Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
When Father Was Away on Business (1985)
- Dir. Emir Kusturica
Feat. Moreno de Bartolli, Miki Manojlovic, Mira Furlan - A delightful dramedy of social upheaval, set during Yugoslavia’s Tito–Stalin conflict of the 1950s. Kusturica filters the tribulations of…
White Nights (1985)- Dir. Taylor Hackford
Feat. Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski… - Baryshnikov and Hines try to dance themselves free from Soviet oppression in this amusing dated thriller. The dance sequences still hold up though.
Zed and Two Noughts, A (1985)- Dir. Peter Greenaway
Feat. Andrea Ferreol, Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon… - Enigmatic visual essay centres around a pair of identical twin zoologists and a paraplegic Spanish seductress! A difficult but rewarding film…
1984 (1984)- Dir. Michael Radford
Feat. John Hurt, Richard Burton - Adaptation of George Orwell's novel remains faithful to his book and is thus a despairing experience. John Hurt and Richard Burton represent the…
A Soldier's Story (1984)- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Howard Jr. Rollins, Adolph Caesar, Art Evans… - In charge of an inquiry into the murder of a black sergeant on an army base in 1944, investigator Howard E Rollins Jnr uncovers a knot of racial…
A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)- Dir. Krzysztof Zanussi
Feat. Maja Komorowska, Scott Wilson - Realistic and poignant drama that depicts the tentative yet soulful romance that blooms between a Polish woman and an American soldier who is…
Amadeus (1984)
- Dir. Milos Forman
Feat. Tom Hulce, F. Murray Abraham - Academy–award winning biopic of Mozart's illustrious but brief existence that spawned much of the greatest music ever written. A humourous yet…
Among the Cinders (1984)- Dir. Rolf Haedrich
Feat. Paul O'Shea, Derek Hardwick, Yvonne Lawley - A tender chronicle of a 16–year–old's rite–of–passage who finds first love with an older woman embittered by her experience…
And the Ship Sails On (1984)- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Victor Poletti - An idyllic odyssey aboard an ocean liner, where celebrated guests who have gathered for the funeral voyage of a great opera star are introduced in…
Annie's Coming Out (A Test of Love) (1984)- Dir. Gil Brealey
Feat. Angela Punch McGregor, Drew Forsythe, Liddy Clark… - A therapist learns to communicate with cerebral palsy patient Annie using an alphabet board and comes to believe that although physically disabled,…
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