Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8123 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill (1985)
- Dir. Gavin Millar
Feat. Ian Holm, Judi Dench
- Based on Noel Coward's play about an English couple who lived on the South Pacific island of Cowrie, this telemovie is graced with top cast and…
Mussolini - The Untold Story (1985)
- Dir. William A. Graham
Feat. George C. Scott, Gabriel Byrne, Robert Downey Jnr.…
- Based on the memoirs of his eldest son this memorable mini–series begins with Mussolini's rise to power in 1922 and follows his political and…
Mussolini and I (1985)
- Dir. Alberto Negrin
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Anthony Hopkins, Susan Sarandon…
- The last days of Il Duce as embodied by Bob Hoskins in this strong Italian miniseries.
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Daniel Day-Lewis
- First and best Hanif Kureishi comedy (so far), explores race and sex prejudices in the London EastEnd.
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…
Naked Country, The (1985)
- Dir. Tim Burstall
Feat. John Stanton, Tommy Lewis, Rebecca Gilling
- Confrontational outback western pits a gritty Queensland rancher against an antagonised tribe of aborigines in 50s Australia.
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…