Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Fire (1996)- Dir. Deepa Mehta
Feat. Shabana Azmi, Nandita Das - Blazing melodrama defiantly targets Indian sexual hypocrisy and tradition, not to mention trangressing 'Bollywood' taboo, in portraying two women…
Flower of My Secret, The (1996)- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Marisa Paredes - An artistic maturing for the director of kitsch sex comedies like HIGH HEELS and KIKA, this is an introspective study of a successful authoress…
Forbidden City Cop (1996)- Dir. Vincent Tak-Chiu
Feat. Stephen Chow (Chiao) - Hysterical and kinda crazy semi–sequel to the smash hit comedy FROM BEIJING WITH LOVE, splices James Bond with A CHINESE GHOST STORY, following…
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