Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Icicle Thief, The (1989)
- Dir. Maurizio Nichetti
Feat. Maurizio Nichetti - Italy's answer to Woody Allen directs and stars in this zany love story–cum–media satire using the film–within–a–film…
Leningrad Cowboys Go America (Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses, Total Balalaika Show) (1989)- Dir. Aki Kaurismaki
Feat. Jim Jarmusch - Laconic, often funny road movie follows an awful Soviet rock group with outlandish hairstyles across backwater USA. Director is Europe's answer to…
Romuald et Juliette (1989)
- Dir. Coline Serreau
Feat. Daniel Auteuil, Firmine Richard, Pierre Vernier - French comedy at its very best contrasts the lives of a yoghurt company director and a black mother–of–five cleaning lady who through…
Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down (Atame!) (1989)- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril - A mental patient kidnaps his sexy B–movie idol in the hope that she will fall in love with him. Teasingly politically unsound, Almodovar…
Trop Belle Pour Toi (Too Beautiful For You) (1989)- Dir. Bertrand Blier
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Josiane Balasko, Carole Bouquet - Car salesman Gerard Depardieu has a beautiful wife, but becomes infatuated with his plain yet passionate receptionist. Insightful, melancholy comedy.
Ariel (1988)- Dir. Aki Kaurismaki
Feat. Turo Pajala, Susanna Haavisto, Matti Pellonpaa - A redundant miner takes his newly acquired Thunderbird to Helsinki in search of financial and emotional security, but is hampered with rotten luck. A…
As Thick As Thieves (1988)- Dir. Claude Zidi
Feat. Christophe Malavoy, Claire Nebout, Francois Cluzet - A practical joke goes awry for a group of successful business men who mislead an aspiring friend into thinking he's struck it rich. Hilarious…
Dragons Forever (1988)- Dir. Sammo Hung, Corey Yuen
Feat. Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Biao Yuen - Final martial–arts rumble for the 'three brothers' team of Chan, Hung and Biao (see PROJECT–A), here playing three spokes in a nefarious…
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…
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