Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Heatwave (1982)- Dir. Phillip Noyce
Feat. Judy Davis, Chris Haywood, Bill Hunter - Phillip Noyce followed NEWSFRONT with this arresting political thriller about an architect embroiled in Sydney’s corrupt inner city housing…
Home Sweet Home (1982)- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Timothy Spall, Frances Barber - Postmen, social workers, and desperate housewives converge in this biting Mike Leigh feature, one of the director’s early achievements. Originally…
Honkytonk Man (1982)- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Clint Eastwood, John McIntire, Verna Bloom - One of director–star Eastwood's more unusual efforts, playing a TB–stricken country singer in the Great Depression, who tries to make one…
Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1982)- Dir. Peter Duguid
Feat. Tom Baker - Former Doctor Who Tom Baker plays Inspector Holmes in this serviceable adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan's most famous Sherlock mystery.
How Many Miles to Babylon? (1982)- Dir. Moira Armstrong
Feat. Daniel Day-Lewis, Sian Phillips - Daniel Day–Lewis plays a Protestant whose friendship with a fellow Catholic solider is severely tested during the harsh realities of WWI in…
I Remember Nelson (TV Mini-series) (1982)- Dir. Simon Langton
Feat. Kenneth Colley, Geraldine James - Soap–opera–tinged four–part miniseries taking a look at Naval Officer Lord Horatio Nelson, from the viewpoint of four who knew him…
King Lear (1982)- Dir. Jonathan Miller
Feat. Sir Michael Hordern, John Shrapnel, Norman Rodway… - BBC adaptation of Shakespeare's powerful tragedy, with Michael Hordern in the lead role as the troubled King.
King of Comedy, The (1982)
- Dir. Martin Scorsese
Feat. Jerry Lewis, Robert De Niro - Deliciously creepy story of a loser/nerd, who acts out his life ambition; to appear on a TV comedy show with Jerry Lewis. Lewis plays it straight,…
Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, The (1982)- Dir. James Goddard, Trevor Nunn
Feat. Roger Rees, David Threlfall - The legendary, nine–hour stage adaptation of Charles Dickens' "Nicholas Nickleby", performed by members of The Royal Shakespeare…
Little Eyolf (1982)- Feat. Diana Rigg, Anthony Hopkins
- Solid BBC teleplay of Henrik Ibsen's stage–piece about a writer trapped in a loveless, unfulfilled marriage to a wealthy woman.
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