Subgenre Sampler
Musical: 527 Films to Buy & Rent
Fame (TV Series) (1982-1987)
- Feat. Lori Singer, Debbie Allen
- Based on the 1980 hit movie, this series charts the ambitions, joys and heartbreaks of assorted dance and music students and teachers at New York's…
Grease 2 (1982)
- Dir. Patricia Brich
Feat. Maxwell Caulfield, Michelle Pfeiffer
- Enjoyably bad reprise of the hit musical of 50s High School Americana, still gets by with a handful of good tunes and Michelle Pffiefer.
Honkytonk Man (1982)
- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Clint Eastwood, John McIntire, Verna Bloom
- One of director–star Eastwood's more unusual efforts, playing a TB–stricken country singer in the Great Depression, who tries to make one…
Le Bal (1982)
- Dir. Ettore Scola
- A unique ‘concept ballet’, where a revolving cast of dancers wordlessly act out the 20th century history of France in a ballroom.
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One from the Heart (1982)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr, Raul Julia
- A lavishly mounted curiosity loosely following the romantic plight of an estranged couple, set against an impressively stylised backdrop of Las…
Pink Floyd - The Wall (1982)
- Dir. Alan Parker
- Based on Roger Waters' personal vision that was the mega–selling Pink Floyd album of 1980, this feature brings the concept of a rock star's…
Pirates of Penzance (1982)
- Dir. Wilford Leach
Feat. Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, Linda Rondstadt…
- Kevin Kline and Angela Lansbury star in this hammy screen version of Gilbert and Sullivan's famous operetta.
Privates On Parade (1982)
- Dir. Michael Blakemore
Feat. John Cleese
- John Cleese stars in this perky adaptation of the play about a gay Song and Dance Unit of the Brtish army stationed in 1940s Singapore.
Starstruck (1982)
- Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Jo Kennedy
- A fabulous, overlooked Aussie musical in which an ambitious barmaid lives out her dreams to be a singing star in the new wave–inflected early…
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…