Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Hong Kong 1941 (Dang doi lai ming) (1983)- Dir. Po-Chi Leong
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat, Alex Man, Kien Shih… - One of Chow Yun–Fat's early classics, this portrays the disturbing invasion of Hong Kong by the Japanese in 1941, which disrupts the dreams and…
L'Argent (1983)- Dir. Robert Bresson
Feat. Christian Patey - This bleak, enigmatic crime study depicts the tragic chain of events which emanate from a counterfeit bank note being passed through a photo shop.…
Life Is A Bed Of Roses (1983)- Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Ruggero Raimondi, Fanny Ardant, Geraldine Chaplin - Ambitious fantastical oddity from dir. Resnais was made as a tribute to era–defining French directors Melies, L'Herbier and Rohmer, weaving…
Makioka Sisters, The (Sasame-yuki) (1983)- Dir. Kon Ichikawa
Feat. Keiko Kishi, Yoshiko Sakuma, Sayuri Yoshinaga - Lyrical Japanese drama set in the 1930's, following the lives of four siblings who have taken on their father's kimono manufacturing business. Based…
Nostalgia (Nostalghia) (1983)- Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Feat. Oleg Jankovsky - A lingering essay on the angst of living in exile, with Oleg Jankovsky as a beleaguered Russian academic subsisting in Italy (like Tarkovsky…
Pauline a La Plage (Pauline at the Beach) (1983)- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Amanda Langlet, Arielle Dombasle - Teenage Pauline visits her older cousin plagued with boy trouble. Rohmer again demonstrates his knack for eliciting candid performances from…
Rembetiko (1983)- Dir. Costas Ferris
Feat. Sotiria Leonardou, Nikos Kalogeropoulos, Michalis Maniatis - Stirring fictionalized biopic of Marika Ninou, a Greek Rebetiko (urban Greek folk music) singer who lived through some of the most dramatic…
Sheer Madness (Heller Wahn) (1983)- Dir. Margarethe von Trotta
Feat. Hanna Schygulla, Angela Winkler - Two women, one a withdrawn painter and the other a confident professor, start to rely upon their friendship as an alternative to their unhappy…
A Good Marriage (Le Beau Marriage) (1982)- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Beatrice Romand, Andre Dussollier, Féodor Atkine - An art history student is growing tired of being the mistress of a married painter, then meets a handsome and wealthy younger man whom she vows to…
Danton (1982)
- Dir. Andrzej Wajda
Feat. Gerard Depardieu - A gripping depiction of the political struggle faced by charismatic revolutionary Danton (Gerard Depardieu), whose campaign for peace and tolerance…
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