Même les anges ont le coeur brûlé

Real-life letters written by American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines during the Vietnam War to their families and friends back home. Archive footage of the war and news coverage thereof augment the first-person "narrative" by men and women who were in the war, some of whom did not survive it.

Runtime

1h 24m

Director

Bill Couturié

Cast

Ellen Burstyn, Tom Berenger, J. Kenneth Campbell

Four young recruits about to be sent to Vietnam confront their prejudicial feelings toward one another when it's learned one of them is gay.

Runtime

1h 58m

Director

Robert Altman

Cast

Matthew Modine, David Alan Grier, Michael Wright

A documentary feature by Pierre Schoendoerffer about the Vietnam War. Winner of the 1968 Academy Award for best Documentary Feature.

Runtime

1h 5m

Director

Pierre Schoendoerffer

Cast

Joseph B. Anderson, Stuart Whitman

In the middle of the Algerian war, Elise, from Bordeaux, “goes” to Paris to join her brother to earn her living in an automobile factory. There she meets Arezki, an Algerian nationalist activist with whom she falls in love. A chronicle of working life at the time and which highlights the extent of police repression against Algerians.

Runtime

1h 44m

Director

Michel Drach

Cast

Marie-José Nat, Mohamed Chouikh, Bernadette Lafont

A scientist desperately wanting to prove that mermaids exist is ostracized from the scientific community in Japan. He settles down in Australia steadfast on his hypothesis. When a Japanese student visits him in Australia with strange questions about mermaids, how the young man survived in the ocean, and why he doesn't remember anything.

Runtime

1h 48m

Cast

Tadanobu Asano, Yosuke Eguchi, Kimika Yoshino