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Subgenre Sampler
Beiderbecke Affair, The (TV Series) (1985)- Feat. James Bolam, Barbara Flynn, Dudley Sutton
- Character–centric Brit TV series that was the first in the 'Beiderbecke Trilogy' following a couple of Leed's teachers ensconced in a…
Bliss (1985)- Dir. Ray Lawrence
Feat. Barry Otto - Peter Carey's cult novel maintains its distinctive off–beat flavour in this screen adaptation, about a middle–aged ad–man who…
Boys Next Door, The (1985)- Dir. Penelope Spheeris
Feat. Charlie Sheen, Maxwell Caulfield - Early feature film by celebrated underground film maker Penelope Spheeris (DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILISATION), with Charlie Sheen Maxwell Caulfield…
Colonel Redl (1985)- Dir. Istvan Szabo
Feat. Klaus Maria Brandauer - Klaus Maria Brandauer offers another tour–de–force performance for the second in Szabo's WW2 trilogy (between MEPHISTO and HANUSSEN)…
Color Purple, The (The Colour Purple) (1985)- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover… - Striking interpretation of Alice Walker's novel about a black girl's life and hard times in the South, spanning forty years. Whoopi Goldberg's screen…
Come and See (1985)
- Dir. Elim Klimov
Feat. Aleksei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Lauciavicius - Shattering film that chronicles the devastating effect the Nazi occupation had on Russian peasantry, focusing on one impoverished youth. The brutal…
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean (Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean) (1985)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Sandy Dennis, Cher, Karen Black - The repressed anxieties and memories of five women are triggered when they congregate to celebrate their childhood hero, James Dean. Stunningly…
Coming Through (1985)- Dir. Peter Barber-Fleming
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, Helen Mirren, Alison Steadman - D.H. Lawrence's love affair with the married Frieda Von Richthofen is entwined with the life of a man in the present day who is obsessed with the…
Crazy for You (Vision Quest) (1985)- Dir. Harold Becker
Feat. Matthew Modine, Linda Fiorentino - A high school wrestler in Spokane, Washington has trouble focusing on his training regimen when a worldly drifter takes up temporary residence at his…
Dance with a Stranger (1985)- Dir. Mike Newell
Feat. Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett - A considered and compelling account of the final years of Ruth Ellis, the last woman in Britain to be hanged by the state, featuring a mesmerizing…
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