Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
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…
Rouge (1988)- Dir. Stanley Kwan
Feat. Leslie Cheung - Beautiful, haunting ghost story about a 1930s courtesan whose restless spirit roams modern Hong Kong. Asian stars Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung…
Salaam Bombay! (1988)- Dir. Mira Nair
Feat. Shafiq Syed, Hansa Vithal - Breakthrough Indian film that eschews Bollywood tradition is a compassionate account of an 11–year–old village boy, stranded on the…
Short Film About Killing, A (1988)
- Dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski
Feat. Miroslaw Baka, Krzysztof Globisz, Jan Tesarz - Feature–length version of Kieslowski's indelibly chilling Decalogue Pt.5 further protracts a cold–blooded murder and the subsequent…
Short Film About Love, A (1988)- Dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski
Feat. Grazyna Szapolowska, Olaf Lubaszenko, Stefania Iwinska - Extended version of the director's DEKALOG Part 6 – "Thou shalt not commit adultery" shares its voyeuristic premise with MONSIEUR HIRE, though…
Une Affair Des Femmes (a Story of Women) (1988)- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Francois Cluzet - Traumatic, gripping fact–based story about the last woman to be guillotined in France. Isabelle Huppert is in feverish form as the woman both…
Virgin Machine (1988)- Dir. Monika Treut
Feat. Ina Blum, Marcelo Uriona, Gad Klein - A frustrated German journalist takes her work to San Fransisco in this lesbian odyssey that proudly parades its fringe philosophy and contemporary…
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