Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Essential Patrice Leconte (Monsieur Hire, Tango, My Best Friend) (1988-2006)- Dir. Patrice Leconte
- Three modern French classics from the Patrice Leconte oeuvre.
Flaming Brothers (Jiang hu long hu men) (1988)- Dir. Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat, Alan Tang, Pat Ha - Two close friends from the island of Macao (Tang and Yun–Fat) become dangerously involved in the Chinese triads through decades of prosperity…
Hanussen (1988)- Dir. Istvan Szabo
Feat. Klaus Maria Brandauer - Klaus Maria Brandauer adds to his list of distinctive roles in this allegedly true tale of an Austrian soldier who recovers from shotgun wounds and…
I'm the King of the Castle (1988)- Dir. Regis Wargnier
Feat. Jean Rochefort, Dominic Blanc, Regis Arpin - The young sons of a rich widowed industrialist and his house matron enter into an increasingly dangerous power play as their parents become close.…
Kingsajz (Kingsize) (1988)- Locked inside an abandoned library basement, tiny dwarfs work hard to maintain their all–male dwarf commune. When a scientist synthesizes…
La Lectrice (1988)- Dir. Michel Deville
Feat. Miou-Miou, Christian Ruche, Maria Casares - Miou–Miou plays a hired 'reader' who leads us through a series of exchanges with various disabled personalities. A sensual treat for those…
Last Stop Paradise (Terminus paradis) (1988)- Dir. Lucian Pintilie
Feat. Costel Cascaval, Dorina Chiriac, Gheorghe Visu - French/Romanian drama set against the outskirts of Budapest, centered around the ill–fated love affair between a waitress and a young pig…
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…
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