Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
My Life As a Dog (1985)
- Dir. Lasse Hallstrom
Feat. Arnold Alfredsson, Ing-Marie Carlsson, Ralph Carlsson - A young boy is taken away from his ill mother to a rural village where he confronts the likes of death, soccer, guilt and his first love. Ultimately…
No End (Bez konca) (1985)- Dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski
Feat. Grazyna Szapolowska - Bleak but powerful drama about life under martial law in early–1980s Poland, centred around the consequences that follow the death of an…
North and South (TV Series) (1985)- Dir. Richard T. Heffron
Feat. Patrick Swayze, James Read, Kirstie Alley… - Heavyweight Civil War tome starring Patrick Swayze and James Read as young men caught up in the winds of American revolution, conflict and…
Official Story, The (1985)- Dir. Luis Puenzo
Feat. Hector Alterio, Norma Aleandro, Chunchuna Villafane - The heart–wrenching official story of a woman who discovers her adopted daughter was stolen at birth by the then military dictatorship. This…
Oliver Twist (Mini-series) (1985)- Dir. Gareth Davies
Feat. Robert Middlemass, Lysette Anthony, Michael Attwell… - Quality BBC adaptation of the beloved Dickens story starring Ben Rodska as the eponymous orphan, ably supported by older British thespian brass.
Out of Africa (1985)- Dir. Sydney Pollack
Feat. Meryl Streep, Robert Redford - Epic, elegant retelling of Karen Blixen's African memoirs. Winner of seven Oscars including Best Picture.
Perfect (1985)- Dir. James Bridges
Feat. John Travolta, Jamie Lee Curtis - John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis get physical in this under–rated slice of 80s sizzle: he plays a Rolling Stone journalist investigating the…
Pickwick Papers, The (Mini-series) (1985)- Feat. Nigel Stock, Clive Swift, Ray Brooks…
- BBC televison production stars Nigel Stock as the titular Mr Samuel Pickwick who – with his pals Nathaniel Winkle, Augustus Snodgrass, and…
Plenty (1985)- Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Meryl Streep, John Gielgud, Sam Neill… - Meryl Streep plays a hero of WWII, who finds the rest of her life an anticlimax.
Ran (1985)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Tatsuya Nakadai - The title translates to 'chaos'; it is Kurosawa's vast and bloody interpretation of Shakespeare's King Lear. Grandiose in every sense – a…
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