Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Death of a Salesman (1985)- Dir. Volker Schlondorff
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Charles Durning - An excellent adaptation of Arthur Miller’s most famous play, with Dustin Hoffman bringing pathos, seediness and tragedy to the central…
Desert Hearts (1985)- Dir. Donna Deitch
Feat. Helen Shaver, Patricia Charbonneau - '50s Nevada provides the backdrop for a freindship between two women that develops in a love affair. Provocative yet dignified drama is well served…
Detective, The (1985)- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Claude Brasseur, Nathalie Baye, Johnny Hallyday… - Late, vague genre piece mismatches big name French stars (Baye, Leaud, and a young Julie Delpy) and trench coat chic with Godard’s newfound…
Dunera Boys, The (Mini-series) (1985)- Dir. Ben Lewin
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Warren Mitchell, Julia Blake - WW2 set mini–series following a group of suspected Jewish spies sent from England to a POW camp in NSW, Australia. Nicely balanced historical…
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