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Subgenre Sampler

 
SurSur (1987)
Dir. Fernando Solanas
Feat. Susu Pecoraro, Miguel Angel Sola, Philippe Leotard
A political prisoner, freed after five years, confronts his haunting past and alien present before reconciling with his wife. Deeply personal,…
Under the Sun of SatanUnder the Sun of Satan (Soues Le Soleil De Satan) (1987) Recommended
Dir. Maurice Pialat
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Sandrine Bonnaire, Maurice Pialat
Both booed and awarded the top prize at Cannes Film Festival, Pialat's visionary film exemplifies the director's style and his thematic preoccupation…
Wings of DesireWings of Desire (1987) Recommended
Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander
Wenders ambitious and hypnotic film centres around two angels who can listen into human thought in pre–unified Berlin. This rich and surreal…
YeelenYeelen (Brightness) (1987) Recommended
Dir. Souleymane Cisse
One the few internationally–seen films from the African continent, this myth–like narrative concerns a young man of the Bambara culture…
Armour of GodArmour of God (1986)
Dir. Jackie Chan
Feat. Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan blows a bigger budget than usual for this crazy quest for some relics of a Crusader's armour in Eastern Europe. Drab stretches are…
Bashu, The Little StrangerBashu, The Little Stranger (1986)
Dir. Bahram Beizai
Feat. Susan Taslimi, Parvis Pourhosseini, Adrian Afravian
Compassionate film follows the plight of a 10–year–old boy whose raided Iranian village forced him to take contentious refuge. Certain to…
Better Tomorrow, ABetter Tomorrow, A (1986)
Dir. John Woo
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat
Chow Yun–Fat stars in the high–octane gangster flick that literally changed the face of the genre. A cop becomes ostracized by the force…
Betty BlueBetty Blue (1986) Aro Favourite
Dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix
Feat. Beatrice Dalle, Jean-Hugues Anglade
Beatrice Dalle stars as the ultra crazy and ultra sexy Betty in this lusty, over–the–top drama as only the French aspire to create.…
CamorraCamorra (1986)
Dir. Lina Wertmuller
Feat. Angela Molina, Harvey Keitel
Complicated but well–judged thriller about the Naples underworld and specifically the use of children in the drug trade. More conventional than…
Decline of the American EmpireDecline of the American Empire (1986) Aro Favourite
Dir. Denys Arcand
Feat. Pierre Curzi, Remy Girard, Yves Jacques
An astute and devastatingly frank expose of the sexes from the director of JESUS OF MONTREAL, that alternately eavesdrops on the separate gatherings…

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