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Subgenre Sampler
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.
Rumble Fish (1983)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Dennis Hopper… - Coppola's cult fave is a highly stylised treatment of a teen delinquency drama may not be entirely appropriate, but it sure looks impressive. Equally…
Saigon - Year of the Cat (1983)- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Judi Dench, Frederic Forrest, E.G. Marshall… - Potent romantic drama set during the South Vietnam collapse with Dench as a depressed loan officer who falls into the arms of CIA interrogator…
Scales of Justice (TV Mini-series) (1983)- Dir. Michael Jenkins
Feat. John Hargreaves, Bill Hunter, Isabelle Anderson… - A three–part crime drama which links tales of drug–dealing, organised crime, police corruption and political conspiracy in 1980s…
Sheer Madness (Heller Wahn) (1983)- Dir. Margarethe von Trotta
Feat. Hanna Schygulla, Angela Winkler - Two women, one a withdrawn painter and the other a confident professor, start to rely upon their friendship as an alternative to their unhappy…
Signal 7 (1983)- Dir. Rob Nilsson
Feat. Bill Ackridge, Dan Leegant - Dedicated to John Cassavetes, this 12–hr slice of the night–world of various New York taxi–drivers, shot on videotape, is similarly…
Silkwood (1983)- Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. Meryl Streep, Cher, Kurt Russell - Fact–based account of a Southern nuclear factory–worker who died mysteriously before exposing unsound trade secrets. Meryl Streep is on a…
Sins of Dorian Gray, The (1983)- Dir. Tony Maylam
Feat. Anthony Perkins, Joseph Bottoms, Belinda Bauer - Unusually trashy TV–movie that riffs on Oscar Wilde's famous adult fairytale. Here, a woman's celluloid screen–test carries the burden of…
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