Subgenre Sampler
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Love Unto Death (L'amour à Mort) (1984)
- Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Sabine Azema, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi
- Alain Resnais (HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR) pursues his themes of love and death with this symbolic tale of lovers Simon (Arditi) and Elizabeth (Azema)…
Lust For Love of a Chinese Courtesan (Ai nu xin zhuan) (1984)
- Dir. Yuen Chor
- A middling remake by dir. Chor of his own classic 1972 Shaw Brothers sexploitationer INTIMATE CONFESSIONS OF A CHINESE COURTESAN. Tending towards a…
Lust in The Dust (1984)
- Dir. Paul Bartel
Feat. Divine, Tab Hunter, Geoffrey Lewis…
- Imitating the tone of mid–period John Waters (POLYESTER), dir. Bartel spoofs the Western melodrama with heaving cleavages, abysmal musical…
Magnificent Evans, The (TV Series) (1984)
- Feat. Ronnie Barker
- Long–forgotten BBC comedy concerning 'Genius, Photographer And Man Of Letters' Plantagenet Evans (Barker), who lives in a Welsh village and…
Man of Flowers (1984)
- Dir. Paul Cox
Feat. Norman Kaye, Alyson Best, Chris Haywood
- A wealthy middle–aged bachelor pays a young woman to disrobe for him on call. A sombre, handsomely shot study of an odd character, with touches…
Mapp and Lucia (TV Mini-series) (1984)
- Dir. Donald McWhinnie
Feat. Geraldine McEwan, Prunella Scales, Nigel Hawthorne…
- Set in a small seaside town in 1920's England, this comedy of manners is an exquisitely stylised adaptation of E.F Benson's novel. Chronicles the…
Maria's Lovers (1984)
- Dir. Andrei Konchalovsky
Feat. Nastassja Kinski, John Savage, Robert Mitchum…
- An embittered war veteran (Savage) experiences girl trouble upon returning from Vietnam. With a steamy Nastassja Kinski as the film's obscure object…
Marlene (1984)
- Dir. Maximilian Schell
Feat. Marlene Dietrich
- Maximilian Schell presents his own personal vision of Germany's greatest screen legend, Marlene Dietrich. Witness the woman in person and her career…
Miami Vice (TV Series) (1984-1988)
- Dir. Thomas Carter
Feat. Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas
- One of the premiere TV–fantasies of the 1980s – pastel–suited vice–cops Crockett and Tubbs (Don Johnson and Phillip Michael…
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (TV Series) (1984-1987)
- Feat. Stacy Keach
- While hardly definitive, Stacy Keach's rendition of the famous detective hero, created by pulp–novelist Mickey Spillane, brings a light,…