Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8102 Films to Buy & Rent
Breakdance 2 - Electric Boogaloo (Breakin' 2) (1984)
- Dir. Sam Firstenberg
Feat. Lucinda Dickey, Adolfo Quinones, Michael Chambers
- Less–hokey sequel to BREAKDANCE, with a storyline centred on a group of teens and dancers who try to save a community rec–centre from a…
Cal (1984)
- Dir. Pat O'Connor
Feat. Helen Mirren, John Lynch
- A forbidden love develops between a 19–year–old IRA member and the wife of a protestant policemen whom he helped murder. An intelligent…
Camille (1984)
- Dir. Desmond Davis
Feat. Greta Scacchi, Colin Firth, John Gielgud…
- Greta Scacchi and a young Colin Firth play courtesan and lover respectively in this British revival of Alexander Dumas' novel.
Choose Me (1984)
- Dir. Alan Rudolph
Feat. Genevieve Bujold, Keith Carradine, Lesley-Anne Down
- A sultry, out–of–the–ordinary comedy/drama centred around a luminous late–night L.A. bar, this cemented Robert Altman protege…
Comfort and Joy (1984)
- Dir. Bill Forsyth
Feat. Bill Paterson, Eleanor David
- Another likeable and quirky comedy from Bill Forsyth, about a disc–jockey who becomes involved in a mob feud over a mobile ice–cream…
Coolangatta Gold, The (1984)
- Dir. Igor Auzins
Feat. Joss McWilliam, Nick Tate, Colin Friels…
- Fair dinkum sports drama in which a father pushes his son to become a champion of the nascent Iron Man competition on the southern Queensland…
Cotton Club, The (1984)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Gregory Hines…
- Richard Gere heads the ensemble for Coppola's glossy musical melodrama set in the thick of New York's glitzy gangster culture of the 1930s.
Country (1984)
- Dir. Richard Pearce
Feat. Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard, Wilford Brimley
- Drama following a Midwestern American family during the economic hardship of the 1980's, as they struggle to hold onto their way of life.…
Dim Sum (A Little Bit of Heart) (1984)
- Dir. Wayne Wang
Feat. Laureen Chew, Kim Chew, Victor Wong
- Endearing, warm–hearted tale of Chinese–Americans living in San Fransisco. Distinctly Chinese but the themes and the humour are universal.
Element of Crime, The (1984)
- Dir. Lars Von Trier
Feat. Michael Elphick
- A detective’s unconventional methods qualify him for the investigation of child murders in a dark, decaying, post–apocalyptic Germany.…