Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3560 Films to Buy & Rent
- Lovesick (1983)
- Dir. Marshall Brickman
Feat. Dudley Moore, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Guinness…
- A psychiatrist who falls in love with a patient is visited by the spirit of Sigmund Freud, who gives him advice on how to handle it.
- Man With Two Brains, The (1983)
- Dir. Carl Reiner
Feat. Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner
- Steve Martin plays a surgeon who frustrated with his wicked, overbearing wife (Kathleen Turner), falls in love with a…
- Meaning of Life, The (Monty Python's Meaning of Life) (1983)
- Dir. Terry Jones
Feat. Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle…
- Hilarious, oft–times bilious Monty Python hit that examines The Big Issue in a series of loosely–connected sketches.
- Mr. Mom (1983)
- Dir. Stan Dragoti
Feat. Michael Keaton, Teri Garr, Christopher Lloyd…
- Easy–going, if predictable role reversal comedy with a screenplay written by 80's teen icon John Hughes.
Keaton plays a dad who, after…
- National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
- Dir. Harold Ramis
Feat. Chevy Chase, Randy Quaid, John Candy
- Inaugurating a series that would yield two more vacations/sequels, this moderately amusing gagfest follows the travails of Chevy Chase and family as…
- Outsiders, The (1983)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Matt Dillon, C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio…
- Based on the gritty novel by S. E. Hinton (THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOW), this ‘realistic’ depiction of teenage outsiders in 50s America is…
- Phar Lap (1983)
- Dir. Simon Wincer
Feat. Tom Burlinson
- Legendary racehorse reared in New Zealand (though Australian makes claims), who died under mysterious circumstances in America. Good period piece,…
- Risky Business (1983)
- Dir. Paul Brickman
Feat. Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay
- A kind of '80s update of THE GRADUATE, this imaginative comedy propelled a 17–year old Tom Cruise into the limelight. Uncommonly stylish and…
- Rumble Fish (1983)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Dennis Hopper…
- Coppola's cult fave is a highly stylised treatment of a teen delinquency drama may not be entirely appropriate, but it sure looks impressive. Equally…
- Silkwood (1983)
- Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Meryl Streep, Cher, Kurt Russell
- Fact–based account of a Southern nuclear factory–worker who died mysteriously before exposing unsound trade secrets. Meryl Streep is on a…