Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
My Life As a Dog (1985)
- Dir. Lasse Hallstrom
Feat. Arnold Alfredsson, Ing-Marie Carlsson, Ralph Carlsson - A young boy is taken away from his ill mother to a rural village where he confronts the likes of death, soccer, guilt and his first love. Ultimately…
No End (Bez konca) (1985)- Dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski
Feat. Grazyna Szapolowska - Bleak but powerful drama about life under martial law in early–1980s Poland, centred around the consequences that follow the death of an…
Official Story, The (1985)- Dir. Luis Puenzo
Feat. Hector Alterio, Norma Aleandro, Chunchuna Villafane - The heart–wrenching official story of a woman who discovers her adopted daughter was stolen at birth by the then military dictatorship. This…
Ran (1985)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Tatsuya Nakadai - The title translates to 'chaos'; it is Kurosawa's vast and bloody interpretation of Shakespeare's King Lear. Grandiose in every sense – a…
Vagabond (1985)- Dir. Agnes Varda
Feat. Sandrine Bonnaire - Award–winning drama that artfully presents poetic moments from young vagabond Sandrine Bonnaire’s last month alive, listlessly drifting…
When Father Was Away on Business (1985)- Dir. Emir Kusturica
Feat. Moreno de Bartolli, Miki Manojlovic, Mira Furlan - A delightful dramedy of social upheaval, set during Yugoslavia’s Tito–Stalin conflict of the 1950s. Kusturica filters the tribulations of…
After The Rehearsal (1984)- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Erland Josephson, Liv Ullmann, Lena Olin - Television film from Ingmar Bergman, which takes place entirely within a theatre – wherein a veteran director reflects on his career and…
And the Ship Sails On (1984)- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Victor Poletti - An idyllic odyssey aboard an ocean liner, where celebrated guests who have gathered for the funeral voyage of a great opera star are introduced in…
Element of Crime, The (1984)- Dir. Lars Von Trier
Feat. Michael Elphick - A detective’s unconventional methods qualify him for the investigation of child murders in a dark, decaying, post–apocalyptic Germany.…
Full Moon in Paris (1984)- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Pascale Ogier, Fabrice Luchini, Christian Vadim… - From Rohmer's 'Comedies and Proverbs' series, wit and subtlety is derived from the simplest of plots. This time a headstrong woman's plans backfire…
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