Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Cat Chaser (1989)- Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Peter Weller, Kelly McGillis, Charles Durning… - The director atypically sidesteps controversy in adapting Elmore Leonard's political novel about a Miami hotel owner who courts danger when he…
Clarke and Dawe (The Full Catastrophe) (1989-2009)
- Feat. John Clarke, Bryan Dawe
- Comprehensive compilation of mock interviews from Aussie comic Bryan Dawe and true–blue Kiwi John Clarke (aka Fred Dagg), whose collective…
Eight Men Out (1989)- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. John Cusack, Michael Rooker, Christopher Lloyd… - True story of the Chicago White Sox baseball team who conspired with gamblers to lose the World Series in 1919. Finely detailed topical drama with an…
Fellow Traveller (1989)- Dir. Philip Saville
Feat. Ron Silver, Hart Bochner - A classy political thriller concerning the traumas of a blacklisted writer exiled in London during the McCarthy era.
Music Box (1989)- Dir. Costa-Gavras
Feat. Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Frederic Forrest… - Jessica Lange plays the attorney daughter of a Hungarian immigrant (Mueller–Stahl), now accused of WW2 war crimes. Her quest for the truth…
Open Doors (1989)- Dir. Gianni Amelio
Feat. Gian Maria Volente, Ennio Fantastichini, Renato Carpentieri - A resonant political drama set in corrupt fascist Italy about a juror's attempt to save a political murderer from the gallows.
Romero (1989)- Dir. John Duigan
Feat. Raul Julia, Richard Jordan - Provocative political drama details the story of Salvadorian Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was assassinated in 1980 by representatives of an…
Scandal (1989)- Dir. Michael Caton-Jones
Feat. John Hurt, Joanne Whalley, Bridget Fonda… - Polished dramatisation of events that led to the downfall of politician John Profumo, who engaged in an liaison with a controversial call–girl.
A Very British Coup (1988)- Dir. Mick Jackson
Feat. Ray McAnally, Alan MacNaughtan, Keith Allen… - Old–school Labourite Ray McAnally is elected Prime Minister of Great Britain, an event displeasing to various high–placed civil servants…
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…
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