Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3364 Films to Buy & Rent
Legend of the Holy Drinker, The (1988)
- Dir. Ermanno Olmi
Feat. Rutger Hauer, Anthony Quayle, Sandrine Dumas…
- Rutger Hauer plays a drunken homeless man in Paris who is lent 200 francs by a stranger as long as he promises to repay it to a local church when he…
Mapantsula (1988)
- Dir. Oliver Schmitz
Feat. Eugene Majola, Darlington Michaels, Thomas Mogotlane
- A disturbingly accurate evocation of township unrest in Soweto, as a young black petty criminal is throne into jail with a militant fraternity whom…
Monsieur Hire (1988)
- Dir. Patrice Leconte
Feat. Michel Blanc, Sandrine Bonnaire
- A lonely, middle–aged tailor becomes obsessed with a glamourous but suspicious woman, whom he observes from his opposing apartment. Melancholy…
Muscle (Kitami) (1988)
- Dir. Hisayasu Sato
Feat. Kiyomi Ito, Takeshi Ito, Simon Kamai
- Interesting, expressively stylised item from cult Japanese dir. Hisayasu set in the muscle clubs, bars and bedrooms of Tokyo.…
Music Teacher, The (1988)
- Dir. Gerard Corbiau
Feat. Jose Van Dam, Anne Roussel, Patrick Bauchau
- Sterling voiced Jose Van Dam plays an opera star who retires to train an aspiring nymphette and her wayward peer. Like the superlative operatic…
Pathfinder (Ofelas) (1988)
- Dir. Nils Gaup
Feat. Mikkel Gaup
- Over icy, unforgiving terrain, a 16–year–old boy diverts a group of marauders who have raided his village.
Powerful adventure film…
Police Story 2 (1988)
- Dir. Jackie Chan
Feat. Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung
- Jackie Chan directs this follow–up to his landmark hit, playing a demoted detective who must use his wiles to track down bomb–scare…
Red Sorghum (1988)
- Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Gong Li, Wen Jiang
- A love story set among village winemakers who fight back against Japanese marauders in 1930's China. Blackly humorous and agonisingly horrific, this…
Rouge (1988)
- Dir. Stanley Kwan
Feat. Leslie Cheung
- Beautiful, haunting ghost story about a 1930s courtesan whose restless spirit roams modern Hong Kong. Asian stars Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung…
Salaam Bombay! (1988)
- Dir. Mira Nair
Feat. Shafiq Syed, Hansa Vithal
- Breakthrough Indian film that eschews Bollywood tradition is a compassionate account of an 11–year–old village boy, stranded on the…