Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8092 Films to Buy & Rent
Lady Jane (1985)
- Dir. Trevor Nunn
Feat. Helena Bonham Carter
- Helena Bonham–Carter leads a Royal Shakespeare Co. cast for this historical pageant about the shortest reigning British monarch.
Lamb (1985)
- Dir. Colin Gregg
Feat. Liam Neeson, Harry Towb
- Catholic Brother Liam Neeson clashes with Irish traditions as he takes a 10–year–old epileptic boy into his care in this sombre yet…
Leave All Fair (1985)
- Dir. John Reid
Feat. John Gielgud, Jane Birkin
- A rewarding drama set among the memories of John Middleton Murray (John Gielgud), husband of NZ writer Katherine Mansfield (Jane Birkin). Well worth…
Legend of Billie Jean, The (1985)
- Dir. Matthew Robbins
Feat. Helen Slater, Christian Slater, Keith Gordon…
- Under–rated 80's youth drama about a young woman and her pals who become media–hyped "legends" after an incident involving a gun and…
Lost Tribe, The (1985)
- Dir. John Laing
Feat. John Bach, Darien Takle, Martyn Sanderson…
- John Bach's performance is the highlight of this mysterious drama in which he plays a man suspected of murdering his anthropologist brother who has…
Mala Noche (1985)
- Dir. Gus Van Sant
- Low–budget granular drama and the first film made by the eclectic Mr Van Sant near the start of his influential career.It tells the tale of a…
Mask (1985)
- Dir. Peter Bogdanovich
Feat. Eric Stoltz, Cher, Sam Elliott
- Highly watchable tearjerker skillfully steers a facially–deformed teenager through the trials of adolescence, dodging most of the cliches and…
Me and the Girls / Bon Voyage / Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill (The Noel Coward Collection - Disc 6) (1985)
- Dir. Jack Gold, Gavin Millar
Feat. Tom Courtenay, Robert Glenister, Nigel Havers…
- – Me and the Girls (85') Touching drama centred on a terminally ill gay man reminiscing on his past life performing and managing a dance…
Mesmerized (1985)
- Dir. Michael Laughlin
Feat. Jodie Foster, John Lithgow, Michael Murphy…
- Jodie Foster plays a young woman in colonial NZ who flees an orphanage but finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage to a much older business man…
Mishima - A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
- Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. Ken Ogata
- Fascinating study of the controversial Japanese author/militarist whose desire to merge life and art led to his ritualistic suicide. A luminous…