Subgenre Sampler
Drama: 8092 Films to Buy & Rent
Mrs. Soffel (1984)
- Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Diane Keaton, Mel Gibson, Matthew Modine…
- Sombre though interesting drama set in 1901 Pittsburgh about a woman who helps one of the inmates of her prison warden husband.
Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) (1984-1990)
- Feat. Angela Lansbury
- The archetypal amateur sleuth series, this long–running show starred the indomitable Angela Lansbury as a mystery…
My First Wife (1984)
- Dir. Paul Cox
Feat. John Hargreaves, Wendy Hughes
- A man is devastated when his wife of ten years walks out on him. His experience is achingly realised through an incisive screenplay and virtuoso…
Natural, The (1984)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Robert Redford, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger
- The classic novel by Bernard Malamud gets a typical Hollywood going over, with Robert Redford playing a young dreamer who aspires to baseball…
Nineteen Nineteen (1984)
- Dir. Hugh Brody
Feat. Paul Scofield, Maria Schell
- Paul Scofield and Maria Schell are two former patients of Sigmund Freud are brought together 50 years later to assemble fragments of their forgotten…
Other Halves (1984)
- Dir. John Laing
Feat. Lisa Harrow, Mark Pilisi
- An unlikely relationship blossoms between a 32–year–old white woman and a polynesian street–kid half her age.
Paris, Texas (1984)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski
- The German director takes his enigmatic, dilatory style Stateside for this intoxicating work about a mysterious mute loner in search of his missing…
Passage to India, A (1984)
- Dir. David Lean
Feat. Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft…
- Judy Davis leads a troupe of perenial British actors in this, the legendary director's final film – an immaculate production of E.M. Forster's…
Places in the Heart (1984)
- Dir. Robert Benton
Feat. Sally Field, Danny Glover, John Malkovich
- Moving period drama with Sally Field's Oscar–winning performance as a widowed cotton–farmer in Depression era Texas.
Pope of Greenwich Village, The (1984)
- Dir. Stuart Rosenberg
Feat. Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke
- Perennial no–hoper Eric Roberts cons pal Mickey Rourke into a final heist, but stealing from the Mob proves to be a bad idea.…