Subgenre Sampler
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Streamers (1983)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Matthew Modine, David Alan Grier, George Dzundza…
- Four young army recruits await in close quarters their call–up to Vietnam. Brilliantly acted by the novice cast (including Matthew Modine), it…
Style Wars (1983)
- Dir. Tony Silver
- Landmark PBS documentary on the explosion of graffiti art in New York in the late 70s/early 80s, which became an important foundation stone in the…
Suburbia (Rebel Street's aka: Wild Side) (1983)
- Dir. Penelope Spheeris
Feat. Flea
- Low key yet definitive dramatic portrait of the American punk scene, staged with non–actors as the "T.R. gang" who set up camp in a scuzzy L.A.…
Sudden Impact (1983)
- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Clint Eastwood
- Eastwood directs this fourth Dirty Harry outing with magnum force.
Super Ted, The Very Best of (TV Series) (Superted) (1983)
- Appealing 80's kids series about the adventures of an abandoned teddy bear who is brought to life with "cosmic dust" and becomes a superhero teddy on…
Svengali (1983)
- Dir. Anthony Harvey
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Jodie Foster, Holly Hunter
- Has been vocalist turned singing instructor O'Toole takes young rocker Foster under his wings. By all accounts a complete misfire. Though if you can…
Sweet Sixteen (1983)
- Dir. Jim Sotos
Feat. Aleisa Shirley, Bo Hopkins, Susan Strasberg…
- Forgotten slasher from the 80's that instead slashes the boys instead of the girls, when a soon–to–be sixteen–year–old girl…
Taggart (TV Series) (1983-2010)
- Feat. Mark McManus, John Hannah, Alan Cumming
- The rugged and tenacious Scottish detective (McManus) investigates the grim underside of Glasgow in a long–running series of murder cases for…
Tales from the Darkside (TV Series) (1983-1988)
- This popular horror/fantasy anthology TV series from the 1980's features more misses than hits, but all are gloriously tacky relics of their time.…
Tempest, The (1983)
- Dir. William Woodman
Feat. Efrem Zimbalist Jr., William Hootkins, Nicholas Hammond
- An American television version of Shakespeare's much filmed late 'romance', here presented in a pseudo–theatrical style.