Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Blade, The (1996)- Dir. Tsui Hark
Feat. Xin Xin Xiong, Moses Chan, Man Cheuk Chiu - Honour and retribution are the key themes in this densely–plotted, straight–faced actioner set in a mythic–historical setting.…
Boy Who Stopped Talking, The (1996)- Dir. Ben Sombogaart
Feat. Brader Masiki, Ercan Orhan, Halsho Hussain - A nine–year–old boy is forced to flee war–ravaged Turkey for the Netherlands, but decides to stop talking in protest. As well as…
Celestial Clockwork (1996)- Dir. Fina Torres
Feat. Ariadna Gil, Arielle Dombasle - Cinderella–type comedy that has a gifted Venezualan opera singer vaulting for stardom in an eccentric Parisian setting. Consistently sunny in…
Day of the Beast (1996)
- Dir. Alex de la Iglesia
Feat. Alex Angulo, Armando De Razza, Santiago Segura - If Almodovar made a horror movie it might look like this – beautifully shot and designed, funny and exciting. Though he can't quite sustain the…
Devil's Island (1996)- Dir. Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
Feat. Baltasar Kormakur, Gisli Halldorsson - The director of COLD FEVER bites off a little more ice than he can comfortably chew, with this sprawling tale of the difficulties of life in 1950s…
East Palace / West Palace (1996)- Dir. Zhang Yuan
Feat. Vicki Zhao, Si Han, Jun Hu - This rare independent mainland Chinese film is a difficult, often devastating two–hander between a gay man and the policeman sent to arrest him…
Ebola Syndrome, The (1996)- Dir. Herman Yau
Feat. Anthony Wong - Birthed from the notorious "Category 3" underbelly of Hong Kong cinema, this close relative of THE UNTOLD STORY features another deranged murderer on…
Eighth Day, The (1996)- Dir. Jaco Van Dormael
Feat. Daniel Auteuil - The director of the much–loved TOTO THE HERO makes another film about magic at ground level, with Daniel Auteuil having his humdrum life…
Every Little Thing (La Monindre des choses) (1996)- Dir. Nicolas Philibert
- Documentarian extraordinaire Nicholas Philibert observes the rehearsals and performance of an annual summer play by the inmates of an idyllic French…
Fiesta (1996)- Dir. Pierre Boutron
Feat. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Gregoire Colin - Biting, rigorously intelligent parable of the Spanish Civil War, watches unblinking as a young soldier is intiated into the brutalities by his…
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