Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Killer, The (1989)
- Dir. John Woo
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat - Action at break–neck speed with a body–count to match the running time, this smorgasbord of super–violence with lashings of good…
Leningrad Cowboys Go America (Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses, Total Balalaika Show) (1989)
- Dir. Aki Kaurismaki
Feat. Jim Jarmusch - Laconic, often funny road movie follows an awful Soviet rock group with outlandish hairstyles across backwater USA. Director is Europe's answer to…
Lily Was Here (1989)- Dir. Ben Verbong
Feat. Marion Van Thijn, Thom Hoffman, Coen Van Vrijberghe de Coningh - Well known for Eurythmics' Dave Stewart's seductive score, the film follows the desperate plight of a young woman forced to resort to prostitution…
Little Thief, The (1989)- Dir. Claude Miller
Feat. Charlotte Gainsbourg, Didier Bezace - Penned by the late Francois Trauffant and completed by his protege, this engaging tale of mis–spent youth follows the adventures of a…
Milou En Mai (May Fools) (1989)- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Michel Piccoli, Miou-Miou - In May of '68, a rural family gather for the reading of their matriarch's will, an event that will strangely affect their idyllic existence. Stephane…
Nocturne Indien (1989)- Dir. Alain Corneau
Feat. Jean-Hugues Anglade, Clémentine Célarié, Otto Tausig - Moody drama from dir. Corneau (TOUS LES MATINS DU MONDE) sees a young Frenchman travel to India to search for a missing friend, and get lost in…
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.
Rikyu (1989)- Dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara
Feat. Rentaro Mikuni, Tsutomu Yamazaki - A unique dramatic meditation on the symbolic qualities of the Japanese tea ceremony, set around a Buddhist priest and the ruling Shogun of Japan in…
Romuald et Juliette (1989)- Dir. Coline Serreau
Feat. Daniel Auteuil, Firmine Richard, Pierre Vernier - French comedy at its very best contrasts the lives of a yoghurt company director and a black mother–of–five cleaning lady who through…
Sandwich Years (Les années sandwiches) (1989)- Dir. Emile Ghigo
Feat. Michel Aumont, Clovis Cornillac - In post–war France, a young Jewish boy befriends an elderly op–shop owner after his parents are arrested.
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