Subgenre Sampler
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996)
- Dir. Sadjan Dragojevic
Feat. Dragan Bjelorgrlic, Nikola Kojo - Seen in flashback from a ward in triage, the Bosnian war is portrayed in a riveting counter–play of nihilism and theatre, as a band of Serbian…
Prisoner of the Mountains (1996)
- Dir. Sergei Bodrov
Feat. Oleg Menshikov, Sergei Bodrov Jr, Susanna Mekhraliyeva… - A Tolstoy fable is here seamlessly transposed to the Chechean conflict, with two Russian soldiers apprehended by a Chechean village elder who hopes…
Richard III (1996)- Dir. Richard Loncraine
Feat. Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Robert Downey Jnr.… - Transposed to a fascist 1930s Britain, Shakespeare's classic tale of power politics easily renews its timeless appeal. Ian McKellen commands every…
Self Made Hero, A (1996)- Dir. Jacques Audiard
Feat. Mathieu Kassovitz - Mattieu Kassovitz (director of LA HAINE) proves to be no slouch actor here as a WW2 idler who swats up and cheekily ascends the ranks of the…
Before the Rain (1995)- Dir. Milcho Manchevski
Feat. Rade Serbedzija, Katrin Cartlidge, Gregoire Colin - The impotence of violence is the uniting theme of this masterful triptych that traverses the ravaged terrain of both Macedonia and modern London. An…
Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre (1995)- Dir. T.F. Mous
- This extreme 'shocker' depicts in grisly detail the story of the massacre of 300 000 Chinese by Japanese soldiers following the invasion of Nanking…
Crimson Tide (1995)- Dir. Tony Scott
Feat. Gene Hackman, Denzel Washington, Viggo Mortensen - Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington clash ethics as Captain and deputy on a US submarine entering hostile waters of a Russian renegade. Nuclear war…
Major Payne (1995)- Dir. Nick Castle
Feat. Damon Wayans, Michael Ironside, Karyn Parsons - Comedy following a major in the U.S. Marine Corps who, after receiving an unwanted honourable discharge, is recruited to train a bunch of delinquent…
Promise, The (1995)- Dir. Margarethe von Trotta
Feat. Corinna Harfouch, Meret Becker, August Zirner - Separated while trying to cross the Berlin Wall to the West in 1961, two lovers traverse thirty odd years of German history apart, yet faithful. This…
War Stories (War Stories our Mothers never told us) (1995)- Dir. Gaylene Preston
- Remarkable documentary manages to compel almost exclusively via the spoken word as seven elderly women offer candid yet articulate and boldy frank…
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