Main content | Search | Section navigation menu | Site-wide navigation menu

Main menu

 
 
 

Subgenre Sampler

 
Woman Next Door, TheWoman Next Door, The (1981)
Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant
Emotional chaos ensues for a happily married man when his old flame, now also married, becomes his immediate neighbour. Taut, intimate melodrama…
Berlin Alexanderplatz (TV Series)Berlin Alexanderplatz (TV Series) (1980) Recommended
Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Gunter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Elisabeth Trissenaar
This monolithic tome set in Weimar–era Germany represented the peak of dir. Fassbinder's filmmaking career. Across 15 hours, it details the…
Essential Almodovar: Volume OneEssential Almodovar: Volume One (Pepi Luci Bom, Dark Habits, What Have I Done to Deserve This, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) (1980-1988)
Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Four early Pedro Almodovar films presented in a Collector's Edition box set.
From the Life of the MarionettesFrom the Life of the Marionettes (1980)
Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Robert Atzom, Heinz Bennent, Martin Benrath
A dark themed and intricately plotted drama from dir. Bergman's later period, concerning a businessman who commits the sex–murder of a…
Germany, Pale MotherGermany, Pale Mother (Deutschland bleiche Mutter) (1980) Recommended
Dir. Helma Sanders-Brahms
Feat. Eva Mattes, Ernst Jacobi
Bleak WWII drama that follows the tragic fate of a couple who marry the day before the war breaks out when he is drafted to the Eastern front only to…
Last Metro, TheLast Metro, The (1980)
Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu
Elegant war story in occupied France, Catherine Deneuve struggles to keep her Jewish husband's theatre operating while concealing his whereabouts.
Lili MarleenLili Marleen (1980)
Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer
Fassbinder's fact–based account of the recording of the Nazi anthem, sung by a jaded cabaret singer with a Jewish love interest.
LoulouLoulou (1980)
Dir. Maurice Pialat
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Isabelle Huppert, Guy Marchand
Charismatic street rogue Gerard Depardieu lures an impetuous Isabelle Huppert out her stale, bourgeois partnership with Guy Marchand. Star chemistry…
Mon Oncle D'AmeriqueMon Oncle D'Amerique (My American Uncle) (1980) Recommended
Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Marie Dubois, Jean Daste
The dir. of LAST YEAR IN MARIENBAD experiments with notions of human behaviour in this unusual drama, centred around the theories of a French…
Un Mauvais FilsUn Mauvais Fils (A Bad Son) (1980) Recommended
Dir. Claude Sautet
Feat. Patrick Dewaere, Brigitte Fossey, Yves Robert
Affecting working–class drama about a young man returning to France after a jail term in the US for narcotics, where his attempt to restart his…

Results Page   Prev | 137 | 138 | 139 | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 Next    Show All

Display
Display
Order
Order