Subgenre Sampler
Grave of the Fireflies (Hotaru no Haka) (1988)
- Dir. Isao Takahata
- Modest 'classic' of Japanese anime that tells the story of two children caught up in the devastating fire–bombing of Kobe in WW2. Amid the…
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…
John Pilger's Return Ticket (South Africa: Apartheid Did Not Die; Frontline: In Search Of Truth In Wartime; Vietnam: The Last Battle) (1988-1995)
- Dir. Alan Lowery, David Munro
Feat. John Pilger - John Pilger revisits the remnants of war, stained politics, and social injustice in this fifth volume of his hard–hitting documentary…
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…
Rambo 3 (1988)- Dir. Peter MacDonald
Feat. Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna - The belated finale to the RAMBO series sees the human battletank John Rambo (Stallone) dropped into Afghanistan to rescue his mentor (Crenna). In…
War and Remembrance (Mini-Series) (1988)- Dir. Dan Curtis
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, Hart Bochner… - Sequel to THE WINDS OF WAR follows trials and tribulations of the Henry and the Jastrow families amid the events after the USA's entry into World War…
Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987)- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejto, Francine Racette… - Dir. Malle has transformed a childhood memoir into a powerful and vivid account of a catholic schoolboy who unknowingly witnesses anti–semitism…
Debajo Del Mundo (Underground) (1987)- Dir. Beda Docampo Feijóo
Feat. Oscar Ferrigno Jr., Gabriel Rovito - Intense WW2 drama focused on a Polish family who make the drastic decision to bury themselves underground to hide from the Nazis. Based on a true…
Empire of the Sun (1987)- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson… - A much–admired Spielberg epic in which a young boy witnesses the Japanese invasion of China in WWII. Based on the memoirs of sci–fi…
Escape From Sobibor (1987)- Dir. Jack Gold
Feat. Rutger Hauer, Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacula - An unsettling and chilling account of an attempt by Jews to escape the Sobibor concentration camp in Eastern Poland in 1944. Originally made for…
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