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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Carmen Maura - Speedy sparkling slapstick from Almodovar, in which pregnant Carmen Maura is dumped by her boyfriend, harassed by his suicidal ex–wife and…
A Taxing Woman (1987)- Dir. Juzo Itami
Feat. Nobuko Miyamoto - A nicely offbeat look at the potentially boring subject of tax evasion. Nobuko Miyamoto plays our star tax collector who meets her match in a hotshot…
Boyfriends and Girlfriends (My Girlfriend's Boyfriend) (1987)- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Emmanuelle Chaulet, Sophie Renoir - Through a series of deceptions and misunderstandings, four Parisians come to discover their true feelings for each other. Entrancing tale of…
Intervista (1987)- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Sergio Rubini - An easy–going ode to dir. Fellini's early career at Cinecitta Studios, this takes the form of a mock interview–flashback, with the…
Life Is a Long Quiet River (1987)- Dir. Etienne Chatiliez
Feat. Benoit Magimel, Helene Vincent, Andre Wilms… - Wry, off–beat comedy with a resonant message about two families of different classes who discover that their twelve–year–old…
Law of Desire (1986)- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Antonio Banderas, Carmen Maura - Sexual acrobatics and absurd humour abound as it explores the increasingly complex sex–life of a gay film director. Fun screwball romp.
Les Fugitifs (1986)- Dir. Francis Veber
Feat. Pierre Richard, Gerard Depardieu - The inept Pierre Richard teams up with the innocent Gerard Depardieu in a madcap criminal escape after a botched bank–job. The situation…
Matador (1986)- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Assumpta Serna, Antonio Banderas, Nacho Martinez - Almodovar breaks a few more screen taboos with this erotic black comedy about a bull–fighter and a smart female lawyer who share a morbid…
Max Mon Amour (1986)- Dir. Nagisa Oshima
Feat. Charlotte Rampling - Charlotte Rampling does her stuff... with a chimpanzee called Max? A very dry comedy with some decidedly dicey morality about Man and his closest…
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