Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Classics > Drama: 946 Films to Rent
- Out of Africa (1985)
- Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Meryl Streep, Robert Redford
- Epic, elegant retelling of Karen Blixen's African memoirs. Winner of seven Oscars including Best Picture.
- Perfect (1985)
- Dir. James Bridges
Feat. John Travolta, Jamie Lee Curtis
- John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis get physical in this under–rated slice of 80s sizzle: he plays a Rolling Stone journalist investigating the…
- Plenty (1985)
- Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Meryl Streep, John Gielgud, Sam Neill…
- Meryl Streep plays a hero of WWII, who finds the rest of her life an anticlimax.
- Summer Lovers (1985)
- Dir. Randal Kleiser
Feat. Peter Gallagher, Daryl Hannah, Valerie Quennessen…
- Daffy drama set on a Greek isle with Gallagher and Hannah as a holidaying couple, trouble ensues when Gallagher meets a sexy archaeologist.
- Sweet Dreams (1985)
- Dir. Carol Rice
Feat. Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ann Wedgeworth…
- Sterling biopic of country singer Patsy Cline.
- That Was Then, This Is Now (1985)
- Dir. Christopher Cain
Feat. Emilio Estevez, Craig Sheffer
- Emilio Estevez plays juvenile delinquent, in this version of the S E Hinton book.
- Trip to Bountiful, The (1985)
- Dir. Peter Masterson
Feat. Geraldine Page, Rebecca De Mornay, John Heard
- Geraldine Page won an Oscar for her portrait of a widow who finally embarks on one final journey to her Texas birthplace.
- Trouble in Mind (1985)
- Dir. Alan Rudolph
Feat. Kris Kristofferson, Keith Caradine, Lori Singer
- Fans of the obscure should enjoy this rollicking film noir. Set in the near future, an ex–convict returns to his favourite cafe to rekindle a…
- Wetherby (1985)
- Dir. David Hare
Feat. Vanessa Redgrave, Ian Holm, Judi Dench…
- Haunting psychodrama with Vanessa Redgrave and Judi Dench as guests at a dinner party that is overshadowed by a repressed tragedy which threatens to…
- A Soldier's Story (1984)
- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Howard Jr. Rollins, Adolph Caesar, Art Evans…
- In charge of an inquiry into the murder of a black sergeant on an army base in 1944, investigator Howard E Rollins Jnr uncovers a knot of racial…