Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1773 Films to Buy & Rent
Damnation (Karhozat) (1988)
- Dir. Bela Tarr
Feat. Miklós B. Székely, Vali Kerekes, Gyula Pauer
- A magnificent representation of the earlier feature films of Hungarian master of miserabilism Béla Tarr, telling the story of a lonely barfly who…
Decalogue - Parts 1 - 5 (Dekalog) (1988)
- Dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski
- The Polish master's extraordinary series of hour–long dramas, each pertaining to one of the ten commandments. He matches the high concept with…
Decalogue - Parts 6 - 10 (Dekalog) (1988)
- Dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Continuing Kieslowski's exemplary series of hour–long dramas, with a further five 'commandments'.
Episodes:
Dekalog 6 – "Thou Shalt…
Hanussen (1988)
- Dir. Istvan Szabo
Feat. Klaus Maria Brandauer
- Klaus Maria Brandauer adds to his list of distinctive roles in this allegedly true tale of an Austrian soldier who recovers from shotgun wounds and…
I'm the King of the Castle (1988)
- Dir. Regis Wargnier
Feat. Jean Rochefort, Dominic Blanc, Regis Arpin
- The young sons of a rich widowed industrialist and his house matron enter into an increasingly dangerous power play as their parents become close.…
Last Stop Paradise (Terminus paradis) (1988)
- Dir. Lucian Pintilie
Feat. Costel Cascaval, Dorina Chiriac, Gheorghe Visu
- French/Romanian drama set against the outskirts of Budapest, centered around the ill–fated love affair between a waitress and a young pig…
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…
Mapantsula (1988)
- Dir. Oliver Schmitz
Feat. Eugene Majola, Darlington Michaels, Thomas Mogotlane
- A disturbingly accurate evocation of township unrest in Soweto, as a young black petty criminal is throne into jail with a militant fraternity whom…
Music Teacher, The (1988)
- Dir. Gerard Corbiau
Feat. Jose Van Dam, Anne Roussel, Patrick Bauchau
- Sterling voiced Jose Van Dam plays an opera star who retires to train an aspiring nymphette and her wayward peer. Like the superlative operatic…
Red Sorghum (1988)
- Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Gong Li, Wen Jiang
- A love story set among village winemakers who fight back against Japanese marauders in 1930's China. Blackly humorous and agonisingly horrific, this…