Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
One Night in Mongkok (Wong gok hak yau) (2004)
- Dir. Derek Yee
Feat. Daniel Wu, Cecilia Cheung - A bespectacled 'Mainland' Chinese man is recruited for the assassination of a triad boss in the lusciously seedy Hong Kong district of Mongkok, but…
Operation Valkyrie (Stauffenberg) (2004)- Dir. Jo Baier
Feat. Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur, Hardy Kruger… - Highly credible Germanic take on the failed 'Valkyrie' plot to assassinate Hitler favors sobering realism over Hollywood heroism. Made for German…
Ordeal, The (Calvaire) (2004)- Dir. Fabrice du Welz
Feat. Laurent Lucas - Less gruelling than its title suggests, this is a macabre, blackly humorous slice of "redneck gothic" from Belgium, in which a cabaret singer's…
Overture, The (Hom rong) (2004)- Dir. Ittisoontorn Vichailak
Feat. Anuchit Sapanpong, Aratee Tanmahapran - Biopic exploring the life of Thai musical master Luang Pradit Pairoh (Sorn Silapabanleng), who was a palace musician and ra–nad ek (Thai…
People (2004)- Dir. Fabien Onteniente
Feat. Rupert Everett, Jose Garcia, Ornella Muti - Raucous French comedy starring one Rupert Everett as the Parisian Jet Set's party organiser, who finds himself departing to Ibiza in order to retain…
Premonition (Yogen) (2004)- Dir. Norio Tsuruta
Feat. Hiroshi Mikami, Noriko Sakai - Competent J–Horror entry posits the intriguing, if unrealised premise of a man whose premonitions foresee the murderous acts of a killer,…
Pusher II (With Blood on my Hands) (2004)- Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
Feat. Mads Mikkelsen - Number two in the Danish thriller PUSHER series tracks a muddled Copenhagen thug fresh from prison who faces the scorn of his gangster father, past…
Queen of Sheba's Pearls, The (2004)- Dir. Colin Nutley
Feat. Helena Bergstrom - Set in post–WW2 England this centres its tale on a rural West Country family, whose members are on the cusp of various life passages, upset by…
Raincoat (2004)- Dir. Rituparno Ghosh
Feat. Ajay Devgan, Aishwarya Rai - Dramatically–ambitious dir. Ghosh here creates an understated chamber piece from the usual Bollywood melodramatics, staging a rainy–day…
Red Lights (Feux Rouges) (2004)- Dir. Cedric Kahn
Feat. Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Carole Bouquet - A married couple bicker in a holiday traffic–jam, fueled by the husband's drunken irritability and his wife's haughty disregard, leading them…
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