Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Truce, The (1997)- Dir. Francesco Rosi
Feat. John Turturro, Rade Serbedzija - The aftermath of WWII locates Auschwitz survivor John Turturro on a difficult, redemptive journey back to his home town. Based on Primo Levi's…
Blade, The (1996)- Dir. Tsui Hark
Feat. Xin Xin Xiong, Moses Chan, Man Cheuk Chiu - Honour and retribution are the key themes in this densely–plotted, straight–faced actioner set in a mythic–historical setting.…
Fiesta (1996)- Dir. Pierre Boutron
Feat. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Gregoire Colin - Biting, rigorously intelligent parable of the Spanish Civil War, watches unblinking as a young soldier is intiated into the brutalities by his…
Libertarias (1996)
- Dir. Vincente Aranda
Feat. Victoria Abril, Ana Belen, Miguel Bose… - Examining the Spanish Civil War from a left–wing point–of–view, this passionate war drama focuses on a trio of women – a…
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996)
- Dir. Sadjan Dragojevic
Feat. Dragan Bjelorgrlic, Nikola Kojo - Seen in flashback from a ward in triage, the Bosnian war is portrayed in a riveting counter–play of nihilism and theatre, as a band of Serbian…
Prisoner of the Mountains (1996)- Dir. Sergei Bodrov
Feat. Oleg Menshikov, Sergei Bodrov Jr, Susanna Mekhraliyeva… - A Tolstoy fable is here seamlessly transposed to the Chechean conflict, with two Russian soldiers apprehended by a Chechean village elder who hopes…
Self Made Hero, A (1996)- Dir. Jacques Audiard
Feat. Mathieu Kassovitz - Mattieu Kassovitz (director of LA HAINE) proves to be no slouch actor here as a WW2 idler who swats up and cheekily ascends the ranks of the…
Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre (1995)- Dir. T.F. Mous
- This extreme 'shocker' depicts in grisly detail the story of the massacre of 300 000 Chinese by Japanese soldiers following the invasion of Nanking…
Promise, The (1995)- Dir. Margarethe von Trotta
Feat. Corinna Harfouch, Meret Becker, August Zirner - Separated while trying to cross the Berlin Wall to the West in 1961, two lovers traverse thirty odd years of German history apart, yet faithful. This…
An Unforgettable Summer (Un été inoubliable) (1994)- Dir. Lucian Pintilie
Feat. Kristin Scott Thomas, Claudiu Bleont - Spare, well–realized drama taking place in 1925 on the Romanian/Bulgarian border, where Capitaine Petre Dumitriu (Bleont) and his wife…
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