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Subgenre Sampler
Bullet Ballet (1998)- Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto
Feat. Shinya Tsukamoto, Hisashi Igawa - After his fiancee commits suicide, a young man tries to obtain a gun so that he can do the same, and in the process becomes embroiled in warfare…
Quiet Family, The (Choyonghan kajok) (1998)- Dir. Ji-woon Kim
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Min-sik Choi - A deliciously deadpan black comedy in which a respectable family decide to leave the rat race behind, buy a hotel in remote mountains and lead more…
Run Lola Run (1998)
- Dir. Tom Tykwer
Feat. Franke Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu - Runaway foreign–language hit clocks up mileage from a simple conceit – flame–haired punkette Lola has twenty minutes to go like the…
Secret Defense (1998)- Dir. Jacques Rivette
Feat. Sandrine Bonnaire - A Hitchcockian thriller in which dir. Rivette, better known for his surreal excursions, knowingly toys with the conventions of the suspense genre,…
So Close To Paradise (Biandan, guniang) (1998)- Dir. Wang Xiaoshuai
Feat. Wang Tong, Shi Yu, Guo Tao - Chinese film set in the city of Wuhan before it was a household name, where two young migrant workers become embroiled in the city's criminal…
Assassin(s) (1997)- Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
Feat. Mathieu Kassovitz, Michel Serrault - Disappointing followup to LA HAINE for dir./star Kassovitz, plumping for a story of an apprentice hitman (Kassovitz) to aging pro Michel Serrault,…
Brother (Brat) (1997)
- Dir. Aleksei Balabanov
Feat. Sergei Bodrov Jr - Grimily captivating thriller follows a baby–faced veteran of the Chechen war as he quietly 'assists' his brother in the St Petersburg…
Character (1997)- Dir. Mike van Diem
Feat. Fedja Van Huet - A murderous confrontation bookends an elegantly told story of class, oppression and perseverance in 1920s Rotterdam, in which a young…
Dobermann (1997)- Dir. Jan Kounen
Feat. Tcheky Karyo, Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci… - Frenetic French crime thriller filled with over the top gun play and colourful yet grimy characters. Vincent Cassel plays a bank robber known as…
Full Alert (1997)- Dir. Ringo Lam
Feat. Lau Ching-wan, Francis Ng - Quality police thriller with realistic drama, bracing action and strong sense of locale – regarded as one of the last 'classics' from the…
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