Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Swordsman (1990)- Dir. Ching Siu Tung
Feat. Jacky Cheung, Man Cheung, Sam Hui - A good–natured swordsman from Ming Dynasty China, gets involved in a scramble for a priceless book. Excellent special effects but confusing…
Yaaba (1990)- Dir. Idrissa Ouedraogo
Feat. Fatimata Sanga, Noufou Ouedraogo, Roukietou Barry - All–too–rare African film to emerge on Western shores is a simple delight about a friendship between a 12–year–old boy and an…
A World Without Pity (Un Monde Sans Pitie) (1989)- Dir. Eric Rochant
Feat. Hippolyte Girardot, Mireille Perrier, Yvan Attal - A young Parisian slacker falls in love with an ambitious, bright student but finds the tables turning on his egocentric existence. Rochant's debut…
Belt, The (La Cintura) (1989)- Dir. Giuliana Gamba
Feat. James Russo - American teacher James Russo embarks on an affair with a beautiful Italian woman in Rome, which gets interesting when she buys him a belt... to whip…
Black Rain (Kuroi Ame) (1989)
- Dir. Shohei Imamura
Feat. Yoshiko Tanaka, Katzuo Kitamura, Etsuko Ichihara - Alarming, mournful insider's view of post–nuclear devastation that focuses on a surviving family that have been contaminated by the fallout of…
Canton Godfather, The (Miracles; Mr. Canton and Lady Rose) (1989)- Dir. Jackie Chan
Feat. Jackie Chan, Anita Mui - Though light on martial arts, this lavish period production is generally considered Jackie Chan's most accomplished movie. At once inspired by THE…
Circus Boys (1989)- Dir. Kaizo Hayashi
Feat. Hiroshi Mikami, Moe Kamura, Shu Ken - Sumptuous film blends illusion and reality in contrasting the paths of two brothers from a circus family, one an idealist who attempts to rejuvenate…
City of Sadness, A (Beiging Chengsi) (1989)- Dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Feat. Tony Leung (Chiu-wai), Hsin Shu-fen, Chen Sown-yung… - The first of the director’s trilogy of films about the modern history of Taiwan, here depicting the unstable post–WW2 period through the eyes…
Dark Woods, The (1989)- Dir. Jacques Deray
Feat. Beatrice Dalle - Beatrice Dalle (BETTY BLUE) marries a stranger on a whim, and lives to regret it when her affections for his brother leads to a brutal crime of…
- Emma's Shadow (1989)
- Dir. Soeren Jacobsen
Feat. Line Kruse, Borje Ahlstedt, Erik Wedersoe - 12–year–old Emma, feeling that her affluent parents would care more for her if she were missing, fakes her own kidnapping, and discovers…
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