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Subgenre Sampler
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982)- Dir. Terry Hughes
Feat. Angela Lansbury, George Hearn, Cris Groenendaal - TV movie of the 1979 Broadway hit, originally staged by Harold Prince, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Set in London in 1846, where Barber…
Sword and the Sorcerer, The (1982)- Dir. Albert Pyun
Feat. Kathleen Beller, Simon MacCorkindale, George Maharis… - Not bad swords–and–sandals fantasy, set in a medieval kingdom ruled by an evil sorcerer. To the rescue comes a mercenary who wields a…
T.J. Hooker (TV Series) (1982-1986)- Feat. William Shatner, Heather Locklear, Adrian Zmed
- Former STAR TREK–ker Shatner made a recovery to television fame for this affable cop drama, playing a tough but compassionate veteran who…
Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) (1982- 1983)- Dir. Various
Feat. Peter Cushing, Brenda Blethyn, Liza Goddard… - Fondly remembered British television series of self–contained stories – each with a twist – inspired by the adult macabre of Roald…
Tempest (1982)- Dir. Paul Mazursky
Feat. John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon - Paradise is found and then lost for John Cassavetes who escapes mid–life crisis and flees to the Greek Isles with his daughter. Loosely based…
Tender Mercies (1982)- Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Robert Duvall - Robert Duvall gives an Oscar winning performance as a down–out–his–luck country singer who paves the slow road back to sobriety.…
Tenebrae (Unsane) (1982)
- Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. Anthony Franciosa, Daria Nicolodi - Compelling Argento thriller, with a typically contorted plot design – about a crime writer, whose books stimulate copycat killings – used…
Tess (1982)- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Nastassja Kinski - Though beautifully shot, Thomas Hardy's classic novel gets a surprisingly mild treatment from dir. Roman Polanski. Wessex farmgirl Nastassja Kinski…
Tex (1982)- Dir. Tim Hunter
Feat. Matt Dillon, Jim Metzler, Meg Tilly… - Arguably the best adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s teen fictions (THE OUTSIDERS etc.), with Matt Dillon giving an early, heartbreaking performance as a…
That Night in Varennes (1982)- Dir. Etore Scolla
Feat. Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-Louis Barrault, Harvey Keitel - An enthralling, vivid historical drama set during the last days of Louis XVI's reign during the 1791 revolution, but focusing largely on a band of…
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