Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 978 Films to Buy & Rent
- Pope of Greenwich Village, The (1984)
- Dir. Stuart Rosenberg
Feat. Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke
- Perennial no–hoper Eric Roberts cons pal Mickey Rourke into a final heist, but stealing from the Mob proves to be a bad idea.…
- Racing with the Moon (1984)
- Dir. Richard Benjamin
Feat. Sean Penn, Elizabeth McGovern, Nicolas Cage…
- A well–observed and resonant drama, about the last few days of boyhood for a couple of inductees into the US Marines in 1942. The cast all…
- River, The (1984)
- Dir. Mark Rydell
Feat. Sissy Spacek, Mel Gibson, Scott Glenn
- A handsomely–shot epic set around a struggling Midwest farming couple who must battle the elements and local land barons to survive on their…
- Samson and Delilah (1984)
- Dir. Lee Philips
Feat. Antony Hamilton, Belinda Bauer, Max von Sydow…
- Made–for–TV Old Testament epic centred on the classic Biblical tale of power, persuasion, and love between a Hebrew strongman and a…
- Secret Honor (1984)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Philip Baker Hall
- A fictionalized monologue adapted from the stage by playwrights Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone, with the great Philip Baker Hall as former…
- Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Bruce Spence, Ray Barrett
- Dir. Herzog’s usually compelling obsessions – myths, nature, primitive experience – come a cropper in this uneven depiction of a land rights…
- All The Right Moves (1983)
- Dir. Michael Chapman
Feat. Tom Cruise, Craig T. Nelson, Lea Thompson…
- Stirring though conventional sports drama has a talented high–school football player (Cruise), weigh up his life priorities in the face of a…
- Big Chill, The (1983)
- Dir. Lawrence Kasdan
Feat. Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, William Hurt…
- Old college friends gather together for a weekend after the funeral of one of their peers, where they reconcile their current lives in the 1980's…
- Careful, He Might Hear You (1983)
- Dir. Carl Schultz
Feat. Wendy Hughes, Robyn Nevin
- Rewarding period drama about a young orphan who becomes the object of a bitter dispute between his late mother's sisters.
- Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)
- Dir. Martin Davidson
Feat. Michael Pare, Ellen Barkin, Joe Pantoliano…
- Unusual drama, only partially realised, based around a legendary presumed–dead 60s rock’n’roller (Michael Pare) whose life is investigated…