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Subgenre Sampler

 
Con AirCon Air (1997) Recommended
Dir. Simon West
Feat. Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich
The prison genre meets the airborne thriller(!) but invigorated no end by super–slick production and direction and the ever–dependable…
DobermannDobermann (1997) Recommended
Dir. Jan Kounen
Feat. Tcheky Karyo, Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci
Frenetic French crime thriller filled with over the top gun play and colourful yet grimy characters. Vincent Cassel plays a bank robber known as…
FaceFace (1997)
Dir. Antonia Bird
Feat. Robert Carlyle, Ray Winstone, Phillip Davis
The wily Robert Carlyle plays lead 'face' of an armed–robbery gang, in a tense, grabby thriller that more than holds its own in…
Hard RainHard Rain (1997)
Dir. Mikael Salomon
Feat. Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater
Bank–robber Morgan Freeman targets a Mid–Western town and doggedly continues his heist as rising floodwaters turn the streets into…
I Went DownI Went Down (1997)
Dir. Paddy Breathnach
Feat. Peter McDonald, Antoine Byrne, David Wilmot
Irish filmmakers lift a few steps from the TRAINSPOTTING lads and the Coen Bros for this deadpan skid into misadventure, amongst a crew of criminal…
Idiot BoxIdiot Box (1997) Aro Favourite
Dir. David Caesar
Feat. Ben Mendelsohn, Jeremy Sims
Yet another winner from across the Taz, Ben Mendelsohn and Jeremy Sims give career–best performances as a pair of cuddly petrol–heads…
RoninRonin (1997)
Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone
Perfunctory caper round the grey streets of Paris stuffs as much car–chasing and other cliches as possible into its baggy plot concerning…
Bottle RocketBottle Rocket (1996) Recommended
Dir. Wes Anderson
Feat. Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Ned Dowd
Merciless slacker/heist movie about three no–hopers who struggle at being even small–time hoods. Quirky, charismatic and blessed with a…
Broken ArrowBroken Arrow (1996)
Dir. John Woo
Feat. John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis
When John Travolta nicks off with a couple of nuclear warheads, its enough to transform his (former) air–force buddy (Christian Slater) into…
City of IndustryCity of Industry (1996)
Dir. John Irvin
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Stephen Dorff, Famke Janssen
A jewel heist goes wrong with double–crossings eventuating in a bitter wrangle between laconic veteran Harvey Keitel and hot–head upstart…

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