Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Life Is Beautiful (La vita e bella) (1998)- Dir. Roberto Benigni
Feat. Roberto Benigni - Winner of both Best Foreign Film and Best Actor Oscars (a first for an actor speaking a foreign tongue) as well as the top prize at Cannes, Roberto…
Men with Guns (1998)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Frederico Luppi - Criminally denied a theatrical release, this masterful study of Third World realities is arguably prolific indie dir. John Sayles most accomplished…
Regret to Inform (1998)- Dir. Barbara Sonneborn
- A moving and haunting doco which analyzes the Vietnam War from the point of view of the American and Vietnamese women who lost the men they loved to…
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns… - Tom Hanks commands a squad assigned to retrieving a single man from behind German lines in WWII France. With 'sacrifice' the key theme,…
Soldier (1998)- Dir. Paul Anderson
Feat. Kurt Russell, Gary Busey, Jason Scott Lee - Military sci–fi adventure wherein Kurt Russell utters terse words as an out–moded fighting machine grasping at a few straws of humanity…
Thief, The (1998)- Dir. Pavel Chukhrai
Feat. Vladimir Mashkov, Yekaterina Rednikova, Misha Philipchuk - Serious–minded trek across the landscapes and mindsets of post–WWII Russia that's been compared to BURNT BY THE SUN for dramatic impact.…
Thin Red Line, The (1998)- Dir. Terrence Malick
Feat. Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, Elias Koteas… - A studiously arthouse rendition of WWII, isolating a crucial battle of the Pacific campaign (Guadacanal) as a minutely observed microcosm of humanity…
Welcome to Sarajevo (1998)- Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Stephen Dillane, Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei… - A moving, disturbing depiction of modern–day conflict, shot on location in Bosnia amid real–life shelling and loss of life. Based on a…
Woundings (1998)- Dir. Roberta Hanley
Feat. Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Emily Lloyd… - In a near–future world, after a debilitating military campaign for Great Britain (reminiscent of the Falkland Islands conflict), a unit of…
Brylcreem Boys, The (1997)- Dir. Terence Ryan
Feat. Gabriel Byrne - The ubiquitous face of Irish cinema, Gabriel Byrne, slicks his hair back in a neutral POW camp in WWII Ireland, bunking with a variety of allied and…
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