules Verne novel The Carpathian Castle, a sci–fi horror story about a campy count who haunts a house overlooking a…
- They Call Her...Cleopatra Wong (1981)
- Dir. Bobby A. Suarez
Feat. Marrie Lee
- Singapore's top policewoman, the deadly Miss Cleopatra Wong, teams up with her Filipino counterpart to bust a counterfeit operation in this…
- Buffet Froid (Cold Cuts) (1979)
- Dir. Bertrand Blier
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet…
- When his lost switchblade turns up as a murder weapon, petty crim Gerard Depardieu goes on the lam in a nightmarish Paris, several disreputable…
- House (Hausu) (1977)
- Dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi
Feat. Kimiko Ikegami
- Words don't do justice to this one–of–a–kind Japanese horror romp about a gaggle of teen girls caught in a haunted house whose…
- 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…