Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema > Classics: 267 Films to Buy & Rent
Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995)
- Dir. Shusuke Kaneko
Feat. Shinobu Nakayama, Ayako Fujitani
- Japanese Kaiju genre film (giant monsters!) which is the ninth inclusion to the Gamera film series, but enjoyable as stand–alone entertainment,…
Finally Sunday (Vivement Dimanche!) (1983)
- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant
- A businessman in trouble with the police over the murder of his wife's lover finds solace in his secretary who decides to investigate the case…
Germany, Pale Mother (Deutschland bleiche Mutter) (1980)
- Dir. Helma Sanders-Brahms
Feat. Eva Mattes, Ernst Jacobi
- Bleak WWII drama that follows the tragic fate of a couple who marry the day before the war breaks out when he is drafted to the Eastern front only to…
Alexandria... Why? (1979)
- Dir. Youssef Chahine
- An autobiographical film about the early life of director Youssef Chahine, set in Alexandria. Winner of the Silver Bear at the 29th Berlin…
You Are Not Alone (Du er ikke alene) (1978)
- Dir. Ernst Johansen, Lasse Nielsen
Feat. Anders Agensø, Peter Bjerg
- Beautifully evocative Danish coming–of–age story set in an all–boys boarding school, which confronts themes of homosexuality and…
Ascent, The (Voskhozhdeniye) (1977)
- Dir. Larisa Shepitko
Feat. Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Anatoli Solonitsyn
- A Soviet WWII classic shot in appalling winter conditions in which two partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the…
Boomerang (Comme un boomerang) (1976)
- Dir. Jose Giovanni
Feat. Alain Delon, Carla Gravina, Dora Doll
- French crime film with Alain Delon playing an ex–gangster and father of a delinquent teen, who is determined to clear his son's name after he…
Chinese Roulette (Chinesisches Roulette) (1976)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Anna Karina, Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira…
- Daunting Fassbinder drama concerning a cheating mother and father unwittingly convinced by their disabled daughter to each take their lovers on a…
Satan's Brew (Satansbraten) (1976)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Margit Carstensen, Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven…
- Schizophrenic Fassbinder dramedy involving a German poet struck with writer's block that partakes in a number of moneymaking schemes involving his…
Man from Hong Kong, The (1975)
- Dir. Brian Trenchard-Smith
Feat. George Lazenby, Bill Hunter, Rebecca Gilling…
- Cracking martial arts adventure tracking an inspector sent to Australia to expel a drug courier. Photogenically set against the backdrops of Ayers…