Subgenre Sampler
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Bette Midler - Art or Bust (1985)
- Dir. Thomas Schlamme
Feat. Bette Midler
- Song and dance version of Bette at her sassy best, in a unique 'video concert' in which takes on the world of art.
Mostly featuring selections…
Better Off Dead (1985)
- Dir. Savage Steve Holland
Feat. John Cusack, Amanda Wyss, Donald Ogden Stewart…
- Skewed version of the 80s teenage comedy which follows the plight of likeable John Cusack after he is dumped by his girlfriend. After many original…
Big Trouble (1985)
- Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Charles Durning…
- Cassavette's final film is far from a fitting finale to the iconoclast's career, but its not without its charms. Arkin plays a besieged insurance…
Biggles - Adventure in Time (1985)
- Dir. John Hough
Feat. Peter Cushing, Alex Hyde-White
- Curious, though effective recasting of the 'Biggles' stories by W.E. Johns, in which a NYC office–worker travels through time back to WWI to…
Billy Connolly - An Audience With (1985)
- Dir. Alisdair MacMillan
Feat. Billy Connolly
- Selected highlights of Connelly's legendary television appearance in 1985 in front of a studio audience.
A leopard skin shirt, long hair and the…
Black Cauldron, The (1985)
- Dir. Richard Rich, Ted Berman
- Fairytale animation set in the mythical realm of Prydain, where a young boy sets out to defeat ruling villain, the Horned King.
Based on the book…
Blackout (1985)
- Dir. Douglas Hickox
Feat. Richard Widmark, Keith Carradine
- Above–average stalker whodunit.
Blind Eye Sees All - Butthole Surfers (1985)
- An excellent, high–energy concert from Gibby Haynes and Texas' finest freak–rockers, featuring their twisted, tasteless stage antics.…
Bliss (1985)
- Dir. Ray Lawrence
Feat. Barry Otto
- Peter Carey's cult novel maintains its distinctive off–beat flavour in this screen adaptation, about a middle–aged ad–man who…
Blott on the Landscape (TV Mini-Series) (1985)
- Feat. David Suchet, George Cole, Geraldine James…
- Cheeky, farcical BBC comedy is one of the better adaptations of Tom Sharpe's satirical works. David Suchet nails the defiant gardener Blott who,…