cinehunch
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Its volatile Southeast Asian political backdrop is experienced through a foreign journalist’s increasingly compromised perspective, combining intimate loyalties, mounting danger, and humane moral urgency.
02
Why this pick
A tense, character-led war-journalism drama in which reporters must confront the ethical cost of witnessing violence and deciding how far involvement can go.
03
Why this pick
Like The Killing Fields, it follows a flawed Western reporter through civil conflict, pairing chaotic frontline observation with a growing sense of personal and political responsibility.
04
Why this pick
It shares the harrowing historical witness, escalating peril, and focus on one person’s efforts to preserve human connection amid a state-enabled catastrophe.
05
Why this pick
A rigorously suspenseful political drama about ordinary people navigating authoritarian violence and official indifference, driven by grief, investigation, and outrage rather than spectacle.
Finding the atmosphere, tension and little details that made this one stay with you.
Our curator needs a little longer. Please come back shortly.
No confident matches yet. Try our personal film finder.
01 / THE STORY
In the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, during May 1973, the Cambodian national army is fighting a civil war with the Khmer Rouge, a result of the Vietnam War overspilling that country's borders. Dith Pran, a Cambodian journalist and interpreter for ''The New York Times'', awaits the arrival of reporter Sydney Schanberg at the city's airport but leaves suddenly. Schanberg takes a cab to his hotel where he meets up with Al Rockoff. Pran meets Schanberg later and tells him that an incident has occurred in a town, Neak Leung; allegedly, an B-52 Stratofortress has bombed the town.
Showing saved details. Some information may be out of date.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Alan 'Al' Rockoff, Photographer
Dr. MacEntire
Dougal
Ambassador Wade
France
Beth
Schanberg's Sister
Schanberg's Father
