Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Camera Buff (Amator) (1979)
- Dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Pointed, if slightly familiar satire of Communist life, has a smalltown clerk in Poland buy a Super8 film camera and begin to film life around him,…
Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)- Dir. Francesco Rosi
Feat. Gian Maria Volente, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny - A writer is exiled to the remote South in the mid 1930s. Based on the autobiography of Carlos Levi, this film in four parts contrasts his political…
Egouts Du Paradis, Les (The Sewers of Paradise) (1979)- Dir. Jose Giovanni
Feat. Francis Huster, Jean-François Balmer, Lila Kedrova - Romantic dramatization of "The Great Drain Robbery" of 1976, in which the Societe Generale Bank of France was robbed of over $10 million dollars by a…
Heroes Of The East (Zhong hua zhang fu) (1979)- Feat. Chia Hui Liu, Yuka Mizuno
- Graceful martial arts film focused around a Chinese man who must prove the superiority of Chinese kung fu over Japanese to his disillusioned Japanese…
La Cage Aux Folles (1979)- Dir. Edouard Molinaro
Feat. Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Michel Galabru - A gay couple masquerade as husband and wife for the sake of their son's marriage prospects. Screwball drag comedy was a phenomenal hit worldwide.
La Luna (1979)- Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Feat. Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Alida Valli… - A wayward young junkie cuddles up to his Opera–singing mother (Jill Clayburgh) in this peculiar incest drama, shot in lush Bertolucci overtones.
Laura (Laura, Shadows of a Summer) (1979)- Dir. David Hamilton
Feat. Maud Adams, Dawn Dunlap, James Mitchell… - One of the dreamy, soft focus movies of fashion photographer Hamilton, featuring his characteristic themes: the coming of age of a young girl in an…
Legend of the Mountain (Shan zhong zhuan qi) (1979)- Dir. King Hu
Feat. Shih Chun, Hsu Feng, Sylvia Chang - A scholar translating Buddhist sutras visits a monastery filled with various mysterious characters, in this soothing spiritual drama with elements of…
Magnificent Butcher (Lin shi rong) (1979)- Dir. Sammo Hung, Yuen Woo Ping
Feat. Sammo Hung, Biao Yuen - Peak Samo Hung martial artistry, collaborating here with with action legend Yuen Woo Ping for a tale based on the true–life exploits of Lam Sai…
Passe ton Bac d'abord (Graduate First) (1979)- Dir. Maurice Pialat
Feat. Sabine Haudepin, Philippe Marlaud, Bernard Tronczak… - Dir. Pialat’s matter–of–fact realism and blasé cast of young actors conveys all the aimlessness and uncertainty of youth in this…
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