Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3560 Films to Buy & Rent
- Private Lessons (1981)
- Dir. Alan Myerson
Feat. Sylvia Kristel, Eric Brown, Howard Hesseman…
- A slightly queasy mix of thriller and sexual drama, has a teenager (Brown) initiated by the family maid (Kristel) into the carnal facts of life, and…
- Private Schulz (1981)
- Feat. Michael Elphick, Ian Richardson, Billie Whitelaw…
- Gleefully macabre farce focuses on the scheming titular character who convinces the Nazis to mass counterfeit millions of five pound notes in a bid…
- Puberty Blues (1981)
- Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Nell Schofield, Jad Capelja
- Affecting teenage odyssey with Nell Schofield and Jad Capelja as surfing–groupies, learning to fit into a sex’n’drugs beach–scene.
- Ragtime (1981)
- Dir. Milos Forman
Feat. James Cagney, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn…
- 8–time Oscar nominated adaptation of E. L. Doctorow's novel which recreates a real–life murder mystery in ragtime–era America…
- Reds (1981)
- Dir. Warren Beatty
Feat. Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson
- A provocative political saga about an American journalist's involvement with communism, the Russian revolution and the love of a like–minded…
- Rich and Famous (1981)
- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, Meg Ryan
- Seasoned 'women's' director George Cukor remakes OLD ACQUAINTANCES in his final film, about two close friends turned literary rivals. A far cry from…
- S.O.B. (1981)
- Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Julie Andrews, William Holden, Richard Mulligan…
- Blake Edwards' satire of the film industry and Hollywood society in which a movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by…
- Simon and Simon (TV Series) (Simon & Simon) (1981)
- Feat. Gerald McRaney, Jameson Parker
- Two sibling sleuths, one a sophisticate, the other a slacker, hunt counterfeiters, drug dealers and contract killers in this classic action series…
- Stripes (1981)
- Dir. Ivan Reitman
Feat. Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates…
- In a moment of weakness and despair, a slobbish Bill Murray enlists in the US Army and spends the rest of the movie humourously regretting the…
- True Confessions (1981)
- Dir. Ulu Grosbard
Feat. Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall
- Roberts' De Niro and Duvall act their socks off as cop and priest who happen to be brothers. Conflicting loyalties come to a head through a…