Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Desert of the Tartars, The (1976)- Dir. Valerio Zurlini
Feat. Vittorio Gassman, Jacques Perrin, Helmut Griem… - Italian drama set in a hostile East Asian desert, where a isolated Lieutenant defends an old, unmaintained border fortress while awaiting an attack…
Mr. Klein (1976)- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau - A dark, dread–inducing moral tale, with Delon fleecing vulnerable Jews under German–occupied–France, only to be mistaken by…
Seven Beauties (1975)
- Dir. Lina Wertmuller
Feat. Giancarlo Giannini, Shirley Stoler - Wimpish Casanova Giancarlo Giannini is cast wherever the winds of WWII fling him: eventually into a German concentration camp run by Shirley Stoler…
Lacombe Lucien (1974)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clement - A subtle, probing study of the psychology of collaboration set in WW2 rural France, sees young peasant lad Pierre Blaise drawn into the local…
Army of Shadows (L'Armée des Ombres, aka Army in the Shadows) (1969)- Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel… - Melville’s heavyweight masterpiece – by turns sombre, exhilarating, and tension–filled – tackles the clandestine rearguard…
Damned, The (1968)- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Berger - Italian dir. Luchino Visconti casts a languorous eye over the decline of a German industrialist family during the Nazi era. Heavyweight cast includes…
Signs of Life (Lebenszeichen) (1968)- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Peter Brogle - An early descent into madness for dir. Werner Herzog, in which a soldier charged with guarding a remote island fortress must overcome the boredom of…
Skammen (Shame) (1968)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Gunnar Bjornstrand - Bleak parable set against the back drop of a fictional war finds an apolitical couple aloofly living out their days on an island indulging in various…
Red and the White, The (Csillagosok, katonak) (1967)- Dir. Miklos Jancso
Feat. Jozsef Madaras - Russia’s bloody civil war of 1918 is lamented in this visionary war movie from influential Hungarian auteur Miklos Jancso. A formally stunning…
Don't Look Now We're Being Shot At (La Grande Vadrouille) (1966)- Dir. Gerard Oury
Feat. Andre Bourvil, Gerard Oury, Louis de Funès - Side–splitting war caper turns a downed British bomber over Paris into a hilarious escape from German clutches. One of France’s highest…
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