Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Ebony Tower, The (1987)- Dir. Robert Knights
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Roger Rees, Greta Scacchi… - Self–conscious but watchable satire has a young art critic finding himself attracted to the unusual lifestyle of a reclusive painter. Based on…
Empire of the Sun (1987)- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson… - A much–admired Spielberg epic in which a young boy witnesses the Japanese invasion of China in WWII. Based on the memoirs of sci–fi…
Family Viewing (1987)- Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. David Hemblen, Aidan Tierney - A technically basic yet highly original film that weaves director Egoyan's obsessive themes – technology, voyeurism, dysfunction – into…
Five Corners (1987)- Dir. Tony Bill
Feat. Jodie Foster, Tim Robbins, Todd Graff… - Ambitious, although ultimately chaotic, drama set in the Bronx in 1964, where a young Jodie Foster is stalked by her former boyfriend (Turturro), who…
Fortunes of War (TV Mini-series) (1987)- Dir. James Cellan Jones
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Alan Bennett… - An under–appreciated historical epic focused on the personal experience of war, starring then–English glamour couple Kenneth Branagh and…
Friendship's Death (1987)- Dir. Peter Woollen
Feat. Ruby Baker, Patrick Buchanan - Philosophical sci–fi film subverts genre conventions to instead deliver a delicate drama about a woman who alleges she is a robot sent to Earth…
Gardens of Stone (1987)- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. James Caan, Anjelica Huston, James Earl Jones… - Downbeat story of a frustrated soldier appointed to guard the US military cemetery during the Vietnam war.
Gathering of Old Men (1987)- Dir. Volker Schlondorff
Feat. Holly Hunter, Louis Jr. Gossett, Richard Widmark - Racial tensions overboil in the Deep South when a white man is killed in a black man's yard. Holly Hunter and a group of white elders emerge in…
Ghosts (1987)- Dir. Elijah Moshinsky
Feat. Judi Dench, Michael Gambon, Kenneth Branagh… - BBC television adaptation of Ibsen's great, once–controversial play about secrets and lies, sex and hypocrisy, starring Judy Dench as Mrs…
Girl Who Lived Twice, The (1987)- Dir. Francois Villiers
Feat. Julian Sands - Julian Sands stars in this fantasy/drama about an Indian girl's obsession with finding her alleged rich husband of a past life. Shot in Nepal.
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