Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama: 7936 Films to Rent
My Brother's Wedding (1983)
- Dir. Charles Burnett
Feat. Everett Silas
- Crude but affecting follow–up to KILLER OF SHEEP concerns a South Central LA resident torn between attending the funeral of his best friend, or…
Nostalgia (Nostalghia) (1983)
- Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Feat. Oleg Jankovsky
- A lingering essay on the angst of living in exile, with Oleg Jankovsky as a beleaguered Russian academic subsisting in Italy (like Tarkovsky…
Outsiders, The (1983)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Matt Dillon, C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio…
- Based on the gritty novel by S. E. Hinton (THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOW), this ‘realistic’ depiction of teenage outsiders in 50s America is…
Pauline a La Plage (Pauline at the Beach) (1983)
- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Amanda Langlet, Arielle Dombasle
- Teenage Pauline visits her older cousin plagued with boy trouble. Rohmer again demonstrates his knack for eliciting candid performances from…
Phar Lap (1983)
- Dir. Simon Wincer
Feat. Tom Burlinson
- Legendary racehorse reared in New Zealand (though Australian makes claims), who died under mysterious circumstances in America. Good period piece,…
Ploughman's Lunch, The (1983)
- Dir. Richard Eyre
Feat. Jonathan Pryce, Tim Curry
- Complex dissection of British motives during the Falklands War.
Reilly Ace Of Spies (TV Mini-series) (1983)
- Dir. Martin Campbell, Jim Goddard
Feat. Sam Neill, Peter Egan, Ian Charleson…
- Quintessential 1980s mini–series follows the adventures of a real life British superspy Sidney Reilly in the turbulent Russia, Europe and Asia…
Rembetiko (1983)
- Dir. Costas Ferris
Feat. Sotiria Leonardou, Nikos Kalogeropoulos, Michalis Maniatis
- Stirring fictionalized biopic of Marika Ninou, a Greek Rebetiko (urban Greek folk music) singer who lived through some of the most dramatic…
Return to Eden (TV Series) (1983)
- Feat. Rebecca Gilling
- Early 80s mini–series set around the survivor of a treacherous crocodile attack, that garnered a small cult due to its Aussie–kitsch…
Richard III (The Tragedy of Richard III) (1983)
- Dir. Jane Howell
Feat. Peter Benson, Antony Brown, David Burke
- BBC adaptation of Shakespeare's brilliantly dark play, completely unabridged and loyal to the original text.